Technical Resources

Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center

Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center established in 1960
	Over the past 40 years, the Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center near Coffeeville has worked closely with its customers to develop solutions for a broad range of conservation concerns and issues. Cropland erosion control, pastureland improvement, critical area erosion control, including urban conservation concerns, water quality improvement, and wildlife habitat enhancement are the major conservation issues in the service area, which includes the state of Mississippi (excluding the coastal counties), the delta regions of Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, and the Blackland Prairie of Alabama.
	2533 County Road 65 Coffeeville, MS 38922-2652 Phone: 662-675-2588 Fax: 662-675-2369

Louisiana Parishes served by the Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center
Click on map for larger view	Ascension Avoyelles Bossier Caddo Caldwell Catahoula Concordia De Soto East Baton Rouge East Carroll East Feliciana	Evangeline Franklin Grant La Salle Livingston Madison Morehouse Natchitoches Ouachita Pointe Coupee Rapides	Richland Red River St Helena St Landry St Tammany Tangipahoa Tensas West Carroll West Feliciana Winn

Species Collection Guides

List of the 2007-2009 species description guides from the Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center.

Beggar tick (Desmodium paniculatum)
Stiff ticktrefoil (Desmodium obtusum)
Slender lespedeza (Lespedeza virginica)
Delta duck potato (Sagittaria platyphylla)
Indian river oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)

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.

< Back to Louisiana Plant Materials