Seed Species
Problem-solving species for a broad variety of needs
For over 50 years, Sharp Brothers Seed has set the standard for top-quality seed for home, farm and commercial landscape use.
Today, Sharp Brothers offers new and improved varieties of both warm and cool season grasses, various legumes, forbs and wildflowers. These varieties, along with local-source native seed, continue to be produced for consumers throughout the Great Plains and inter-mountain areas.
Seeking species that offer special benefits like 'native', 'legumes', 'biofuel' or 'wildlife benefits'? Just click on the desired benefit in the drop down menu on the right for a shortened list of species to consider, call us at 800-462-8483 or request info by fax or email.
And, when you're ready to place your order, you'll find it's easier than ever 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." PLEASE REMEMBER WE SELL OVER 200 SPECIES OF SEEDS. NOT ALL ARE LISTED ON THE WEB SITE. CALL US AND ASK FOR THE SPECIE. WE MAY HAVE IT ON HAND OR WE MAY HAVE TO CHECK OUR OTHER WAREHOUSE OR GROWER FOR AVAILABILITY. ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT SPECIES ARE SUBJECT TO DAILY INVENTORY, SO ALWAYS LIST A PHONE NUMBER WITH YOUR ORDER. . Give us a call at 800-462-8483 and we'll advise you on availability and prices. DUE TO HIGH DEMAND, PLEASE CALL IN TO PLACE ORDERS!
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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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Amorpha canescensCommon Name: Lead Plant
Lead Plant is a small, shrubby, native prairie plant with tight spikes of iridescent purple and orange flowers that appear from May to August. Lead Plant is naturally found in dry to mesic prairies and in open, upland savannas through most of the tal...
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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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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 '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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Annual Wildflower Mix mixCommon Name: Sharp's Annual Wildflower Mix
OUR ANNUAL WILDFLOWER MIX INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING SPECIES. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE
LAST MINUTE SUBSTITUTIONS IF A SPECIE IS SUDDENLY SOLD OUT.
Cornflower
Cosmos mixed colors
Sweet William-Pinks
Plains Coreopsis
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Asclepias tuberosaCommon Name: Butterfly Milkweed
Butterfly Milkweed has lots of bright orange, flat-topped flower clusters that open in early June. Plants bloom for many weeks. Butterfly Milkweed is the host plant for the monarch butterfly and a great nectar source for many other butterflies and po...
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Aster novae-angliaeCommon Name: New England Aster
New England aster is appropriate for highway landscaping and roadside plantings, prairie restoration, wildlife cover, prairie landscaping and wetland situations.
New England aster is a native perennial forb which grows from 2 ½ to 6.0 feet tall w...
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Avena sativaCommon Name: Oats
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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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Baptisia alba (leucantha)Common Name: White Wild Indigo
White Wild Indigo provides three season interest! Upright spikes of creamy white flowers appear in late spring over blue-gray foliage. Flowers are followed by interesting pods that can be used in dried arrangements. The White Wild Indigo plant form i...
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Baptisia australisCommon Name: Blue Wild Indigo
Blue Wild Indigo offers clusters of indigo-blue flowers followed by interesting blue-black pods. Foliage is blue-green and growth habit is shrub-like....
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Bouteloua curtipendula 'Trailway'Common Name: Trailway Sideoats
Trailway Sideoats is a cultivar of long-lived, warm-season Sideoats. Small reddish orange flowers dangle along one side of slender stems. Narrow leaves form small clumps and turn gold in autumn. Trailway is winter-hardy and long-lived with very good...
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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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Bromus inermisCommon Name: Smooth Common Brome
Smooth Common Brome is a sod-forming, perennial grass, distinguished by long, slender, bronze- or purple-tinted flower clusters that make up the flower head. This species spreads by seeds and dark-colored rhizomes was introduced as a forage grass int...
