Alfalfa, Falcata
Falcata is a grazing-type, yellow-flowered alfalfa meant exclusively for mixed grass plantings on semiarid rangelands and irrigated pastures in the Western U.S. Non-aggressive, though extremely [...]
Alkali Bulrush
Alkali bulrush is a perennial, cool-season mat-forming wetland plant that is native to alkali and salty wetlands across most of North America. It grows from 1 to 3 feet in height, with no leaves, [...]
Alkali Sacaton
Alkali Sacaton is a cool-season perennial bunch grass, native to much of western North America. It grows 1 to 3 feet tall, forming large clumps of shiny, cream-colored leaves, as well as deep [...]
Alsike Clover
Alsike Clover is a short- lived perennial clover that acts as a biennial. It is well adapted to cool climates and wet soils. It grows well in poorly drained soil and offers high forage quality, [...]
American 3-Square Bulrush
American 3-Square Bulrush is a native, cool season, perennial plant that can grow up to 7 feet tall. It’s strut rhizomes are preferred by muskrat and snow goose. The seeds are eaten by over [...]
American Sloughgrass
American Sloughgrass is a cool season annual or short-lived perennial grass that is commonly found in shallow marshes or sloughs. It is palatable to all classes of livestock and is frequently [...]
American Vetch
American Vetch is a native, perennial, legume climbing vine that grows approximately 1 to 2 feet tall. It grows in medium- to finely textured moist to dry soils in full sun. It is widely [...]
Annual Sunflower
Annual Sunflower is a native short-lived perennial or annual native forb noted for its brilliant, daisy-like flowers, and grows 5 to 10 feet tall. They are drought tolerant, easy to grow, and [...]
Arizona Fescue
Arizona Fescue is a cool-season, long lived perennial bunch grass that is native to the Southwestern US. Grows 1 to 3 feet from a densely tufted base, with numerous, fine basal leaves. Very [...]
Baltic Rush
Baltic Rush is a perennial, rhizomatous, wetland plant. Rushes are grass like, usually tufted herbs. Cattle will graze it late in the season after more palatable plants are eaten. Rushes provide [...]
Barley
Barley is an annual or biennial grass that is widely cultivated for yielding grain for breakfast food, animal feed and in malt beverages. It is well adapted to diverse environmental conditions [...]
Basin Wildrye
Basin Wildrye is a large, coarse, robust, perennial cool-season bunch grass that is native to much of western North America. It grows 3 to 10 feet tall, forming clumps of coarse, wide, flat [...]
Beaked Sedge
Beaked-Sedge is a cool season, strongly rhizomatous, native grass like perennial, sod former occurring in shallow water or wet soils around waterways and sometimes in wet meadows from low to [...]
Bentgrass
Bentgrass is a cool-season, perennial sod forming grass that is native to the Mediterranean. Prostrate, creeping stems of this species sprawl 6 inches to 4 feet in length, with moderately-fine [...]
Big Bluegrass
Big Bluegrass is a perennial, cool-season bunch grass that is native to North America. It attains a height of 1 to 2 feet. Big Bluegrass naturally occurs on upland sites, open ponderosa pine and [...]
Big Bluestem
Big Bluestem is a perennial, warm-season grass that occurs across North America, from the shortgrass prairie east to the Atlantic Ocean. It grows 3 to 6 feet tall, with a bunchy or sod-forming [...]
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Birdsfoot Trefoil is a long-lived legume, highly palatable, with a high feed value. It is winter hardy. Widely adapted, easy to maintain and has certain advantages over alfalfa, ladino or red [...]
Black Sampson Echinacea
Black Sampson Echinacea, also known as Narrow-leaf Coneflower, is a native, perennial, warm-season forb that grows 1 to 2 feet tall. The Black Samson Echinacea grows in open rocky prairies and [...]
Black-eyed Susan
Black-eyed Susan is an annual or short-lived perennial forb that is about 1-2.5 feet tall. It is adapted throughout the Northeast on soils with a drainage classification range from well-drained [...]
Blanket Flower
Blanket Flower is a native, perennial, cool-season form that grows 1 to 3 feet tall. It does well on a variety of soil types, including loams to rocky to gravelly sandy textures, and can tolerate [...]
