USDA Native Grasses and Forbs
To check for availability and to order seed, please contact Wayne Markegard at wayne.markegard@nd.usda.gov or call (701) 530-2075. Once ordered, a confirmation letter will be sent from the Plant Materials Center and billing will be sent from ND Foundation Seedstocks. Payment in full to ND Foundation Seedstocks must be received before seed shipment. If payment is not received within 30 days, the order will be cancelled. Prices are based on a Pure Live Seed (PLS) pound. Shipping charges (in the US) will be $1.00/PLS pound.
| RELEASES | CLASS | COMMON NAME |
| Native Warm-Season Grasses | ||
| Badlands ecotype | Select (G2) | little bluestem |
| Itasca germplasm | Select (G2) | little bluestem |
| Bad River ecotype | Select (G2) | blue grama |
| Bison | Foundation | big bluestem |
| Bonilla | Foundation | big bluestem |
| Bounty germplasm | Select (Gl) | big bluestem |
| Dacotah | Foundation | switchgrass |
| Forestburg | Foundation | switchgrass |
| Pierre | Foundation | sideoats grama |
| Red River germplasm | Select (Gl) | prairie cordgrass |
| Tomahawk | Foundation | indiangrass |
| Native Cool-Season Grasses | ||
| Lodorm | Foundation | green needlegrass |
| Mandan | Foundation | Canada wildrye |
| Rodan | Foundation | western wheatgrass |
| Introduced Grasses | ||
| Mankota | Foundation | Russian wildrye |
| Nordan | Foundation | crested wheatgrass |
| Manifest | Foundation | intermediate wheatgrass |
| Manska | Foundation | pubescent wheatgrass |
| Relfant | Foundation | Intermediate wheatgrass |
| Native Forbs/Legumes | ||
| Bismarck germplasm | Select | narrow-leaved purple coneflower |
| Bismarck germplasm | Select | purple prairie clover |
| Bismarck germplasm | Select | stiff sunflower |
| Medicine Creek germplasm | Select | Maximilian sunflower |
