Evaluation of short statured species for rapid establishment on Mississippi roadsides.

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• Creators:
  Stewart, Barry R. ; Bradford, T.J. 
• Corporate Creators:
  Mississippi State University. Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Roadside flora
  • Vegetation
  • Grasses
  • Ground cover
  • Soil stabilization
  • Landscape maintenance
  • Evaluation
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/MS-DOT-RD-14-234 ; PSS-MS-DOT-14-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Mississippi
• Corporate Publisher:
  Mississippi. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
   In an attempt to combat the issue of NPS pollution, EPA has started to enforce different  ; areas of the Clean Water Act of 1972 by requiring construction sites to have 70% vegetative cover in  ; 30 days.  The main goal of this research is to identify mixes of warm and cool‐season plants that  ; establish quickly.  A secondary objective is to identify those species that provide good quality and  ; dense cover that will require minimal maintenance while stabilizing disturbed soils.  One question that  ; must be answered is 30 days from planting or first significant rainfall.  Among warm season species  ; bermudagrass and bahiagrass were found to establish well but failed to reach 70% cover in 30 days.   ; Among cool season species turf type tall fescue was one perennial specie that established well but not  ; rapidly enough, its height remained less than 100 mm for much of the growing season and never  ; exceeded 100 cm.  Oil seed radish showed great promise as a year around nurse crop that established  ; quickly.  Sods of hybrid bermudagrass, zoysiagrass, and centipedegrass all provided instant cover that  ; has lasted more than 2 years
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SS-234
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27860/dot_27860_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.31 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3f934461b428227cd1212667053d343932f817b1f38ad2876964eaf7f34e63a3