Other Turf Diseases

Turf Diseases

Host Disease Pathogen Occurrence
Turf Brown patch
Dollar spot
Fairy ring
Flag smut
Gray snow mold
Grease spot
Melting out, leafspot
Leaf blight
Necrotic ringspot
Pink snow mold
Powdery mildew
Red thread
Rust
Slime mold
Stripe smut
Summer patch
Superficial fairy ring
Take-all
Thatch
Yellow patch
Rhizoctonia solani
Sclerotinia homoeocarpa

mushrooms
Urocystis agropyri

Typhula spp.

Pythium sp.

Helminthosporium; Curvularia

Ascochyta , Colletotrichum

Leptosphaeria korrae

Fusarium nivale

Erysiphe graminis

Corticium fuciforme

Puccinia graminis

non-pathogenic fungus
Ustilago striiformis

Phialophora graminicola

basidiomycete fungi
Gaeumannomyces graminis

cultural
Rhizoctonia cerealis
Occasional
Rare
Widespread
Occasional
Widespread
Rare
Widespread
Occasional
Widespread
Widespread
Widespread
Rare
Occasional
Occasional
Occasional
Widespread
Occasional
Occasional
Widespread
Occasional