Wet Prairie Native Seed Mix - Specifications
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| Description: Mix F - Wet Prairie Native Seed Mix | |||||
| Seeding Rate: 6.14 lb/acre | |||||
| 124.9 | seeds/square foot | ||||
| Common Name | Scientific Name | % of Mix (Seeds/ft2) | % of Mix by Weight | Seeds/ft2 | PLS lb |
| Grasses | |||||
| Canada Wild Rye | Elymus canadensis | 1.53% | 16.29% | 1.9 | 1.000 |
| Virginia Wild Rye | Elymus virginicus | 2.96% | 39.09% | 3.7 | 2.400 |
| Fowl Manna Grass | Glyceria striata | 2.21% | 0.76% | 2.8 | 0.047 |
| Rice Cut Grass | Leersia oryzoides | 0.62% | 1.02% | 0.8 | 0.063 |
| Fowl Bluegrass | Poa palustris | 2.39% | 1.02% | 3.0 | 0.063 |
| Prairie Cord Grass | Spartina pectinata | 0.12% | 1.02% | 0.2 | 0.063 |
| Prairie Dropseed | Sporobolus heterolepis | 0.21% | 0.71% | 0.3 | 0.044 |
| Total Grasses | 10.04% | 59.91% | 12.5 | 3.7 | |
| Sedges & Rushes | |||||
| Bottlebrush Sedge | Carex comosa | 1.10% | 2.04% | 1.4 | 0.125 |
| Frank's Sedge | Carex frankii | 0.25% | 0.81% | 0.3 | 0.050 |
| Porcupine Sedge | Carex hystericina | 1.65% | 3.05% | 2.1 | 0.188 |
| Pointed-broom Sedge | Carex scoparia | 1.98% | 1.30% | 2.5 | 0.080 |
| Common Fox Sedge | Carex stipata | 0.47% | 0.76% | 0.6 | 0.047 |
| Brown Fox Sedge | Carex vulpinoidea | 2.65% | 1.47% | 3.3 | 0.090 |
| Dark Green Bulrush | Scirpus atrovirens | 16.91% | 2.04% | 21.1 | 0.125 |
| Woolgrass | Scirpus cyperinus | 31.25% | 1.02% | 39.0 | 0.063 |
| Softstem Bulrush | Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani | 1.14% | 2.04% | 1.4 | 0.125 |
| Total Sedges & Rushes | 57.39% | 14.53% | 71.7 | 0.9 | |
| Forbs | |||||
| Canada Anemone | Anemone canadensis | 0.07% | 0.51% | 0.1 | 0.031 |
| Swamp Milkweed | Asclepias incarnata | 0.13% | 1.53% | 0.2 | 0.094 |
| New England Aster | Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | 0.61% | 0.51% | 0.8 | 0.031 |
| Showy Tick Trefoil | Desmodium canadense | 0.10% | 0.98% | 0.1 | 0.060 |
| Joe Pye Weed | Eutrochium maculatum | 1.12% | 0.65% | 1.4 | 0.040 |
| Boneset | Eupatorium perfoliatum | 2.94% | 1.02% | 3.7 | 0.063 |
| Sneezeweed | Helenium autumnale | 4.78% | 2.04% | 6.0 | 0.125 |
| Ox-eye Sunflower | Heliopsis helianthoides | 0.12% | 1.02% | 0.1 | 0.063 |
| Great St. John's Wort | Hypericum ascyron | 3.49% | 1.02% | 4.4 | 0.063 |
| Southern Blue Flag Iris | Iris virginica shrevei | 0.04% | 2.04% | 0.0 | 0.125 |
| Prairie Blazing Star | Liatris pycnostachya | 0.30% | 1.53% | 0.4 | 0.094 |
| Marsh Blazing Star | Liatris spicata | 0.02% | 0.12% | 0.0 | 0.008 |
| Great Blue Lobelia | Lobelia siphilitica | 4.60% | 0.51% | 5.7 | 0.031 |
| Obedient Plant | Physostegia virginiana | 0.19% | 0.98% | 0.2 | 0.060 |
| Virginia Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum virginianum | 3.03% | 0.76% | 3.8 | 0.047 |
| Black-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia hirta | 0.27% | 0.16% | 0.3 | 0.010 |
| Cup Plant | Silphium perfoliatum | 0.03% | 1.30% | 0.0 | 0.080 |
| Prairie Dock | Silphium terebinthinaceum | 0.01% | 0.65% | 0.0 | 0.040 |
| Stiff Goldenrod | Solidago rigida | 1.51% | 2.04% | 1.9 | 0.125 |
| Purple Meadow Rue | Thalictrum dasycarpum | 0.20% | 1.02% | 0.3 | 0.063 |
| Blue Vervain | Verbena hastata | 3.42% | 2.04% | 4.3 | 0.125 |
| Common Ironweed | Vernonia fasciculata | 0.56% | 1.30% | 0.7 | 0.080 |
| Culver's Root | Veronicastrum virginicum | 4.71% | 0.33% | 5.9 | 0.020 |
| Golden Alexanders | Zizia aurea | 0.30% | 1.53% | 0.4 | 0.094 |
| Total Forbs | 32.56% | 25.56% | 40.7 | 1.6 | |
| Substitutions may be necessary based on availability at the time of order. | |||||