Description
| GRASSES | 32% (7.387 PLS/ft2) |
| Blue Grama, Bad River | Prairie Junegrass |
| Indiangrass, NEB 54 | Sideoats Grama, Butte |
| Little Bluestem, Camper | |
| WILDFLOWERS | 68% (15.718 PLS/ft2) |
| Alfalfa | Hoary Vervain |
| Arkansas Rose | Illinois Bundleflower |
| Aromatic Aster | Lemon Mint |
| Baldwin’s Ironweed | Maximillian Sunflower |
| Blackeyed Susan | Partridge Pea |
| Blanketflower (Indian Blanket) | Purple Coneflower |
| Canada Goldenrod | Purple Prairieclover |
| Canada Milkvetch | Red Clover |
| Clasping Coneflower | Rocky Mountain Bee Plant |
| Common Evening Primrose | Rough Gayfeather |
| Common Milkweed | Roundhead Lespedeza |
| Cudweed Sagewort | Shell-leaf Penstemon |
| Dotted Gayfeather | Stiff Goldenrod |
| Engelmann’s Daisy | Stiff Sunflower |
| False or Oxeye Sunflower | Upright Coneflower |
| Fringed Sagewort | Western Yarrow |
| Grayhead Coneflower | White Prairieclover |
| Heath Aster | Wild Bergamot |
| TOTAL: | 21.368 PLS/ft2 |
Wildlife Cover Requirements
Cover is critical because pheasants and quail depend on a variety of cover types (nesting, brood-rearing, winter) for population growth and survival. Ideally, a mix of warm-season bunchgrasses (e.g., big bluestem, little bluestem), forbs (broadleaf plants), and legumes (clover, alfalfa) provide nesting and brood-rearing cover. Landowners seeking to maintain or increase pheasant and quail populations should ensure that all of the essential habitat needs (food, cover, water, space) are available and easily-accessible in close proximity. To improve brood-rearing habitat, use management strategies that disturb the soil, and increase vegetative diversity, set back plant succession.
The Habitat Organization
Pheasants Forever’s mission is to conserve pheasants, quail, and other wildlife through habitat improvements, public access, education, and conservation advocacy.
