Good Forage Plant
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A plant which provides good foraging for grazing animals.
Atriplex canescens
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Common Name: Fourwing Saltbush
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 2-6'
Mature Width: 4-6'
Description:
Shrub, Rapid growth with moisture. Grey foliage,small wildlife food and habitat. Can be pruned to hedge. |
Eragrostris trichodes
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Sand Lovegrass
Bloom Season: Late Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 40"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:
Large airy seedheads. Nice vase shape form. Good late summer fall interest. Garden Notes: I have used this grass for several years. So far I have found nothing negative about it. It fills it spot quickly, blooms early and it looks nice through winter. It reseeds itself minimally. Cut back in early spring.
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Sorghastrum nutans
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Yellow Indiangrass
Bloom Season: Fall to Winter
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 5'
Mature Width: 2'
Description:
Strong, upright plant.Seedheads are a fluffy, golden brown. One of the major grasses of the True Tallgrass Prairies. Nice golden colored leaves with bronze seedheads. An early maturing variety with finer leaves. Tall, narrower, stately. Good nesting habitat. |
Schizachyrium scoparium
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Little Bluestem
Bloom Season: Mid-Summer to Winter
Bloom Color: White
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
An important grass of the True Prairie. Blue green, turning to reddish brown in fall. Garden Notes: An important grass of the True Prairie. Blue green through summer, turning to reddish brown in fall, then has good winter color: reddish tan that shows up even better in damp, foggy weather.
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Calylophus serrulatus
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Toothed Sundrops
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Yellow
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Sub-shrub,Blooms heavily in spring then lightly throughout summer. Smaller, mounded plant with narrow leaves. Garden Notes: This variety makes more of a ball-shaped plant. Reseeds nicely for some new plants here and there.
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Bouteloua gracilis
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Click on image below to see additional images  Common Name: Blue Grama
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Redish Pink
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 12"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:
Great PlantSelect® selection. Turf grass or ornamental bunch grass. Slowly spreads maybe 2" per year. Garden Notes: Plant thickly by seed to get a nice grass for outlying area. Height will vary by the amount of water it receives. Very drought tolerant.
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Andropogon gerardii 'Big Bluestem'
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Common Name: Big Bluestem
Bloom Season: Fall to Winter
Bloom Color: Purplish-Red
Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Mature Height: 3'-6'
Mature Width: 24"
Description:
One of the major grasses of the True Tallgrass Prairies. Drought tolerant but prefers extra moisture. Clump former, does not spread. Garden Notes: Coarse grass, best in native setting, cut dried stems to base early spring. Divide clump when center begins dieing out.May be aggressive in the long run in pastures.
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