NativeSeed Group Inventory

Five Star is The Top Ranking Bluegrass Blend. A blend of five of the best bluegrasses on the market today, selected and blended for superior color, texture, and density. Very dark green turf even at moderate levels of fertility. Exceptional disease resistance, and great cold tolerance. Requires irrigation for optimum performance.

• Growing Region:  North America
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Turf
• Height:  0-1 ft

Cool season, perennial sod-former with a vigorous and shallow fibrous root system. Adapted to moist or periodically moist, saline soils. Able to withstand intermittent flooding and shallow water tables. Moderately palatable. Excellent for establishing cover on saline soils. Also used as a turfgrass.

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Commercial Beautification, Turf, Agriculture
• Height:  1-2 ft

Formerly Lolium multiflorum. Cool season, annual bunchgrass adapted to many sites where adequate water is available. Establishes quickly and easily. Highly palatable to livestock and wildlife. Excellent for temporary pasture or for early spring growth in a perennial pasture mix. Use in erosion control blends for quick, temporary cover. Also used for winter over-seeding of dormant Warm season Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) lawns in the south and southwest.

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Commercial Beautification, Turf, Agriculture
• Height:  1-3 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 with Ponderosa pine communities. Provides good palatability to livestock and wildlife. Useful for controlling soil erosion and improving rangelands.

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

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

Cool season, short to medium height, perennial bunchgrass adapted to a wide range of soils. Attractive light-blue color, often used as a landscape ornamental. Tolerant of drought, poor soils and road salt. Used in wildland situations, in wildflower plantings and as a turfgrass.

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Commercial Beautification, Turf
• Height:  4+ ft

Warm season, drought tolerant, perennial sod-former. Adapted to a broad spectrum of soils, but thrives on medium textured, well-drained sites. Highest drought tolerance of the major Great Plains grasses. Grows in bunches in the southern U.S., but is a sod-former in the mixed-grass and shortgrass plains, at higher elevations or when frequently watered or closely grazed. Highly palatable and nutritious year round. Also used as a low maintenance turfgrass.

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Commercial Beautification, Turf, Agriculture
• Height:  1-2 ft

Formerly Buchloe dactyloides. Short, Warm season, perennial sod-former with vigorous stolons. Long-lived and widely adapted. Extremely palatable to livestock and wildlife and tolerates grazing well. Slow to establish unless seed is treated with potassium nitrate. Used for reclamation, soil stabilization and turfgrass.

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Commercial Beautification, Turf, Agriculture
• Height:  1-3 ft

A low maintenance compliment to natural landscapes. This versatile grass mixture can be maintained as a turf lawn or left unmowed.

• Growing Region:  California
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Commercial Beautification, Turf
• Height:  0-1 ft

Formerly F. rubra commutata. Cool season, long-lived, perennial bunchgrass adapted to Cool shady areas. Not alkaline tolerant. Moderate palatability. Similar to non-native Red fescue (F. rubra) but more erect growth habit, may segregate into patches over time and has better heat tolerance. Used for erosion control and turfgrass.

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Commercial Beautification, Turf, Agriculture
• Height:  4+ ft

Formerly Agrostis tenuis. Cool season, tufted, perennial bunchgrass with a vigorous root system, sometimes with stolons or short rhizomes. Adapted to moist or moderately wet sites. Tolerates acidic and nutritionally poor soils. Nutritious and highly palatable. Commonly used as turfgrass.

• Growing Region:  Pacific Northwest, North America
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Commercial Beautification, Turf
• Height:  1-4 ft

Formerly A. palustris. Cool season, stoloniferous, perennial sometimes with short rhizomes. Grows well in moist sites and tolerates acidic conditions well. Widely adapted. Most often used for lawns, putting greens and erosion control.

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Commercial Beautification, Turf
• Height:  1-3 ft

Cool season, long-lived perennial sod-former adapted to Cool, shady areas. Not alkaline tolerant. Moderate palatability. Used for erosion control and turf. Introduced, Cool season, long-lived, perennial sod-former adapted to Cool, shady areas. Adapted to a wide range of sites and soils, including low fertility soils. Somewhat alkaline and saline tolerant. Moderate palatability. Used for stabilizing waterways, slopes and banks. Also for turfgrass or a low statured, shade tolerant cover crop in orchards.

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Erosion Control, Commercial Beautification, Turf, Agriculture
• Height:  1-4 ft

This is a great mix for sports turf such as soccer and softball, or used as a durable park or home lawn turf. Consists of 88% DuraTurf Turf-type Tall fescue, plus 7% Kentucky bluegrass for sod strength and improved damage recovery and 5% perennial ryegrass for quicker initial cover.

• Growing Region:  North America
• Blooms: 
• Life Form: 

• Application Type:  Turf
• Height:  0-1 ft

Our top-selling lawn blend is designed to provide the best genetic color, leaf texture, sod density, shade tolerance, and pest and disease resistance available. A beautiful lawn that will exceed expectations. Includes multiple leading varieties of Kentucky bluegrass, Perennial ryegrass, and fine fescues (Creeping red/Chewings).

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

• Application Type:  Turf
• Height: 

Perennial, Cool season, hybrid cross between ryegrass (Annual or Perennial) and fescue (typically Meadow or Tall). Combines the fast establishment, extended productivity and high palatability of ryegrass with the disease resistance, persistence and summer stress tolerance of fescue. Result is a high-quality, hardy grass able to extend the summer growing season of irrigated hay fields and pastures. Best used in blends with other grasses and legumes

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

• Application Type:  Agriculture
• Height:  4+ ft