What’s the Difference Between Artificial Turf and Artificial Grass?

Although most people tend to use the terms “artificial turf” and “artificial grass” interchangeably, each name actually refers to a different type of synthetic grass. Turf is used to describe sports grass, which is shorter. Artificial grass is the officially correct term for landscape grass, which is longer and fluffier.

Back when AstroTurf was first invented we didn’t make distinctions like this, because there was just one product. And, frankly, not a very good one at that. AstroTurf was green – though not a shade normally associated with living grass. And it had a nappy texture that no one mistook for the real thing.