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Buchloe dactyloidesCommon Name: Buffalo Grass
Buffalo grass is a soft, gray-green, perennial turf which grows up to 12 inches if left unmowed. Buffalo Grass is a long-lived, warm-season, sod-forming grass has curly leaf blades, slender stems and compact seed heads. Buf... [ More Info ]
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Buck Munch Food Plot MixCommon Name: Buck Munch
Specially formulated mix of high quality lush clovers, tasty turnips, nutritious alfalfa and wheat make a food plot that will attract deer herds to your property. Buck Munch is a premium blend of perennials and annuals designed to ... [ More Info ]
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Cassia fasciculataCommon Name: Partridge Pea
Partridge Pea is a native annual legume with yellow blossoms that bloom in summer to produce seeds used by a variety of songbirds and wildlife. Partridge Pea is one of the most important fall and winter foods of Bobwhite Quail. Plant Partridge Pea i...
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Coreopsis lanceolataCommon Name: Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Lanceleaf Coreopsis offers showy, deep yellow flowers on tall stems in May and June. Coreopsis plants outgrow weeds and hold the soil....
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Coreopsis tinctoriaCommon Name: Plains Coreopsis
Plains Coreopsis is a bright annual that flowers from June to Sept. Lots of very showy yellow flowers with red centers are produced on fairly large branched plants. Central disk is brown....
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Coronilla variaCommon Name: Crown Vetch
Crown Vetch is a low-growing legume vine. It is native to Africa, Asia and Europe and is commonly used throughout the United States and Canada for erosion control, roadside planting and soil rehabilitation.
Crown Vetch is a tough, aggressive sprea...
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Cosmos bipinnatusCommon Name: Cosmos
Cosmos is the best color maker for late meadows, showy Cosmos lights up everything in pink, white, red, yellow and bicolors. Cosmos is easily grown and blooms profusely on well-drained sites in full sun, from May until frost....
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Dactylis glomerataCommon Name: Orchardgrass
Orchardgrass is a bunch-type, tall-growing, cool-season perennial grass. It is one of the most productive cool-season grasses, tolerant to shade, fairly drought resistant with moderate winter hardiness. Orchardgrass does not exhibi... [ 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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Echinacea pallidaCommon Name: Pale Purple Coneflower
Pale Purple Coneflower has tall bare stems that are topped by lavender pink flowers with cone-shaped brown seed heads June-July. Good fresh cut flower or dried flower....
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Echinacea purpureaCommon Name: Purple Coneflower
Purple Coneflower is an easy-to-grow favorite with lots of rosy purple flowers with non-drooping petals around a brown cone-shaped seed head....
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Echinochola crusgalliCommon Name: Japanese Millet Grass
Japanese Millet Grass is a fast growing and heavy seeder. When used for wildlife, it is best for areas that are to be flooded and near water sources and muddy spots. The seeds are attractive to deer, quail, ducks and dove.
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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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Eryngium yuccifoliumCommon Name: Rattlesnake Master
Rattlesnake Master has basal rosettes of parallel-veined, bristly-edged, sword-shaped, medium green leaves up to three feet long that resemble yucca. Tiny, stemless, greenish-white flowers are tightly packed into globular, one-inch diameter heads. Ra...
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Eupatorium purpureumCommon Name: Joe Pye Weed
Joe Pye Weed is an erect, clump-forming perennial with coarsely-serrated, lance-shaped, dark green leaves on sturdy green stems. Tiny, vanilla-scented, mauve-purple flowers in large clusters bloom mid-summer to early fall. Joe Pye Weed flowers are ve...
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Fagopyrum esculentumCommon Name: Buckwheat
Buckwheat is a short season crop that does well on low-fertility or acidic soils, but the soil must be well drained. Too much fertilizer, especially nitrogen, will reduce yields. In hot climates, it can only be grown by sowing late in the season, so ...
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Festuca arundinacea 'KY-31'Common Name: Kentucky 31 Fescue
Kentucky 31 is one of the older "proven" varieties with a light green, coarse texture. K-31 remains popular still because of it's lower price and good overall usage qualities. This variety selection is not usually used on the finest turfgrass lawns...
