Figure 8.-The winterkilled pangolagrass sod on the left had not been culti-
vated for 10 years prior to photographing on April 10, 1964. The field on the
right had been thoroughly cultivated in June 1963.

 Management of Winter-Damaged Pangolagrass

Central Florida
 The stand in severely winterkilled pangolagrass may be re-
duced to the point that living buds remain at 3 to 6-foot inter-
vals. These survivors are adequate to renew the sod without
replanting if pangolagrass made up most of the ground cover
prior to injury. Heavy grazing of damaged sods during the
winter and early spring is usually practiced because of feed
shortage. This can be beneficial to recovery of pangolagrass by
keeping other grasses and weeds from filling in the vacant
spaces during the cool season before pangolagrass growth be-
comes rapid. Severely winterkilled pasture should remain un-
grazed for 30 to 60 days after rapid growth begins or until a
stand has been reestablished. Rapid growth usually occurs dur-
ing May and June and damaged areas can be renewed if sur-
viving plants are given full opportunity to spread. Pangolagrass
runners root through thickly matted dead grass without diffi-
culty.
 Cultivation and burning treatments on damaged pangola-
grass at Range Cattle Station in the spring of 1958 showed that


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