Brooksville Plant Materials Center

Updated 12/30/2008

Brooksville, Florida

Established 1947

Since 1947, the Brooksville Plant Materials Center has provided new conservation plant releases and technology for Florida, the Caribbean area and coasts of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. The Center has developed new technologies to improve coastal areas and wildlife habitat, and to control erosion and prevent water pollution. The Center has released over 20 improved conservation plants including varieties of beach sunflower, lupine, bitter panicum and eastern gamagrass.
 

Special Features

• Feature Story: Native Plants for Coastal Dune Restoration: What, When, and How for Florida
• Feature Story: Dune Restoration on Dauphin Island
• Feature Story: Going Ape for the Walt Disney Company
• Feature Story - Release of Ghost Rider Germplasm chalky bluestem
• Coastal Restoration and Protection Resources

These documents require Acrobat Reader

The Sunshine State's PMC Impact (PDF; 261 KB) J.M. Grabowski, M.J. Williams, M.A. Gonter. 2008. FLPMC, Brooksville, FL. Dec 2008. 2p

Production of Biofuel Crops in Florida: Switchgrass. (PDF; 154 KB) Newman, Y., C. Rainbolt, M.J. Williams, and J. Vendramini. 2008. Agron. Dep., Univ. Florida, IFAS, Florida Coop. Ext. Ser., Gainesville, FL. SS AGR 291. 3p. (ID# 7987)
Fort Cooper Splitbeard Bluestem Release Brochure. (PDF; 157 KB) J.M. Grabowski, M.J. Williams, M.A. Gonter. 2008. FLPMC, Brooksville, FL. July 2008. 2p. (ID# 8063)
2007 Progress Report of Activities. (PDF; 735 KB) J.M. Grabowski, M.J. Williams, and M.A. Gonter. 2008. Brooksville PMC, Brooksville, FL. July 2008. 8p. (ID# 8061)
Spring 2008 PMC Impact. (PDF; 313 KB) Mary Anne Gonter, M.J. Williams, and Janet Grabowski. 2008. Brooksville PMC, Brooksville, FL. April 2008. 2p. (ID# 7895)

Contact

14119 Broad St
Brooksville, FL 34601

Telephone: 352.796.9600
FAX: 352.799.7305
Email: Janet.Grabowski@fl.usda.gov