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Festuca rubraCommon Name: Creeping Red Fescue
Creeping Red Fescue is widely planted for turfgrass in the transition and Northern cool season areas. Creeping Red Fescue is a fine bladed grass with medium to dark green color. It is established from seed easily, though not quite as quickly as ryeg...
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Gaillardia aristataCommon Name: Blanket Flower
Blanket Flower is a short lived native perennial wild flower perfect for sunny locations and well drained soil. The showy flowers of Blanket Flower are a nice addition to your butterfly garden and also make a great cut flower. Gaillardia aristata p...
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Gaillardia pulchellaCommon Name: Indian Blanket
Indian Blanket is a short-lived annual flowering plant that is native to the central United States. The pinwheel-like florets of the flowerhead tend to be more red-violet, with the outer ray florets yellow. Branching stems are hairy and upright. The ...
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Game Bird Magnet Mix Food Plot MixCommon Name: Game Bird Magnet Mix
This broadly adapted annual mixture will provide a smorgasboard of high energy seeds, while furnishing a dense durable cover. Custom blended to create a dependable magnetic environment that will attract and hold game birds on your ... [ More Info ]
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Helianthus maximilianiiCommon Name: Maximilian Sunflower
Maximilian Sunflower is a coarse native plant with hairy stems and serrated leaves. In midsummer to fall many flowers bloom in a tall, narrow cluster near the top of each plant. Each flower is about four inches in diameter with 10-25 petals. Maximili...
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Heliopsis helianthoidesCommon Name: Ox-eye Sunflower
Ox-eye Sunflower offer golden-yellow, daisy-like flowers that bloom for many weeks in summer. The flowers attract butterflies. Song birds enjoy the seed. Good cut flower....
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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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Lespedeza stipulacea 'Korean'Common Name: Korean Lespedeza
Korean Lespedeza is an excellent seed producer for quail and other upland game birds. Deer graze it in the summer. Korean is earlier maturing than Kobe but Kobe is more adapted to the South. The seeds are hard and may lie on the ground for long perio...
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Lespedeza striate 'Kobe'Common Name: Kobe Lespedeza
Kobe Lespedeza is an excellent seed producer for quail and other upland game birds. Deer graze it in the summer. Korean is earlier maturing than Kobe but Kobe is more adapted to the South. The seeds are hard and may lie on the ground for long periods...
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Lespedeza striate 'Marion'Common Name: Marion Lespedeza
Marion Lespedeza is a tough forage plant that only has to be planted once, thrives on poor soil, stands up to hot summers and is high in nutrient value. Marion Lespedeza is resistant to bacterial wilt and tar spot. This is a fine-stemmed, high-produc...
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Liatris asperaCommon Name: Rough Gayfeather
Rough Gayfeather is native to the western short grass prairies of the Great Plains and foothills of Colorado and New Mexico. Liatris aspera is intolerant of wet soils in winter. Deep rooted and long lived, this species is a good choice for xeriscapes...
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Liatris punctataCommon Name: Dotted Gayfeather
Dotted Gayfeather is native to the western short grass prairies of the Great Plains and foothills of Colorado and New Mexico. Liatris punctata is the most xeric of our Gayfeather species. Deep rooted and long lived, this species is the best choice fo...
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Liatris pycnostachyaCommon Name: Tall Gayfeather
Tall Gayfeather, or Prairie Blazing Star, produces purple flower spikes that are a favorite with butterflies and hummingbirds. Songbirds love the seed. Tall Gayfeather thrives in full sun and moist, well-drained soil but will grow in drier conditions...
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Liatris spicataCommon Name: Dense Gayfeather
Dense Gayfeather is a favorite native prairie wildflower. Plants form a low clump of grassy looking leaves, bearing tall spikes of bright magenta-purple flowers beginning in midsummer. Very useful in the sunny border or meadow garden, or in container...
