Solar Shortgrass Seed Mix
1000 sq ft
$54.00
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Solar Shortgrass Seed Mix
$54.00
While not strictly native*, this mix has enough diversity to handle shade and sun in a dry-mesic environment surrounding and underneath a small solar array. It can provide a low maintenance, low profile habitat as the solar panels soak up the sun.
*Bouteloua gracilis - Blue Grama Grass
Mix Characteristics
- Moisture: Dry, Mesic, Dry-Mesic
- Soil: Sand, Loam
- Sun: Full, Part
- Height: Under 2'
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Specs
| Total Seeding Rate: 31.2 lbs per acre | |||
| 3.78 lbs grasses • 2.42 lbs forbs • 25 lbs nurse crop | |||
| 82.06 native seeds per sq ft | |||
| Grasses, Sedges & Rushes | PLS Oz/acre | Seeds/sq ft | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Side-oats Grama | 40.00 | 5.51 |
| Bouteloua gracilis* | Blue Grama Grass* | 16.00 | 14.69 |
| Juncus tenuis | Path Rush | 0.50 | 11.48 |
| Koeleria cristata (K. macrantha, pyramidata) | June Grass | 2.00 | 9.18 |
| Poa Palustris | Fowl Bluegrass | 2.00 | 5.97 |
| Total Grasses | 60.50 | 46.83 | |
| Forbs | PLS Oz/acre | Seeds/sq ft | |
| Achillea millefolium | Yarrow | 1.00 | 4.09 |
| Allium cernuum | Nodding Wild Onion | 1.00 | 0.17 |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Wild Columbine | 0.75 | 0.65 |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterfly Milkweed | 1.00 | 0.10 |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lance-leaf Coreopsis | 8.00 | 3.67 |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea | 16.00 | 0.99 |
| Heuchera richardsonii | Prairie Alum Root | 0.10 | 1.61 |
| Lespedeza virginica | Slender Bush Clover | 1.00 | 0.23 |
| Penstemon hirsutus | Hairy Beardtongue | 0.30 | 0.86 |
| Pycnanthemum tenuifolium | Slender Mountain Mint | 0.30 | 2.60 |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan | 8.00 | 16.90 |
| Solidago nemoralis | Old-field Goldenrod | 0.25 | 1.72 |
| Symphyotrichum ericoides | Heath Aster | 0.25 | 1.15 |
| Verbena stricta | Hoary Vervain | 0.75 | 0.48 |
| Total Forbs | 38.70 | 35.23 | |
| Temporary Grass Cover | Oz/acre | Seeds/sq ft | |
| Avena sativa | Seed Oats | 320.00 | 7.35 |
| Total Temp Grasses | 320.00 | 7.35 | |
Note: Species subject to availability; substitutions may be necessary.
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