native winners
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NATIVE WINNERS
FROM A GROWERS PERSPECTIVE
Robby Henes13260 Rd. 29Dolores, CO 81323970-565-8722
WINNERS !
LOCAL
ECOTYPES
BUDGET CONSTRAINTS
WINNER BY WHO’S DEFINITION?????
• First hand experience with Native Winners and Losers.
• Growers perspective on realistic outcomes and potentials for Native Winners
OBJECTIVES
FREQUENTLY WHAT IS LACKING INCLUDES:
• Practical information that will help us with a grow out. Many species don’t follow the ‘standard’ plant – water- grow formula.
• Seed that is viable.
• Seed that has good characteristics for commercial production
• Flexibility and willpower to experiment long enough to succeed.
NATIVE WINNERS
NATIVE LOSERS
SECRETS• Breaking dormancy• Life Cycles• Sex appeal to Insects• Optimal planting spacing
How to make us LOVE you!
• Plant Height – TALL is good!
• Indeterminate - Indeterminate is bad!
• Seed Size and Weight – Bigger is better!
• Overall plant vigor
• Pod Producers tend to be great.
Don’t Send us
Parachuters!
LEGEND
It’s a bit ‘hairy’ but we think we have a winner.
No doubt about it. SCORE! We win!
We are underwater here and don’t know what we have.
We wore ourselves out trying and still don’t know the secret.
NIMF – Not In My Field!
EXPERIMENTS WE HAVE TRIED FOR SOMEONE
Current decisions
Woolly Plantain Has possibility - Perhaps needed heat
Plantago patagonica to break dormancy.
Shaggy Fleabane
Erigeron pumilus
Purple Threeawn Has more problems than solutions
Aristida purpurea
Desert/CoyoteTobacco Has decent potential
Nicotiana attenuata
Western Meadow Aster Very slight harvest - prognosis poor
Symphotricium campestre
White Sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana
Horsetail Milkweed NIMFAsclepias subverticillata
Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
Yellow Owls Clover
Orthocarpus lutens
Six Weeks FescueHas possibility - Perhaps needed heat
Vulpia octoflora tenella to break dormancy.
30% success after three years
NEW MEXICO THISTLEHas Potential
Cirsium neomexicanum
TANSY ASTER JONES PEPPERWEED
Lepidium montanum spp jonesii
WOOLY PLAINTAIN
Plantago patagonica
LOBELEAF GROUNDSEL
Packera multilobata
TOWNSEND DAISY
townsendia
FALL 2012 PLANTING SPECIES LIST 8 NEW SPECIES
WEDGELEAF DRABADraba cuneifolia
SIX WEEK FESCUEVulpia octoflora tenella
LACY TANSY ASTERMachaeranthera pinnatifida
GREY’S BISCUITROOTLomatium grayi
LAMB TONGUE RAGWORTSenecio integerrimus
HANDSOME PENSTEMONPenstemon lentus
KING’S LUPINELupinus kingii
FENDLER’S SANDWORTArenaria fendlerii
Other HistorySALINA WILDRYE
Leymus salinus
BLUE PENSTEMON
Penstamen cyanus
NODDING BROME
Bromus anomalus
HOOKERS BALSAMROOT
Balsamorhiza hookerii
WILD FOUR O'CLOCK
Mirabulis multiflora
SEARLES PRAIRIE CLOVER
Dalea Searlsiae
BASALT MILKVETCH
Astragulus filipes
MOUNTAIN MUHLY
Muhlenbergia montana
SALADO ALKALI SACATON
Sporobolus airoides
AMERICAN VETCH
Vicia americana
BULBOUS SPRING PARSLEY
Cymopterus bulbosus
SPIKE DROPSEED
Sporobolus contractus
THURBER FESCUEFestuca Thurberi
THURBER NEEDLEGRASSAchnatherum thurberianum
MUTTONGRASSPoa Fendeleriana
BLM BOTTLEBRUSH SQUIRRELTAILElymus elymoides
BLM WESTERN WHEATGRASSAgropyron smithii
WHITE RIVER SLENDER WHEATGRASSAgropyron trachycaulum
WHITE RIVER MOUNTAIN BROMEBromus montanus
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