Stenotaphrum)

I have what I think is stenotaphrum secundatum growing wild in my garden.
I am about to start a lawn on very poor soil, stony, dry, and limy.
do you think I could gather seed from the stenotaphrum which is about to ripen?
would you suggest to mix it with any other grass seed or is a lawn of stenotaphrum alone satisfactory(assuming I could keep it that way).
does stenotaphrum form thatch readily?
thanks olivier.
I visited your nursery in may and got myself a few beauties.
francisco
south of barcelona
----- Original Message -----
From: o*@wanadoo.fr
To: m*@ucdavis.edu
 
Here in the South of France near Montpellier (probably about the same climate as Sienna), Stenotaphrum secundatum can be planted as a lawn substitute in places where the temperatures do not fall frequently under - 5 to - 8 °C. The plant becomes dormant during the winter at those temperatures (it turns yellowish brown) and it turns green again in April. Once established the lawn needs about one watering a week during the summer and one mowing a month.
 
Stenotaphrum did not die during the very bad 1985 winter (-12 to -15 °C), but it took at least one year to recover.
 
Other interesting lawn substitutes in our climate are Lippia nodiflora (Phyla), Frankenia laevis, Zoysia tenuifolia, Dichondra repens....
 
Olivier
 
 
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