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Basic Dry Shortgrass Prairie Seed Mix

1000 sq ft
$60.00
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Basic Dry Shortgrass Prairie Seed Mix

Basic Dry Shortgrass Prairie Seed Mix

$60.00
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One of our most popular mixes for its simplicity and affordability, this is a scaled down version of Michigan's historic dry shortgrass prairie communities. This mix contains some of our most common short prairie species and is a great starter prairie where a low stature on poor dry soils is needed or desired. It contains 5 native grasses and 17 native legumes and wildflowers with foliage up to 3.5 ft tall.

Mix Characteristics

  • Moisture: Dry, Dry-Mesic, Mesic
  • Soil: Sand, Loam
  • Sun: Full, Part Sun
  • Height: 2-4'

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Specs

Total Seeding Rate: 30.58 lbs per acre
3.25 lbs grasses •  2.33 lbs forbs  •  25 lbs nurse crop
62.92 native seeds per sq ft  •  up to 4ft
Grasses   PLS Oz/acre Seeds/sq ft
Bouteloua curtipendula Side-oats Grama 11.00 1.52
Carex brevior Plains Oval Sedge 1.50 1.00
Koeleria cristata June Grass 1.50 6.89
Schizachyrium scoparium Little Bluestem 36.00 12.40
Sporobolus cryptandrus Sand Dropseed 2.00 9.18
  Total Grasses 52.00 30.99
Forbs PLS Oz/acre Seeds/sq ft
Achillea millefolium Yarrow 0.50 2.05
Asclepias tuberosa Butterfly Milkweed 1.50 0.15
Chamaecrista fasciculata Partridge Pea 8.00 0.50
Coreopsis lanceolata Lance-leaf Coreopsis 6.00 2.75
Dalea purpurea (Petalostemum p.) Purple Prairie Clover 4.00 1.65
Echinacea purpurea Purple Coneflower 5.00 0.76
Lespedeza capitata Round-Headed Bush Clover 1.50 0.18
Liatris aspera Rough Blazing Star 0.25 0.09
Monarda punctata Horsemint 0.50 1.03
Penstemon hirsutus Hairy Beardtongue 0.75 2.15
Potentilla arguta (Drymocallis a.) Prairie Cinquefoil 0.75 3.96
Ratibida pinnata Yellow Coneflower 1.75 1.03
Rudbeckia hirta Black-eyed Susan 4.00 8.45
Solidago nemoralis Old-field Goldenrod 0.75 3.44
Symphyotrichum laeve Smooth Blue Aster 0.75 0.95
Verbena stricta Hoary Vervain 1.25 0.80
Total Forbs 37.25 29.94
Temporary Grass Cover   Oz/acre Seeds/sq ft
Lolium multiflorum Annual Ryegrass 80.00 24.79
Avena sativa Seed Oats 320.00 7.35
  Total Temp Grasses 400.00 32.14

Note: Species subject to availability; substitutions may be necessary.

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