HIGH DESERT SEED MIXES


for Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico at elevation range 3,000' - 5,500'
8-12 inches precipitation and summer rain

High Desert Wildflowers
seeding rate: 8oz per 1,000 sq.ft.

11 % Cleome serrulata (Rocky Mt Bee Plant)
11 % Engelmannia peristenia (Engelmann Daisy)
11 % Eschscholzia californica (California Poppy)
11 % Gaillarida pulchella (Indian Blanket)
11 % Linum perenne lewisii (Blue Flax)
11 % Ratibida columnifera pulchra (Mexican Hat)
10 % Penstemon palmeri (Palmer Penstemon)
8 % Thelesperma filifolium (Greenthread)
5 % Machaeranthera tanacetifolia (Tansy Aster)
4 % Dalea candida (White Prairie Clover)
3 % Penstemon parryi (Parry's Beardtingue)
2 % Penstemon eatonii (Firecracker Penstemon)
1 % Coreopsis tinctoria (Plains Coreopsis)
1 % Penstemon speciosus (Showy Beardtongue)

High Desert Grasses
seeding rate: 2 lbs per 1,000 sq.ft. or 25 lbs per acre

37.5 % Achnatherum hymenoides (Indian Ricegrass)
25 % Bouteloua gracilis (Blue Grama)
15 % Poa secunda (Sandberg Bluegrass)
10 % Bouteloua curtipendula (Side Oats Grama)
5 % Sporobolus cryptandrus (Sand Dropseed)
2.5 % Elymus elymoides (Bottlebrush Squirreltail)
2.5 % Pleuraphis jamesii (Galleta)
2.5 % Sporobolus airoides (Alkali Sacaton)

High Desert Meadow Mix
(a blend of 70% High Desert grasses and 30% High Desert wildflowers)
seeding rate: 1 pound per 1,000 sq.ft.