Description:
Originated as a highly apomicticm single-plant selection from an open-pollinated cross in the Jacklin Seed breeding nurseries in 1992. Parentage traces to breeding line 90-0499, which originated as a naturally occurring hybrid of Midnight Kentucky bluegrass. Breeding line 90-0499 was selected from a breeding nursery north of Post Falls, ID, on 9 July 1990 and produced a moderately open turf with little or no ergot in seed production. In June 1991, a plant of 90-0499 was hybridized with pollen from 20 other Kentucky bluegrass, the resulting progeny were planted in a spaced-plant field nursery of 400 plants in July.