1998-07-10 Prairie Wetland Seed Mix and Application
PRAIRIE WETLAND SEED MIX AND APPLICATION RATES
Karston Coves Townhomes
NOTES
1. WITHIN 72 HOURS AFTER COMPLETION OF FINAL GRADING, THE NATIVE MIX SHALL BE SEEDED ON
DISTURBED SOILS ABOVE WATER LEVELS AROUND WETLAND REPLACEMENT AREAS. SEEDED
AREAS SHALL BE MULCHED WITH TYPE I MULCH AT A RATE OF 2 TONS PER ACRE AND THE MULCH
SHALL BE DISC-ANCHORED.
2. NATIVE GRASS AND WILDFLOWER SEED MATERIALS SHALL BE ACQUIRED AND INSTALLED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE SEEDING MANUAL FOR NA TlVE SEED MIXES - MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION 1995/96 (MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TURF ESTABLISHMENT
AND EROSION PREVENTION UNIT, 1995) AND THE STANDARD SPECIFICA TlONS FOR CONSTRUCTION,
1995 EDITION (MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, 1995).
3. THE SEED MIX AND APPLICATION RATES SHALL BE AS SPECIFIED IN MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION SEED MIXTURE 25A. THIS MN/DOT SEED MIX IS SPECIFIED IN METRIC UNITS, AND
IS TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH UNITS BELOW.
4. SPECIES MARKED BY AN ASTERISK (*) ARE NATIVE LEGUMES AND SHALL BE PRE-INOCULATED WITH
THE PROPER BACTERIAL CULTURE.
5. SUBSTITUTIONS OF SIMILAR SPECIES OR MIXES MAY BE ALLOWED BUT MUST BE APPROVED BY THE
PROJECT ENGINEER OR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST.
RATE TABLE
COMMON NAME
Grasses
Slender wheat-grass
Big bluestem
Fringed brome
Blue-joint grass
Canada wild-rye
Switchgrass
Indian grass
Prairie cord grass
Wildflowers
Canada anemone
New England aster
Showy tick-trefoil*
Joe-pye weed
Boneset
Bottle gentian
Blue gentian
Serrated sunflower
Common ox-eye
Blue flag iris
Meadow blazingstar
Tall blazingstar
Great-blue lobelia
Wild bergamot
Purple prairie clover*
Black-eyed Susan
Tall meadowrue
Blue vervain
Ironweed
Culver's root
Nurse Crop
Oats
Annual rye-grass
BOTANICAL NAME
APPLICATION RATE
Pounds Pure Live Seed/Acre
--
1.3
4.0
1.0
1.0
1.3
2.2
4.0
1.0
Ounces Bulk Seed/Acre
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
1.0
Pounds Bulk Seed/Acre
--
23.0
5.0
Agropyron trachycaulum
Andropogon gerardi
Bromus ciliata
Calamagrostis canadensis
Elymus canadensis
Panicum virgatum
Sorghastrum nutans
Spartina pectinata
Anemone canadensis
Aster novae-angliae
Desmodium canadense
Eupatorium maculatum
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Gentiana andrewsii
Gentiana spp.
Helianthus spp.
Heliopsis helianthoides
Iris virginica-shrevei
Liatris ligulistylis
Liatris pycnostachya
Lobelia siphi/itica
Monarda fistulosa
Petalostemum purpureum
Rudbeckia hirta
Thalictrum dasycarpum
Verbena hastata
Vernonia fasciculata
Veronicastrum virginianum
A vena sativa
Lolium italicum
Prepared by:
Westwood Professional Services, Inc. July 10, 1998
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