Blue Flax
Blue Flax is a tap rooted, medium-lived perennial forb. Plant height varies from 12 inches in arid sites to 36 inches when irrigated. Flowers are produced from mid- May to late June. It is well [...]
Blue Grama
Blue Grama is a commonly found, warm-season, perennial grass. It is likely the most widespread North American grass, growing on a variety of dry and/or warm upland sites from Mexico to Canada. [...]
Blue Vervain
Blue Vervain is a cool season, native perennial that grows between 2 and 5 feet tall. It’s commonly found in river bottom prairies, moist meadows in floodplain woodlands, soggy thickets, [...]
Blue Wildrye
Blue Wildrye is a large, cool-season, quick establishing, short-lived perennial bunch grass that is native to the northern half of North America. It grows from 2 to 6 feet tall, with thin, flat [...]
Bottlebrush Squirreltail
Bottlebrush Squirrel Tail is a cool-season, quick establishing, short-lived perennial bunch grass native to the western United States. It grows 1 to 2 feet tall, with a unique panicle head and [...]
Buckwheat
Buckwheat is a warm season grain which grows rapidly during the summer and several crops per year may be had with proper management. The rapid and dense growth of this plant chokes out weeds and [...]
Buffalograss
Buffalograss is a perennial, warm-season sod forming grass that is native east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi River. Grows up to 4 inches tall on dryland and up to 12 inches [...]
Butterfly Milkweed
Butterfly Milkweed is a native perennial, cool-season forb that grows between 2 to 3 feet tall. Unlike other milkweeds, this species does not have sap-filled stems. Butterfly Milkweed is very [...]
Canada Bluegrass
Canada Bluegrass is a cool season, perennial, sod forming grass that is native to Eurasia. It grows 4 to 8 inches tall, and occasionally taller, with distinct flat stems and blue-green to dark [...]
Canada Bluejoint
Canada Bluejoint is an erect, cool season perennial grass that is found in wet meadows and prairies. It has forage value for deer, bison, and cattle. It produces good quality hay when harvested [...]
Canada Milkvetch
Canada Milkvetch is a native perennial, cool-season forb that grows between 1.5 to 2.5 feet. It’s flowers occur from May to August. Canadian Milkvetch is widely distributed across all but the [...]
Canada Wildrye
Canada Wildrye is a cool-season, perennial bunch grass that is native to much of the northern half of North America. It grows 2 to 4 feet tall, forming large clumps of blue-green, broad leaves. [...]
Canby Bluegrass
Canby Bluegrass is a widespread small, cool-season, perennial bunch grass native to cooler and/or high-elevation areas of the Western US. It grows 8 to 16 inches tall, densely tufted, with a [...]
Cereal or Winter Rye
Cereal or Witner Rye can be seeded later in fall than other cover crops and still provide considerable dry matter, an extensive soil-holding root system, significant reduction of nitrate leaching [...]
Chewings Fescue
Chewings Fescue is a cool-season perennial, loosely to densely tufted bunch grass that is native to Northern Europe. This general-purpose turf grass grows 1 to 2 feet tall, with fine, enrolled, [...]
Cicer Milkvetch
Cicer Milkvetch is an extremely winter hardy, long lived, sod forming perennial legume. Its forage is late-maturing, bloat free, succulent and very palatable for all classes of livestock.
Clasping Coneflower
Clasping Coneflower is a native, annual, forb that grows 1.5 to 2 feet tall. The flower heads are similar to those of black-eyed susan, but they are smaller. It is adapted to many soil types, but [...]
Common Milkweed
Common Milkweed is a native cool season perennial herb growing from a deep rhizome. Common milkweed grows in sandy, clayey, or rocky, chalky soils. It occurs along the banks or flood plains of [...]
Cowpeas
Cowpeas are an annual, warm season legume, also commonly referred to as Southern pea, Blackeye Pea, or Crowder Pea. Cowpeas are the most productive heat adapted legume used agronomically in the [...]
Creeping Spike Rush
Creeping Spikerush is a perennial, heavily rhizomatous wetland plant that is found from low to mid elevations. Creeping Spikerush has a moderately high protein content in the spring and good [...]
Dotted Gayfeather
Dotted Gayfeather is a native, perennial, warm-season forb that grows from 1 to 3 feet tall. This species is ideally suited to grow in dry, coarse soils with its extensive root system and limited [...]
