NativeSeed Group Inventory

This is an annual grass that grows between 1 to 2 feet tall. It is used for habitat restoration and as a cover crop. This grass prefers full sun and is typically found in grasslands, prairies, and di...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West, California
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-2 ft

Cool season, stout, rhizomatous, native, grass-like perennial occurring in wet alkaline or saline soils in meadows, marshes or near waterways. Valuable for providing cover for waterfowl and shore bird...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest, California, Intermountain West, North America, Midwest, Southwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grasslike

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-3 ft

Warm season, perennial bunchgrass with an extensive fibrous root system. Performs best on deep, moist, fine textured soils but will persist on coarser soils on dry sites. Tolerant of a wide range of s...

• Growing Region:  Intermountain West, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, California
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-4 ft

Short, densely tufted, cool season perennial bunchgrass adapted to subalpine and alpine slopes and meadows. Wide variety of soils from clay to gravel. Leaves form a dense mat providing good soil cover...

• Growing Region:  Intermountain West, Pacific Northwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-2 ft

Short, Cool season, perennial native bunchgrass sometimes forming a sod. Occurs at high elevations in northern latitudes from 4,000-12,500 ft. Prefers mountain meadows, bogs and streambanks in well-dr...

• Growing Region:  Southeast, Midwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Agriculture, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-2 ft

Acmispon amiericanus is a native annual herb in the Fabaceae (Legume) family that grows in Northern, Southern and Central California in most habitats except desert. It tends to grow in streambanks and...

• Growing Region:  California, Southwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Forb

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  0-1 ft

Cool season, robust annual or short-lived perennial that may develop short rhizomes. Commonly occurs on wet sites such as ponds, swamps, ditch banks, shallow marshes and sloughs. Prefers clay soils; t...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West, Midwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Agriculture, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-3 ft

Cool season, rhizomatous, native perennial grasslike common in many western states. Occurs in saturated soils of wet meadows and springs, from foothills to moderate elevations up to 9,000 ft. Often fo...

• Growing Region:  Intermountain West, Pacific Northwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-3 ft

Moderate to deeply taprooted evergreen shrub 2-10 ft. tall with small yellowish flowers, blooming April to August. Adapted to a wide variety of well-drained soils, slightly acidic to basic, often deep...

• Growing Region:  Intermountain West, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, California
• Blooms:  Spring
• Life Form:  Shrub

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  4+ ft

Cool season, drought tolerant perennial bunchgrass with a coarse, dense fibrous root system. Most commonly found on thin, heavy soils but also occurs on deeper, coarser sites, often in association wit...

• Growing Region:  Southwest, Intermountain West
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Agriculture, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-2 ft

Cool season, perennial grasslike species that occurs in saline and alkaline marshes, peat lands, plains and basins at low to middle elevations. Frequently grows with sedges and grasses but is often ov...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest, California, Intermountain West
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grasslike

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-2 ft

Drought tolerant, long-lived perennial native with yellow sunflower-like flowers, blooming April to July. Deep, thick taproot tolerant of fire, grazing, trampling and drought; seedlings slow to establ...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West, California
• Blooms:  Spring, Summer
• Life Form:  Forb

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-3 ft

Moderate water requirement; full sun to part shade. Perennial with lavender to white flowers blooms June to September from mid-montane to subalpine, on open moist slopes, along streams and under aspen...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West, Southeast
• Blooms:  Summer, Fall
• Life Form:  Shrub

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-2 ft

Large, somewhat drought tolerant native perennial with leafless stalks topped with inconspicuous yellow flowers, blooming early April to August. Found on rocky and sandy soils in foothills, shrublands...

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Forb

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  1-3 ft

Columnar-shaped succulent cactus 2-10 ft. tall and 18-33 in. in diameter with showy orange, yellow or red flowers in a ring upon its top, blooming July to September. Occurs on deep sandy desert soils,...

• Growing Region:  Southwest
• Blooms:  Summer
• Life Form: 

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  4+ ft