Native Grasses Four monocultures and two mixtures of little bluestem, sideoats grama, Kalm's brome, and Canada wildrye were planted at 10 seeding dates for two years to determine the effect of seeding date on establishment.
Results vary between species and year.
Climatic conditions, soil type and weed seedbank all appear to be important factors in establishment. This work will be published in 1999. Minnesota Little Bluestem Evaluation A collection of Schizachyrium scoparium, little bluestem, has been developed from 30 sources within Minnesota to begin a long term selection and evaluation program for stress tolerance and ornamental traits. Little bluestem is one of the predominant grasses of the tall and mixed grass prairie and has several attractive landscape characteristics, however, no work has been done to select for ornamental traits in this species. Little bluestem has been obtained from existing native stands, nurseries, seed production fields and from named seed collections.