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Linum lewisiiCommon Name: Lewis Blue Flax
Blue and Lewis flax are noted to have fair forage value for livestock and wildlife during spring and winter. Plants stay green throughout the growing season providing some forage value. Birds use the seed and capsules in fall and winter. All species ...
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Linum perenneCommon Name: Blue Flax
Blue Flax offers small, sky-blue flowers on light and graceful arching branches. Although Blue Flax will stand up well to heat, it prefers cool, moist summers, e.g., coastal climates. For best effect, sow seed in mass. Perfect addition for wildflower...
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Linum rubrumCommon Name: Scarlet Flax
A hardy annual, non-native. This specie must be planted in the spring after the danger of frost and will bloom from April to September with an abundance of color if planted densely. Once established Scarlet Flax can tolerate high heat and extreme...
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Lolium multifoliumCommon Name: Annual Ryegrass
Annual Ryegrass, also called Italian Ryegrass, is a high-quality, cool-season, winter annual bunchgrass that is closely related to Perennial Ryegrass. Through plant breeding advances, many improvements have been made in winter-hardiness and have made...
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Lolium perenneCommon Name: Perennial Ryegrass
Perennial Ryegrass, also called English Ryegrass, is a cool-season perennial bunchgrass native to Europe, temperate Asia, and North Africa. It is widely distributed throughout the world, including North and South America, Europe, New Zealand, and Aus...
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Lotus corniculatusCommon Name: Birdsfoot Trefoil
Birdsfoot Trefoil is a long-lived perennial legume ideally suited for many grass-legume pastures in Missouri. It grows and produces forage during July and August when most cool-season grasses are semi-dormant. Trefoil does not cause bloat, as do many...
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Medicago Alfalfa, Common 'sativa'Common Name:
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is a flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae cultivated as an important forage crop.
Alfalfa is a cool season perennial legume living from three to twelve years, depending on variety and climate. It resembles clover w...
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Medium Grass Mix Landscape BeautificationCommon Name: Medium Grass Mix
A landscape reminiscent of the Central Plains can be created on your property with this mix of Little Bluestem, Sand Lovegrass, Western Wheatgrass, Sideoats Grama, Buffalograss and Blue Grama. Grasses will vary in height from 4 inches to 4 feet. [ More Info ]
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Monarda fistulosaCommon Name: Wild Bergamot
Wild Bergamot is a member of the Mint family (Lamiaceae). Wild Bergamot is an aromatic herbaceous perennial which has branched, hairy stems and spreads by seeds and rhizomes. Wild bergamot has square stems with gray-green foliage. This plant is ...
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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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Native Short Wildflower Mix Landscape BeautificationCommon Name: Native Short Wildfower Mix
A mix of medium height and short flowers taht will bloom in spring, summer and fall. Purple Prairie Clover, Greyhead Coneflower, Indian Blanket, Upright Coneflower and Plains Coreopsis. Excellent planting partner of Medium Gra... [ More Info ]
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Oenothera biennisCommon Name: Common Evening Primrose
The common name of Common Evening Primrose describes habit of the plant's flowers to open in the evening and close by the following noon. The flower has a bright nectar guide pattern, invisible in visible light, but apparent under ultraviolet light, ...
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Oenothera macrocarpaCommon Name: Missouri Primrose
Missouri Primrose is a showy, trailing plant with large, yellow, fragrant flowers up to 4" across. Plants bloom for a long period from spring through summer....
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Panicum virgatum 'Alamo'Common Name: Alamo Switchgrass
Alamo Switchgrass has become an alternative energy source by converting it from a biomass-based renewable energy source into a fuel like ethanol. Alamo and Kanlow Switchgrasses have much higher dry matter (DM) yield capability than upland cultivar...
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Panicum virgatum 'Nebraska 28'Common Name: Nebraska 28 Switchgrass
Nebraska 28 Switchgrass is an upland variety of native Switchgrass, moderately tall and leafy, with good seedling vigor. It displays good resistance to stem rust disease. Recommended for use on rangelands, pastures, waterways, and disturbed sites. Bl...
