Native seed collection

Organized by Scott Torrance Landscape Architect with the help of volunteers, seeds were collected from existing plants on the trail In October 2006. This native seed bank will be grown as plugs in a nursery and re-established on the site after completion of the trail. These plants, some rare, would have been destroyed during construction of the trail. Indigenous seed bank material maintains the unique gene pool of local plant material. Replanting and maintenance can be assisted by local community members, student and trail stakeholders.

 

Seed collected:

Overlooked dropseed

Prairie cordgrass

American bittersweet

Braken fern

Smooth rose

Spreading Dogbane

Choke Cherry

Virgin’s Bower

Common Evening-Primrose

Grass Leaved Goldenrod

Heavy Panic Grass

Grape-woodbine

Common Milkweed

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