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Systemic Fungicide

Scotts DiseaseEx Lawn Fungicide Review

★★★★★ 4.5/5

our editor rating how we score

4.4/5 from 14,280 shoppers at Amazon — their number, not ours.

$19–$24

Typical price · 5,000 sq ft per 10 lb bag

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Granular azoxystrobin with up to 4 weeks of systemic protection. The easiest effective fungicide for homeowners — spreader-applied, watered in once.

Our Verdict

The default first response to brown patch, large patch and most common lawn fungi. Broad-spectrum, forgiving to apply, and long-lasting — rotate with propiconazole if disease pressure persists.

✅ Pros

  • Systemic protection for up to 28 days
  • Broad spectrum: brown patch, large patch, gray leaf spot, snow mold and 20+ more
  • Applies with any broadcast spreader — no mixing or spraying
  • Rainproof once watered in

⚠️ Cons

  • Costlier per treatment than propiconazole concentrates
  • Repeated solo use risks fungicide resistance — needs a rotation partner
  • Curative rate doubles the cost per 1,000 sq ft

Product type

Systemic Fungicide

Active ingredient

Azoxystrobin 0.31% (granular)

Price range

$19–$24

Coverage

5,000 sq ft per 10 lb bag

Best for

First response to active fungal outbreaks

our editor rating

4.5 out of 5

Where our facts come from

Label read on EPA's label database

EPA Reg. No. 538-330

Read the label yourself →

We opened this product's accepted label on EPA's own Pesticide Product Label System — the strongest source available for what a product is registered to do.

What we found when we read it

Full label read 2026-08-02 on EPA PPLS. Registered product name is 'Lawn Fungus Granular'; DiseaseEx is a brand name on that registration. Azoxystrobin 0.31% confirmed. Diseases on the label: Anthracnose, Brown Patch, Cool Weather Brown Patch, Fusarium Patch, Gray Leafspot, Leaf Rust, Necrotic Ring Spot, Pink Patch, Powdery Mildew, Pythium Blight, Red Thread, Rhizoctonia Large Patch, Snow Mold, Spring Dead Spot, Stem Rust, Summer Patch, Take-All Patch, Yellow Patch, Zoysia Patch. CORRECTION: our targets listed DOLLAR SPOT, and the word 'dollar' does not appear anywhere on this label — removed 2026-08-02. No article claimed it, and dollar-spot.mdx correctly cards the propiconazole product instead. 'Take-all root rot' in our targets is the label's 'Take-All Patch' (same pathogen, warm-season host name) with a fall application timing of twice, typically September onward — kept, but read as the label's wording. Note this is a MASTER label with bracketed optional text, so a specific retail bag may print a shorter disease list than the registration allows.

Where this page and the container disagree, the container wins — the label is the legal authority on rates and restrictions. How to read one yourself.

Where This Product Matters

Matched against each state's actual disease, weed and pest pressure.

Large patch (the centipede and zoysia disease that defines an Alabama spring)Take-all root rotGray leaf spot (St. Augustine)

Application window: Bermuda and zoysia: May through August. Centipede: one light feeding, and that is the whole programme

Take-all root rot (Bermuda decline)

Application window: Bermuda: light monthly feedings May–September, plus iron for alkalinity yellowing

Large patch (zoysia, and the Delta's humidity makes it reliable)Brown patch (tall fescue in the Ozarks)Spring dead spot (bermuda)Take-all root rot

Application window: Bermuda and zoysia: May through August. Fescue in the north: September and October only

Brown patch (fescue under summer night irrigation)

Application window: Fescue: October–November and March–April; Bermuda: May–August

Red thread (the New England signature — pink threads on ryegrass and fine fescue in a cool wet spring, and it reads as a nitrogen shortage more than an infection)Brown patch (July and August on tall fescue, once the nights stop cooling off)Snow mold, gray and pink (a real disease here in the northwest hills, where snow cover sits for weeks)

Application window: UConn's two dates are May and early September, with a third in June only if you bag the clippings — 2 lb of nitrogen per 1,000 sq ft a year if clippings are returned, 3 lb if removed, and never more than 1 lb of soluble N at once. Nothing before April 15 or after mid-October