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Panicum virgatum 'Pathfinder'Common Name: Pathfinder Switchgrass
Pathfinder Switchgrass is a late-maturing variety that is winter-hardy and vigorous. Noted for its adaptability to the growing conditions, Pathfinder Switchgrass gives superior results in stand establishment, forage and seed production....
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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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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 'Trailblazer'Common Name: Trailblazer Switchgrass
Trailblazer Switchgrass is a late-maturing variety that is winter-hardy and vigorous. Noted for its adaptability to the growing conditions, Trailblazer Switchgrass gives superior results in stand establishment, forage and seed production....
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Panicum virgatum 'Blackwell'Common Name: Blackwell Switchgrass
Blackwell Switchgrass was originally collected from a single plant near Blackwell, Oklahoma in 1944 and developed at the Manhattan, Ks. Plant Materials Center and the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. This Switchgraass has been planted to wel...
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Penstemon digitalisCommon Name: Foxglove Beard Tongue
Foxglove Beard Tongue offers a profusion of tubular white flowers on strong stems in May and June which provide nectar for hummingbirds. Foxglove Beard Tongue is a handsome plant with attractive seed heads and foliage that turns reddish in fall....
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Phalaris arundinaceaCommon Name: Reed Canarygrass
Reed Canarygrass is excellent as a forage/hay grass on wet agricultural lands and as an erosion control species. In fact, modern Reed Canarygrass forage yields and quality are equal to or greater than those of other cool season forage grasses when ha...
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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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PM6 Cool Season PastureCommon Name: PM6
The most popular cool season grazing mix on the Central Plains. Presently used on thousands of acres, some stands being decades old, PM6 contains Orchardgrass, Intermediate Wheatgrass, Meadow Brome, Smooth Brome and Creeping Foxtail. Diverse speci... [ More Info ]
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PM7 Cool Season PastureCommon Name: PM7
Also known as Horse Candy, producers have found this hardy mix to be more productive than single species plantings. Best adapted to well drained dryland soils east of Interstate 35. Consists of Orchardgrass, Meadow Brome and Smooth Brome. Forage q... [ More Info ]
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PM8 Cool Season PastureCommon Name: PM8
PM8 has proven its hardiness by surviving the prolonged droughts typical of the High Plains. Best adapted to dryland loam or finer textured well drained soils west of Interstate 35. PM8 contains Intermediate Wheatgrass, Meadow Brom... [ More Info ]
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Poa pratensisCommon Name: Kentucky Bluegrass
Kentucky Bluegrass is a cool-season grass that grows best during the fall, winter, and spring months when temperatures are cool. Its growth slows during the warm summer months. Kentucky Bluegrass prefers full sun, but will tolerate some shade. This s...
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Ratibida columnarisCommon Name: Yellow Coneflower
Upright Yellow Coneflower is one of the most easily grown species, it often blooms the first growing season. Also known as Mexican Hat, Upright Yellow Coneflower prefers full sun and demonstrates low water requirements. Great color for the summer gar...
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Ratibida pinnataCommon Name: Gray-head Prairie Coneflower
Gray-head Coneflower is a summer-long bloomer with large yellow flowers that have drooping petals. Gray-head Coneflower flowers surround a brown seedhead that birds eat from if plants are left standing. It is good for erosion control, looks good in m...
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Rudbeckia amplexicaulisCommon Name: Clasping Coneflower
Clasping Coneflower is a hardy annual native to the southeastern United States, and has naturalized throughout most of North America. The identifiable black, cone-shaped heads are surrounded by bright yellow, drooping reflexed ray flowers. Clasping C...
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Rudbeckia hirtaCommon Name: Gloriosa Daisy
Gloriosa Daisy is a strain of black-eyed Susan that was developed in the United States, and is now grown world-wide. The center of the is brown and surrounded by petals in shades of yellow, gold and mahogany. The six-inch blossoms available in double...
