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Pure Stand Wetland Seeding Rates Scientific Name Indicator Height (PLS Lbs / Acre) Premium Grade Blue Joint Reed Grass Calamagrostis canadensis FACW 4’ 0.4 (Canada Bluejoint) Canada Bluegrass Poa compressa FACU 8” 2.0 Canada Wildrye Elymus canadensis FACU 4’ 8.0 Eastern Gamagrass Tripsacum dactyloides FAC 7’ 12.0
Fowl Blue Grass Poa palustris FACW 2’ 0.8 Fowl Mannagrass Glyceria striata OBL 3’ 0.8 Fringed Brome Bromus ciliatus FAC 4’ 10.0 Green Needlegrass Stipa virdula UPL 3’ 8.0 Hairy Wood Chess Bromus pubescens FACU 4’ 12.0 Indian Ricegrass Achnatherum hymenoides FACU 1.5’ 8.0 Meadow Barley Hordeum brachyantherum FAC 2.5’ 10.0 Hesperostipa comata UPL 3’ 9.5 Nodding Fescue Festuca subverticillata FACU 2’ 5.0 Pale Sedge Carex granularis FACW 2’ 6.0 Nuttall’s Alkaligrass Puccinellia nuttalliana OBL 1’ 1.0 Path Rush Juncus tenuis FAC 1’ 0.2 Porcupine Grass Hesperostipa spartea UPL 4’ 20.0 Pennsylvania Smartweed Polygonum pennsylvanicum FACW 2.5’ 10.0 Poverty Oats Danthonia spicata UPL 1’ 4.0 Plains Oval Sedge Carex brevior FAC 1’ 2.3 Prairie Brome Bromus kalmii FAC 3’ 12.0 Pointed Brome Sedge (Oval Sedge) Carex scoparia FAC 2’ 1.2 Prairie Junegrass Koeleria macrantha UPL 2’ 0.8 Porcupine Sedge (Bottlebrush Sedge) Carex hystricina OBL 3’ 3.0 Prairie Wedgegrass Sphenopholis obtusata FACW 3’ 5.0 Prairie Sedge (Copper-Shouldered Oval Sedge) Carex bicknellii FAC 3’ 5.8 Rattlesnake Grass Glyceria canadensis OBL 3’ 1.0 River Bulrush Scirpus fluvialtilis OBL 5’ 0.2 Rice Cutgrass Leersia oryzoides OBL 4’ 3.0 Slender Rush Scirpus heterochaetus OBL 4’ 0.2 Riverbank Wildrye Elymus riparius FAC 4’ 8.0 Slough Sedge Carex obnupta OBL 2.5’ 5.0 ATIVE COOL SEASON GRASSES GUIDE Russian Wildrye Psathyrostachys juncea FACU 4’ 8.0 Smoothcone Sedge Carex laeviconica OBL 2.5’ 8.0 Silky Wildrye Elymus villosus FACU 3’ 8.0 Softstem (Great) Bulrush Scirpus validus OBL 4’ 1.5 Slender Wheatgrass Elymus trachycaulus FACU 3’ 8.0 Three Square Rush (Chairmaker's Rush) Scirpus pungens OBL 4’ 3.5 Squirreltail Grass Elymus elymoides UPL 2’ 8.0 Torrey's Rush Juncus torreyi FACW 2’ 0.2 Streambank Wheatgrass Elymus lanceolatus ssp. riparius FACU 2.5’ 10.0 Tussock Sedge Carex stricta OBL 3.5’ 1.8 Virginia Wildrye production field Thickspike Wheatgrass Elymus lanceolatus ssp. lanceolatus FACU 2.5’ 10.0 Water Sedge Carex aquatilis OBL 2.5’ 2.3 Virginia Wildrye Elymus virginicus FAC 3’ 12.0 Wheat Sedge Carex atherodes OBL 4’ 3.3 Western Wheatgrass Pascopyrum smithii FACU 3’ 12.0 Wool Grass Scirpus cyperinus OBL 4’ 0.2 WetlandWoolly Indicator Sedge Code: Carex pellita OBL 3’ 3.4 OBL (Obligate Wetland) = Almost always occur in wetlands FACWYellow (Facultative Fruit Sedge Wetland) = Usually occur in wetlands,Carex but may annectens occur in non-wetlands FACW 2’ 1.1 FAC (Facultative) = Occur in wetlands and non-wetlands FACU (Facultative Upland) = Usually occur in non-wetlands, but may occur in wetlands 70 UPL (Obligate Upland) = Almost never occur in wetlands OBL (Obligate Wetland) = Almost always occur in wetlands FACW (Facultative Wetland) = Usually occur in wetlands, but may occur in non-wetlands FAC (Facultative) = Occur in wetlands and non-wetlands FACU (Facultative Upland) = Usually occur in non-wetlands, but may occur in wetlands UPL ( Obligate Upland) = Almost never occur in wetlands