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Bismarck Plant Materials Center

Bismarck, North Dakota

Bismarck Plant Materials CenterEstablished 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. 

 

 

 

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3308 University Dr.
Bismarck, ND 58504-7564

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