WHICH SPECIES WILL BE COLLECTED? Common Name
Scientific Name
Cibalo Prairies
MD Anderson
on Buffalo Bayou Prairie
CP Seed Increase
Volunteer Grow
Program
Out Efforts
GRASSES Brown-seed Paspalum
Paspalum plicatulum
✓
✓
✓
Yellow Indiangrass
Sorghastrum nutans
✓+
✓
✓
Big Bluestem
Andropogon gerardii
✓+
✓
✓
Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
✓+
✓
✓
Seacoast Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
✓
✓
var. littorale Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
✓
✓
✓
Florida Paspalum
Paspalum floridanum
✓
✓
✓
Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
✓
✓
✓
✓
Red Lovegrass
Eragrostis secundiflora
✓
✓+
✓
✓
Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
✓
✓
✓
Knot-root Bristlegrass
Setaria geniculata
✓
✓
✓
✓
Virginia Wildrye
Elymus virginicus
✓
✓
✓
✓
Silver Bluestem
Bothriochloa
✓
✓
saccharoides Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum
✓
✓
✓
Winter Bentgrass
Agrostis hyemalis
✓
✓
✓
Texas Coneflower
Rudbeckia texana
✓
✓+
✓
Illinois Bundleflower
Desmanthus illinoensis
✓
✓
✓
White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
✓
✓
✓
✓
Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus maximilianii
✓
✓+
✓
✓
Swamp Sunflower
Helianthus angustifolius
✓+
✓
✓
✓
✓
WILDFLOWERS
Roundhead Prairie Clover Dalea multiflora Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria
✓
✓
✓
Horsemint spp.
Monarda punctata,
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓+
✓
citrodora, and fistulosa Liatris spp.
Liatris pychnostayca and acidota
American Basketflower
Centaurea americana
✓?
✓
✓
Prairie Agalis
Agalinis heterophylla
✓
✓
✓
Rough Coneflower
Rudbeckia grandiflora
✓
✓
✓
Rosinweed
Silphium spp.
✓
✓
✓
Green Millkweed
Ascelpias viridis
✓
✓+
✓
Rattlesnake Master
Eryngium yuccifolium
✓
✓+
✓
Prairie Parsley
Polytaenia nuttallii
✓
✓
✓
Seaside Goldenrod
Solidago sempervirens
✓
✓+
✓
✓+ = Likely to be added by M.D. Anderson ground crews after initial August 2012 hydroseeding
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