Glenco Agricultural Consultant Services-Native Prairie Grass Seed and Revegetation Specialists

GLENCO AGRICULTURAL CONSULTANT SERVICES
"Native Grass Seed and Revegetation Specialists"

Native Prairie Grass Seed

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Introduction to Glenco Ag & Native Prairie Grasses

Articles:

Native Grass Seed Price List

Native Grass Cultivars and Ecotypes for Prairies

Native Grass & Prairie Grassland Links

GLENCO AGRICULTURAL CONSULTANT SERVICES
"Native Grass Seed and Revegetation Specialists"

Glenco Ag specializes in native prairie grass seed production and marketing in the Northern Great Plains and Canadian Prairies. We offer good prices on quality seed adapted to your area. Call us first for your revegetation grass seed needs!

Native plant materials provide long-lived, easily managed alternative to tame grasses on long term revegetation and forage plantings. It is no more difficult to establish stands of native species provided proper guidelines regarding site preparation, weed control, seed quality and seeding techniques are followed.

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GLENCO AGRICULTURAL CONSULTANT SERVICES
"Native Grass Seed and Revegetation Specialists"

Native Grass Seed Price List ORDER NOW !! All our seed is clean, high quality, germination and purity tested. Order early to ensure supply!

Ecotype/Cultivar	Species	Bulk $/lb.	PLS $/lb.
Killdeer	side-oats grama	$5.08	$7.25
Local Manitoba ecotype	Whitetop	$9.25	$10.00
Badlands	little bluestem	$10.50	$15.00
Local Manitoba ecotype	blue grama	Sold Out	Sold Out
Local Manitoba ecotype	Canada wildrye	Sold Out	Sold Out
Mandan	Canada wildrye	Sold Out	Sold Out
Local Manitoba ecotype	big bluestem	Sold Out	Sold Out
Bison	big bluestem	Sold Out	Sold Out
Local Manitoba ecotype	Indian grass	Sold Out	Sold Out
Revenue	slender wheatgrass	Sold Out	Sold Out

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GLENCO AGRICULTURAL CONSULTANT SERVICES
"Native Grass Seed and Revegetation Specialists"

Native Grass Cultivars and Ecotypes for Prairies. Anyone considering using native grasses in the prairies should select varieties adapted to the area. The use of good quality seed is recommended. Common seed is often in better supply than certified seed, and can be used as long as a seed analysis certificate is provided. An alternative to commercial produced cultivars or ecotypes is to use locally harvested native material, if a seed analysis certificate is provided.

Our experience has shown that plant material can generally be moved about 300 miles north or 200 miles south of its point of origin without serious adaptation difficulties. Movement of plant material east or west is affected primarily precipitation and elevation. An increase in 1000 feet in elevation is equivalent to a move of about 175 miles north.

Native grasses are referred to as cool-season or warm-season. Cool-season native grasses are most productive in the spring and fall during periods of average temperatures and moisture. Warm-season native grasses are most productive in the summer during periods of higher temperatures. Below is a list of commonly utilized varieties on prairies and their points of origin.

Cool-Season Species	Variety	Point of Origin	Elevation (ft)
western wheatgrass	'Rodan'	ND - Morton County	1,650
western wheatgrass	'Rosana'	MT - Rosebud County	2,500
western wheatgrass	'Walsh'	SK, AB - various	n/a
northern wheatgrass	'Elbee'	SK, AB - various	n/a
northern wheatgrass	'Critana'	MT - Hill County	2,650
green needlegrass	'LoDorm'	ND - Morton County	1,650
slender wheatgrass	'Revenue'	SK - Revenue	n/a
slender wheatgrass	'Adanac'	n/a - Canadian	n/a
awned wheatgrass	'AEC Hillcrest'	n/a - AB	n/a
streambank wheatgrass	'Sodar'	OR -Grant County	2,500
Canada wildrye	'Mandan'	ND - various	n/a
basin wildrye	'Trailhead'	MT - Musselshell County	3,200

Warm-Season Species	Variety	Point of Origin	Elevation (ft)
big bluestem	'Bison'	ND - Oliver County	2,100
little bluestem	'Badlands' - ecotype	ND, SD - various	n/a
sand bluestem	'Garden'	NE - Garden County	n/a
sideoats grama	'Killdeer'	ND -Dunn County	2,200
blue grama	'Bad River' - ecotype	SD - Haakon County	n/a
prairie sandreed	'Bowman'	ND - Bowman County	2,800
prairie sandreed	'Goshen'	WY - Goshen County	4,100
switchgrass	'Dacotah'	ND - Sioux County	1,670
Indiangrass	'Tomahawk'	ND,SD,MN - various	n/a

SK - Saskatchewan, AB - Alberta, ND - North Dakota, SD - South Dakota, MT - Montana, NE - Nebraska, OR - Oregon, WY - Wyoming, MN - Minnesota

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GLENCO AGRICULTURAL CONSULTANT SERVICES
"Native Grass Seed and Revegetation Specialists"

Native Grass & Prairie Grassland Links

Here are a few of the better sites that we have found for native prairie grass information. Keep checking back as the list is always changing.

Blight Native seeds

Ducks Unlimited Ecovar Program

UNL Center for Grassland Studies

Establishment of Seeded Grasslands for Wildlife Habitat in the Prairie Pothole Region

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Cool-Season Species

Variety

Point of Origin

Elevation (ft)

Warm-Season Species

Variety

Point of Origin

Elevation (ft)

Native Grass & Prairie Grassland Links