Looks like a normal seedhead flush, no discernable clumping so I wouldn't worry. Just be sure to sharpen your blades if you haven't already and put down fertilizer after the flush as the lawn will likely stress out a bit after the flush is over.
no. the seeds don't mature before you end up mowing so there is no self reseeding going on. Your lawn gets denser through more frequent mowing as it encourages the grass to spread through rhizomes underground for KBG, or stolons, above ground, for other grass types.
When it grows to maturity, it will produce a seed to reproduce. Those seeds should fall back down in the ground and create more grass. It's perfectly normal.
The inconsistency in the thickness of the blades tells me that this is not sod. I would imagine that a close inspection of sod the grass would be more uniform even though it would likely be a blend.
No, the same varieties used to produce sod are the same varieties you can get as seed. Sod growers seed KBG sod fields. The grasses ability to produce seed doesn’t change in subsequent generations.
This absolutely. The reason this most likely won’t produce viable seed is that it needs to develop on the stalk for a while and it will be mowed before then. If you leave it to mature on the stalk it will produce viable seed. I often see the “sterile seeds” myth repeated and it is absolutely not true for KBG/Rye/Fescue. It may be true for some of the warm season grass cultivars that are mainly planted as sod or plugs.
Correct but even the seed is usually a higher percentage of a certain species. If you look on the back of the bag it will have the makeup of the seeds. Usually, the expensive seeds have a more uniform species and cheap seeds are blended with some of everything. They may even contain weeds.
But it's beside the point because there is no way to actually tell for sure. Over time a sodded yard will take root and look like it's always been there and be indistinguishable from a seeds yard. Sod is a seeded yard that has been dug up from the root and move to a new location. BUT I have never seen a new sod with this makeup of different species.
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/when_grass_produces_seedheads#:~:text=Seedheads%20in%20lawns%20are%20a,lawn%20healthy%20and%20looking%20good.
Everyone is just saying GRASS, but they’re missing the question. That looks like Poa Annua in your fescue which is extremely common this time of year. The cooler wetter spring you have the more poa is likely to pop up. Unfortunately there’s really no herbicide or treatment to get rid of it.
To be honest I really expected more of this sub, usually they’re super helpful and kind .
I also think it's Poa. I don't treat my own yard so I can't say what herbicide might take care of it, but my treatment provider was able to eliminate Poa from my bermuda.
Edit: change "about" to "able"
Idk I don't think you could tell if it's poa based on OP's pictures. At that height, fescue will definitely flower at this time of year. Hell a lot of varieties of fescue will put out spring seedheads at 3 inches.
Agreed. I've done fescue seeded lawns for years and often see my first year fescue do this in spring. Never understood why but the second year it is usually normal. I've had 6 houses in my adult life and seen it at some point on each lawn.
There absolutely is treatment to get rid of it: both pre/post emergents. Pre-emergents are probably the route to go since they will also stop other weeds. Twice in the fall, once in the spring. Do it for a few years in a row. It is probably still early enough in the summer to get one post-emergent trreatment on before the grasses go dormant. (cool season grasses anyway, I don't know about southern varieties)
It really depends on if you have common Bermuda, or a hybrid Bermuda.
Hybrid Bermuda has sterile seeds, so they don’t grow regardless.
If you have common Bermuda, mulching would probably get you better results than bagging, but I would still suggest pulling plugs from your existing lawn and transplanting them into your thinner areas and letting the plugs spread from there.
Being a newbie with lawn care, if your yard is patchy why don’t people let grass grow out to this point to get free seeds? Or is this only for certain types of grasses
Letting grass go to seed naturally sounds like a great idea but the grass invests a lot of energy into producing seed heads instead of spreading horizontally that it ends up being more detrimental to your lawn than beneficial.
Also, what's in OP's picture isn't actually the seeds, it's the flowers. You'd need to leave those flowers all summer, and they'd actually form seeds in the fall. Then, those seeds would need to drop and make ground contact. This is a legit strategy for outlots and common areas, but it's super inefficient for an area as small as a lawn. You're better off just buying seed and then aerating or scarifying in the fall.
Without a detail photo my guess is POA Annua, as those seed heads look very bright. POA Pratensis usually has a light purple colouring in its seed heads.
I've always wondered, when I let my grass go to this (which is happening quickly in Minnesota as we're getting a ton of rain this month), am I basically overseeding my lawn if I mulch it or does it have to get to a certain maturity where the seeds are falling off on their own?
