Manhattan Plant Materials Center

Updated 09/10/2008

Manhattan, Kansas

Established 1936

Since 1936, the Manhattan Plant Materials Center has selected plants and developed new technologies for America’s heartland, including the area’s remaining native grasslands and riparian and wetland habitat. The Center’s primary projects include work on Conservation Reserve Program seeding enhancements, disturbed site reclamation, planting and harvesting native plants, and restoring historical prairie. The Center has released over 30 improved conservation plants, including varieties of Illinois bundleflower, common reed, switchgrass, bur oak, prairie coneflower and little bluestem. The Center’s primary projects include work on Conservation Reserve Program seeding enhancements, disturbed site reclamation, planting and harvesting native plants, and restoring historical prairie.

Special Features

• Riley Germplasm Partridge Pea Re-released as ‘Riley’
• The Ethnobotany of Culturally Significant Plants

New Publications

If you encounter any problems with the files provided on this page, please contact Leslie Glass at 701-250-4330.

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Thickspike Gayfeather Plant Guide (PDF; 137 KB) Aug 2008

2007 Annual Progress Report of Activities (PDF; 359 KB) April 2008

Manhattan Plant Materials Center Brochure (PDF; 839 KB)  2008

Plants for the Heartland - Vol. 15 Issue 3 (PDF: 576 KB) Summer 2008

Contact

3800 S. 20th St.
Manhattan, KS 66502-9535

Telephone: 785.539.8761
FAX: 785.539.2034
Email: Richard.Wynia@ks.usda.gov