Description
| GRASSES | 33% (7.322 PLS/ft2) |
| Canada Wildrye | Sand Lovegrass |
| Little Bluestem, Camper | Sideoats Grama, Butte |
| Prairie Junegrass | Western Wheatgrass, Barton |
| WILDFLOWERS | 67% (14.963 PLS/ft2) |
| Alfalfa, Grazer | Illinois Bundleflower |
| Arkansas Rose | Leadplant |
| Aromatic Aster | Maximillian Sunflower |
| Baldwin’s Ironweed | Partridge Pea |
| Blackeyed Susan | Prairie Spiderwort |
| Canada Goldenrod | Purple Prairieclover |
| Canada Milkvetch | Red Clover |
| Common Evening Primrose | Roundhead Lespedeza |
| Common Milkweed | Scarlet Globemallow |
| Cudweed Sagewort | Sensitive Briar |
| Dotted Gayfeather | Shell-leaf Penstemon |
| Entire-leaved Rosinweed | Stiff Goldenrod |
| False or Oxeye Sunflower | Stiff Sunflower |
| Four-Point Evening Primrose | Upright Coneflower |
| Fringed Sagewort | Western Yarrow |
| Heath Aster | White Prairieclover |
| Hoary Vervain | |
| TOTAL: | 22.285 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, increase vegetative diversity, and 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.