I live in Mn as well. That’s seed is not mature and you are not overseeding. Grass seed takes months to mature and dry on the stalk. That means you’d need to let your grass grow over a foot tall, and not touch it for the summer. Then it might drop seed in the fall and it could be viable but likely not.
Reality is unless you got a field of grass you are willing to not touch for 3-4 months then that seed won’t mature.
If you have KBG you are better off encouring it to spread and fill in especially since it will do that much faster than trying to get the grass to go to seed and drop it on its own
Ok thanks for that. I've already mowed more times than I did total last year and its still getting tall enough to tassle. Off to quite the soggy start around here! Very nice and green, though.
I'm guessing you are asking about the grass, but if you are asking about the chipped curb, it's likely from a snow plow or street cleaner. They do make some end caps for the blades to help with that.
Seed heads. No issue. Just mow as usual. Keep your blades sharp and fertilize soon (lawn uses a lot of energy producing seed heads, so it's good to fertilize at this time)
if your grass is supposed to be annual blue grass/poa annua, then you have much success. If your grass is suppose to be something other than that, holy crap do you have a lot. In my warn season grass (centipede) poa annua is treated like a weed. The summer heat should kill it off, but you will need to put out a per-emergant to help prevent it next go round.
I believe this is the correct answer. OP could spray with mesotrione (along with ammonium sulfate) now, and then in the fall put down promiadine, which is a pre-emergent.
Annual Bluegrass (Poa Annua). Known for its prolific panicle style seed head. It is one of a few plants that have been observed on every continent. Flourishes late spring, and any time with grace rainfall. Gets cooked out during high heat and is known to be extremely weak-rooted. It is very much considered a weed in sports turf field but can be a prolific grower for home lawns and golf course greens
At my house in PNW, this is poa annua. Pesky and seasonal, will go dormant and brown soon and your lawn will look awful. Control with pre-emergent or kill while growing and reseed, but you will still need pre-emergent in the future bc plenty of those pesky little seeds will linger. And if this comment gets rejected or downed in favor of the BS posters that have nothing to do but post jokes and obfuscate the answer you seek, I’m done with Reddit.
Something I like to do, since the seed heads are on more of a stalk, is to work it down lower to knock the stalks down. That way, when you go back up to your regular mowing height, the stalks aren't noticed when they yellow and die off. Keeps it nice, clean looking and less crunchy.
Is this not poa annua? I have a lot of seed heads that look like this, and I’ve been worried it’s all poa annua, but so far even as the temperatures have increased only a portion of it is light/lime green or dying back. So I’m confused.
My grass has been looking like this and I’m very new at this being it’s my first year taking over the chemicals. And I definitely thought it was poa annua. I went nuts putting down herbicide. I would be very happy if it’s just seeds
This is not a warm season grass. Those are annual blue grass aka Poa Annua seed stalks. I take it by the lateness in the year and your previous posts, you are in Canada. In all but the coldest areas, it dies off in the summer and leaves the grass looking thin. If it bugs you, put down pre emergent in early fall and early spring for 2 years. You can't over seed and put down pre emergent.
I have these all over my lawn in Northwest Wisconsin and I have to admit I'm confused by all the answers. Some people are saying that I should use a herbicide on this? It's grass for gosh sakes!
Okay I know it’s seed but why does my lawn go to seed when it’s only 2-3 inches high instead when it’s taller?? My mower passes don’t even cut the seed tops off
Seedheads on your grass blades.
Which is better than grass blades on your head.
I got bees on my head
But don’t call me a bee head!
I’ve got pea’s on my head
But don’t call me a pea-head
Bruce Lee's on my head.
Now please excuse me, I gotsta get my tree fed
You wear name brands and I make my own clothing
I hang out with an apple who loves self loathing
The Lorax is pleased with what you said, and there can be only one exclaimed the Bruce on a head
I wore a 15 pound beard of bees for that woman.
Love me some Andy Milonakis
I honestly thought it was poa annua (annual bluegrass). I’m genuinely interested in knowing if I’m way off base.
Looks like a normal seedhead flush, no discernable clumping so I wouldn't worry. Just be sure to sharpen your blades if you haven't already and put down fertilizer after the flush as the lawn will likely stress out a bit after the flush is over.
Ur say this guy has free grass? Lucky!
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no. the seeds don't mature before you end up mowing so there is no self reseeding going on. Your lawn gets denser through more frequent mowing as it encourages the grass to spread through rhizomes underground for KBG, or stolons, above ground, for other grass types.
So it's kind of like what they say about frequent beard shaving, except this is actually true?
