Description
GRASSES | 33% (9.945 PLS/ft2) |
Blue Grama, Bad River | Prairie Junegrass |
Little Bluestem, Aldous | Sideoats Grama, Butte |
WILDFLOWERS | 67% (19.750 PLS/ft2) |
Alfalfa, VNS | Illinois Bundleflower |
Alsike Clover | New England Aster |
Aromatic Aster | Ohio Spiderwort |
Baldwin’s Ironweed | Partridge Pea |
Blackeyed Susan | Pitcher or Blue Sage |
Butterfly Milkweed | Prairie Aster |
Canada Milkvetch | Purple Coneflower |
Canada Tick-trefoil | Purple Prairieclover |
Clasping Coneflower | Rough Gayfeather |
Common Evening Primrose | Roundhead Lespedeza |
Common Milkweed | Shell-leaf Penstemon |
Crimson Clover | Showy-wand Goldenrod |
Cudweed Sagewort or Prairie Sage | Stiff Goldenrod |
Foxglove Beardstongue | Thickspike Gayfeather |
Golden Alexander | Upright Coneflower |
Grayhead Coneflower | Western Yarrow |
Heath Aster | White Prairieclover |
Hoary Vervain | |
TOTAL: 29.695 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.