Cynodon dactylon(L.) Pers.

Bermuda grass

WFO wfo-0000861178 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Cynodon dactylon, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. a Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-31 / obs. 205055927
Cynodon dactylon, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. b Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203019931
Cynodon dactylon, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. c Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198265889
Cynodon dactylon, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. d Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205670221
Cynodon dactylon, photographed by Zinogre
fig. e Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200733218
Cynodon dactylon, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. f Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203951215
Cynodon dactylon, photographed by iamfindingplants
fig. g iamfindingplants, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199682679
Cynodon dactylon, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. h Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197410549

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Flowering n = 473 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 473 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 101 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Agrostis bermudiana Tussac ex Kunth
  • Agrostis filiformis J.Koenig ex Kunth
  • Agrostis linearis Retz.
  • Agrostis stellata Willd.
  • Capriola dactylon (L.) Kuntze
  • Capriola dactylon var. maritima (Kunth) Hitchc.
  • Chloris cynodon Trin.
  • Chloris maritima Trin.
  • Chloris paytensis Steud.
  • Cynodon affinis Caro & E.A.Sánchez
  • Cynodon aristiglumis Caro & E.A.Sánchez
  • Cynodon aristulatus Caro & E.A.Sánchez
  • Cynodon barberi f. longifolia Join
  • Cynodon dactylon f. glabrescens (Beck) Soó
  • Cynodon dactylon f. major (Beck) Soó
  • Cynodon dactylon f. villosus (Regel) Roshev.
  • Cynodon dactylon f. viviparus Beetle
  • Cynodon dactylon subsp. glabratus (Steud.) A.Chev.
  • Cynodon dactylon subsp. nipponicus (Ohwi) T.Koyama
  • Cynodon dactylon subvar. hirsutissimus Litard. & Maire
  • Cynodon dactylon var. affinis (Caro & E.A.Sánchez) Romero Zarco
  • Cynodon dactylon var. aridus J.R.Harlan & de Wet
  • Cynodon dactylon var. biflorus Merino
  • Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon

and 77 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.