PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jefferson, Paul G
AU  - McCaughey, W Paul
AU  - May, Ken
AU  - Woosaree, Jay
AU  - MacFarlane, Linden
AU  - Wright, Scott MB
TI  - <em>Performance of American Native Grass Cultivars</em> in the Canadian Prairie Provinces
AID  - 10.3368/npj.3.1.24
DP  - 2002 Mar 20
TA  - Native Plants Journal
PG  - 24--33
VI  - 3
IP  - 1
4099  - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/3/1/24.short
4100  - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/3/1/24.full
SO  - NATIVE PLANTS JOURNAL2002 Mar 20; 3
AB  - The cultivation of native grass cultivars developed for Montana and North Dakota has been proposed in the prairie region of western Canada. Cultivars of 6 warm-season and 4 cool-season grass species that had been selected for North Dakota or Montana were evaluated at a range of sites in western Canada for stand establishment, persistence, aboveground biomass, seed yield, and competitive ability. Warm-season grass cultivars were not adapted to sites above 51 °N latitude. At locations below this latitude, cool-season grasses produced more biomass than warm-season grasses. The occurrence of these warm-season grasses in native rangeland of this region is frequent but often restricted by landscape position or soil texture. Thus, they will likely have a minor role in revegetation seedings. Mammoth wildrye exhibited the highest biomass production on the highest productivity sites. All native cool-season grass cultivars evaluated were adapted to the prairie region of western Canada.