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OSMP Seed Collection

This guide is for employees of the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks. The species in this guide are important for re-vegetation and restoration projects on Open Space property. Use this guide to ID and document locations and patch size of these plants. Please feel free to contribute ...more ↓

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Taxonomy
« Back To Flowering Plants Subphylum Angiospermae
- Monocots Class Liliopsida
  - 1 Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies Order Asparagales
  - 8 Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies Order Poales

field sedge ¹
Carex praegracilis

purple three-awn ²
Aristida purpurea

green needlegrass ³
Nassella viridula

prairie cordgrass ⁴
Sporobolus michauxianus

Indiangrass ⁵
Sorghastrum nutans

little bluestem ⁶
Schizachyrium scoparium

alkali sacaton ⁷
Sporobolus airoides

switchgrass ⁴
Panicum virgatum

Great Plains yucca ⁸
Yucca glauca

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OSMP Seed Collection

field sedge 1 Carex praegracilis

purple three-awn 2 Aristida purpurea

green needlegrass 3 Nassella viridula

prairie cordgrass 4 Sporobolus michauxianus

Indiangrass 5 Sorghastrum nutans

little bluestem 6 Schizachyrium scoparium

alkali sacaton 7 Sporobolus airoides

switchgrass 4 Panicum virgatum

Great Plains yucca 8 Yucca glauca