You won't see such a big contrast between the stripes' colors if you have a warm-season grass, such as Bermuda or zoysia.
Another potential buffer is to plant warm-season perennial grasses such as switchgrass, which do not grow early in the season.
The animals then use the warm-season grasses during the heat of the summer, and the cool-season grasses recover for fall grazing.
As a warm-season perennial grass, most of its growth occurs from late spring through early fall; it becomes dormant and unproductive during colder months.
The plant is a warm-season grass, meaning that leaves begin growth in the summer.
To my mind, however, the warm-season grasses would be benign.
And bear in mind that these are warm-season grasses.
Before the warm-season grasses begin to show much life after dormancy, cool-season grasses burst into quick, lush growth.
The project goal is to establish more than 50,000 acres of giant miscanthus, a warm-season grass that can be converted into energy.
A warm-season grass used as cattle fodder and is sometimes cultivated for this purpose.