Description:
DAMU-251-HZ5a was developed from seed collected from three native tallgrass prairie sites in Kansas (1) and Iowa (2) which are in the northern half of the 1990 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5. DAMU-251-HZ5b was developed from seed collected from three native tallgrass prairie sites in Kansas which are in the southern half of the 1990 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5. The collections for each germplasm were intermated in isolation for 1 generation