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- A -

Acceptable plants
Acres planted
Acres to seed
Active growth, early season
Active growth, late season
Active growth, mid season
Adapted to coarse textured soils
Adapted to fine textured soils
Adapted to medium textured soils
Aerial broadcast
Aesthetics/screening
Alleopathic
Anaerobic tolerance
Annual flooding
Annual ponding
Aquatic habitat enhancement
Aspect
Available water capacity (AWC)
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- B -

Bare crusted
Bare ground area
Bare roughened
Bare slickened
Bareroot
Berries/nuts/seeds
Between row spacing
Big game/non-game cover
Bloat potential
Bloom period
Broadcast
Bulb
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- C -

Calcium carbonate tolerant
Carbon sequestration
Carbon/nitrogen ratio
Christmas tree
Climate attributes
Climate station
Climate station ID
Cold stratification
Commercial availability
Compacted soil
Container
Corm
Coppice potential
Cover and green manure crop
Cover/Pools (large woody debris)
Critical area planting
Critical fire season
Crops residue/stubble
Culms
Cultivar
Cuttings
C:N ratio
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- D -

Default values
Drill
Drought tolerance
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- E -

EAAP derived from
Early maturing crop
Endangered status federal
Equipment limiting debris
Erosion fabric
Erosion hazard
Evapotranspiration actual min.
Existing ground cover
Exposure class
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Fall conspicuous
Fall forage preference, big game/non-game
Fall forage preference, livestock
Fertility requirement
Filter strip
Filtration of pollutants
Fire resistant
Fire tolerant
Flower color
Flower conspicuous
Fodder suitability
Foliage color
Foliage porosity summer
Foliage porosity winter
Foliage texture
Food source (detris)
Frost-free days minimum
Fruit/seed abundance
Fruit/seed color
Fruit/seed conspicuous
Fruit/seed end period
Fruit/seed persistence
Fruit/seed start
Fuelwood suitability
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- G -

Germination %
Grass
Ground hand broadcast
Ground mechanical broadcast
Growth form
Growth habit
Growth period, active
Growth rate code
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- H -

Hand plant
Hedging tolerance
Height at maturity
Height maximum base age
Herbaceous
High protein forage
High summer porosity
High winter porosity
Hydric soil
Hydroseed
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- I -

Icons
In row spacing
Inoculation
Irrigation
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(empty)
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- K -

(empty)
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- L -

Late maturing crop
Leaf retention
Life cycle
Lifespan
Livestock forage
Location
Low bloat potential
Low fertility requirement
Low growing grass

Low moisture use
Low palatability
Lumber product
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- M -

Maximum height
Maximum height at 20 years
Microclimate modifications
Microclimate (shade)
Microphytes
Minimum AWC
Minimum Jan. Temp
Mixed planting
MLRA
Moisture use
Mulch
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- N -

Native plant community restoration
Native species
Naval store product
Nitrogen fixation
Nursery stock
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- O -

Objectives
Optimum germination/emergence period
Organic layer
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- P -

Palatable to browsing animals
Palatable to grazing animals
Palatable to humans
Pan
Pan depth
Pasture and hayland planting
Perennial grasses
pH maximum
pH minimum
Plant Adaptation Zone
Plant attribute
Plant cultivar name
Plant density high
Plant density low
Plant guides
Plant Life Cycle Code
Plant origin
Plant symbol
Plant type
Plant type primary code
Plant type secondary code
Planting date
Planting rate
Planting rates table
PLS rate per acre
Plywood veneer
Ponding
Post product
Practice name
Precipitation maximum
Precipitation minimum
Propagated plants
Propagule
Protein potential
Pulpwood product
Pure Live Seed
Pure Stand Rate
Purity %
Purpose
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(empty)
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- R -

Rain (annual avg. inches)
Rain (2 in 10 year avg. inches)
Rangeland planting
Rapid residue breakdown
Rate calculation method
Regrowth rate
Release
Report generation
Resprout ability
Riparian forest buffer
Rock depth
Rock fragments
Root depth minimum
Run name
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- S -

Salinity
Salinity class
Salinity tolerance
Scientific name
Seed spread rate
Seeding method
Seeding rate
Seeding rate table
Seedling vigor
Seeds per pound
Shade tolerance
Site
Site condition
Site description
Site name
Slope percent
Slope stability
Sod
Soil
Soil adaptation
Soil attributes
Soil component
Soil map unit
Soil pH
Soil survey area
Spacing
Sprig
Spring forage preference, big game/non-game
Spring forage preference, livestock
State
Subpurpose
Substantial Nitrogen Fixation
Summer foliage density
Summer forage preference, big game/non-game
Spring forage preference, livestock
Surface texture
Surface texture class
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Taxonomic classification
Temperature class
Temperature tolerance minimum
Tolerant to season-long, heavy grazing
Toxicity
Trafficability
Tree canopy cover area
Tree/shrub establishment
Tree/shrub products
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- U -

Upland bird cover
Upland bird food
Upland small game/non-game cover
Upland small game/non-game food
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- V -

Vegetative practices
Vegetative spread rate
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- W -

Water erosion control
Water receiving
Water table
Waterfowl cover
Waterfowl food
Weeds
Wildlife upland habitat
Wildlife wetland habitat
Wind erosion control
Windbreak/shelterbelt establishment
Winter foliage density
Winter forage preference, big game/non-game
Winter forage preference, livestock
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