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Tall 4.4.2-5 Snowmass Coal - Seed Mixture Number 19Mancos Shale Badlands and Extreme Harsh Sites. <br />Variety <br />Common Name <br />Scientific Name <br />Origin <br />Habit <br />Rate <br />sand dropseed <br />Sporobolus cryptandrus <br />N <br />bunchgrass <br />0.5 <br />Paloma <br />Indian ricegrass <br />Oryzopsis hymenoides <br />N <br />bunchgrass <br />2.0 <br />alkali sacaton <br />Sporobolus airoides <br />N <br />bunchgrass <br />1.0 <br />weeping lovegrass <br />Erogrostis curvula <br />N <br />bunchgrass <br />1.0 <br />Cert. Vinall <br />Russian Wildrye <br />Elymus junceus <br />E <br />bunchgrass <br />1.0 <br />Fairway <br />crested wheatgrass <br />Agropyron cristatum <br />E <br />bunchgrass <br />2.0 <br />3 <br />shadscale <br />Atriplex confertifilia <br />N <br />shrub <br />1.0 <br />3 <br />mat saltbush <br />Atriplex corrugata <br />N <br />shrub <br />1.0 <br />Lutana <br />cicer milkvetch <br />Astragalus cicer <br />E <br />N -fixing <br />1.0 <br />biennial forb <br />10.54 lbs/acre <br />Shrubs or trees recommended for hand -plantings in association with this mixture include gambel oak, <br />ponderosa pine, Russian olive, and single leaf ash. Galleta may be added to this mixture when it <br />becomes available commercially. Also, nearby stands of rabbitbrush are prodigious seed producers. <br />This could be an excellent species for these areas, either as seed included with the above mixture <br />or as seedlings for hand planting. Sunflower and mallow are forbs which may do well in this seed <br />mixture. Phosphate fertilizer banded in the root zone around shrub seedlings will be important <br />on these highly caicareous sites. <br />1 N = native, E = exotic <br />2 pure live seed basis <br />3 regionally collected seed <br />4 x2 for hydroseeding or broadcasting <br />