Post on 14-Jul-2015
Demystifying Natives
The what, when, where and why of the world of natives
Corrine Daniels, AES• Nursery Director, AES
• B.S., Ecology UW-Platteville
• Over 17 years of professional Nursery and Ecological Restoration experience
• Member, AES Board of Directors
• WCIA Natives Committee Chair
• Member, School of Agriculture Advisory Council, UW-Platteville
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• Native green roofs
• Specific genetic provision
• Propagation of locally-sourced seed and plants
• Custom grow / Contract grow
• Experimental propagation
• Nursery consulting
• Plant rescues
• Nursery design/build
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Session Outline
What is “Native”?
What Makes Natives Different?
Local Genetics:
Why We Talk About It So Much
Local Genotype: How Local is Local?
Going Native Succeeds When . . .
The Basics
The Basics con’t
The Lingo
Those Pesky Botanical NamesBotanical Name alias Common Name
Pulsatilla patens Anemone patens wolfgangiana Pasque flower
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense Aster azureus Sky blue aster
Eurybia macrophylla Aster macrophyllus Big-leaved aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae Aster novae-angliae New England aster
Doellingeria umbellata Aster umbellatus Flat-top aster
Senna hebecarpa Cassis hebecarpa Wild senna
Eupatoriadelphus maculatus Eupatorium maculatum Spotted joe-pye weed
Brickellia eupatorioides Kuhnia eupatorioides False boneset
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani Scirpus validus creber Softstem bulrush
Oligoneuron rigidum Solidago rigida Stiff goldenrod
Hesperostipa spartea Stipa spartea Porcupine grass
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Which is Better, Seed or Plants?
Plants – The Need to Knows
Are These Plants Any Good?
Are These Plants Any Good?
Seed – The Need to Knows
PLS and Proper Storage
Photo: Kenneth Sytsma
Photo AES staff (CD)
Is This Seed Any Good?
Is This Seed Any Good?
Is This Seed Any Good?
Seed Size and Seeding Rates
Is this Spec Any Good?
We’d Love to Help, If We Could
Know what is commercially
available
Know what is appropriate in
your area
Can This be Built?
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Build a Better Project
Sample Seed and Plant Lists
Mesic Prairie
Wet Prairie
WoodlandEstablishmen
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Getting Your Stuff
Getting Your Stuff
Be Ready to Receive the Shipment
Which Species?
Species Selection
Grasses and Grass-like Species
Side oats gramaBouteloua curtipendula
Indian grass Sorghastrum nutans
Little blue stemAndropogon scoparia
Big blue stem Andropogon gerardii
Dark green rush Scirpus atrovirens
Prairie cord grass Spartina pectinata
Photo: Kenneth SytsmaAES Staff
Gray’s sedge; Carex Grayii
Blooms: June-September
Height: 1’-4’
Habitat: wet woods, wet-
mesic prairie, marshes
Perennial
Family: Cyperaceae
Forbs, Flowering Species
Nodding wild onion Allium cernuum
Photo AES staff (CD)
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Thimbleweed Anemone cylindrica
Photo AES staff (CD)
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Pasque flower Anemone patens
Jack-in-the-pulpit Arisaema
atrorubens
Photo: AES (SF)
Photo AES staff (CD)
Butterfly milkweed , Asclepias tuberosa
Common milkweed Asclepias syriaca
Photo UW Herbarium (EP)
Photo AES staff (CD)
Photo Linda Davis
Smooth blue aster Aster laevis, a.k.a,
Symphyotrichum oolentangiensis
New England Aster, Aster novae-angliae, a.k.a., Symphyotrichum
novae-angliae
Marsh marigold Caltha palustris
Wild hyacinth Camassia scilliodes
Dutchman’s breeches Dicentra cucullaria
Photo AES staff (CD)
Photo AES staff
Pale purple coneflowerEchinacea pallida
Rattlesnake master Eryngium yuccifolium
Prairie smoke Geum triflorum
Great St. John’s wortHypericum pyramidatum
Southern blue flag irisIris virginica-shrevei
Photo: Kenneth Sytsma
Photo AES staff (CD)
Prairie blazing star Liatris pycnostachya
Michigan-lily Lilium michiganense
Photo: Kenneth Sytsma
Photo AES staff (CD)
Cardinal flower Lobelia cardinalis
Great blue lobelia Lobelia siphilitica
Wild lupine Lupinus perennis
Wild bergamot Monarda fistulosa
Beard tongue Penstemon digitalis
Marsh phlox Phlox glabberima
Yellow coneflower Ratibida Pinnata
Brown-eyed Susan Rudbeckia triloba
Compass plant Silphium laciniatum
AESPhoto Linda Davis
Showy goldenrod Solidago speciosa
Spiderwort Tradescantia ohiensis
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Photo AES staff (CD)
Culver’s root Veronicastrum virginicum
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