Dwarf Essex Rape
Dwarf Essex Rape is a succulent, cabbage-related plant that will persist well after the first frost. It is a mustard crop grown primarily for its seed which yields about forty percent oil and a [...]
Faba Beans
Faba Beans are one of the oldest plants under cultivation, having been grown in ancient Greece and Rome. Unlike other beans, they prefer cool weather, allowing them to be planted and harvested [...]
Field Peas
Field Peas are an annual cool season grain legume that produces a high-quality, high- protein crop. Field Pea (also known as dry pea) differs from fresh peas because Field Pea is marketed as a [...]
Fourwing Saltbush
Fourwing Saltbush is a native, perennial shrub that is notoriously variable, depending on climate. It is highly palatable browse for most livestock and big game. It is used primarily in the [...]
Fowl Mannagrass
Fowl Mannagrass is a long lived, cool season perennial bunchgrass. Fowl Mannagrass is a rapidly establishing native species suitable for restoration of swamps, the edges of marshes, ponds, and [...]
Fringed Sagebrush
Fringed Sagebrush is a fragrant, aromatic, perennial native sub-shrub with flowering stalks reaching 4 to 16 inches tall. It is a pioneer shrub resistant to browsing and animal impact by certain [...]
Galleta Grass
Galleta is a warm-season, perennial, bunch or sod-forming grass native to western North America. It grows 1 to 2 feet tall, with short, pale-green leaves about the base, shallow roots, and thick, [...]
Green Needlegrass
Green Needlegrass is a perennial, native, long-lived, cool-season bunch grass. It grows 1.5 to 4 feet tall, with abundant, glossy bright green basal leaves and a deep, fibrous root system. One of [...]
Greenthread
Greenthread is a winter annual, or short-lived perennial, is often found growing in colonies. It can grow anywhere between 1 and 3 feet tall. The common name Greenthread, refers to the [...]
Grey Headed Coneflower
Gray Headed Coneflower is a native perennial forb growing up to 4 feet tall. The blooming period occurs from early to late summer, and lasts about 1 to 2 months. There is little or no floral [...]
Hairy Golden Aster
Hairy Golden Aster is a native, cool season, annual or perennial forb, growing from 1 to 3 feet. Hairy Golden Aster grows from a taproot in average sunny well-drained soils, mesic to dry moisture [...]
Hairy Vetch
Hairy vetch is a hardy, winter annual legume that can be planted in either fall or spring. It is used for hay, pasture or as erosion control and is commonly planted with cereal grains.
Hard Fescue
Hard Fescue is a cool-season, long-lived perennial bunch grass native to the Baltics and Eastern Europe. A major turf grass, it grows 1-3 feet tall, with fine, rough, blue-green leaf blades. [...]
Hoary Vervain
Hoary Vervain is a short-lived, native, cool-season perennial plant that grows up to 3½ feet tall. Flowers appear from May to September, but primarily in summer. It occurs in upland prairies, [...]
Idaho Fescue
Idaho Fescue is a perennial, cool-season bunch grass that is native to the Intermountain West and the Pacific Northwest. Grows 1 to 3 feet tall, with numerous fine, rough, blue-green leaves. [...]
Illinois Bundleflower
Illinois Bundleflower is a native, cool season, self-pollinating perennial forb that grows 2 to 4 feet tall. It is found on rocky, open wooded slopes, prairies, ravines, stream banks, roadsides [...]
Indian Ricegrass
Indian Ricegrass is a cool-season perennial bunch grass that is native to semiarid areas of western North America, from Sonora, Mexico to Yukon Territory, Canada. It grows 1 to 2.5 feet tall, [...]
Indiangrass
Indiangrass is a perennial, warm-season sod forming grass, native to eastern North America. It grows 3 to 5 feet tall, with wide blue-green to orange leaves and a dense, panicle (seed head). Used [...]
Intermediate Wheatgrass
Intermediate Wheatgrass is an introduced, cool-season sod forming perennial grass native to much of Europe and Asia. It grows 2 to 4 feet tall, with clumped, blue-green basal leaves and massive [...]