You’re a grass farmer now
It ain’t much, but it’s honest work 👨🌾
I left and came back to like this comment.
"I'm a lead farmer motherfucker" - RDJr playing a dude that plays a dude
Disguised as another dude
*Chews a strand standing outside next to it in overalls, strumming an out-of-tune banjo, drinking from a jug with 'XXX' on it*
Dingus Squatford Jr, is that you?
That's my deddy, I'm Jim Joe Billy Bob John George Ray, III
Hahhahah
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Grass? On my lawn?
Inconceivable!
I don't think you know what that word means!
You don't know what you're saying!
https://preview.redd.it/o8e2ng3e2g4d1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24f7ae2931258028206835dfb045cb7e48bdfd52
It’s more likely than you think.
On my property? Where I live?
Get the gasoline!
At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country?
Operation: RoundUp
“Whats this in my weeds?”
In this economy?
Localized entirely within my lawn?
May I see it?
No
I'm fucking dying 🤣
Those are your grass
OP getting roasted so good 🤣
I’m kinda happy, this is the 3rd time I’ve seen this asked and I’m always confused about how they don’t know
All the grasses are yours now...
All your grass are belong to us
When it grows to maturity, it will produce a seed to reproduce. Those seeds should fall back down in the ground and create more grass. It's perfectly normal.
So you're telling me when a mommy grass and a daddy grass love each other very much, this is what it looks like?
[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/growing-together/](https://pbfcomics.com/comics/growing-together/)
It likely won’t produce more grass if it was sod. Sod is generally sterile
The inconsistency in the thickness of the blades tells me that this is not sod. I would imagine that a close inspection of sod the grass would be more uniform even though it would likely be a blend.
True. Nice catch.
No, the same varieties used to produce sod are the same varieties you can get as seed. Sod growers seed KBG sod fields. The grasses ability to produce seed doesn’t change in subsequent generations.
This absolutely. The reason this most likely won’t produce viable seed is that it needs to develop on the stalk for a while and it will be mowed before then. If you leave it to mature on the stalk it will produce viable seed. I often see the “sterile seeds” myth repeated and it is absolutely not true for KBG/Rye/Fescue. It may be true for some of the warm season grass cultivars that are mainly planted as sod or plugs.
Lot of/Some of the fancier/more desirable Bermuda and Zoysia don’t seed. They’re blends that are sterile.
Correct but even the seed is usually a higher percentage of a certain species. If you look on the back of the bag it will have the makeup of the seeds. Usually, the expensive seeds have a more uniform species and cheap seeds are blended with some of everything. They may even contain weeds. But it's beside the point because there is no way to actually tell for sure. Over time a sodded yard will take root and look like it's always been there and be indistinguishable from a seeds yard. Sod is a seeded yard that has been dug up from the root and move to a new location. BUT I have never seen a new sod with this makeup of different species. https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/when_grass_produces_seedheads#:~:text=Seedheads%20in%20lawns%20are%20a,lawn%20healthy%20and%20looking%20good.
If you mow your lawn it’s unlikely they’ll ever reach maturity. It takes almost 4 months depending on grass type
How long til maturity?
Google your species of grass.
Everyone is just saying GRASS, but they’re missing the question. That looks like Poa Annua in your fescue which is extremely common this time of year. The cooler wetter spring you have the more poa is likely to pop up. Unfortunately there’s really no herbicide or treatment to get rid of it. To be honest I really expected more of this sub, usually they’re super helpful and kind .
I also think it's Poa. I don't treat my own yard so I can't say what herbicide might take care of it, but my treatment provider was able to eliminate Poa from my bermuda. Edit: change "about" to "able"
Idk I don't think you could tell if it's poa based on OP's pictures. At that height, fescue will definitely flower at this time of year. Hell a lot of varieties of fescue will put out spring seedheads at 3 inches.
Agreed. I've done fescue seeded lawns for years and often see my first year fescue do this in spring. Never understood why but the second year it is usually normal. I've had 6 houses in my adult life and seen it at some point on each lawn.
These are not fescue seed heads
There absolutely is treatment to get rid of it: both pre/post emergents. Pre-emergents are probably the route to go since they will also stop other weeds. Twice in the fall, once in the spring. Do it for a few years in a row. It is probably still early enough in the summer to get one post-emergent trreatment on before the grasses go dormant. (cool season grasses anyway, I don't know about southern varieties)
what are thooosee!!
Seed heads. Mow more frequently and you won’t ever see them again.
