Mixed Grass Prairie Restoration Mix

Mixed Grass Prairie Restoration Mix

Seed Rate: 20.61 seeds/ft 2
Cost: $395.00/acre

This mixture is designed with hard-to- find species that are local ecotype sourced from EcoRegion #332. If you want to use a mixture that contains key native, ecotype species, you probably can’t find some of the species in this mixture anywhere else.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE CONSIDERATIONS

  • Cost of the Seed Mixture – your project budget
  • Your ability to perform future management activities on the planting
  • Maximum benefits for honey bees
  • Maximum benefits for monarch butterflies
  • Wanting to benefit a wide range of pollinator species
  • Designed to perform on sandy soil
  • Designed to perform well on loamy soils
  • Ability to perform in a site that started with existing grass cover
  • Designed to restore native prairie values
  • Benefits to upland wildlife species like pheasants, quail, deer, etc.

Mixture: 5 grass and 60 wildflower species
Western Yarrow – Achillea millefolium, Rough Purple Gerardia – Agalinis aspera*, Wild Garlic – Allium canadense*, Leadplant – Amorpha canescens*, Big Bluestem – Andropogon gerardii, Candle Anemone – Anemone cylindrica*, White Sage – Artemisia ludoviciana*, Narrow-leaved Milkweed – Asclepias stenophylla*, Common Milkweed – Asclepias syriaca*, Whorled Milkweed – Asclepias verticillate, Green Milkweed – Asclepias viridiflora*, Heath Aster – Aster ericoides*, New England Aster – Aster novae-angliae, Aromatic Aster – Aster oblongifolius*, Canada Milkvetch – Astragalus canadensis, Sideoats Grama – Bouteloua curtipendula, Purple Poppymallow – Callirhoe involucrate, Showy Partridgepea – Chamaecrista fasciculata, Rocky Mountain Bee Plant – Cleome serrulate*, Plains Coreopsis – Coreopsis tinctorial*, White Prairieclover – Dalea candida*, Purple Prairieclover – Dalea purpurea*, Tall Cinquefoil – Drymocallis arguta*, Blacksamson – Echinacea angustifolia*, Canada Wildrye – Elymus canadensis, Daisy Fleabane – Erigeron strigosus*, Tall Boneset – Eupatorium altissimum*, Snow on the Mountain – Euphorbia marginata*, Field Snake Cotton – Froelichia floridana*, Blanketflower – Gaillardia aristate, Sawtooth Sunflower – Helianthus grosseserratus*, Maximillian Sunflower – Helianthus maximiliani*, Ashy Sunflower – Helianthus mollis*, Stiff Sunflower – Helianthus pauciflorus*, Plains Sunflower – Helianthus petiolaris*, Willow-leaf Sunflower – Helianthus salicifolius*, False Sunflower – Heliopsis helianthoides, Bush Morning Glory – Ipomoea leptophylia*, Prairie Junegrass – Koeleria pyramidata, Roundhead Lespedeza – Lespedeza capitate, Rough Gayfeather – Liatris aspera*, Dotted Gayfeather – Liatris punctata*, Deer Vetch – Lotus unifoliolatus*, Wild Bergamot – Monarda fistulosa*, Common Evening Primrose – Oenothera biennis, Purple Locoweed – Oxytropis lambertii*, Foxglove Beardstongue – Penstemon digitalis*, Shell-leaf Penstemon – Penstemon grandiflorus*, Upright Coneflower – Ratibida columnifera, Grayhead Coneflower – Ratibida pinnata, Arkansas Rose – Rosa arkansana*, Blackeyed Susan – Rudbeckia hirta, Little Bluestem – Schizachyrium scoparium, Sensitive Briar – Schrankia nuttallii*, Entire-leaved Rosinweed – Silphium integrifolium*, Compass Plant – Silphium laciniatum*, Cup Plant – Silphium perfoliatum*, Late Goldenrod – Solidago gigantea*, Missouri Goldenrod – Solidago missouriensis*, Stiff Goldenrod – Solidago rigida*, Showy-wand Goldenrod – Solidago speciosa*, Porcupine Grass – Stipa spartea*, American Germander – Teucrium canadense*, Blue Vervain – Verbena hastate*, Hoary Vervain – Verbena stricta*, Baldwin &  Ironweed – Vernonia baldwinii*, Golden Alexander – Zizia aurea*
* Local Ecotype Seed Source

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