Barefoot soft and green the year round in warm season climates...

Looks like Kentucky but acts like Texas...
Thrives under heat stress and hot sun...
Cold temperatures are no problem...
Uses less water 1/3 pan evaporation...
Resists insects and disease...

Reveille is a multi-use cool season grass for semi-arid regions of the United States. It adapts well to golf courses, home lawns, commercial and industrial parks. Certified sod is available now in Colorado, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Reveille makes an ideal home lawn. It needs less water, an important factor in cities when water restrictions are imposed. Low water use lawns become more important when drought occurs.
Reveille is an F1 hybrid between Texas bluegrass, Poa arachnifera, and Kentucky bluegrass, Poa pratensis. Shade tolerance is equivalent to Tall Fescue. Dr. James Read developed the successful cross in 1990 after years of research.  

Special Properties:

Medium-texture
Appealing green color
Resistant to powdery mildew
Resistant to fall armyworm
Moderate resistance to rust and white grub
Shade tolerance equal to tall fescue
Lower maintenance costs than most other grasses

Reveille... A brand new hybrid, turfgrass, crosses native Texas bluegrass and Kentucky bluegrass.
Cool season benefits never before available.  

Thrives where Kentucky bluegrass can’t survive the heat and sun.
Thrives where warm season grasses can’t survive the cold.
And creates the first year-round green lawns for southern climates where Kentucky bluegrass won’t grow.

Enjoy a dark green lawn, with medium-texture, heat and full sun tolerance, cold hardiness, and insect and disease resistance. 
Look for it in... Corporate and retail complexes too...well suited to corporate and industrial complexes for a green landscape, winter and summer without labor-intensive seasonal changes from one turf to another.

Plant: Easily established with sod all year.

Water: Needs one long drink, not many short ones. Compare to bermudagrass water needs. (1/3 pan evaporation) In a Colorado State University Study Reveille went 30 days without water before showing signs of stress (results may be different in other regions and soil types).

Hates wet feet.  Don’t water  frequently. For healthy roots, this bluegrass needs a dry down period between watering.

Fertilize: Requires 4-6 pounds (year round climates) 2-4 pounds (cool season climates) of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet annually, depending on soil. Do not apply nitrogen during the heat of the summer. For additional color during this time we recommend an application of iron.

Management: Use a rotary or reel mower.
Cut to a height of 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 inches. Has been mowed as low as 1/2 inch in Arizona during winter months.

Considerations:

Susceptible to brown patch if over fertilized and kept too wet.

Reveille hybrid bluegrass developed by:
James Read, Ph.D, Professor Plant Breeding, Forage and Turfgrass

Co-authors:
Phillip Colbaugh, Ph.D.
William Knoop, Ph.D.
James Reinert, Ph.D.

PVP  Protected  (Plant Variety Protection)
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas A&M Research and Extension Center
Dallas, Texas

Research funded in part by a grant from Gardner Turfgrass, Inc.