Compare clover as lawn alternative against traditional turfgrass on bees, foot traffic, water, upkeep and pets. See which option suits your yard in this guide.

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The future of turfgrass management education took another step forward at Brentsville District High School as students, staff, community members, industry partners, and local leaders gathered to celebrate the ribbon cutting of the new Turf Research Center.

Newswise — Lawns in parks, sports grounds, and other managed spaces frequently produce mushrooms, particularly during Japan's rainy season and autumn. Some attract public attention, while others form fairy rings that concern turfgrass managers. Yet these accessible habitats have received far less systematic attention from mycologists than forests. Existing Japanese reports are largely fragmentary, leaving the composition and geographic distribution of lawn fungi poorly understood. Recent discoveries of previously undescribed fungi in grasslands suggest that this knowledge gap is substantial. More detailed surveys are therefore needed to establish which species occupy these everyday environments. A study (DOI: 10.48130/panfungi-0026-0005) published in Panfungi on 28 August 2026 by Kaito Oguchi & Kentaro Hosaka, University of Tsukuba, documents two mushroom species in Japan for the first time, revealing overlooked fungal diversity in managed lawns and expanding knowledge of their geographic distributions. The researchers surveyed warm-temperate lawns during 2024–2025, photographing mushrooms and recording their habitats before examining fresh specimens in the laboratory. They dried the collections, measured spores and other microscopic structures, and tested tissue reactions using standard chemical reagents. DNA extracted from dried material was used to sequence ribosomal markers: the internal transcribed spacer region for both species and the large subunit region...