Seed Inventory

Introduced annual with showy yellow, orange and cream flowers, blooming early spring and summer. Recommended for beautiful groundcover, garden borders or areas where quick cover is needed. Drought and...

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

• Application Type:  Commercial Beautification
• Height:  0-1 ft

Alfalfa (Common, VNS) is well-adapted to deep, well-drained, loamy soils with a high moisture holding capacity. Avoid deep, sandy soils or soils with poor internal drainage. A properly prepared seedbe...

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

• Application Type:  Cover Crop
• Height:  1-3 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:  Midwest, Intermountain West, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, North America
• 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, California, Pacific Northwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

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

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

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

Alsike clover is a short lived perennial or biennial native to Europe but now widely distributed throughout the United States. This legume is tolerant of adverse soils and has many potential uses. Cau...

• Growing Region:  Midwest, Intermountain West, Southeast, Southwest, Pacific Northwest
• Blooms:  Spring, Summer, Fall
• Life Form:  Legume

• Application Type:  Cover Crop
• Height:  1-4 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:  Southwest, California
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Forb

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Habitat Restoration
• Height:  0-1 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, California, Pacific Northwest
• Blooms:  Spring
• Life Form:  Shrub

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

Multi-branched deciduous to semi-evergreen shrub from 2-8 ft. tall with white showy flowers developing into feathery clusters of pinkish plumes, blooming April to December. Adapted to dry, sandy or gr...

• Growing Region:  Intermountain West, Southwest
• Blooms:  Spring, Summer
• Life Form:  Shrub

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation
• Height:  4+ ft

Formerly Trichachne californica. Warm season, very drought tolerant, perennial bunchgrass adapted to deep well-drained soils. Rarely found in pure stands. Will repeatedly go to seed throughout the gro...

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation, Commercial Beautification, Forage and Pasture
• Height:  1-2 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:  Intermountain West, Southwest
• Blooms: 
• Life Form:  Grass

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

Drought tolerant, leguminous native annual with deep blue or purplish flowers, blooming January to May. Occurs on disturbed sandy washes, roadsides or open desert; up to 4,000 ft. elevation. May “supe...

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation
• Height:  1-4 ft

Sprawling summer native annual with golden orange-yellow flowers, blooming July to October after desert monsoons. Quick germination when moisture is available. Found along roadsides, sandy washes, mes...

• Growing Region:  Midwest, Intermountain West, Southwest, Pacific Northwest
• Blooms:  Summer, Fall
• Life Form:  Forb

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation
• Height:  1-3 ft

Arkansas Rose, commonly called Prairie Rose, is native to the central portion of the United States from Texas to the Great Lakes region and from New Mexico to Montana.Commonly found on upland prairies...

• Growing Region:  Midwest, Intermountain West, Southwest
• Blooms:  Spring, Summer
• Life Form:  Shrub

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation
• Height:  1-3 ft

Arroyo Lupine (Lupinus succulentus) is a showy annual wildflower native to California’s valleys and coastal areas. Growing 2–4 feet tall, it bears eye-catching spires of purple-blue and white pea-shap...

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

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