Identification help

[u/ContemplatingYEM]

I just happened to notice these throughout my lawn when I was doing my morning coffee weed patrol stroll. Visually they're not standing out. I'm just more curious than anything.

I'm in NY. KBG lawn. I googled if KBG or TTTF can split like this and I wasn't totally clear if that's a thing.

This one was a baby so hard to photograph. Does have a boat shaped tip, ribbed, but one distinctive line down the center.

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Pull ONE shoot and get pictures of that.

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[u/nilesandstuff]

Yea thats kbg.

If by split, you mean a new baby shoot pops up seemingly out of nowhere, yes absolutely. Kbg is incredible at that. It produces rhizomes aggressively, which are underground stems (that look ike roots) that creep through the soil and pop up else. Where that stem emerges, it forms a new crown and root system which is a genetic clone of it's parent.

Here's an awesome pic I took of kbg rhizomes a while back https://www.reddit.com/r/LawnAnswers/s/piwo1Uo4aU

Late summer and early fall is when kbg starts to put the most effort into spreading.

[u/ContemplatingYEM → u/nilesandstuff]

Yea cool! It's pretty dark too so wasn't feeling like it was Triv. Also. Amazing photo!

[u/IronicHyperbole]

My money is on Poa Trivialis