If you are anIllinoisresident, there is a high chance you have encountered several native plants that you might not find in other parts of the country. You may want to know about these plants for educational purposes, as a hobby, or to have a home garden featuring Illinois native vegetation...
Knowledge of the herbage production of native grasses, in forest areas during the growing season, is a useful tool for improving the utilization of grasslands. The aim of this investigation was to determine the curve of herbage accumulation, average growth rate and crude protein of native grass...
Each year, the organization holds about eight native plant sales, all part of the Bringing Nature Home initiative. In 2023, the foundation sold more than 30,000 native plants including flowering plants, grasses and sedges, as well as more than 575 native trees and shrubs, with funds raised ...
Wind and water erosion is associated with a predictable cycle in which excessive numbers of sheep and cattle combine with feral animals (particularly rabbits) to degrade perennial plants (both grasses and shrubs), leaving scalds, bare soil, and allowing infestation of woody weeds. The result is ...
dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana. Google Scholar Drolet, R. (1984). Community life in a late phase chiefdom village, southwestern Costa Rica. In Lange, F. W. (ed.), Recent Developments in Isthmian Archaeology, BAR International Series 212, British ...
Some areas have experienced more extreme loss, for example in the state of Illinois less than 0.01% of high-quality native tallgrass prairie remains. Non-native invasive species are a recent phenomenon that threatens the integrity of surviving TGP communities. Ecotypes of dominant C4 grasses are ...
And it was both found where I worked in Illinois and in Missouri. It is just delightful. The only place I’ve seen it really successful in a garden is at the English Woodland Garden at Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. So, that’s one, I think, people really, really, really ...
Wildflowers that bloom during the Spring Season. Perennial Native Wildflowers, Prairie Grasses, Rushes, and Sedges are listed.
Britt.; switchgrass, Panicum virgatum L.; and indiangrass, Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash. General combining ability (GCA) effects were found for forage dry matter yields (DMY, P less than or equal to 0.05) of Illinois bundleflower (-1240 kg ha(-1)), roundhead lespedeza (-3460 kg ha...
I recall a conversation with friends years ago about local grasses, and someone pointed out some attractive specimens nearby. “Indiangrass”, she said, to which someone replied, “Sorghastrum nutans?” At that point, someone else snorted and exclaimed “Ah, you people drive me nuts when yo...