NATIVE WINNERS

FROM A GROWERS PERSPECTIVE

Robby Henes13260 Rd. 29Dolores, CO 81323970-565-8722

WINNERS !

LOCAL

ECOTYPES

BUDGET CONSTRAINTS

WINNER BY WHO’S DEFINITION?????

• First hand experience with Native Winners and Losers.

• Growers perspective on realistic outcomes and potentials for Native Winners

OBJECTIVES

FREQUENTLY WHAT IS LACKING INCLUDES:

• Practical information that will help us with a grow out. Many species don’t follow the ‘standard’ plant – water- grow formula.

• Seed that is viable.

• Seed that has good characteristics for commercial production

• Flexibility and willpower to experiment long enough to succeed.

NATIVE WINNERS

NATIVE LOSERS

SECRETS• Breaking dormancy• Life Cycles• Sex appeal to Insects• Optimal planting spacing

How to make us LOVE you!

• Plant Height – TALL is good!

• Indeterminate - Indeterminate is bad!

• Seed Size and Weight – Bigger is better!

• Overall plant vigor

• Pod Producers tend to be great.

Don’t Send us

Parachuters!

LEGEND

It’s a bit ‘hairy’ but we think we have a winner.

No doubt about it. SCORE! We win!

We are underwater here and don’t know what we have.

We wore ourselves out trying and still don’t know the secret.

NIMF – Not In My Field!

EXPERIMENTS WE HAVE TRIED FOR SOMEONE

Current decisions

Woolly Plantain Has possibility - Perhaps needed heat

Plantago patagonica to break dormancy.

Shaggy Fleabane

Erigeron pumilus

Purple Threeawn Has more problems than solutions

Aristida purpurea

Desert/CoyoteTobacco Has decent potential

Nicotiana attenuata

Western Meadow Aster Very slight harvest - prognosis poor

Symphotricium campestre

White Sagebrush

Artemisia ludoviciana

Horsetail Milkweed NIMFAsclepias subverticillata

Spreading Fleabane

Erigeron divergens

Yellow Owls Clover

Orthocarpus lutens

Six Weeks FescueHas possibility - Perhaps needed heat

Vulpia octoflora tenella to break dormancy.

30% success after three years

NEW MEXICO THISTLEHas Potential

Cirsium neomexicanum

TANSY ASTER JONES PEPPERWEED

Lepidium montanum spp jonesii

WOOLY PLAINTAIN

Plantago patagonica

LOBELEAF GROUNDSEL

Packera multilobata

TOWNSEND DAISY

townsendia

FALL 2012 PLANTING SPECIES LIST 8 NEW SPECIES

WEDGELEAF DRABADraba cuneifolia

SIX WEEK FESCUEVulpia octoflora tenella

LACY TANSY ASTERMachaeranthera pinnatifida

GREY’S BISCUITROOTLomatium grayi

LAMB TONGUE RAGWORTSenecio integerrimus

HANDSOME PENSTEMONPenstemon lentus

KING’S LUPINELupinus kingii

FENDLER’S SANDWORTArenaria fendlerii

Other HistorySALINA WILDRYE

Leymus salinus

BLUE PENSTEMON

Penstamen cyanus

NODDING BROME

Bromus anomalus

HOOKERS BALSAMROOT

Balsamorhiza hookerii

WILD FOUR O'CLOCK

Mirabulis multiflora

SEARLES PRAIRIE CLOVER

Dalea Searlsiae

BASALT MILKVETCH

Astragulus filipes

MOUNTAIN MUHLY

Muhlenbergia montana

SALADO ALKALI SACATON

Sporobolus airoides

AMERICAN VETCH

Vicia americana

BULBOUS SPRING PARSLEY

Cymopterus bulbosus

SPIKE DROPSEED

Sporobolus contractus

THURBER FESCUEFestuca Thurberi

THURBER NEEDLEGRASSAchnatherum thurberianum

MUTTONGRASSPoa Fendeleriana

BLM BOTTLEBRUSH SQUIRRELTAILElymus elymoides

BLM WESTERN WHEATGRASSAgropyron smithii

WHITE RIVER SLENDER WHEATGRASSAgropyron trachycaulum

WHITE RIVER MOUNTAIN BROMEBromus montanus