Seed 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

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

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

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

Moderate water requirements, full sun to partial shade. Bluish-purple flowers bloom April through July. Excellent palatability for wildlife and all classes of livestock. Native rhizomatous climbing pe...

• Growing Region:  Midwest, Pacific Northwest
• Blooms:  Spring, Summer
• Life Form:  Forb

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation
• Height:  0-1 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

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

• Application Type:  Commercial Beautification, Land Reclamation, 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

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

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

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

Short trailing annual native with pale blue flowers and white centers, blooming prolifically February to June. Low to moderate water requirement; full sun to shade. Occurs on meadows, woodlands and de...

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation
• Height:  0-1 ft

Cool season, sod-forming, riparian native perennial grasslike. Occurs from deserts to subalpine zones, on saline or alkaline soils. Widely distributed, often found as a community dominant. Excellent f...

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

• Application Type:  Land Reclamation
• Height:  1-2 ft

This is a low-growing perennial, reaching heights of 4 to 12 inches. It is primarily used as ground cover and is especially effective in preventing erosion in sandy coastal habitats. This plant thrive...

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

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