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Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center
Conservation Plant ReleasesThe Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center has released the
following plants to commercial growers to solve specific resource conservation needs. Click on the link to
the Release Brochure (if available) to view more information on each plant release. Click on the Scientific
Name for more information on the species.
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Release Name |
Scientific Name |
Common Name |
Uses |
Release Brochure |
Lark Selection |
Chamaecrista
fasciculata |
partridge pea |
temporary soil stabilization and for wildlife food |
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Chiwapa |
Echinochloa
frumentacea |
Japanese millet |
food and cover for water fowl, quail, and dove; livestock forage. |
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Leflore Source |
Echinodorus
cordifolius |
creeping burhead |
wetland mitigation plantings, constructed wetlands, and for natural areas which are moist |
Brochure (PDF) |
Quail Haven |
Glycine
soja |
reseeding soybean |
food and cover for upland game birds, soil improvement, and hay crop |
Brochure (PDF) |
Halifax |
Panicum
hemitomon |
maidencane |
controlling erosion on toe slopes of stream channels and preventing erosion long shorelines
of ponds and reservoirs caused by wave action (shoreline erosion control) |
Brochure (PDF) |
Wilmington |
Paspalum
notatum |
Bahiagrass |
pasture, hay, waterways and lawns |
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Morton Germplasm |
Salix
koriyanagi |
kori-yanagi willow |
stream bank control, riparian buffers, urban conservation, basket making, and wildlife
habitat |
Brochure (PDF) |
Leaf River Selection |
Scirpus
cyperinus |
woolgrass |
wetland mitigation plantings, constructed wetlands, and for natural areas which are moist |
Brochure (PDF) |
Hopefield Selection |
Strophostyles
helvula |
trailing wildbean |
wildlife food source, food source for upland game birds, and temporary soil stabilization |
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Indian Bayou Source |
Thalia
dealbata |
powdery thalia |
wetland mitigation plantings; constructed wetlands; for natural areas which are moist |
Brochure (PDF) |
Meechee |
Trifolium
vesiculosum |
arrowleaf clover |
cover crop, hay, grazing, and wildlife food for game birds. |
Brochure (PDF) |
Highlander |
Tripsacum
dactyloides |
eastern gamagrass |
hay production and pasture plantings, buffers, conservation cover, and wildlife habitat |
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pending (GAPMC) |
Tripsacum
dactyloides |
eastern gamagrass |
forage and buffer use |
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Verl |
Tripsacum
dactyloides |
eastern gamagrass |
hay or pasture |
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Thorsby |
Vigna
unguiculata |
cowpea |
green manure crop |
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