Annual Seed Harvest

SATURDAY October 20, 2018
9am-noon

     Harvest location: Meet at the big red barn
Little Rivers Wetland Project’s, Eagle Marsh

ADDRESS: 6300 Engle Road   Fort Wayne, IN 46804
RAIN OR SHINE

9am-noon     October 20, 2018     RAIN OR SHINE     6300 Engle Rd. Fort Wayne, IN 46804

We will plant the collected seed on local riverbanks to reduce erosion and protect the diversity and strength of native plant species.

Look for us around the prairie!  LOOK AT THE MAP ABOVE

  • A light snack and water refill for your reusable water bottles will be provided for volunteers
  • BRING CLIPPERS/sheers/scissors etc. for cutting!  NO RIPPING OUT ROOTS!
  • Wear long pants and durable shoes or boots (NO SANDALS) and appropriate seasonal clothing
  • Bring all friends, family and children!

This nature preserve once again opened-up its “home” to Save Maumee Volunteers.  We identified plants that are native to our riverbanks and THANK YOU FOR PLUCKING the seeds for plantings on our riverbanks….Remember, to only pick the ones we tell you to and LEAVE THE ROOT BASE! For example, we don’t want that pretty purple flower (Purple Loose-Strife, Japanese Honeysuckle, Ribbon Grass, ect.) to invade our area!

Learn the native plants and come pick them so we can plant them on the riverbanks! People are NOT allowed to take trees, plants, seeds or anything out of these areas, so Save Maumee is extremely gracious to Eagle Marsh for opening their home and giving us the opportunity to pluck the next generation of riverbank plants from these fields and plant them on the streams! We hope they will be preserved forever! Wild wonderful areas are becoming more and more scarce! Nature Preserves, State/County/City Parks and National Forests are there to protect and preserve land…”forever”.

A very informal, yet informational and helpful event! Currently Save Maumee is paying over $650 for one acre’s worth of seed! Help out your rivers…pick a few pounds!

Save Maumee has an approved DNR planting list for Indiana that we are very strict at enforcing. None of us want invasive plants to take root, and take over, but our rivers need foliage!  Remember, MOST of the forested corridor in Indiana have been removed….which is just one of our water’s natural filtration device.  Up to 80% of a streams water quality is inherited at the headwaters!

We will plant collected / dried seed on Save Maumee’s Annual Earth Day in April.

What kind of plants will we be plucking? ~ Whatever that is harvestible (NOT GREEN) on this list: Don’t worry….we will show you what is what!

IMPORTANT TO KEEP SEEDS SEPARATED FOR OUR RECORD KEEPING!  WE WILL HELP YOU LABEL!

Pictures from Seed Harvest 2015  or 2009

CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT WE PLANT AND WHY!

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10th Annual Seed Harvest ~ October 7, 2017

  • CUP PLANT (Silphium perfoliatum)
  • Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
  • BLACK EYED SUSAN (Rudbeckia hirta)
  • Joe-Pye-Weed (Eutrochium maculatum)
  • ROSINWEED (Silphium Integrifolium)
  • Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum)
  • BEE BALM (Monarda fistlosa)
  • Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)
  • SAWTOOTH SUNFLOWER (Helianthus grosseserratus)
  • Fox Glove Beardstongue (Penstemon digitalis)
  • SMARTWEED (Polygonum spp.)
  • Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardil)
  • Little Blue Stem
  • Turkey Foot Grass – (Tripsacum dactyloides)
  • Indian Grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
  • CANADA WILD RYE (Elymus canadensis)
  • Yellow Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
  • Grey Coneflower
  • Water Plantain (Alisma subcordatum)
  • Blue Joint Grass (canadensis
  • False Sunflower
  • False Boneset (brickellia eupatorioides)
  • White Snakeroot (Ageratina altissima)
  • New England Aster
  • Smooth Aster
  • Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus)
  • Verbina hastata
  • Anise (Pinpinella anisum)
  • Monarda/Bergamot
  • Button Bush
  • Common Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)
  • Wild Senna (Cassia hebecarpa)
  • Prairie Dock
  • Echinaecia
  • Summac
  • Brickles Sedge
  • Wool Grass (Scripus cyperinus)
  • Asa’s Gray Sedge (Carex grayi)
  • Meadow Sedge (Carex granularis)
  • Crested Sedge (Carex cristatella)
  • Yarrow
    • We also collected from Plant Happiness ~ Nodding Pink Onion (Allium cernuum), Rattlesnake Master, New England Aster, Monkey Flower,

     

CLICK TO SEE OUR PROGRESS FROM OUR 2015 HARVEST!

