Bismarck Plant Materials Center

Bismarck, North Dakota

Established 1954

Over the past 50 years, the Bismarck Plant Materials Center in Bismarck, North Dakota has provided plant solutions for the diverse landscapes in North Dakota, South Dakota and northern Minnesota. The Center offers technical assistance for native landscaping, windbreaks, revegetating saline-alkaline soils, improving productivity of range and pasture lands, enhancing wildlife habitat and wetlands, and enhancing native prairie ecosystems. The Center has released over 40 improved conservation plants including varieties of blue grama, buffalograss, western wheatgrass, purple prairie clover, narrow-leaved coneflower, stiff sunflower, silver buffaloberry, black chokeberry, hybrid plum, and intermediate pubescent wheatgrass. 

Special Features

• Grasses for the Northern Plains, Growth Patterns, Forage Characteristics, and Wildlife Values
  • Volume I - Cool-season
  • Volume II - Warm-season

If you encounter any problems with the files provided on this page, please contact Leslie Glass at 701-250-4330.

These documents require Acrobat Reader

2009 Progress Report of Activities (PDF; 2.57) Jan 2010
Announcing the Release of Prairie Harvest Germplasm Hackberry (PDF; 202 KB) Jan 2010
Plant Chat, Volume 10, Issue 1 (PDF; 801 KB) Winter 2010
Plant Chat, Volume 9, Issue 4 (PDF; 1.5 MB) Fall 2009
Publications Available from the Bismarck PMC (PDF; 20 KB) Dec 2009
FOTG List of Plant Materials References (PDF; 36 KB) Jan 2010
ECS-9 - Planting Plan for Field, Special, and Increase Plantings (PDF; 28 KB)

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Additional Information

• Seed Price Lists and Vendor Lists - Updated Jan 2010
• The PLANTS Database
• Electronic Field Office Technical Guide (eFOTG)
  • FOTG - North Dakota
  • FOTG - Minnesota
  • FOTG - South Dakota

Contact

3308 University Dr.
Bismarck, ND 58504-7564

Telephone: 701.250.4330
FAX: 701.250.4334
Email: wayne.duckwitz@nd.usda.gov