Kentucky Bluegrass
Kentucky Bluegrass is a perennial, cool-season, sod forming grass native to Europe. This major turf grass grows 4 to 24 inches tall, with fine leaf blades, and a luxurious emerald to dark blue [...]
Ladino Clover
Ladino is a long-lived perennial which spreads by creeping stems or stolons that root at the nodes. A giant form of white clover which is very high in protein, vitamins and minerals. It is a good [...]
Lance-Leaved Coreopsis
Lance-leaved Coreopsis is a native warm-season perennial forb that grows up to 2 feet tall. Lance-leaf coreopsis prefers full sun, but will tolerate light shade. On sites that are heavily shaded, [...]
Little Bluestem
Little Bluestem is a long-lived perennial, warm-season bunch grass that grows most areas east of the Rocky Mountains. Grows 1 to 4 feet tall, large and tufted, with colors ranging from blue-green [...]
Louisiana Sagebrush
Louisiana Sagebrush, also known as White Sage, is a stiff, aromatic, silvery-white perennial that can grow to be 1.5 to 3 feet tall, and can spread quickly, by rhizomes, to form large colonies. [...]
Mammoth Red Clover
Mammoth Red Clover or single- cut clover is not as desirable for hay or pasture as medium red clover. It blooms about 10 days to 2 weeks later than medium red clover and recovers very slowly [...]
Maple Grove Lewis Flax
Maple Grove Lewis Flax is a medium-lived, tap rooted, native, perennial forb. Plant height varies from 12 inches in arid sites to 36 inches when irrigated. Light-blue flowers bloom during the [...]
Maximilian Sunflower
Maximilian Sunflower is a large, native, cool season perennial forb, that grows large and clumpy, often 4 to 10 feet tall. Although it can grow in a variety of conditions, it prefers moist [...]
Meadow Brome
Meadow Brome is a long-lived perennial, cool-season bunch grass with short rhizomes that is native to Southeast Asia. This grass grows 1 to 4 feet tall, with very long, narrow basal leaves and a [...]
Medium Red Clover
Medium Red Clover is a short-lived perennial, 2-3 years, and usually produces 2-3 cuttings of hay or silage per year with most aggressive growth in the spring. It is an aggressive establisher and [...]
Mexican Hat
Mexican Hat is an erect, hairy, clump-forming native perennial forb that typically grows to 1 to 3 feet tall. It is a fast-growing wildflower that is not fussy about soils and is easy to grow [...]
Millet, Foxtail
Foxtail Millet is thought to be native to southern Asia and is considered one of the oldest cultivated millets. It is an introduced, annual, warm-season crop that grows 2 to 5 feet tall. Foxtail [...]
Millet, Hybrid Pearl
Hybrid Pearl Millet is a warm season, annual, forage millet species that grows between 6 to 10 feet, and is most commonly planted for cattle, sheep, goats, horses and wildlife. Hybrid Pearl [...]
Millet, Japanese
Japanese Millet is an annual that grows 2 to 4 feet tall. It will tolerate wet and muddy soil conditions while growing and can even be slightly flooded while growing as long as the leaves remain [...]
Mountain Brome
Mountain Brome is a short-lived perennial, cool season, quick establishing tufted bunch grass native to the mountain and intermountain regions of Western North America. It grows 1 to 4 feet tall, [...]
Narrowleaf Penstemon
Narrowleaf Penstemon is a native perennial forb that grows from 8 to 24 inches and is found throughout the western and Great Plains states. It is adapted to sandy mesas and grasslands and is [...]
Nebraska Sedge
Nebraska Sedge is a native, perennial, heavily rhizomatous wetland plant that is found in low valleys to mid elevations. It will form dense stands, but more often, it is the dominant member of [...]
Needle and Thread
Needle and Thread is a cool season, perennial bunch grass that is native to most of North America, and occurs widely across the Great Plains. Grows 1 to 3 feet tall, with glossy, bright green [...]
Oats
Oats are a cereal grain that are known for their rapid germination and growth. They can be planted in the fall or spring, and work excellently when they are utilized for erosion control purposes [...]
Organic Alfalfa
Alfalfa is a deep rooted and moderately long-lived perennial. Alfalfa is one of the most widely used legumes for hay production. Also found in pasture, range and revegetation mixes. Some alfalfa [...]