Brown patch — the defining disease of a Delaware tall fescue lawn, because humid nights that never drop below the high 60s are the normal July here rather than the exceptionGray leaf spot (tall fescue and perennial ryegrass, late summer, and it kills a stand faster than brown patch does)Large patch on zoysia, as soil cools through the 70s in autumn and again in spring

Application window: Delaware is a soil-test state by law and by Extension practice — the University of Delaware declines to publish blanket rates and tells you to follow the report. The autumn feeding is the one that carries a transition-zone lawn; 3 DE Admin. Code 1204 sets per-application limits, no-application periods and setbacks on top of that

Large patch (Rhizoctonia solani)Gray leaf spotTake-all root rot

Application window: April–May and September–October (check local summer blackout ordinances)

Large patch (zoysia and centipede — the disease that decides a Georgia spring)Take-all root rotSpring dead spot (bermuda)

Application window: Bermuda: monthly light feedings from full green-up (late April) through August

Large patch and brown patch (Rhizoctonia) on zoysia and St. Augustine, running whenever warm humid conditions persist — which on the windward side is most of the yearTake-all root rot on St. Augustine

Application window: Rate follows species: hybrid bermudagrass has the highest requirement, zoysia, St. Augustine and seashore paspalum are intermediate, and centipede needs the least. Because growth never stops and the soils leach, the pattern is lighter and more frequent rather than two or three big applications — and seashore paspalum wants nitrate-N rather than ammonium-N during establishment

Summer patch

Application window: UI publishes a five-slot schedule for a medium-to-high maintenance bluegrass lawn: half to one pound of nitrogen per 1,000 sq ft in mid-March or April, one pound in early May or June, NOTHING in July or early August, one pound in mid-August or September, and one to two pounds in early October or November with the higher rate optional. A season total runs anywhere from 0.5 to 5 lb depending on the quality you want; a low-maintenance tall fescue lawn sits at 2 to 4 lb

Snow mold (gray and pink — a Chicagoland certainty, a southern Illinois rarity)Summer patchLarge patch (zoysia in the southern counties)

Application window: Labor Day and Halloween feedings do 80% of the work; optional light Memorial Day application

Snow mold (watch as snow recedes in March)Red thread (slow-growing lawns, late spring)

Application window: Purdue's five slots: up to 0.75 lb slow-release in April, 0.75–1.0 lb in May, 0.75 lb in July on irrigated lawns only, 1 lb in September, and 1.5 lb of fast-release urea in November after the final mowing while the grass is still green

Summer patchSnow mold

Application window: Early September and late October — the fall programme carries an Iowa lawn

Brown patch (Rhizoctonia solani) — the tall fescue killer here, running when temperatures pass 80°F with high humidity and high nitrogen, and capable of taking a stand out in a long hot humid stretchLarge patch on zoysia, as soil temperatures pass through the 70s in spring and autumnSpring dead spot on bermudagrass

Application window: K-State splits this by species rather than by month. Tall and fine fescue: about 1 lb of nitrogen per 1,000 sq ft, applied in autumn. Zoysia: 1 to 1.5 lb, in early summer. Buffalograss: the least of any Kansas lawn grass — 1 lb in early June improves colour and density, and more than that makes it weedy

Brown patch (tall fescue's summer killer statewide)Large patch (zoysia)Gray leaf spotSpring dead spot (bermuda in the west)

Application window: Fescue and bluegrass: September and late October. Check the soil test before buying anything with a middle number — Inner Bluegrass limestone soils routinely test phosphorus-sufficient already

Large patch (St. Augustine and zoysia, warm humid spring and fall)Gray leaf spot (St. Augustine's summer disease here)Take-all root rot

Application window: St. Augustine takes at least 1 lb of nitrogen in June and again in early to mid-August, up to about 3 lb a year, applied from midspring to midsummer

Red thread on ryegrass and fine fescue in a cool wet spring, which reads as a nitrogen shortage more than an infectionBrown patch — a southern-coast problem, uncommon inland and north

Application window: UMaine is specific and restrained: no more than two pounds of nitrogen per 1,000 sq ft a year, and if you feed once, do it between August 15 and September 15. Any remainder goes down in May after spring green-up, not before it

Brown patch (tall fescue's July and August killer statewide)Red thread (cool wet springs)Large patch (zoysia in the DC–Baltimore corridor)Gray leaf spot

