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Golden Meadow Plant Materials Center

Golden Meadow Plant Materials Center established in 1989
Golden Meaddow Plant Materials Center Louisiana is losing about 25 square miles of coastal wetlands to erosion every year. The Golden Meadow Plant Materials Center provides plant solutions for the southern coastal zones of Louisiana and Mississippi. The Center has developed plants and new technology for the reestablishment and protection of coastal shorelines, dunes and marsh areas.
 
438 Airport Rd.
Galliano, LA 70354
Phone: 985.475.5280
Fax: 985.475.6545

 
Louisiana Parishes served by the Golden Meadow Plant Materials Center

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  • Arcadia
  • Ascension
  • Assumption
  • Calcasieu
  • Cameron
  • East Baton Rouge
  • Evangeline
  • Iberia
  • Iberville
  • Jefferson
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Lafayette
  • Lafourche
  • Livingston
  • Orleans
  • Plaquemines
  • Pointe Coupee
  • St Bernard
  • St Charles
  • St James
  • St John
  • St Landry
  • St Martin
  • St Mary
  • St Tammany
  • Tangipahoa
  • Terrebonne
  • Vermilion
  • West Baton Rouge
  • West Feliciana
 

Species Collection Guides

The following links are a list of 2007-2009 species description guides from the Golden Meadow Plant Materials Center. These documents require Adobe Acrobat.

  • Big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) (PDF; 108 KB)
  • Black needle rush (Juncus roemerianus)
  • Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides)
  • Eelgrass, tapegrass (Vallisneria americana)
  • Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans) (PDF; 930 KB)
  • Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) (PDF; 883 KB)
  • Partridge pea (Chaemaecrista fasciculata) (PDF; 519 KB)
  • Seashore dropseed (Sporobolus virginicus) (PDF; 152 KB)
  • Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) (PDF; 1.2 MB)

For more information on a particular plant species please visit the Plants Database.

If your parish is serviced by multiple plant materials centers please look at the other Center's page for more information about plant collections needed in your area.

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