Brooksville Plant Materials Center

Brooksville, Florida

Established 1947

Since 1947, the Brooksville Plant Materials Center has provided new conservation plant releases and technology for Florida, the Caribbean area and coasts of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. The Center has developed new technologies to improve coastal areas and wildlife habitat, and to control erosion and prevent water pollution. The Center has released over 20 improved conservation plants including varieties of beach sunflower, lupine, bitter panicum and eastern gamagrass.
 

Special Features

• Feature Story: Native Plants for Coastal Dune Restoration: What, When, and How for Florida
• Feature Story: Dune Restoration on Dauphin Island
• Feature Story: Going Ape for the Walt Disney Company
• Feature Story - Release of Ghost Rider Germplasm chalky bluestem
• Coastal Restoration and Protection Resources

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2008 Progress Report of Activities. (PDF; 2234kb) J.M. Grabowski and M.J. Williams. 2009. Brooksville PMC, Brooksville, FL. July 2009. 8p. (ID# 8998)
Summer 2009 PMC Impact. (PDF; 405kb) J.M. Grabowski and M.J. Williams. 2009. Brooksville PMC, Brooksville, FL. June 2009. 2p. (ID# 9000)

Contact

14119 Broad St
Brooksville, FL 34601

Telephone: 352.796.9600
FAX: 352.799.7305
Email: Janet.Grabowski@fl.usda.gov