Organic Alsike Clover
Alsike Clover is a short- lived perennial clover that acts as a biennial. It is well adapted to cool climates and wet soils. It grows well in poorly drained soil and offers high forage quality, [...]
Organic Buckwheat
Buckwheat is a warm season grain which grows rapidly during the summer and several crops per year may be had with proper management. The rapid and dense growth of this plant chokes out weeds and [...]
Organic Cereal or Winter Rye
The hardiest of cereals, rye can be seeded later in fall than other cover crops and still provide considerable dry matter, an extensive soil-holding root system, significant reduction of nitrate [...]
Organic Common Vetch
Common Vetch is a high-yielding winter annual legume used for forage, cover-cropping, wildlife and pollinator habitat. Common Vetch is less winter-hardy than hairy vetch. Both are significant [...]
Organic Faba Beans
Faba Beans are one of the oldest plants under cultivation, having been grown in ancient Greece and Rome. Unlike other beans, they prefer cool weather, allowing them to be planted and harvested [...]
Organic Festulolium
Festulolium is a cool season grass, and is a hybrid forage grass developed by crossing Meadow Fescue or Tall Fescue with Perennial Ryegrass or Italian Ryegrass. This enables combining the best [...]
Organic Mammoth Red Clover
Mammoth Red Clover or single- cut clover is not as desirable for hay or pasture as medium red clover. It blooms about 10 days to 2 weeks later than medium red clover and recovers very slowly [...]
Organic Medium Red Clover
Medium Red Clover is a short-lived perennial, 2-3 years, and usually produces 2-3 cuttings of hay or silage per year with most aggressive growth in the spring. It is an aggressive establisher and [...]
Organic Oats
Oats are a cereal grain that are known for their rapid germination and growth. They can be planted in the fall or spring, and work excellently when they are utilized for erosion control purposes [...]
Organic Sainfoin
Sainfoin is a winter hardy, non-bloat legume whose forage is high in quality, very palatable and readily consumed. It is deep-rooted and very drought resistant. It has showy flowers and is an [...]
Organic Timothy
Timothy is a relatively short-lived, cool-season, introduced perennial grass that grows in stools or clumps. It is known to coexist with native plants and is usually seeded in mixtures with [...]
Organic Triticale
Triticale is a hardy hybrid of wheat and cereal rye producing a high yield of forage crop. Combination of grain quality, productivity, and disease resistance of wheat with the vigor and hardiness [...]
Organic Wheat, Winter
Wheat is a cool season, drought tolerant plant best known for its grain. There are two classifications of wheat; winter and spring with over 100 varieties available. It’s less likely than barley [...]
Organic White Clover
White Clover is short- lived creeping perennial. It is widely adapted, very cold hardy, and can be found growing naturally from the Arctic Circle to all parts of the temperate regions of the [...]
Organic Winter Peas
Winter Peas are considered a cool-season annual legume, although it can be successfully grown in the spring/summer in cooler regions. It is a low-growing, vine like plant that can reach 2- to [...]
Organic Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover
Yellow blossom sweet clover is a cold tolerant biennial that is very easy to establish. Drought and cold tolerant, use for erosion control on saline and alkaline soils. Matures 10 to 14 days [...]
Ox Eye Sunflower
Ox Eye Sunflower, a ‘false sunflower’, is a native, cool season perennial forb that grows 3 to 5 feet tall. Smooth Ox Eye is adapted to full sunlight and dry to moderately moist soil [...]
Pale Purple Coneflower
Pale Purple Coneflower is a native perennial, warm season forb that grows 1 to 3 feet tall. Pale Purple Coneflower is found in dry and mesic prairies and along roadsides. Pale Purple Coneflower [...]
Path Rush
Path Rush, also known as Poverty Rush, is a tufted perennial with fibrous roots that grows 6-28 inches tall. It is ideal for streambank or drainage stabilization due to its bunched growth form, [...]
Perennial Ryegrass
Perennial Ryegrass is a short-lived perennial, cool-season bunch grass that is native to Europe and Asia. This major turf and pasture grass grows from 6 to 24 inches tall, with a bunchy habit, [...]
Plains Coreopsis
Plains Coreopsis is a native, annual, warm-season forb that grows 1 to 3 feet tall. Coreopsisis adapted to many soil types. It grows best on a well-drained soil, but will not tolerate a very dry [...]