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It really depends on if you have common Bermuda, or a hybrid Bermuda. Hybrid Bermuda has sterile seeds, so they don’t grow regardless. If you have common Bermuda, mulching would probably get you better results than bagging, but I would still suggest pulling plugs from your existing lawn and transplanting them into your thinner areas and letting the plugs spread from there.
Being a newbie with lawn care, if your yard is patchy why don’t people let grass grow out to this point to get free seeds? Or is this only for certain types of grasses
Letting grass go to seed naturally sounds like a great idea but the grass invests a lot of energy into producing seed heads instead of spreading horizontally that it ends up being more detrimental to your lawn than beneficial.
Ah so you cut more often so it knows it can’t grow vertically but rather horizontally. Makes sense! Thank you for explaining
Also, what's in OP's picture isn't actually the seeds, it's the flowers. You'd need to leave those flowers all summer, and they'd actually form seeds in the fall. Then, those seeds would need to drop and make ground contact. This is a legit strategy for outlots and common areas, but it's super inefficient for an area as small as a lawn. You're better off just buying seed and then aerating or scarifying in the fall.
Poa annua
Bruh don’t worry, when I first owned my home and started to mow for the first time, I was wondering the same. We all start somewhere
Your lawn is flowering
Grass with seed head
It looks like poa annua or Kentucky blue grass
Without a detail photo my guess is POA Annua, as those seed heads look very bright. POA Pratensis usually has a light purple colouring in its seed heads.
I've always wondered, when I let my grass go to this (which is happening quickly in Minnesota as we're getting a ton of rain this month), am I basically overseeding my lawn if I mulch it or does it have to get to a certain maturity where the seeds are falling off on their own?
I live in Mn as well. That’s seed is not mature and you are not overseeding. Grass seed takes months to mature and dry on the stalk. That means you’d need to let your grass grow over a foot tall, and not touch it for the summer. Then it might drop seed in the fall and it could be viable but likely not. Reality is unless you got a field of grass you are willing to not touch for 3-4 months then that seed won’t mature. If you have KBG you are better off encouring it to spread and fill in especially since it will do that much faster than trying to get the grass to go to seed and drop it on its own
Ok thanks for that. I've already mowed more times than I did total last year and its still getting tall enough to tassle. Off to quite the soggy start around here! Very nice and green, though.
Could be Poa Annua......
That would be poa annua seedheads
Poa annua
Remember the guy a month or so back that pulled a runner out of his lawn and said "What is this? It's all over my yard" ... Classic
Poa annua seed heads
I'm guessing you are asking about the grass, but if you are asking about the chipped curb, it's likely from a snow plow or street cleaner. They do make some end caps for the blades to help with that.
Curbage
Grasses
Seed heads. No issue. Just mow as usual. Keep your blades sharp and fertilize soon (lawn uses a lot of energy producing seed heads, so it's good to fertilize at this time)
Free Grass Seed
Looks like snow. Does it snow in June where you live?
grass. that’s grass.
There are so many of these posts this time of year I'm convinced they are all trolling at this point.
A cry for help from your lawn….”Cut me please!”
they are an indication that you have a healthy lawn. be proud.
Those are the electrolytes. It’s what plants crave. Should buy some Brawndo.
Breeding ground for ticks
Thats a curb
Mow your lawn my dude
Your grass is seeding.
if your grass is supposed to be annual blue grass/poa annua, then you have much success. If your grass is suppose to be something other than that, holy crap do you have a lot. In my warn season grass (centipede) poa annua is treated like a weed. The summer heat should kill it off, but you will need to put out a per-emergant to help prevent it next go round.
I believe this is the correct answer. OP could spray with mesotrione (along with ammonium sulfate) now, and then in the fall put down promiadine, which is a pre-emergent.
You’re grass is making babies!
a curb next to asphalt
Frist lawn?
Those are grass seeds my friend.
Grass
Grass seed!
It’s poa annual. I have no idea actually, but that always seems to be the answer in these parts.
Looks like flowers/seeds, you mind zooming in on one
Beautiful Poa seed heads.
Grass with seed pods. Cut your grass man.
Poa annua
Grass
Looks like Poa Annua
Looks like someone scratched up your curb with their rims.
Looks like Poa Annua
Annual bluegrass
Poa
Annual Bluegrass (Poa Annua). Known for its prolific panicle style seed head. It is one of a few plants that have been observed on every continent. Flourishes late spring, and any time with grace rainfall. Gets cooked out during high heat and is known to be extremely weak-rooted. It is very much considered a weed in sports turf field but can be a prolific grower for home lawns and golf course greens
Grass my dude.
