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- Title
Native roadside perennial grasses persist a decade after planting in the Sacramento Valley.
- Authors
O'Dell, Ryan E.; Young, Stephen L.; Claassen, Victor P.
- Abstract
Restoring native grassland along roadsides can provide a relatively low-maintenance, drought-tolerant and stable perennial vegetative cover with reduced weed growth, as opposed to the high-maintenance invasive annual cover (requiring intensive mowing and herbicide treatments) that dominates most Sacramento Valley roadsides. A survey of long-established roadside native-grass plantings in Yolo County showed that once established and protected from disturbance, such plantings can persist with minimal maintenance for more than a decade, retaining a high proportion of native species. The survey also showed that each species of native perennial grass displays a microhabitat preference for particular roadside topographic positions, and that native perennial grass cover is negatively affected by disturbance.
- Subjects
SACRAMENTO Valley (Ariz.); WEEDS; ECOLOGICAL niche; GRASSLANDS; LANDSCAPE architecture
- Publication
California Agriculture, 2007, Vol 61, Issue 2, p79
- ISSN
0008-0845
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3733/ca.v061n02p79