Prairie Aster
Prairie Aster is a drought hardy biennial also commonly known as Tansy Leaf Aster or Tahoka Daisy. A native forb throughout the central and western plains and mountain areas of the United States. [...]
Prairie Coneflower
Prairie Coneflower is a native, drought-tolerant, late season wildflower of the Great Plains. The flowers tend to bloom from late June to August. It prefers to grow in the dry, open spaces of [...]
Prairie Cordgrass
Prairie Cordgrass is a native, warm-season perennial grass. It has a height of 3 to 8 feet. Prairie cordgrass is found in wet meadows, sloughs, potholes, and drainage ways. It is associated with [...]
Prairie Junegrass
Prairie Junegrass is a cool season, clump-forming, tufted, perennial bunch grass that is native to the northern 2/3 of North America. It grows 1 to 2.5 feet tall, with bright green or grey-green [...]
Prairie Sandreed
Prairie Sandreed is a warm-season, perennial, sod forming grass that is native to much of North America. It grows 2 to 5 feet in height, with pale-green to straw-colored leaves and deep, fibrous [...]
Pubescent Wheatgrass
Pubescent Wheatgrass is an introduced, cool-season sod forming perennial grass native to Europe and Asia. It grows 2 to 4 feet tall, with clumped, blue-green basal leaves and massive roots and [...]
Purple Coneflower
Purple Coneflower is a native perennial, warm-season forb that grows from 1 to 3.5 feet tall. The Purple Coneflower grows in rocky prairie sites in open, and wooded regions. Easily grown in [...]
Purple Prairie Clover
Purple Prairie Clover is a common, native, warm-season perennial forb that grows 1 to 3 feet tall. Purple prairie clover is adapted to slopes along hillsides, prairies, and plains. It occurs [...]
Radish
Radish is a cool-season, annual forb with a notable taproot. While it is generally native to Southeast Asia, its origin is uncertain, and it was domesticated independently in India, Central Asia, [...]
Rocky Mountain Bee Plant
Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, also known as Spider Flower, is a native annual (but will re-seed), forb that grows from 4 to 5 feet tall. It is a colorful long blooming, native with large pink, showy [...]
Rocky Mountain Fescue
Rocky Mountain Fescue is a cool-season, perennial bunch grass native to much of northwestern North America. It grows 6 to 24 inches tall, with an appearance similar to Hard Fescue. Grows well on [...]
Roundhead Lespedeza
Roundhead Lespedeza is a native, perennial, cool-season forb that grows 2 to 5 feet tall. It is found in both upland and lowland prairie sites, but it tends to be more common in uplands. [...]
Rubber Rabbitbrush
Rubber Rabbitbrush is a native, perennial, warm-season shrub that grows to 1 to 8 feet tall. It is adapted to cold, dry environments receiving 7 to 18 inches of annual precipitation at elevations [...]
Russian Wildrye
Russian Wildrye is a perennial, cool-season, bunch grass that is native to temperate pan-Asian grasslands. It grows 1 to 4 feet tall, tufted, with fine basal leaves, superficially resembling [...]
Sand Bluestem
Sand Bluestem is a native, perennial, warm season bunch grass native east of the Rocky Mountains. It grows 3 to 7 feet tall and looks very similar to Big Bluestem, but with conspicuous hairs on [...]
Sand Dropseed
Sand Dropseed is a warm season, native, quick establishing, perennial bunch grass. It grows 2 to 3 feet tall, with fine leaves and coarse, penetrating roots. The seed head is kept in a unique, [...]
Sand Lovegrass
Sand Lovegrass is a short-lived perennial, warm-season bunch grass that is native to the Southern Great Plains. It grows 2 to 5 feet tall, with dark green basal leaves, and a unique panicle seed [...]
Sandberg Bluegrass
Sandberg Bluegrass is a cool-season, perennial, bunch grass that is native to the Intermountain West. It grows 2 to 4 feet tall, with folded leaf blades and a blue green color. Thrives from [...]
Saw-Beaked Sedge
Saw-Beaked Sedge is a cold hardy, cool season perineal that forms densely clotted clumps from non-rhizomatous root locks. Saw-Beaked Sedge thrives in almost any wet soil environment at low [...]
