Common Name: Dollar Spot
Scientific Name: Sclerotinia homoeocarpa
Host Turfgrass: All species of turfgrasses
Dollar Spot is a common that results in unsightly, silver dollar sized patches in your lawn. Infections are most common during the summer months in northern states.
Dollar Spot can be identified by sunken, circular patches in your lawn that can be several inches in diameter. These patches turn from brown to straw-white in color. Infected blades of turfgrass may display small lesions that are bands across the leaf blade that turn from yellow-green to straw color with a reddish border.
The lesions on the turfgrass blades may resemble an “hour-glass” shape. Additionally, web-like mycelia may be present in the early morning.
Disease control practices by the homeowner create favorable conditions for a healthy lawn, and often create unfavorable conditions for the growth of Dollar Spot. aerating to reduce thatch, mowing grass at regular intervals, and decreasing the amount of morning shade to eliminate dew, as well as using fertilizer with the adequate levels of nitrogen, can all help create unfavorable conditions for the development of Dollar Spot.
Give us a call and have Fowler and Sons help determine a plan for preventing and controlling Dollar Spot in your lawn.
