RESTORATION COLLECTION TARGET SPECIES

Last Update: 07/27/2010

The Restoration Collection Target Species list is the current focus of our collecting activity, centering primarily on tallgrass prairie habitat in the Midwestern states. The Dixon National Tallgrass Prairie Seed Bank collects and banks seed from multiple populations of these important restoration species across their geographic ranges. Specifically, we aim to bank seed from each ecoregion where a species occurs, conserving germplasm from representative habitats to maximize genetic diversity available for restoration and research.

Ecoregion collections map (click on image to view larger):

Omernik Ecoregions:

27. Central Great Plains	50. Northern Lakes and Forests
28. Flint Hills	51. North Central Hardwood Forests
39. Ozark Highlands	52. Driftless Area
40. Central Irregular Plains	53. Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains
42. Northwestern Glaciated Plains	54. Central Corn Belt Plains
43. Northwestern Great Plains	55. Eastern Corn Belt Plains
44. Nebraska Sand Hills	56. Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains
46. Northern Glaciated Plains	71. Interior Plateau
47. Western Corn Belt Plains	72. Interior River Valleys and Hills
48. Lake Agassiz Plain	73. Mississippi Alluvial Plain
49. Northern Minnesota Wetlands	74. Mississippi Valley Loess Plains

Download our new Restoration Collection Target Species list here.

Please see the downloadable PDF document for further information, ecoregion information, and whether or not a species has already been collected or assigned to a collector within a specific ecoregion. To sign up to collect a species within an ecoregion please email your request to the Seed Bank Coordinator at eyates@chicagobotanic.org

Download the Omernik Ecoregion Map to locate your ecoregion here.