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Rudbeckia hirtaCommon Name: Black-eyed Susan
Black-eyed Susan is one of the easiest wildflowers to establish! Black-eyed Susan reseeds to return year after year. Prefers well-drained, moist soil in full sun to partial shade. Flowers from May to August....
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Rudbeckia subtomentosaCommon Name: Sweet Coneflower
Sweet Coneflower is a native that deserves a place in every garden! In late summer, Sweet Coneflower puts on a dazzling display of golden yellow flowers with dark brown dome-shaped centers. The foliage of this long-lived resilient plant is medium gre...
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Salvia azureaCommon Name: Pitcher Sage
Abundant blue flowers on Blue Sage's slender spikes attract hummingbirds in late summer. Blue Sage has densely-packed flowers that form whirled blooms. The aromatic foliage is narrow, gray-green and lance shaped....
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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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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 'Aldous'Common Name: Aldous Little Bluestem
Aldous 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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Sharp's Speciality MixturesCommon Name: Sharp's Songbird, Butterfly and Hummingbird Mix
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Sharp's Speciality MixturesCommon Name: Sharp's Wildflower Mix
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Sharp's Speciality MixturesCommon Name: Sharp's Showy Wildflower Mix
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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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Solidago rigidaCommon Name: Stiff Goldenrod
Stiff Goldenrod is a clump-forming goldenrod that blooms in late summer through early fall. True yellow, flat-topped flowers provide nectar for butterflies. Birds love the seed of Stiff Goldenrod....
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Solidago speciosaCommon Name: Showy Goldenrod
Clump forming plants of Showy Goldenrod bloom in late summer and fall with showy clusters of bright yellow flowers on stiff reddish stems with narrow leaves....
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Sorghastrum nutans 'Cheyenne'Common Name: Cheyenne Indian Grass
Cheyenne Indian Grass provides upright clumps of slender, blue-green leaves that turn golden in the fall. In late summer, attractive, vertical flowering Cheyenne Indian Grass stems are topped with 12-inch long, light brown flower panicles that have y...
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Sorghastrum nutans 'Osage'Common Name: Osage Indian Grass
Osage Indian Grass provides upright clumps of slender, blue-green leaves that turn golden in the fall. In late summer, attractive, vertical flowering Osage Indian Grass stems are topped with 12-inch long, light brown flower panicles that have yellow ...
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Sorghastrum nutans 'Nebraska 54'Common Name: Nebraska 54 Indian Grass
Nebraska 54 Indian Grass provides upright clumps of slender, blue-green leaves that turn golden in the fall. In late summer, attractive, vertical flowering Nebraska 54 Indian Grass stems are topped with 12-inch long, light brown flower panicles that ...
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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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Sorghastrum nutans, Kentucky ecotypeCommon Name: Indian Grass, Kentucky
Indian Grass has upright clumps of slender, blue-green leaves that turn golden in the fall. In late summer, attractive, vertical flowering Indian Grass stems are topped with 12-inch long, light brown flower panicles that have yellow stamens. Excellen...
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Sorghastrum nutans, Tennesee ecotypeCommon Name: Indian Grass
Indian Grass has upright clumps of slender, blue-green leaves that turn golden in the fall. In late summer, attractive, vertical flowering Indian Grass stems are topped with 12-inch long, light brown flower panicles that have yellow stamens. Excellen...
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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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Sporobolus asperaCommon Name: Tall Dropseed
Tall Dropseed is a native, warm-season, perennial bunch grass. It is drought-resistant and commonly found throughout the Midwest prairies. Seed heads are produced in fall....
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Sporobolus cryptandrusCommon Name: Sand Dropseed
Sand Dropseed commonly occurs on sandy sites, but also found on our prairies and meadows. Its inflorescence is wide at the base and narrows to a point. Sand Dropseed also has an obvious ring of hairs at the base of the leaf blade. The grain is reddis...
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Sporobolus heterolepisCommon Name: Prairie Dropseed
Prairie Dropseed is an outstanding native grass for any landscape. This 2005 Missouri Botanical Garden Plants of Merit winner forms a dense, graceful clump with thin, emerald green leaves that turn yellow or deep orange in fall. In August, Prairie Dr...
