Environmental Solutions
Sharp Brothers Seed can help you create sustainable solutions.
NOTE: You can click the "All" button at the bottom of the page
to see all species which have special benefits for environmental
problems.
Our native seed is incorporated into a variety of green solutions including erosion control, bioremediation and phytoremediation projects. We work hand in hand with organizations and private landowners to create affordable seed mixes for common-sense approaches on a variety of challenging sites.
For more information about seed mixes that will work for you on your site, contact us by e-mail or call us at 1-800-462-8483. If you're ready to purchase seed or have a mix in mind, we've made it even easier to purchase Sharp Brothers Seed! Just select the species, in our Seed Species section, type in the quantities of seed desired for each species and click "add to cart."
You may also give us a call at 800-462-8483 or contact us by e-mail for advice on availability and pricing.
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Agropyron elongatum 'Jose Tall Wheatgrass'Common Name: Jose Tall Wheatgrass
Jose Tall Wheatgrass is a tall, coarse, late-maturing bunchgrass that extends its size by producing tufts on short rootstocks at the edge of mature plants. Jose Tall Wheatgrass is a cool season perenial grass. Long, coarse, light green, basal lea...
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Agropyron smithiiCommon Name: Western Wheatgrass, Barton
Barton Western Wheatgrass is strongly rhizomatous, imtermediate in growth and a leafy ecotype. Barton is relatively disease free and high in forage and seed production. Western Wheatgrass is a cool season species that starts growing in May and J...
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Agrostis palustrisCommon Name: Red Top
Red Top is a cool-season, sod-forming grass that finds its home on wet, poorly drained soils. Red Top will tolerate frequent flooding. Will grow in acid-type solids and is moderately salt-tolerant. Acceptable hay or grazing may be acquired by grazing...
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Andropogon gerardi 'Kaw'Common Name: Kaw Big Bluestem
Kaw is a cultivar of Big Bluestem that is widely grown for forage, prairie restoration, and wildlife habitat in the central Great Plains.
Big Bluestem for livestock forage offers increased yield and improved digestibility for livestock. Big Bluest...
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Andropogon gerardi 'Roundtree'Common Name: Rountree Big Bluestem
Rountree Big Bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and is the preferred variety of Big Bluestem for hay production. Big Bluestem was the chief grass of the tallgrass prairie and once covered solid acres. The leaves are very nutritious for cat...
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Andropogon gerardi 'Pawnee'Common Name: Pawnee Big Bluestem
Pawnee is a cultivar of Big Bluestem in Nebraska. Pawnee Big Bluestem plants grow waist high or more with deep green leaves and tall seed stalks. Pawnee Big Bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils. The leaves are very nutritious for cattle and ...
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Badger Dirt Mix-Exposed, High pH Subsoils RevegetationCommon Name: Badger Dirt Mix
The subsoils of the high plains present special revegetation problems when exposed by excavation. Blue Grama, Buffalograss, Sideoats Grama, Alkali Sacaton and Western Wheatgrass combine to form a grass cover that has excellent drou... [ More Info ]
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Bouteloua curtipendula 'El Reno'Common Name: El Reno Sideoats
El Reno Sideoats is a cultivar of long-lived, warm-season grass. Small reddish orange flowers dangle along one side of slender stems. Narrow leaves form small clumps and turn gold in autumn. Very drought tolerant....
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Bouteloua gracilisCommon Name: Blue Grama Grass
Blue Grama Grass is a warm season, tufted, native perennial grass found in the short and tall grass prairies. Blue Grama Grass makes up 75% to 90% of the grasses found there. We offer 4 different varities: Bad River, Hachit... [ More Info ]
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Dalea candidaCommon Name: White Prairie Clover
White Prairie Clover is a member of the legume family and is known for its tall, slender, showy upright clump habit, with fine textured green leaves that are larger than the purple prairie clover. The showy clusters of white flowers appear like 'butt...
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Dalea purpureaCommon Name: Purple Prairie Clover
Native Purple Prairie Clover has lots of conelike heads of purple flowers that dance on top of wiry stems in summer. Small dark leaves give the Purple Prairie Clover a ferny appearance. This nitrogen-fixing legume is an important component of Midwest...
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Desmanthus illinoensisCommon Name: Illinois Bundleflower
Illinois Bundleflower is a native legume with lavender summer blossoms and compound leaves. Prefers heavier soils in full or partial sun....
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Elymus canadensisCommon Name: Canada Wild Rye
Canada Wild Rye has showy seedheads with long bristle-like awns(reminiscent of barley). Canada Wild Rye is a cool season native grass that matures earlier than the warm season grasses-summer-early fall. Prefers full sun but will grow in partial shade...
