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Page 4 <br />28 February 2012 <br />White Gross- Farm. Solar Array <br />DEN'R Project No. 12 -0200 <br />• Monitor the site until the perennial grass comportonfis Bally established. Matu estarlds of�tlte Basic <br />Mix are short- statured•and will not require tnovving. The seeded inix should persist for many years, <br />but will eventually yield to developing successional species. <br />• Native wildflowers and grasses can be added to the Basic Mix to beauti Cy aztd.diversifv the site; and <br />provide food and cover for wildlife such as deer, turkey, quail. and. songbirds. A list of natwe species <br />can be found at the bottom of this page, The easy, proven performers are listed at the top and -the <br />more challenging species.towards the bottom. <br />• Mixes with native seed can be culti- packed or tracked in with a bulldozer; hydro-see ding. is not <br />recommended. Mixes with mainly wildflowers can be sown in-early fall. . <br />• Note; when, adding native Panic'= grass seed, sow the mix in lair- f6a, winter, or Early spring to <br />subject the seed to cool; moist, soil conditions neccssi►ry'to break seed dormancy. Sowing during the <br />warmer months may delay•Panicum germination until the following, rear, and some seed may be lost <br />Ln the interim. <br />Far. information oneach native species listed here. visit littn:!itilttrits.uccta , r ovr; ly Ln tube scientific <br />Mine•iil'the• search box:- Note; addine narives will iocicaserfhe'height of the resdlting- stands, <br />providing good wildlife habitat. Frwucnt•tmbwing desu6vs food and •cover :na.d is not recotntn.enned. <br />Kow once.every.fewyears, in late = winter, otily if absoluielv-necessmy, to remove encroaching woody <br />veeetation. <br />!Native species for dry sites—add to-Basic Mix at 14 lbs / ae <br />Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirra) <br />Showy Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista [Cassia]favlcIIJara) <br />Lanced- leaved Corcopsis (Coreapsiv lancerolaia) <br />Switeligrass (Panicum virgatum `Blackwell') <br />Big.B luestem: (rindropogon.gerardii) <br />Purple Coneflower (F_•chinacea purpurea) <br />Deertongue (t7tcanihelium (Panicum] clandestinum'Tioga') <br />Native species for damprsites -- add to Basic Mix at I tbIae <br />Showy Bidens (,?litlens al ' lea) <br />BIack• Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hh-ra) <br />Showy Partrid ,c Pca. (Chamaecrista [Cassia] jaxiculasa) <br />'Pennsylvania Smanweed (Polygonzrnt pens)�lvae2icua7a) <br />Switchgrass (Panicuin virgatum 'Cave -in -Rock' or `lsanlow') <br />Smooth or Fall Panicgmss (Particunr eliehoroneiflorzrm) <br />Beaked Panicgrass (Prartieum anceps) <br />NC- WRO20.10 <br />42 <br />