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Conservation Plant Releases - Jimmy Carter Plant Materials Center
Updated
11/25/2008
The Jimmy Carter 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.
If you encounter any problems with the files provided on this page, please contact
Leslie Glass at 701-250-4330.
These documents require Adobe Acrobat
Plant Releases
Release Name |
Scientific Name |
Common Name |
Uses |
Release Brochure |
Kinchafoonee Germplasm |
Elymus
virginicus |
Virginia wildrye |
erosion control for field borders, logging roads, critical area treatments, and cool season cover
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Sumter Germplasm |
Juncus effusus |
Soft Rush |
wetland wildlife (cover), residential septic systems, constructed wetlands, wetland restoration
and riparian buffers |
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AU Ground Cover |
Lathyrus
hirsutus |
caley pea |
cool season cover crop for conservation tillage systems and as a cattle forage |
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Big-O |
Malus
coronaria |
crabapple |
wildlife food and cover, beautification of urban landscapes, windbreaks, screens and
hedgerows. |
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Dove |
Panicum
miliaceum |
Proso millet |
wildlife food |
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Pensacola |
Paspalum
notatum |
Bahiagrass |
critical stabilization and cattle forage |
Brochure (PDF) |
Restorer |
Schoenoplectus
californicus |
giant bulrush |
constructed wetlands and to treat non point source pollution; also for use in wetland restoration
and creation |
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Muckalee Germplasm |
Scirpus
cyperinus |
Woolgrass |
residential septic systems, constructed wetlands for waste treatment, wildlife cover in riparian
areas, and to restore wetlands where obligate plants dominate |
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Americus |
Sorghastrum
nutans |
yellow indiangrass |
forage, erosion control, buffers, and wildlife habitat |
Brochure (PDF; 270 KB) |
Newberry Germplasm |
Sorghastrum
nutans |
Indiangrass |
erosion control, wildlife habitat improvement, natural plant restoration. |
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Flageo |
Spartina
patens |
marshhay cordgrass |
coastal stabilization |
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Union Germplasm |
Tridens
flavus |
purpletop |
erosion control, wildlife habitat improvement and native plant restoration |
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AU Sunrise |
Trifolium
incarnatum |
crimson clover |
early legume cover in conservation tillage systems |
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Amclo |
Trifolium
vesiculosum |
arrowleaf clover |
cover crop, cattle forage |
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Highlander |
Tripsacum
dactyloides |
eastern gamagrass |
hay production and pasture plantings, buffers, conservation cover, and wildlife habitat |
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Americus |
Vicia villosa |
hairy vetch |
winter cover crop in conservation tillage systems |
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AU Early Cover |
Vicia villosa |
hairy vetch |
cover crop for conservation tillage systems and as an early green manure crop |
Brochure (PDF; 261 KB) |
Wetlander |
Zizaniopsis
miliacea |
giant cutgrass |
constructed wetlands to treat non point source pollution and wetland restoration |
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