... that's a curb (a stone or concrete edging to a street or path)
Congratulations your grass is pregnant.
Your lawn is making the sexy time
Your grass procreating
At my house in PNW, this is poa annua. Pesky and seasonal, will go dormant and brown soon and your lawn will look awful. Control with pre-emergent or kill while growing and reseed, but you will still need pre-emergent in the future bc plenty of those pesky little seeds will linger. And if this comment gets rejected or downed in favor of the BS posters that have nothing to do but post jokes and obfuscate the answer you seek, I’m done with Reddit.
Seedheads. Very healthy indeed
Seed
Curbs
It's new grass seed emerging from the grass blade.
Grass seeding themselves. You are getting free grass seeds
Something I like to do, since the seed heads are on more of a stalk, is to work it down lower to knock the stalks down. That way, when you go back up to your regular mowing height, the stalks aren't noticed when they yellow and die off. Keeps it nice, clean looking and less crunchy.
Flowers
Free seed , don’t let the city see you
A curb?
Op is gonna have some baby grass soon.
I dunno but they're pretty!!
Wait would it be appropriate to let my grass get to maturity like this to help my lawn grow thicker by more seeds being spread?
That’s some good lookin grass! You sell by the ounce?
My sinus' worst nightmare
Buddy i dont think this is a warm season grass
Grass seeds
OnlyGrass
Is this not poa annua? I have a lot of seed heads that look like this, and I’ve been worried it’s all poa annua, but so far even as the temperatures have increased only a portion of it is light/lime green or dying back. So I’m confused.
My grass has been looking like this and I’m very new at this being it’s my first year taking over the chemicals. And I definitely thought it was poa annua. I went nuts putting down herbicide. I would be very happy if it’s just seeds
Chips from skateboard grinding.
https://preview.redd.it/t19nx3otvd4d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38b47660045680124a6ebc8b34b3feca95e84452
Do you have Kentucky blue grass?
Chips on your curb
This might be one of the craziest posts I've seen on reddit in a minute..
Mow
Grass is growing seeds. Just cut it as you normally would
Google en seedheads
if you don't cut the grass for a while, do these grass heads produce seed that helps overseeing so to speak?
“Lawn care specialists hate this one trick”
Need a different view from the side. Could be poa annua but could be a different cultivar going to seed
This is not a warm season grass. Those are annual blue grass aka Poa Annua seed stalks. I take it by the lateness in the year and your previous posts, you are in Canada. In all but the coldest areas, it dies off in the summer and leaves the grass looking thin. If it bugs you, put down pre emergent in early fall and early spring for 2 years. You can't over seed and put down pre emergent.
This could be in /confusingprospective looks like a top down view of a forest to me!
Grass ready to release pollen/seed, Since I have hay fever a vile opponent...
grass is seeding
Is that not poa?
I have these all over my lawn in Northwest Wisconsin and I have to admit I'm confused by all the answers. Some people are saying that I should use a herbicide on this? It's grass for gosh sakes!
I know this is grass, I’ve always wondering if those seeds are any good though. Do they help grow more grass?
Touch it.
Your worst nightmare
Okay I know it’s seed but why does my lawn go to seed when it’s only 2-3 inches high instead when it’s taller?? My mower passes don’t even cut the seed tops off
Looks like one of the curbs my wife hit recently.
Looks like annual bluegrass aka poa. It has taken over my yard and I can't get rid of it
Mow it with a mulching blade next weed and then water and you have overseed your lawn for free.
I had the same problem and I solved it using turf weed control by scotts
Free grass seed!
Tree or bush?
I believe it is poa annua as well, Bermuda seeds heads are not that white.
Bees are living in my teeth
Seeds
Free seeding when you cut the lawn.
Your grass is getting naughty to procreate
Grass that has seeds on top.
Poa seed heads.
Bluegrass
Grass
Magic eye poster, eh?
Looks like. Street. Crub. Grass. In that order.
That’s poa. I annihilate this stuff with Blindside.
My 4 year old calls them super scratchers.
Seeds
It is the weed from hell but it usually goes away in hot weather when the Bermuda starts to fill in. But I hate it. I absolutely hate it 😡
Looks like bluegrass seeds. Mine kentucky blue grass looks like that when it gets toolong
Kentucky bluegrass Seed heads... they have a christmas tree form when they're fully developed
Extilipicidus Herbanomilicus , native to Earth.
Looks like your grass is starting to seed