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Conservation Plant Releases - Cape May Plant Materials Center
Updated
11/26/2008
The Cape May 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 |
Cape |
Ammophila
breviligulata |
American beachgrass |
restoration and stabilization of coastal dunes and critical areas |
Brochure (PDF) |
Suther Germplasm |
Andropogon
gerardii |
big bluestem |
roadside revegetation, critical areas, wildlife habitat, parks, recreational areas, landscapes and
prairie restoration |
Brochure (PDF; 114 KB) |
Emerald Sea |
Juniperus
conferta |
shore juniper |
landscape and shore plantings |
Brochure (PDF) |
VA-70 |
Lespedeza
thunbergii |
shrub lespedeza |
wildlife habitat, riparian corridors, critical areas |
Brochure (PDF) |
Wildwood |
Morella
pensylvanica |
bayberry |
back dune stabilization, windbreaks, field borders, wildlife, and vegetative barrier |
Brochure (PDF; 166 KB) |
Atlantic |
Panicum
amarum |
coastal panicgrass |
coastal dune stabilization, CRP, EQIP, WHIP, mined land |
Brochure (PDF; 110 KB) |
Carthage |
Panicum
virgatum |
switchgrass |
wildlife habitat, buffers, pastures, and as a component of native plant mixes |
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High Tide Germplasm |
Panicum
virgatum |
switchgrass |
freshwater stabilization of streambanks and shoreline and for herbaceous riparian buffers |
Brochure (PDF; 133 KB) |
Ocean View |
Prunus
maritima |
beach plum |
back dune stabilization, landscaping, and wildlife |
Brochure (PDF; 173 KB) |
Sandy |
Rosa
rugosa |
rugosa rose |
dune stabilization and landscape plantings |
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Dune Crest Germplasm |
Schizachyrium
littorale |
coastal little bluestem |
disturbed sites such as sand and gravel mines, diversify plant communities in coastal sand dune
systems, beach replenishment projects and back dune areas |
Brochure (PDF; 180 KB) |
Suther Germplasm |
Schizachyrium
scoparium |
little bluestem |
roadside revegetation, critical areas, wildlife habitat, forage, prairie restoration, parks and
recreational areas |
Brochure (PDF; 128 KB) |
Coastal Germplasm |
Sorghastrum
nutans |
indiangrass |
enhance native warm season grass habitat |
Brochure (PDF; 183 KB) |
Suther Germplasm |
Sorghastrum
nutans |
yellow indiangrass |
roadside revegetation, critical areas, wildlife habitat, parks, recreational areas, landscapes and
prairie restoration |
Brochure (PDF; 179 KB) |
Bayshore |
Spartina
alterniflora |
smooth cordgrass |
revegetating and stabilizing tidal stream banks and restoring wetlands |
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Avalon |
Spartina
patens |
saltmeadow cordgrass |
tidal shoreline stabilization, mitigation-restoration, revegetation and stabilizing tidal stream banks
and restoring wetlands |
Brochure (PDF; 183 KB) |
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