Pollinator Value

🐛 Larval Host
Various Skippers
❄️ Winter Food Source
Yes — Seeds in "eyebrow" heads provide forage.

Growing Conditions

Sun
Full Sun ☀️
Moisture
Dry 💧
Bloom
July
Sociability
S2 — Small groups

Ecology & Conservation

Proximity

Proximity Score

Our internally developed scale tracking proximity of historical species occurrence to our Eco-Region (8.1.8). 0 = hyper-local, 5 = off-continent.

4
Native Status
Outaouais: — · QC: — · ON: ✅

Native Occurrence

Closest Native Direction
West
Eco-zone

The closest historically occurring Eco-zone, mapped to the CEC values.

9 Great Plains
Eco-province
8.2 Central USA Plains
Eco-region
High Plains

Rarity & Status

Rarity Notes
Rare in ON
Rank QC

In Quebec, the CDPNQ (Centre de données sur le patrimoine naturel du Québec) is the body that assigns these ranks using the NatureServe methodology.

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N/A
Rank ON

The S-rank (Subnational Rank) is a standardized tool used across Canada to measure the extinction risk of a species within a specific province or territory.

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S1 — Critically Imperiled — Extremely rare
Ecological Context
Dry prairie specialist

Edibility & Foraging

Edible
❌ Not Edible

Provenance

Seed Provenance
Southern Ontario
Seed Source
Ferri Seeds
Blue Grama