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Elymus virginicusCommon Name: Virginia Wild Rye
Virginia Wild Rye is similar to Canada Wild Rye. It is a graceful native grass that grows in full sun or moderate shade. Excellent for stabilizing disturbed soils in woodland situations. Virginia Wild Rye mixes well with Bottlebrush Grass and taller ...
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Lespedeza capitataCommon Name: Roundhead Lespedeza
The creamy white flowers of Roundhead Lespedeza form dense rounded heads over silvery foliage. Seeds are eaten by songbirds, quail and other game. Roundhead Lespedeza is a legume. Plants provide nutritious and palatable forage for livestock....
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Native Medium Wildflower Mix Landscape BeautificationCommon Name: Native Medium Wildflower Mix
Enjoy flowers throuout the season with this mix of medium and short height wildflowers, Showy Partridge Pea, Clasping Coneflower, Illinois Bundleflower, Purple Prairie Clover, Blackeyed Susan, Greyhead Coneflower, Indian Blanket, Upright Coneflowe... [ More Info ]
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Panicum virgatum 'Cave-in-Rock'Common Name: Cave-in-Rock Switchgrass
Cave-in-Rock Switchgrass is a top choice among all the Switchgrass varieties because of its palatability and disease resistance. Noted for its adaptability to the growing conditions, Cave-in-Rock Switchgrass is found in the more eastern states, espec...
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Panicum virgatum 'Kanlow'Common Name: Kanlow Switchgrass
Kanlow Switchgrass is a perennial warm season grass with coarse stems. Its height ranges from 3 to nearly 8 feet with the leaves ranging from 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide and may reach a length of 30 inches. It is a bunch grass, but has short rhizomes. Th...
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Panicum virgatum 'Shelter'Common Name: Shelter Switchgrass
Shelter Switchgrass is durable and vigorous. Noted for its adaptability to the growing conditions, Shelter Switchgrass gives superior results in stand establishment. It is excellent for wildlife plantings and those on highway rights-of-way....
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Phleum pratenseCommon Name: Timothy
Timothy is used for pasture and silage, but mostly for hay. It is palatable and nutritious. Timothy makes a first rate companion grass for alfalfa, trefoil, or clover as it is the grass least competitive with legumes. Timothy can be used with legumes...
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Schizachyrium scopariumCommon Name: Little Bluestem, Native
Little Bluestem small, non-spreading, clump-forming native grass with blue-green leaves that turn reddish orange in the fall. Fluffy silver seed heads are ornamental through winter....
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Schizachyrium scoparium 'Camper'Common Name: Camper Little Bluestem
Camper Little Bluestem is a small, non-spreading, clump-forming grass with blue-green leaves that turn reddish orange in the fall. Fluffy silver seed heads are ornamental through winter....
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Short Grass Mix Landscape BeautificationCommon Name: Short Grass Mix
The fine leafed, drought tolerant grasses of the semiarid high plains, Buffalograss, Blue Grama and Sideoats Grama are combined in this mix. Grasses will vary in height from 4 inches to 2 feet. Planting Rate: 8.5 pls lbs per acre M... [ More Info ]
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Sorghastrum nutans 'Rumsey'Common Name: Rumsey Indian Grass
Rumsey Indian Grass has upright clumps of slender, blue-green leaves that turn golden in the fall. In late summer, attractive, vertical flowering stems are topped with 12-inch long, light brown flower panicles that have yellow stamens. Rumsey Indian ...
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Spartina pectinataCommon Name: Prairie Cord Grass
Long, graceful Prairie Cord Grass leaf blades are sharply serrated and can easily cut skin, giving the plant its common name, Rip Gut. Inconspicuous flowers bloom in late summer. Prairie Cord Grass forms a sod with its heavy, multi-branched root syst...
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Tall Grass Mix Landscape BeautificationCommon Name: Tall Grass Mix
Create a natural looking landscape resembling the Kansas Flint Hills or Cornbelt Tallgrass Prairie with the mix of tall, medium height and short perennial grasses, Big Bluestem, Yellow Indiangrass, Switchgrass, Sand Bluestem, Littl... [ More Info ]
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Trifolium incarnatumCommon Name: Crimson Clover
Crimson Clover, also known as Italian Clover, is widely grown as a protein-rich forage crop for cattle and other livestock. It can typically be found in forest margins, fields and roadsides.
It has been introduced into the United States, originall...
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Tripsacum dactyloides 'PMK-24'Common Name: Pete Eastern Gamagrass
PMK-24 Eastern Gamagrass is a warm-season, perennial native grass cultivar with high palatability and productivity. Recently, interest in Eastern Gamagrass has increased because of its potential use for high quality forage, soil conservation, and wil...
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