Spence Restoration Nursery

Wet Tolerant Low Stature

Typically, low stature mixes perform poorly in seasonally wet soils. This mix utilizes our exclusive wet-tolerant little bluestem and prairie dropseed originating from a wet prairie, along with a variety of sedges and forbs to create a low stature mix that performs well in wet mesic conditions. We recommend it for clay soils and flat areas on glacial till plains.

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PLS oz/acre Grasses
2 Carex annectans var xanthocarpa (Yellow Fox Sedge)
2 Carex frankii (Frank’s Sedge)
2 Carex scoparia (Lance Fruited Oval Sedge)
16 Elymus canadensis (Canada Wild Rye)
32 Elymus virginicus (Virginia Wild Rye)
48 Schizachyrium scoparium (Little Bluestem)
10 Sporobolus heterolepis (Prairie Dropseed)
112 Subtotal
PLS oz/acre Forbs
2 Allium cernuum (Nodding Wild Onion)
0.5 Asclepias incarnata (Marsh Milkweed)
0.5 Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed)
1 Baptisia alba (White False Indigo)
2 Coreopsis palmata (Plains Coreopsis)
4 Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)
2 Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master)
1 Euthamia graminifolia (Grass-leaved Goldenrod)
3 Liatris spicata (Dense Blazing Star)
0.5 Monarda fistulosa (Bergamot)
3 Filipendula rubra (Queen of the Prairie)
2 Oligoneuron riddellii (Riddell’s Goldenrod)
3 Parthenium integrifolium (Wild Quinine)
1 Penstemon calycosus (Smooth Beardtongue)
1 Penstemon digitalis (Foxglove Beardtongue)
2 Physostegia virginiana (Obedient Plant)
0.5 Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (Narrowleaf Mountain Mint)
1 Pycnanthemum virginianum (Mountain Mint)
2 Ratibida pinnata (Yellow Coneflower)
4 Rudbeckia fulgida speciosa (Showy Black-Eyed Susan)
2 Rudbeckia hirta (Black-Eyed Susan)
0.5 Symphyotrichum ericoides (Heath Aster)
2 Symphyotrichum firmum (Shining Aster)
2 Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England Aster)
2 Tradescantia ohiensis (Ohio Spiderwort)
0.5 Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver’s Root)
3 Zizia aurea (Golden Alexander’s)
48 Subtotal

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