Will provide excellent food sources as well as a grass stand that will allow birds to move and roam through easily. This 21 species CP33 short grass mix is designed to meet the Iowa USDA requirements for CP33 Shortgrass plantings. Mix has 30 grass seeds and 10 forb seeds per square foot.
Includes (#s/ac): Sideoats grama (local, vns) (0.908), Blue grama (0.136), Brome, Arctic (Prairie Brome, Kalm's Brome) (0.034), Junegrass, Prairie (0.053), Bluestem, Little (VNS) (1.089), Dropseed, Tall Composite (Rough) (0.726), Dropseed, Sand (0.062), Milkvetch, Canada (0.16), Partridge Pea (0.202), Prairie Clover, White (0.215), Prairie Clover, Purple (0.227), Illinois Bundleflower (Prairie Mimosa) (0.324), Tick-trefoil, Showy (Canada) (0.05), Tick-trefoil, Illinois (0.063), Lespedeza, Roundhead (Bushclover) (0.034), Beardtongue, Foxglove (Smooth penstemon) (0.021), Beardtongue, Large (shell leaf) (0.049), Cinquefoil, prairie (potentilla) (0.014), Coneflower, Grayheaded (Yellow) (0.045), Susan, Black-eyed (0.053), Goldenrod, Gray (Field) (Old Field) (0.002).
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