Native Grasses Blend Selection Guide | Urban , Bio-Swale

California Native Sod Selection Guide

California Native Bentgrass

All blends, once established, will require approximately
50% less water usage
compared to traditional sod varieties

For Urban Landscape Areas

Cultivated to become the first native lawns available that can withstand mowing.
Suggested mowing height ranges from 2 to 6 inches.

Native Bentgrass™
Agrostis pallens

Dune bentgrass is a slower growing robust plant with medium blades
Establishes well on most soil types
Grows in full sun and filtered sunlight
Aggressive creeping growth habits which result in a dense sod

Native Mow-Free™
Molate blue fescue - Festuca rubra
Idaho fescue - Festuca idahoensis, Native
Western Mokelumne fescue - Festuca occidentalis

A combination of our blue bunch fine-leaved creeping grasses
Performs well on many soil types and areas such as hillsides, meadows and slopes
Excellent shade tolerance
Suitable for most bio-swale conditions

Delta Grasslands Mix™

Molate red fescue - Festuca rubra
Junegrass - Koeleria macrantha

Slender Hairgrass - Deschampsia elongata

Blades are light and dark green, and vary from fine to slightly broader bladed
Prefers moist soils and in a maintained setting will desire limited irrigation
Prefers to grow in partial shade, tolerates full sun
With limited irrigation sod can maintain a green summer appearance

For Bio-Swale Area

For bio-swales, roadsides, medians, irrigation canals,
erosion control and envrionmental mitigation areas.

Biofiltration Sod™
   Molate red fescue - Festuca rubra
   California barley - Hordeum brachyantherum californicum
   Purple needlegrass - Nassella pulchra (California’s State   Grass)
   California brome - Bromus carinatus

A combination of upright wide-bladed California barley and brome grass, with smooth and finely-textured fescue and needlegrass
Withstands a number of soil conditions-droughty, moist, sandy and clay
Tolerates partial shade, extreme heat and drought conditions

Delta Native Heartland Sod™
   Purple needlegrass - Nassella pulchra (California’s State   Grass)
   Three weeks fescue - Vulpia microstachys
   Molate red fescue - Festuca rubra
   Nodding needlegrass - Nassella cernua
   California barley - Hordeum brachyantherum californicum

Five very attractive, low-growing, densely- tufted, California native • grasses

Grows in many soil types

Tolerates partial shade, extreme heat and drought conditions

Native Preservation Mix™
   Nodding needlegrass - Nassella cernua
   Purple needlegrass - Nassella pulchra (California’s State   Grass)
Junegrass - Koeleria macrantha
   Molate red fescue - Festuca rubra

Three bunch-type grasses with a small percentage of creeping fine fescue
Plants are hearty with leaf blades ranging from very fine to medium
Likes disturbed, droughty, not-well-prepped, heavy incline sites and tolerates poor soils

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