Application window: Tall fescue feeds September and late October — and the state's blackout starts November 16, which is earlier than most neighbours

Snow mold (gray and pink)Brown patch (tall fescue in a humid coastal July)

Application window: Late spring and early September, with a late-October application where the rules allow — the season is short enough that timing matters more than rate

Snow mold (gray and pink, after prolonged snow cover)Red threadSummer patch

Application window: April through October, and MSU is specific that applications should go down before November — later nitrogen leaches over winter rather than feeding the grass

Typhula blight (grey snow mold, after months of snow cover)Microdochium patch (pink snow mold)

Application window: The University of Minnesota scales nitrogen by maintenance level AND soil organic matter: a low-maintenance unwatered lawn takes a single September application of 0.5–1 lb, while a watered lawn with clippings removed takes four — August, September, early October and May–June — and no single application should exceed 1 lb per 1,000 sq ft

Take-all root rot (the disease that thins a Mississippi lawn from below while the blades still look fed)Large patchGray leaf spot (St. Augustine)

Application window: Bermuda: May through August. Centipede: one light feeding a year and nothing more

Brown patch (tall fescue's July and August killer)Large patch (the zoysia disease Missouri sees more of than most states)Spring dead spot (bermuda in the south)Gray leaf spot

Application window: Fescue: September and late October, with a light spring feeding at most; zoysia and bermuda: May through August

Summer patch

Application window: UNL publishes dates, not seasons, for cool-season lawns: April 15–25 at 0 to 0.5 lb of nitrogen per 1,000 sq ft, May 25–June 5 at 0.5 to 0.75, August 25–September 5 at 0.5 to 0.75, and October 15–November 1 at 0 to 0.25. Western Nebraska shifts one to two weeks later in spring and one to two weeks earlier in autumn. Buffalograss and zoysia get one application, May 5–15, at about 0.5 lb — and buffalograss should never exceed 2 lb a year

Summer patch

Application window: Bermuda in the south: May through August. Tall fescue and bluegrass in the north: spring and early autumn

Snow mold, gray and pink — not an occasional New England nuisance here but an annual expectation wherever snow lies for months, and gray snow mold specifically wants that long coverRed thread (cool wet springs on ryegrass and fine fescue, and it reads as a nitrogen shortage)Brown patch (a Seacoast and southern-tier problem more than a North Country one)

Application window: One to two pounds of nitrogen per 1,000 sq ft a year is UNH's range for a home lawn — lower than the coastal states south of here. The last application of the year should be down before September 15 in northern New Hampshire and October 1 in the south

Brown patch (tall fescue in humid July weather)Red threadLeaf spot

Application window: Legally March 1 – November 15 for homeowners (professionals get to December 1), and capped at 3.2 lb of nitrogen per 1,000 sq ft a year — weight it to September and October

Spring dead spot on bermudagrass, appearing as the lawn greens upSummer patch and other root-zone diseases on cool-season lawns in the northLarge patch on zoysia as soil passes through the 70s

Application window: New establishment gets 0.5 to 0.75 lb of nitrogen per 1,000 sq ft every other week for six to eight weeks. After that the calendar follows the grass, not the state: cool-season lawns in the north feed spring and autumn, warm-season lawns in the south feed through the warm months and stop well before dormancy

Snow mold (gray and pink, heaviest in the lake-effect belt)Red threadBrown patch (tall fescue and ryegrass in humid August weather)

Application window: September is the one application Cornell recommends at every level of lawn quality; May, June and October are optional extras, and no application may exceed 1 lb of nitrogen per 1,000 sq ft

Brown patch (the #1 tall fescue killer)Large patch (warm-season lawns)Spring dead spot (Bermuda)

Application window: Fescue feeds in fall: September, October and late November — never in summer

Gray and pink snow mold (heaviest in the northeast lake-effect belt, rare along the river)Red thread

Application window: September and early November (winterizer) carry the lawn; optional light feeding late May

Spring dead spot (the bermuda disease Oklahoma winters create — patches that never green up in April)Large patch (zoysia)Brown patch (tall fescue in the northeast)Take-all root rot

Application window: Bermuda and zoysia: May through August. Buffalograss wants almost none — feeding it is how people lose it to weeds

