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Overview of results 1997: The Prairie Moon seed mixes included annual ryegrass and a sterile wheat cultivar as nurse crops. These established quickly so that the plots seeded with these mixtures looked cleaner than those with the Lofts Seed mixes in the first year. Apart from the nurse crops and some annual species such as Chamaecrista fasciculata and Rudbeckia hirta, it was difficult to find species represented in the seed mixes. Annual weeds such as Chenopodium album and Setaria viridis were conspicuous and periodic mowing was used to minimize their competition with the slower growing species in the seed mixes. 1998: More species from the seed mixes were identified on the 315 Site than in corresponding plots on the Turf Science Site. Showy species such as Gaillardia pulchella, Coreopsis lanceolata and Hesperis matrionalis in the 'Songbird' mix and Rudbeckia spp in the Prairie Moon mixes were more conspicuous on the 315 Site than on the Turf Science site. At the end of the 1998 season it was apparent that other slower-growing species had not established on the 315 Site. 1999: Species that had not been observed in earlier years were found, particularly on the Turf Science site. A few species, notably Chamaecrista fasciculata and Astragalus canadensis, had disappeared from both sites. The number of species and the area that they occupied was generally higher on the Turf Science site than in corresponding plots on the 315 Site (Table 1). An exception was that Silphium spp were better represented on the 315 Site. However, most of the forb species in the mixes have not been observed so far. The species in 'Reclaim Native Grass' established on both sites and achieved good ground cover. The same species, Andropogon gerardii, Bouteloua curtipendula, Panicum virgatum, Sorghastrum nutans and Schizachyrium scoparium were included in one or more of the Prairie Moon mixes. However, they were absent or poorly established in areas seeded with these mixes, particularly on the 315 Site. The Prairie Moon short grass mixes were poorly established on one or other site.
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