How cold does it have to get until rye grass will dye?

[clyde stewart]

It snowed here the other day (HATTIESBURG MS ) i just went to do some pruning at my Hotel account and the Rye grass is completely dead and i know the owner doesn't know yet. SO i am trying to find some facts out that way i can tell him whats going on. Does any body know?

it got down to about 16 the other nite.

[Planter]

Is this a perennial rye (Lolium perenne L.)? If so, we grow it here and have good success at temps as low as 10 F.

Kevin

[greens1]

Do you mean dormant ?

Jim L

[kermit]

Perrenial rye survives months of winter with temps as low as -30f here. It will grow as long as the temp is above 32f.