Red thread

Application window: Light and frequent through spring and autumn west of the mountains; east-side lawns follow a shorter, more conventional cool-season programme

Red thread on underfed lawns in a cool wet MayGray and pink snow mold, heaviest on the plateau where snow lies longestBrown patch (tall fescue in a humid July)

Application window: September and late October, and the state closes the window on December 15 — the tightest legal autumn sequence of any state here, because the rate caps limit how much can go down in each of those passes

Red thread (the fine-fescue and ryegrass disease of a cool wet Rhode Island spring — it reads as low nitrogen more than as an infection)Brown patch (humid bay nights are what make it a Rhode Island problem rather than an occasional one)Snow mold, gray and pink

Application window: Late spring and early September, with the September application doing most of the work. The Water Resources Board's statewide guidance asks for moderate rates and never above label — and municipal ordinances in the bay towns cap it far below that

Large patch (centipede and zoysia, in warm humid spring and fall weather)Brown patch (tall fescue in the Upstate)Gray leaf spot (St. Augustine)Take-all root rot

Application window: Centipedegrass takes nitrogen in May and once in late summer only, 1–2 lb a year total; the last application goes down before August 15 in the Upstate and before September 1 on the coast

Brown patch (tall fescue's summer nemesis statewide)Large patch (zoysia)Spring dead spot (Bermuda)Gray leaf spot

Application window: Fescue: September through November; Bermuda and zoysia: May through August

Brown patch / large patchTake-all root rotGray leaf spot (St. Augustine)Spring dead spot (Bermuda)

Application window: Late April after full green-up, June, and early September

Summer patchSnow mold in the mountain valleys

Application window: Late spring and early September, kept modest — pushing growth in a place where every inch of it is irrigated costs water as well as fertilizer

Red thread (cool wet spring on ryegrass and fine fescue, reading as a nitrogen shortage)Brown patch — real in the Champlain Valley and the southern river valleys, uncommon at elevation

Application window: Late spring and late August to early September, with the late-summer application carrying the year. Get it down early — the growing season closes fast north of Rutland

Brown patch (tall fescue's summer nemesis here)Gray leaf spot (tall fescue, late summer)Large patch (zoysia)Spring dead spot (bermuda)

Application window: Cool-season lawns take 2.0–3.5 lb of nitrogen a year across September, October, November, April and May at 0.5–0.7 lb a month; bermuda and zoysia are fed only between April 1 and August 15

Red thread (the signature western Washington disease, fall through spring)Typhula snow mold (eastern Washington under prolonged snow cover)

Application window: Mid-May only if the lawn is thin or yellow, then September–October; slow-release synthetic as late as mid-November

Brown patch — the defining disease of a West Virginia tall fescue lawn, driven by humid valley nights that never cool off in JulyGray leaf spot on tall fescue and perennial ryegrass in late summer, which takes a stand out faster than brown patch doesRed thread in a cool wet spring, reading as a nitrogen shortage more than an infectionLarge patch on zoysia as soil cools through the 70s in autumn and again in spring

Application window: Autumn carries a transition-zone lawn, so the September feeding is the year's most valuable. Nitrogen is the one nutrient required regardless of what the test says; phosphorus, potassium and lime should all follow the report, which in West Virginia usually asks for lime

Typhula blight (the grey snow mold of long snow cover)Microdochium patch (pink snow mold)Red thread

Application window: About 2 lb of nitrogen a year in total: roughly 1 lb at the second mowing in spring and 1 lb between September 1 and 15, with any summer application kept under 1 lb and only on irrigated lawns

Common questions

Common Questions

How much does Scotts DiseaseEx Lawn Fungicide cost?

Scotts DiseaseEx Lawn Fungicide typically runs $19–$24, covering 5,000 sq ft per 10 lb bag.

What does Scotts DiseaseEx Lawn Fungicide treat?

Scotts DiseaseEx Lawn Fungicide targets Brown patch, Large patch, Gray leaf spot, Snow mold, Take-all root rot, Spring dead spot, among others.

What is the active ingredient in Scotts DiseaseEx Lawn Fungicide?

Azoxystrobin 0.31% (granular), registered under EPA Reg. No. 538-330.

What is the biggest downside of Scotts DiseaseEx Lawn Fungicide?

Costlier per treatment than propiconazole concentrates

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