Demystifying Natives

The what, when, where and why of the world of natives

Corrine Daniels, AES• Nursery Director, AES

• B.S., Ecology UW-Platteville

• Over 17 years of professional Nursery and Ecological Restoration experience

• Member, AES Board of Directors

• WCIA Natives Committee Chair

• Member, School of Agriculture Advisory Council, UW-Platteville

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shrubs

• Native green roofs

• Specific genetic provision

• Propagation of locally-sourced seed and plants

• Custom grow / Contract grow

• Experimental propagation

• Nursery consulting

• Plant rescues

• Nursery design/build

5 Nursery locations – dedicated to local genotype

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Session Outline

What is “Native”?

What Makes Natives Different?

Local Genetics:

Why We Talk About It So Much

Local Genotype: How Local is Local?

Going Native Succeeds When . . .

The Basics

The Basics con’t

The Lingo

Those Pesky Botanical NamesBotanical Name alias Common Name

Pulsatilla patens Anemone patens wolfgangiana Pasque flower

Symphyotrichum oolentangiense Aster azureus Sky blue aster

Eurybia macrophylla Aster macrophyllus Big-leaved aster

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae Aster novae-angliae New England aster

Doellingeria umbellata Aster umbellatus Flat-top aster

Senna hebecarpa Cassis hebecarpa Wild senna

Eupatoriadelphus maculatus Eupatorium maculatum Spotted joe-pye weed

Brickellia eupatorioides Kuhnia eupatorioides False boneset

Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani Scirpus validus creber Softstem bulrush

Oligoneuron rigidum Solidago rigida Stiff goldenrod

Hesperostipa spartea Stipa spartea Porcupine grass

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Which is Better, Seed or Plants?

Plants – The Need to Knows

Are These Plants Any Good?

Are These Plants Any Good?

Seed – The Need to Knows

PLS and Proper Storage

Photo: Kenneth Sytsma

Photo AES staff (CD)

Is This Seed Any Good?

Is This Seed Any Good?

Is This Seed Any Good?

Seed Size and Seeding Rates

Is this Spec Any Good?

We’d Love to Help, If We Could

Know what is commercially

available

Know what is appropriate in

your area

Can This be Built?

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Build a Better Project

Sample Seed and Plant Lists

Mesic Prairie

Wet Prairie

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Getting Your Stuff

Getting Your Stuff

Be Ready to Receive the Shipment

Which Species?

Species Selection

Grasses and Grass-like Species

Side oats gramaBouteloua curtipendula

Indian grass Sorghastrum nutans

Little blue stemAndropogon scoparia

Big blue stem Andropogon gerardii

Dark green rush Scirpus atrovirens

Prairie cord grass Spartina pectinata

Photo: Kenneth SytsmaAES Staff

Gray’s sedge; Carex Grayii

Blooms: June-September

Height: 1’-4’

Habitat: wet woods, wet-

mesic prairie, marshes

Perennial

Family: Cyperaceae

Forbs, Flowering Species

Nodding wild onion Allium cernuum

Photo AES staff (CD)

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Thimbleweed Anemone cylindrica

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Pasque flower Anemone patens

Jack-in-the-pulpit Arisaema

atrorubens

Photo: AES (SF)

Photo AES staff (CD)

Butterfly milkweed , Asclepias tuberosa

Common milkweed Asclepias syriaca

Photo UW Herbarium (EP)

Photo AES staff (CD)

Photo Linda Davis

Smooth blue aster Aster laevis, a.k.a,

Symphyotrichum oolentangiensis

New England Aster, Aster novae-angliae, a.k.a., Symphyotrichum

novae-angliae

Marsh marigold Caltha palustris

Wild hyacinth Camassia scilliodes

Dutchman’s breeches Dicentra cucullaria

Photo AES staff (CD)

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Pale purple coneflowerEchinacea pallida

Rattlesnake master Eryngium yuccifolium

Prairie smoke Geum triflorum

Great St. John’s wortHypericum pyramidatum

Southern blue flag irisIris virginica-shrevei

Photo: Kenneth Sytsma

Photo AES staff (CD)

Prairie blazing star Liatris pycnostachya

Michigan-lily Lilium michiganense

Photo: Kenneth Sytsma

Photo AES staff (CD)

Cardinal flower Lobelia cardinalis

Great blue lobelia Lobelia siphilitica

Wild lupine Lupinus perennis

Wild bergamot Monarda fistulosa

Beard tongue Penstemon digitalis

Marsh phlox Phlox glabberima

Yellow coneflower Ratibida Pinnata

Brown-eyed Susan Rudbeckia triloba

Compass plant Silphium laciniatum

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Showy goldenrod Solidago speciosa

Spiderwort Tradescantia ohiensis

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Photo AES staff (CD)

Culver’s root Veronicastrum virginicum

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