I hear people calling it bermuda grass and crab grass and a bunch of other stuff, but I have never gotten a definitive answer so am curious

Its Bermuda grass. Bermuda grass is a perennial that spreads by above ground stolons and below ground rhizomes. Crabgrass clumps and dies at the end of the season.

Thank you! This stuff rarely dies for long.

Horrible stuff. The very definition of "give it an inch and it will take a mile. Stay on it constantly.

It grows rampant in the backyard. Have to have my yard guy come through with a shovel and pull it up a few times a year. I just can't pull enough fast enough to make a dent in it.

Fortunately it hasn't taken a real foothold in the front yard and I can just pull it as I see it.

Everytime I see it in my yard, I follow the rhizomes and dig it up, even if it means digging up some pour innocent shrub.

A great pasture grass, a curse in a garden.

I am surrounded by pasture and farm land. My property was once an almond orchard. I think the seed just blows in from one of the neighboring properties.

They sell that stuff as "lawn turf" here. It's not the worst grass weed here by far. This is relatively easy to pull up compared to a few others in my "lawn." And this type almost always tries to go over a border edge, vs. going under like some of the more sinister "grasses."

The stolons are easy but the rhizomes are horrible. You have to dig carefully because if you break one, you have more.

If it's not in a lawn Fusilade will kill it, stolons, rhizomes and all.

Last spring, we tried ornamec in the front yard along the sidewalk edge where it gets out of hand, along with some other weeds. It seemed to help but not any better than when we weedwacked.