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INo Mow/Less Mow May <br />Why Participate? <br />• Lets early spring wildflowers bloom to provide food for emerging and <br />migrating pollinators <br />• Yards not treated by herbicides more likely to foster "spontaneous <br />growth" of common flowers like dandelion and white clover <br />• Reduces usage and emissions of gas lawn care equipment <br />• Turf grass grows deeper roots and becomes more drought -resistant <br />when mowed less frequently <br />• Most wildflower seed mixes don't flower early enough to provide early <br />season nectar and pollen resources <br />"in both annual and perennial treatments, up to 100% of nectar and pollen <br />resources early in the year were provided by native perennial weeds, <br />particularly Taraxacum agg [dandelion], Ranunculus Repens [creeping <br />buttercup] and Trifolium repens [white clover]." (Hicks, et al, 2015 - <br />Quantifying Nectar and Pollen Resources of Urban Flower Meadows) <br />