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This annual guide supplies information concerning pesticides that can be used for controlling pests in turfgrasses. Revised for 2025.

• Pest Control
• Turf Management
• Turfgrass
• Pesticide

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of leaf spot.

• Turf Disease
• Leaf Spot
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of fairy ring.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Fairy Ring
• Fungus

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of large patch.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Large Patch

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of pythium root rot.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Pythium
• Pythium Root Rot

This guide is designed to help identify the most troublesome diseases associated with cool-season turfgrasses. This includes such grasses as tall fescue, fine fescue (chewings, creeping red), Kentucky bluegrass, and perennial ryegrass. A description of the disease symptoms, a list of specific management practices that can be used to prevent or reduce turfgrass injury by disease and a chart to indicate when the disease is most likely to occur are presented.

• Turf Management
• Turf
• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Lawn

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of yellow patch.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of nematodes in turfgrasses.

• Turf
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Nematode
• Lawn

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of pythium root dysfunction.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Pythium
• Pythium Root Dysfunction

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of pythium blight.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Pythium Blight
• Pythium

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of damping off.

• Turf Disease
• Damping Off
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of red leaf spot.

• Turf Disease
• Leaf Spot
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Red Leaf Spot

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of copper spot.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Copper Spot

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of microdochium patch (pink snow mold).

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Microdochium Patch
• Snow
• Pink Snow Mold

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of gray leaf spot.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Gray Leaf Spot

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of powdery mildew.

• Powdery Mildew
• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of slime mold.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Slime Mold

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of rust.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Rust

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of yellow tuft.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of summer patch.

• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Summer Patch

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of white patch.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology

This factsheet summarizes the characteristics of gray snow mold.

• Turf Disease
• Turfgrass
• Plant Pathology
• Gray Snow Mold
• Snow Mold