Native grass seeding was applied, using a helicopter in October 2005, to some areas burned with high severity (712 ha). The Uma- tilla National Forest stores native grass seed grown from locally adapted seed sources and sows it to reduce the potential for soil erosion, and to limit the ...
Use a mix of plants with different shapes, colors, and textures. Consider attributes such as foliage, flowers, fruit, seedheads, and bark that will contribute to a captivating four-season landscape. Create layering as it occurs in nature by using a combination of trees, shrubs, perennials, an...
Margaret: The Palafoxia and the Collinsia, so the blue-eyed Mary [above] and the Palafoxia, I saw that Missouri Wildflowers, the seed company—you know them, I guess, huh? Alan: Yes. Well, they sell all kinds of Missouri original native plants, but yeah, they will send you the s...
Gooseberry bush (Ribes missouriense) Prickly stem of the gooseberry bush. I said the recipe was fast and easy and so it is, as you will soon see. Getting to the cooking point, however— not so much, since the tough little fibrous ends and stems of each berry have to be removed. Goos...
Over time, many plants have developed pollination systems that depend on bees. Missouri examples include most of the flowers in the bean family (Fabaceae), the daisy family (Asteraceae), the rose family (Rosaceae), gentians and many others. Many native fruits eaten by birds and other wildlife...
L. et al. Using prairie restoration to curtail invasion of Canada thistle: the importance of limiting similarity and seed mix richness. Biol. Invasions 15, 2049–2063 (2013). Scientific Reports | 5:11004 | DOI: 10.1038/srep11004 10 www.nature.com/scientificreports/ 31. Roberts, R. E., ...
Pails were seeded with 300 pure live seeds m−2 with a native grass seed mix of Elymus trachycaulus (Link) Gould ex Shinners (slender wheatgrass), Leymus innovatus (Beal) Pilg. (hairy wildrye), Deschampsia caespitosa (L.) P. Beauv. (tufted hairgrass), and Calamagrostis canadensis (...