With its exotic-looking dark green feathery leaves and its fragile white puffball
flowers, it may seem hard to believe that 'Sabine' Illinois bundleflower is a rugged
plant, but it is. In fact, 'Sabine' provides excellent cover on reclaimed minelands.
It also works well for rangeland and pasture seedings, wildlife food plantings,
revegetation, and critical area plantings. The plant was originally collected in
Crystal Beach, Texas on Sabine-type soil. It was selected from among many collections
in an evaluation block at the Knox City, Texas Plant Materials Center for its forage
abundance, seed production, and ability to take up nitrogen. While its full range of
adaptability has not been tested, the plant is hardy from southern Texas to northern
Oklahoma on many soil types with at least 15 inches of annual precipitation. Since
its selection in 1983 by the Plant Materials Center, the USDA Agricultural Research
Service, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, and Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department, 'Sabine' has been planted on 13,000 acres for an ecological benefit of
almost $225,000.
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