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Stipa (occidentalis)

Carol and Jerry Baskin
Professors
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0225
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Family Scientific Name: Poaceae
Family Common Name: Grass family
Scientific Name: Stipa occidentalis Thurb.
Common Name: Western needlegrass
Species Code: STIOCC
General Distribution: S. occidentalis is found from the Yukon and British Columbia south to California, east to Saskatchewan and the Dakotas, south to Texas, New Mexico and northern Mexico.
Propagation Goal: plants
Propagation Method: seed
ProductType: Container (plug)
Time To Grow: 0
Propagule Processing: Seeds exhibit physiological dormancy.
Pre-Planting Treatments: Seeds are placed in cold moist stratification for 12 days.
Germination occurs at 20 C.
References: Kaye, T. N. (1997). Seed dormancy in high elevation plants: Implications for ecology and restoration. Pp. 115-120. T. N. Kaye, A. Liston, R. M. Love, D. L. Luoma, R. J. Meinke and M. V. Wilson (eds.). Conservation and management of native plants and fungi. Native Plant Society of Oregon. Corvallis.
Table 10.33 In: Baskin, C.J. and Baskin, J.M. Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography and Evolution in Dormancy and Germination, Academic Press, 1998. Chapter 10: A Geographical Perspective on Germination Ecology: Temperate and Arctic Zones, pages 331 to 458.

Citation:

Baskin, Jerry M.; Baskin, Carol C.. 2002. Propagation protocol for production of Container (plug) Stipa occidentalis Thurb. plants University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky. In: Native Plant Network. URL: https://NativePlantNetwork.org (accessed 2024/07/19). US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, National Center for Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetic Resources.