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Gardening with Native Grasses in Cold Climates and a Guide to the Butterflies They Support (Narem and Meyer)

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    91462
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    Gardening with Native Grasses in Cold Climates, is written for inexperienced as well as seasoned gardeners, landscape designers, garden center employees, and anyone interested in native grasses that grow well in cold climates. New information on the benefits of native grasses including their importance as host plants for native Lepidoptera is included. Combinations of specific grasses used by larvae and perennials that the adult butterflies feed on is new and timely information.

    Thumbnail: Ice Crystals on grass (Unsplash License; Regine Tholen via Unsplash)


    This page titled Gardening with Native Grasses in Cold Climates and a Guide to the Butterflies They Support (Narem and Meyer) is shared under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Diane M. Narem and Mary Hockenberry Meyer (Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project) via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform; a detailed edit history is available upon request.