Seed Mix - XL Shortgrass Prairie Mix - 500 sq. ft.
This listing is for one packet of SHORTGRASS PRAIRIE SEED MIX for 500 sq. ft.
See photo for percentages of each species. (117 seeds/sq ft) by wt.
For best germination of native species, remember to start or scatter seeds October-January!
Each packet contains:
WILDFLOWERS
Nodding Onion
Butterfly Weed
White Wild Indigo
Partridge Pea
Lance-leaf Coreopsis
White Prairie Clover
Purple Prairie Clover
Prairie Cinquefoil
Pale Purple Coneflower
Rattlesnake Master
Flowering Spurge
Meadow Blazing Star
Wild Quinine
Wood Betony
Foxglove Beardtongue
Large-flowered Beardtongue
Sweet Everlasting
Black-eyed Susan
Wild Petunia
Showy Goldenrod
Sky Blue Aster
Goat's Rue
Ohio Spiderwort
Hoary Vervain
TREES, SHRUBS & VINES
New Jersey Tea
GRASSES & SEDGES
Side-oats Grama
Plains Oval Sedge
June Grass
Little Bluestem
Rough Dropseed
PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS
Plant seed mix in an open, sunny location with medium to medium-dry soil. The seedbed should be free of established vegetation, which can be controlled through repeated tilling (cultivation), smothering or herbicide. Sow mix evenly and lightly rake or firm seed into soil surface.
Best planted mid-October through November (Fall), or early winter, which will allow seed to cold moist stratify. Seed mixes can also be planted in early spring.
Trim weed growth to 5" through the first growing season.
Hand weed in following seasons. Be patient, some species take three or more years to reach blooming maturity.
Sun: Full
Soil: Medium-Dry