WHICH SPECIES WILL BE COLLECTED? Common Name
Scientific Name
Cibalo Prairies
MD Anderson
on Buffalo Bayou Prairie
CP Seed Increase
Volunteer Grow
Program
Out Efforts
GRASSES Brown-seed Paspalum
Paspalum plicatulum
✓
✓
✓
Yellow Indiangrass
Sorghastrum nutans
✓+
✓
✓
Big Bluestem
Andropogon gerardii
✓+
✓
✓
Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
✓+
✓
✓
Seacoast Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
✓
✓
var. littorale Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
✓
✓
✓
Florida Paspalum
Paspalum floridanum
✓
✓
✓
Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
✓
✓
✓
✓
Red Lovegrass
Eragrostis secundiflora
✓
✓+
✓
✓
Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
✓
✓
✓
Knot-root Bristlegrass
Setaria geniculata
✓
✓
✓
✓
Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
✓
✓
✓
✓
Silver Bluestem
Bothriochloa
✓
✓
saccharoides Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
✓
✓
✓
Winter Bentgrass
Agrostis hyemalis
✓
✓
✓
Texas Coneflower
Rudbeckia texana
✓
✓+
✓
Illinois Bundleflower
Desmanthus illinoensis
✓
✓
✓
White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
✓
✓
✓
✓
Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximilianii
✓
✓+
✓
✓
Swamp Sunflower
Helianthus angustifolius
✓+
✓
✓
✓
✓
WILDFLOWERS
Roundhead Prairie Clover Dalea multiflora Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
✓
✓
✓
Horsemint spp.
Monarda punctata,
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓+
✓
citrodora, and fistulosa Liatris spp.
Liatris pychnostayca and acidota
American Basketflower
Centaurea americana
✓?
✓
✓
Prairie Agalis
Agalinis heterophylla
✓
✓
✓
Rough Coneflower
Rudbeckia grandiflora
✓
✓
✓
Rosinweed
Silphium spp.
✓
✓
✓
Green Millkweed
Ascelpias viridis
✓
✓+
✓
Rattlesnake Master
Eryngium yuccifolium
✓
✓+
✓
Prairie Parsley
Polytaenia nuttallii
✓
✓
✓
Seaside Goldenrod
Solidago sempervirens
✓
✓+
✓
✓+ = Likely to be added by M.D. Anderson ground crews after initial August 2012 hydroseeding
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WHEN DO I COLLECT EACH SPECIES? Common Name
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GRASSES Brown-seed Paspalum Yellow Indiangrass Big Bluestem Little Bluestem Seacoast Bluestem Switchgrass Florida Paspalum Sideoats Grama Red Lovegrass Eastern Gamagrass Knot-root Bristlegrass Virginia Wildrye Silver Bluestem Little Barley Winter Bentgrass Common Name WILDFLOWERS Texas Coneflower American Basket-flower Illinois Bundleflower White Prairie Clover Maximilian Sunflower Swamp Sunflower Roundhead Prairie Clover Plains Coreopsis Horsemint spp. Liatris spp. Prairie Agalis Rough Coneflower Rosinweed Green Millkweed Rattlesnake Master Prairie Parsley Seaside Goldenrod
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