Scarlet Globemallow
Scarlet Globemallow is a low-spreading, warm season, long-lived native perennial forb to half-shrub. It provides good ground cover on disturbed sites. Although its value for erosion control is [...]
Sheep Fescue
Sheep Fescue is a cool-season, long-lived perennial bunch grass native to high elevations in the northern Rocky Mountains and intermountain areas. This low growing grass grows between 3 and 12 [...]
Shell-Leaf Penstemon
Shell-Leaf Penstemon, also known as Large Beardtongue, is a part of the Snapdragon family. It is a native perennial that grows up to 4 feet tall. Penstemon Grandifloras is commonly found in [...]
Short-Beaked Sedge
Short Beaked Sedge is a versatile, native, cool season, native perennial. It occurs in open areas including prairies, pastures, roadsides, open woodlands and low moist sites. Flowering occurs in [...]
Showy Milkweed
Showy Milkweed is a native, cool season herbaceous perennial from widespread rhizomes. Showy milkweed is adapted to a broad range of moisture conditions. It grows in well-drained soil in full or [...]
Showy Partridge Peas
Showy Partridge Pea is a native, annual, cool-season forb that grows 1 to 3 feet tall. This legume grows on a wide range of soils that are slightly acid to moderately alkaline. However, it grows [...]
Sideoats Grama
Sideoats Grama, is a perennial, warm-season grass, that grows across much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. It grows 1 to 3 feet tall, with bluish-green leaves and short rhizomes. [...]
Skunkbush
Skunkbush is a deciduous, perennial cool-season native shrub. It grows 2 to 12 feet tall (sometimes higher), averaging 4 feet. Livestock in some locations use Skunkbush, but it is not a preferred [...]
Slender Wheatgrass
Slender Wheatgrass is a cool-season, short-lived (4-6 years), early establishing, perennial bunch grass native to the northern half of North America, with highly variable ecotypes. It grows from [...]
Small Burnet, Delar
Small Burnet is an introduced, hardy, herbaceous, relatively long-lived, evergreen, non-leguminous, perennial forb. Small Burnet is noted for having good to excellent forage value for livestock [...]
Small Fruited Bulrush
Small-Fruited Bulrush is a cool season, native perennial that is strongly rhizomatous. It occurs in wet, low areas, from lowlands to moderate elevations in mountains. In the Intermountain West, [...]
Smooth Brome
Smooth Brome is a perennial, cool-season sod forming grass that is native to the circumboreal region (Siberia, Russia, Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska). Growing 2 to 4 feet tall, it has a [...]
Sorghum Sudan
Sorghum-Sudan hybrids are crosses between forage-type sorghums and sundangrass. Sorghum is an upright summer annual that is extremely drought tolerant, and an excellent choice for arid and dry [...]
Sorghum, Forage
Forage Sorghum is an upright summer annual that is extremely drought tolerant, and an excellent choice for arid and dry areas. It has special adaptations to weather extremes and is a very stable [...]
Sorghum, Grain
Grain Sorghum is one of the top cereal crops in the world. It is an upright, short-day, summer annual that is extremely drought tolerant, and an excellent choice for arid and dry areas. It has [...]
Stiff Goldenrod
Stiff Goldenrod is a native perennial forb that is 2-5 feet tall. This plant is noted for its symbiotic relationship with Monarch butterflies. Stiff Goldenrod grows in prairies and dry woods. It [...]
Strawberry Clover
Strawberry clover is a short- lived perennial with some creeping ability. It is tolerant of wet saline and alkaline soils. Strawberry clover can be used for erosion control.
Swamp Milkweed
Swamp Milkweed is a native, colonizing perennial, wildflower growing 3 to 6 feet tall. It prefers neutral to slightly acidic soil. Its moisture requirements are high, and it is primarily found in [...]
Sweetgrass
Sweetgrass is a fragrant, rhizomatous, perennial grass that reaches a height of 2.5 feet. It grows primarily in wetlands and riparian areas. Sweetgrass usually inhabits moist ground on shores [...]
Switchgrass
Switchgrass is a perennial, warm-season grass sod forming grass that is native to much of North America. Prior to European settlement, it grew widely across Midwestern US, and was the primary [...]
