VA Solar Pollinator Buffer Mix

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Mix Composition

• 36.4% Schizachyrium scoparium, 'Camper'
  (Little Bluestem, ‘Camper’)
• 36.3% Bouteloua curtipendula, Butte
  (Sideoats Grama, Butte)
• 4.0% Chamaecrista fasciculata, PA Ecotype
  (Partridge Pea, PA Ecotype)
• 4.0% Coreopsis lanceolata
  (Lanceleaf Coreopsis)
• 4.0% Echinacea purpurea
  (Purple Coneflower)
• 3.3% Rudbeckia hirta
  (Blackeyed Susan)
• 2.3% Heliopsis helianthoides, PA Ecotype
  (Oxeye Sunflower, PA Ecotype)
• 2.0% Asclepias tuberosa
  (Butterfly Milkweed)
• 1.1% Penstemon digitalis, PA Ecotype
  (Tall White Beardtongue, PA Ecotype)
• 1.0% Liatris spicata
  (Marsh Blazing Star)
• 0.7% Senna hebecarpa, VA & WV Ecotype
  (Wild Senna, VA & WV Ecotype)
• 0.5% Aster laevis, NY Ecotype
  (Smooth Blue Aster, NY Ecotype)
• 0.5% Aster novae-angliae, PA Ecotype
  (New England Aster, PA Ecotype)
• 0.5% Eupatorium coelestinum, VA Ecotype
  (Mistflower, VA Ecotype)
• 0.5% Geum canadense, PA Ecotype
  (White Avens, PA Ecotype)
• 0.5% Lespedeza capitata, RI Ecotype
  (Roundhead Lespedeza, RI Ecotype)
• 0.5% Monarda fistulosa, Fort Indiantown Gap-PA Ecotype
  (Wild Bergamot, Fort Indiantown Gap-PA Ecotype)
• 0.5% Zizia aurea
  (Golden Alexanders)
• 0.3% Baptisia australis, Southern WV Ecotype
  (Blue False Indigo, Southern WV Ecotype)
• 0.3% Tradescantia ohiensis, PA Ecotype
  (Ohio Spiderwort, PA Ecotype)
• 0.2% Penstemon hirsutus
  (Hairy Beardtongue)
• 0.2% Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
  (Narrowleaf Mountainmint)
• 0.1% Oenothera fruticosa var. fruticosa
  (Sundrops)
• 0.1% Rudbeckia fulgida var. fulgida, Northern VA Ecotype
  (Orange Coneflower, Northern VA Ecotype)
• 0.1% Solidago juncea, PA Ecotype
  (Early Goldenrod, PA Ecotype)
• 0.1% Veronicastrum virginicum, PA Ecotype
  (Culver’s Root, PA Ecotype)

General Product Information

• Product Categories:

  Grasses & Grass-like Species, Herbaceous Flowering Species, Pollinator Favorites, Solar Sites

• Life Cycle:

  Perennial

Indicator Regions

• Northcentral & Northeast:

• Midwest

• Eastern Mountains and Piedmont:

• Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain

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Tolerances

Seed Information

• Seeding rate per acre in a mix:

  Seed with 30 lbs/acre of a cover crop. For a cover crop use either grain oats (1 Jan to 31 Jul), brown top millet (10 lbs/acre; 1 May to 31 Aug) or grain rye (1 Aug to 31 Dec).