Rose Lake Plant Materials Center

Updated 08/22/2008

East Lansing, Michigan

Established 1958

The Rose Lake Plant Materials Center in East Lansing, Michigan provides plant solutions for the Great Lakes Region. The Center has developed technology for a variety of conservation concerns including stabilization of streambanks, shorelines, and roadbanks; improving pasture land; and increasing the availability and use of local native species. The Center has released improved conservation varieties of big bluestem, little bluestem, silky dogwood, hybrid crabapple, switchgrass and indiangrass. 

Special Features

• Why is Ash preservation important?
• Plant Materials Program and National Ash Tree Seed Collection Initiative
• Community Garden Guides

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Rose Lake Plant Materials Center Newsletter (PDF; 859 KB) - Summer 2008

Contact

7472 Stoll Rd.
East Lansing, MI 48823-9420

Telephone: 517.641.6300
FAX: 517.641.4421
Email: John.Leif@mi.usda.gov

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