What did we collect for SMGO Seed Harvest 2014?

 

  • CUP PLANT (Silphium perfoliatum)
  • Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
  • BLACK EYED SUSAN (Rudbeckia hirta)
  • Joe-Pye-Weed (Eutrochium maculatum)
  • ROSINWEED (Silphium Integrifolium)
  • Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum)
  • BEE BALM (Monarda fistlosa)
  • Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)
  • SAWTOOTH SUNFLOWER (Helianthus grosseserratus)
  • Fox Glove Beardstongue (Penstemon digitalis)
  • SMARTWEED (Polygonum spp.)
  • Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardil)
  • Little Blue Stem
  • Turkey Foot Grass – (Tripsacum dactyloides)
  • Indian Grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
  • CANADA WILD RYE (Elymus canadensis)
  • Yellow Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
  • False Boneset (brickellia eupatorioides)
  • Verbina hastata
  • Anise (Pinpinella anisum)
  • Monarda/Bergamot
  • Marsh Mallow was also collected from our Canoe Clean-Up in September 2014
Collecting seeds on the prairie & in the wetlands!

Collecting seeds on the prairie & in the wetlands!

Value of purchasing seeds:

Scientific
Name
Common
Name
Price per
ounce
Price per 
pound
Price per
plant
Acorus calamus Sweet Flag $18.00 $288.00 $1.75
Alisma subcordatum Water Plantain $10.00 $150.00 $1.55
Allium cernuum Nodding Pink Onion $22.00 $352.00 $1.35
Amorpha canescens Lead Plant $30.00 $480 $2.20
Andropogon gerardii Big Bluestem $2.00 $16.00 $1.15
Anemone cylindrica Thimbleweed $80.00 $1,280.00 N/A
Angelica atropurpurea Purple-stem Angelica $15.00 $240.00 N/A
Aquilegia canadensis Wild Columbine $65.00 $1,040.00 $1.75
Asclepias incarnata Marsh Milkweed $21.00 $310.00 $1.15
Asclepias syriaca Common Milkweed $10.00 $150.00 $1.30
Asclepias tuberosa Butterfly Milkweed $50.00 $800.00 $1.75
Asclepias verticillata Whorled Milkweed $60.00 $960.00 $1.50
Aster ericoides White Heath Aster $100.00 $1,600.00 $1.50
Aster firmus Shining Aster $38.00 $608.00 $1.55
Aster laevis Smooth Blue Aster $25.00 $400.00 $1.25
Aster macrophyllus Big-leaved Aster $75.00 $1,200.00 N/A
Aster novae-angliae New England Aster $30.00 480.00 $1.15
Aster puniceus Swamp Aster $40.00 $640.00 $1.55
Aster umbellatus Flat-Top White Aster $36.00 $540.00 $1.55
Baptisia leucantha White Wild Indigo $30 $450.00 $1.65
Bidens cernua Nodding Bur Marigold $13.00 $190.00 N/A
Bidens frondosa Devil’s Beggar’s Ticks $31.00 $496.00 N/A
Bouteloua curtipendula Side Oats Grama $2.00 $24.00 $1.25
Brickellia eupatorioides False Boneset $23.00 $368.00 N/A
Bromus pubescens Woodland Brome $22.00 $352.00 $1.55
Calamagrostis canadensis Blue Joint Grass $50.00 $800.00 $1.15
Carex annectans Yellow Fruit Sedge N/A N/A $1.45
Carex bicknellii Bicknell’s Sedge $25.00 385.00 $1.55
Carex comosa Bearded Sedge $15.00 225.00 $1.15
Carex crinita Fringed Sedge $25.00 $400.00 $1.55
Carex cristatella Crested Sedge $35.00 $560.00 $1.15
Carex crus-corvi Raven-foot Sedge $50.00 $800.00 N/A
Carex emoryi Riverbank Sedge N/A N/A $1.55
Carex frankii Frank’s Sedge $13.00 $195.00 $1.15

 

FULL LIST OF PLANTS/VALUE via Heartland Restoration/Earth Source