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Stampede Horse Paddock Mix Cool Season PastureCommon Name: Stampede Paddock Mix
A durable grass cover to exclude mud, dust and weeds from paddocks with high stocking rates. Arriba Wester Wheatgrass, Barton Whester Wheatgrass and Jose Tall Wheatgrass are well suited for survival where busy stockman can provide ... [ More Info ]
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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 hybridumCommon Name: Alsike Clover
Alsike Clover is a common plant that has naturalized widely throughout the Midwest. However, it appears to be less common than either Trifolium pratense (Red Clover) and Trifolium repens (White Clover). Alsike Clover was originally introduced from Eu...
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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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Trifolium pratenseCommon Name: Medium Red Clover
Medium Red Clover is the most widely grown of the true clovers. It is a short-lived perennial legume native to the countries that border the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Medium Red Clover is used for short rotation hay fields and include into pastur...
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Trifolium repensCommon Name: White Blossom Clover
There are both annual and biennial types of White Blossom Clover, also known as Sweet Clover. In the central United States, the biennial types are most important. White Blossom Sweet Clover includes the varieties Denta and Polara, but most White Blos...
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Trifolium repensCommon Name: Ladino Clover
Ladino Clover is widely used for forage, especially in pasture. It is unexcelled as a pasture for hogs because of its unusually low fiber content. It is high in protein digestibility, a heavy nitrogen fixer, easy to establish and moderately winter ha...
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Trifolium repensCommon Name: White Dutch Clover
White Dutch Clover is widely used for forage, especially in pasture. It is high in protein digestibility, a heavy nitrogen fixer, easy to establish and moderately winter hardy. A low growing clover, White Dutch Clover is sometimes used in grass seed ...
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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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Verbena hastataCommon Name: Blue Vervain
Tall, narrow Blue Vervain plants have erect branches and pointed, coarsely-toothed leaves hold loose clusters of small flowers on upright spikes. Blue Vervain flowers bloom through the summer months. This moisture lover occurs naturally in wet prairi...
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Vernonia fasciculataCommon Name: Ironweed
Mid-summer to fall, tall Ironweed stalks are topped with large, red-violet flowers that provide a wonderful display of color and attract butterflies. Dark green leaves are lance-shaped....
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Veronicastrum virginicumCommon Name: Culver's Root
Distinguished, six-inch long, candle-like spikes of off-white flowers appear on Culver's Root. Flowering persists for four to six weeks. Culver's Root is a great selection for the garden and for cut flowers....
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Vicia villosaCommon Name: Hairy Vetch
Hairy Vetch, also called Sand Vetch, is a moderately winter-hardy species. It is the only vetch species that can be fall-seeded and reach maturity the following July. Hairy Vetch is a legume used primarily for soil improvement along roadsides and for...
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Wildflower Midwest WildflowerCommon Name: Sharp's Midwest Wildflower Mix
This wildflower mixture includes the following species. This is a blend of
perennials and annuals. Sharp's reserves the right to make species substitutions if a specie becomes unavailable. The shipping document which will accompany your ord...
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Wildflower mixCommon Name: KS Big Ten Wildflower Mix
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Wildflower mixCommon Name: Sharp's Perennial Wildflower Mix
THE PERENNIAL WILDFLOWER MIX CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING SPECIES. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE RESERVE
THE RIGHT TO SUBSTITUTE A SPECIE IF ONE BECOMES UNAVAILABLE. THE CONTENTS OF THE MIX YU
RECEIVE WILL HAVE A "SHIPPING DOCUMENT" WHICH SHOULD STATE THE CONTE...
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Wrangler Bermudagrass Warm Season PastureCommon Name: Wrangler Bermudagrass
Wrangler represents the best combination of winter hardiness, ofrage yield, and stand longevity available in a seeded bermudagrass variety. Wrangler tends to form a high density sod. This characteristic is advantageous in that it d... [ More Info ]
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