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Gardening with Native Grasses in Cold Climates
Gardening with Native Grasses in Cold Climates, is written for inexperienced as well as seasoned gardeners, landscape designers, garden center employees, and anyone interested in native grasses that grow well in cold climates. New information on the benefits of native grasses including their importance as host plants for native Lepidoptera is included. Combinations of specific grasses used by larvae and perennials that the adult butterflies feed on is new and timely information.
- Author
- Diane M. Narem and Mary Hockenberry Meyer
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 36 sections
- 01: Introduction to Grasses
- 1.01: Parts of the Plant
- 1.02: Growth
- 1.03: Literature Cited
- 02: Benefits of Native Grasses
- 2.01: Soil Benefits
- 2.02: Lepidoptera Relationships
- 2.03: Predatory Insect Relationships
- 2.04: Nativars
- 2.05: Literature Cited
- 03: Common Native Grasses of the Northern Midwest
- 3.01: Big bluestem
- 3.02: Sideoats grama
- 3.03: Blue grama
- 3.04: Hairy grama
- 3.05: Lake sedge hairy sedge
- 3.06: Palm sedge
- 3.07: Pennsylvania sedge
- 3.08: Tussock sedge
- 3.09: Tufted hairgrass
- 3.10: Eastern bottlebrush grass
- 3.11: Junegrass
- 3.12: Switchgrass
- 3.13: Little bluestem
- 3.14: Indiangrass
- 3.15: Prairie cordgrass
- 3.16: Prairie dropseed
- 04: Planting Maintenance and Management
- 4.01: Planting
- 4.02: Maintenance
- 4.03: Management
- 4.04: Literature Cited
- 05: Grass Selection and Butterfly Pairings
- 5.01: How to Begin
- 5.02: Wildflower and Grass Pairings
- 5.03: Literature Cited