Tall Fescue
Tall Fescue is a long-lived perennial, deep-rooted bunch grass native to Northern Europe. It grows 1 to 3 feet tall, with a bushy habit, and broad, dark green leaves. Heat, drought, and shade [...]
Tall Mannagrass
Tall Mannagrass is a long lived, cool season perennial bunchgrass. Tall Mannagrass is a rapidly establishing native species suitable for restoration of swamps, the edges of marshes, ponds, and [...]
Tall Wheatgrass
Tall Wheatgrass is a cool-season perennial bunch grass that is native to Turkey and Asia Minor. It grows from 4 to 7 feet tall, with wide, bluish-green enrolled leaves. Valuable species on [...]
Ticklegrass
Ticklegrass is a cool season, short-lived perennial bunchgrass with a fibrous root system. It grows well in moist soils and may become dominate in some areas such as stream banks, but, it also [...]
Timothy
Timothy is a cool-season, short-lived perennial, sod forming grass that is native to Eurasia. It grows 2 to 4 feet tall, with light blue-green leaves, and a unique, spike-like seed head. Widely [...]
Torrey’s Rush
Torrey’s Rush is a native, cool season, saline and alkaline tolerant, rhizomatous grass like perennial. It can grow to be 12 inches and needs full sun. Torrey’s Rush prefers saturated [...]
Triticale, Fall Beardless
Triticale is a hardy hybrid of wheat and cereal rye producing a high yield of forage crop. Combination of grain quality, productivity, and disease resistance of wheat with the vigor and hardiness [...]
Triticale, Spring Beardless
Triticale is a hardy hybrid of wheat and cereal rye producing a high yield of forage crop. Combination of grain quality, productivity, and disease resistance of wheat with the vigor and hardiness [...]
Tufted Hairgrass
Tufted Hairgrass is a clump-forming, cool season native perennial bunch grass that is native to western and northern North America. It grows 2 to 4 feet tall, forming a dense tussock of dark [...]
Turnip
Turnips are hardy, cool-season vegetables that can be grown in a wide range of climates and conditions. Generally grown as an annual, turnips grow best in full sun or partial shade. This crop [...]
Western Wheatgrass
Western Wheatgrass is a cool-season, perennial sod forming grass that is native to much of North America. It is one of the most widespread and important grass species, growing from Durango, [...]
Western Yarrow
Western Yarrow is a common cool-season, perennial forb that is native to most of North America’s temperate areas. Erect, drought tolerant, aggressive species with lace-like leaves and [...]
Wheat, Spring
Wheat is a cool season, drought tolerant grass best known for its grain. There are two classifications of wheat; winter and spring with over 100 varieties available. It’s less likely than barley [...]
White Blossom Sweet Clover
White Blossom Sweet Clover is a short growing biennial used for grazing or haylage. It is shallow rooted and spreads by creeping branches which root at the nodes. It grows best under cool, [...]
White Dutch Clover
White Dutch Clover is short- lived creeping perennial. It is shallow-rooted so it makes a good choice for lawns and pasture mixes. Very cold hardy.
White Prairie Clover
White Prairie Clover is a native, common, warm-season perennial forb that grows 1 to 3 feet tall, in small clumps. This species is found growing primarily on well drained sandy, gravelly, and [...]
Wild Bergamot
Wild Bergamot is a part of the Mint family, and is a native perennial forb that is 2.5 to 4 feet tall. The flowers bloom from June to September. This plant is found in upland woods, thickets, and [...]
Winter Peas
Winter Peas are considered a cool-season annual legume, although it can be successfully grown in the spring/summer in cooler regions. It is a low-growing, vine like plant that can reach 2- to [...]
Winterfat
Winterfat is a cool-season, long-lived perennial shrub that grows native from Mexico to Canada. It grows erect from 1 to 4 feet tall, sometimes sprawling, with a unique, hairy, silvery-white [...]
Woods Rose
Woods’ Rose is a spreading to erect, cool-season perennial native shrub. It grows 2 to 10 feet tall and forms loose or dense thickets. Wood’s Rose is commonly a dominant species on [...]
Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover
Yellow blossom sweet clover is a cold tolerant biennial that is very easy to establish. Drought and cold tolerant, use for erosion control on saline and alkaline soils. Matures 10 to 14 days [...]