Resources
Revegetation/Restoration in General
Native Seeds: Supplying Restoration (Film created by INSR 2023)
Roadside Revegetation: An Integrated Approach to Establishing Native Plants and Pollinator Habitat (US Dept. of Transportation 2017)
Revegetation Equipment Catalog (Larson 1980)
RNGR Publications, USDA Forest Service and Southern Regional Extension Forestry
Online Restoration Trainings
Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Seed Technology and Restoration Course
Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration Series Trainings for federal agencies
Seed Manuals
Collecting and cleaning seed of Intermountain wildland shrubs, forbs, and grasses (Stevens et al. 2025)
Guidebook to the seeds of native and non-native grasses, forbs, and shrubs of the Great Basin (Lambert 2005)
Florida Native Seed Production Manual (Pfaff et al. 2002)
Native Seed Production Manual for the Pacific Northwest (Bartow N.D.)
Seed Manuals, Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetic Resources (RNGR) Database
Tallgrass Prairie Center Native Seed Production Manual (Houseal 2007)
The Woody Plant Seed Manual (Bonner and Karrfalt 2008)
Tropical Tree Seed Manual (Vozzo 2002)
Seed Certification
The process for certifying wildland collected seed begins prior to collection. Contact your Association of Official Seed Certifying Agency (AOSCA) or Crop Improvement Association to find and/or ask for assistance with required paperwork.
The AOSCA native plant connection (Young et al. 2003)
How to be a seed connoisseur (Utah Crop Improvement Association 2015)
Species-Specific Seed Collecting, Cleaning, and Establishment
Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetic Resources Database, USDA Forest Service and Southern Regional Extension Forestry
Western Forbs: Biology, Ecology, and Use in Restoration (Gucker and Shaw 2021)
Plant Fact Sheets and Plant Guides, USDA NRCS
Restoring Western Ranges and Wildlands, vol. 1. (Monsen et al. 2004)
Restoring Western Ranges and Wildlands, vol. 2. (Monsen et al. 2004)
Restoring Western Ranges and Wildlands, vol. 3. (Monsent et al. 2004)
Seed Cleaning
Processing Seeds of California Native Plants (Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden 2009)
Screen Sizes, Valve Settings, Other Equipment Settings, and Conversions. See Appendix 1C-4C (p. 102-106) in Tallgrass Prairie Native Seed Production Manual
Seed Storage
Principles and Practices of Seed Storage (Justice and Bass 1978)
Seed Mixes
Seed Planning, Sourcing, and Procurement (Erickson and Halford 2020)
Seed Locator Tool, USDA Conservation Reserve Program
Ecoregional Revegetation Application (ERA) Database, US Department of Transportation
Reading seed packaging labels and calculating seed mixtures (Hoag et al. 2001)
Seeding Rates
Seeding Rate Converter, Washington State University
Installing Plant Materials, Chapter 5.4 of Roadside Revegetation
Seed Weights, Seeding Depths, Seeding Rates, Harvesting, and Equipment Settings. See Appendix 1A-B and 2B (p. 90-93; 98-101) of Tallgrass Prairie Native Seed Production Manual
Conversions
Seedling Establishment
A Review of Techniques and Technologies for Improving Seedling Establishment (Tilley et al. 2018)
Agricultural Seed Production
Collection and production of native seeds for ecological restoration (Pedrini et al. 2020)
Native Seed Production Manual for the Pacific Northwest (Bartow 2015)
Native Seed Production Manual, Tallgrass Prairie Center IA
Nursery Seed Production, Chapter 5.3.4 of Roadside Revegetation
Nursery Plant Production
A Nursery Guide for the Production of Bareroot Hardwood Seedlings (McNabb 2019)
A Guide to Starting and Operating a Nursery for Native and Traditional Plants (Wilkinson et al. 2014)
Raising Native Plants in Nurseries: Basic Concepts (Dumroese et al. 2012)
Nursery Manual for Native Plants: A Guide for Tribal Nurseries (Dumroese et al. 2009)
Nursery Plant Production, Chapter 5.3.6 of Roadside Revegetation
Collection of Nursery Manuals from Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetic Resources (RNGR)