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Not your grandpa's cultivars: the new conservation releases
- Native Plants Journal
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2005
- pp. 49-51
- 10.1353/npj.2005.0025
- Article
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Three new types of conservation plant releases are now available from USDA Plant Materials Centers as less thoroughly tested but still useful alternatives to traditional cultivars. These "pre-varietal" releases include "tested," "selected," and "source-identified" plant material and have distinct labeling. They help meet a strong customer demand for native plant material that is available more quickly than it takes to develop and test a cultivar for a particular conservation use.