Re: Plant Succession

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• To: prairie@mallorn.com
• Subject: Re: Plant Succession
• From: "* C* <S*@1starnet.com>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jun 99 18:27:21 PDT
• References: Conversation <99Jun10.092809cdt.37414@firewall1.illinova.com> with last message <99Jun10.092809cdt.37414@firewall1.illinova.com>

How can you have a "Praririe" with no prairie grasses? What is your goal here? Do you want to restore a prairie or just have a field of wildflowers? I'm no expert here but I would think the indtroduction or re-introduction of native grasses would help to balance the whole thing out.

Sydney

> For example I have an area I planted 2 years ago in Forbs with no grasses.
> Now
> I have a field of Fleabane Daises mixed with some Black eyed Susans and
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic03596.pcx)that are flowering.  The Daises
> have
> grown taller than all the other plants.  I fear they will re-seed the area and
> I
> will have a Fleabane Daisy 'Prairie'.  Other species are present, most are a
> couple of inches tall , but get little direct sun.  I 'think' I want to
> eliminate the F Daisies.
> Could I get some comments on how succession works, time frames involved etc
> etc?
> Also if you are wanting to introduce species into an area being restored-
> seeded
> several years ago- are there any ways better than others to do this....
> Many thanks.....


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