ELSBERRY PLANT MATERIALS CENTER
2001 TECHNICAL REPORT
PLANT SOLUTIONS FOR
CONSERVATION NEEDS
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http://Plant-Materials.nrcs.usda.gov/
Or
http://www.mo.nrcs.usda.gov
Line drawings provided by An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants by
Paul Christiansen and Mark Muller and the University of Iowa Press.
Heliopsis helianthoides L.
Ox-eye false sunflower
Elsberry Plant Materials Center
2001
Advisory Committee
Roger A. Hansen, State Conservationist, Missouri, Chairman
Leroy Brown, State Conservationist, Iowa
William J. Gradle, State Conservationist, Illinois
Resource Personnel
Charles R. Freeland, State Resource Conservationist, Missouri
James E. Ayen, State Resource Conservationist, Iowa
Richard G. Hungerford, Jr., Technology Team Leader, Illinois
Plant Materials Specialist
Jerry U. Kaiser
Plant Materials Personnel
Jimmy Henry, Plant Materials Center Manager
Steven B. Bruckerhoff, Conservationist Agronomist
Pamela K. Stewart, Secretary
Ronald L. Cordsiemon II, Biological Science Technician
Donald D. Tapley, Agricultural Science Research Technician
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2001
Technical Report
Elsberry Plant Materials Center
Elsberry, Missouri
Page Nos.
Introduction/History
5
Plant Materials Center Operations
6
Climatic Data
7
Tours, Visitors, and Meetings
9
Study Activities:
29I093R-Miscellaneous Herbaceous Plant Evaluation
10
29I097G-Assembly and Evaluation of Big Bluestem, Andropogon gerardii
12
29I101J-Assembly and Evaluation of Arrowwood,Viburnum dentatum, L.
18
29I107G-Assembly and Evaluation of Eastern Gamagrass, Tripsacum
dactyloides, L.
20
29I108G-Assembly and Evaluation of Low Growing Rhizomatous
Switchgrass for Use in Waterways, Filter Strips and Other Conservation
Uses
26
29I110JAssembly and Evaluation of Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana.
31
29A116W-Evaluation of Miscellaneous Trees and Shrubs
37
29I124G-Production of Native Iowa Ecotypes of Grasses and Forbs for
Roadside, Critical Areas, and All Other Vegetative Plantings Where Native
Grasses and Forbs are Now Being Planted
42
29A128J-Flowering Dogwood,