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Twoleaf Senna, Twin-leaf Senna Senna roemeriana
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 85
  • Botanical Name: Senna roemeriana
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Purity: 96%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
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Iowa
Tecate Cypress Cupressus guadalupensis  forbesii   - Hesperocyparis forbesii    , Cupressus forbesii
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

* The northernmost stand, in Orange County, which comprises a large area on the upper limits of Coal Canyon and on Sierra Peak in the Santa Ana Mountains, burned in a 2006 wildfire.
  • Height: 20-30 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Seeds Per Pound: 50,848
  • Collection Locale: California
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 18
  • Species: guadalupensis
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Lanceleaf Tickseed, Lance Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico . It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 382
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Height: 3 feet
  • Germination: 90%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Crop Year: 2015
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Silk-floss Tree Chorisia speciosa     - Ceiba speciosa
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

From the seeds it is possible to obtain vegetable oil (both edible and industrially useful). * Its trunk is bottle-shaped, generally bulging in its lower third, measuring up to 2 metres (7 ft) in girth.
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Common Name: Silk-floss Tree
  • Quantity: 1.02 lb
  • Genus: Chorisia
  • Seeds Per Pound: 4,843
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Iowa
Wild Marjoram, Oregano Origanum vulgare
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Oregano is an important flavouring herb in Mediterranean cookery,and is often used dried rather than fresh. The leaves are used as a flavouring for salad dressings, vegetables and legumes,and are frequently included in strongly flavoured dishes with...
  • Species: vulgare
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Height: 8-24 inches
  • Botanical Name: Origanum vulgare
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 0.62 lb
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Russian Sage Perovskia atriplicifolia
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* A very ornamental plant. * It requires full sun, but is hardy and cold tolerant. It is also used where it grows in Pakistan and Balochistan for dysentery. * Although research and data is limited, some identified compounds in this plant include thujone,...
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Seeds Per Pound: 562,460
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 12
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination: 97%
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Iowa
Greek Oregano Origanum vulgare  Hirtum
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

Tiny, white flowers appear in terminal or axillary spikelets in July. * The leaves are used as a flavouring for salad dressings, vegetables and legumes, and are frequently included in strongly flavoured dishes with chillies, garlic, onions etc.
  • Quantity: 0.16 lb
  • Height: 6-8 inches
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,000,000
  • Common Name: Greek Oregano
  • Variety: Hirtum
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
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Rosea Silk-tree Albizia julibrissin   Rosea
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* The flower heads are carminative, digestive, sedative and tonic. * They are used internally in the treatment of insomnia, irritability, breathlessness and poor memory. * ‘Rosea' has bright pink flowers, is hardier than the species, and is 10 to 15...
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Species: julibrissin
  • Quantity: 0.83 lb
  • Genus: Albizia
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Common Name: Rosea Silk-tree
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European Red Elderberry, Red Elderberry Sambucus racemosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

The fruits are popular with birds, who distribute the seeds. * The blossoms have been used in the treatment of measles. * The fruit is a bright red or sometimes purple drupe containing 3 to 5 seeds.
  • Common Name: European Red Elderberry, Red Elderberry
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 191
  • Germination: 91%
  • Height: 10-15 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Purity: 99%
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Iowa
Butterfly Weed, Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. It is a perennial plant growing to 0.6-2 m (1 -2 feet) tall, with clustered orange or yellow flowers from early summer to early fall.
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Genus: Asclepias
  • Collection Locale: USA
  • Crop Year: 1995
  • Common Name: Butterfly Weed, Butterfly Milkweed
  • Quantity: 1.8 lb
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Mimosa, Silk Tree, Persian Silk Tree, pink siris Albizia julibrissin
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Small deciduous tree growing to 5–12m tall. * Not recommended to be planted over pools. * The bark is dark greenish grey in colour and striped vertically as it gets older. * They are used internally in the treatment of insomnia, irritability, breathlessness...
  • Botanical Name: Albizia julibrissin
  • Species: julibrissin
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 23
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Iowa
Christmasbush, Rambling Senna, Money Bush, Yellow Candlewood Senna bicapsularis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The reason for this is that Winter Cassia is not real showy until it blooms. * It is naturalised and invasive in several coastal areas in the tropics, including the Galapagos Islands and New Caledonia.
  • Quantity: 0.26 lb
  • Purity: 98%
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Species: bicapsularis
  • Height: 8-10 feet
  • Collection Locale: Hawaii
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Iowa
Sneezewort, Sneezeweed Achillea ptarmica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.
  • Crop Year: 1997
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Botanical Name: Achillea ptarmica
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Species: ptarmica
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Iowa
Dragon Tree, Dragontree Dracaena draco
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* Being a monocotyledon, it does not display any annual or growth rings so the age of the tree can only be estimated by the number of branching points before reaching the canopy. Draco tree alive.
  • Common Name: Dragon Tree, Dragontree
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Quantity: 2.89 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 953
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: Dracaena draco
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Utah Agave Agave utahensis
Price : CALL

* The heart of the plant is very rich in saccharine matter and can be eaten when baked. * Agave utahensis is a species of agave known by the common name Utah agave. It is partly below ground.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Height: 3-12 feet
  • Family: Agavaceae
  • Species: utahensis
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Sweetfern, Sweet Fern, Sweet-fern Comptonia peregrina
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm broad, with a modified dentate, pinnately lobed margin; they give off a sweet odor, especially when crushed.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 22
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Quantity: 0.72 lb
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination: 98%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
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Pearl Bush, Sawtooth Pearlbush , Pearl Tree Exochorda serratifolia
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled white flowers (to 2" diameter) which bloom in early spring. Elliptic, serrate, pale green leaves (to 3" long) turn yellow in fall.
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Botanical Name: Exochorda serratifolia
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 78
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Genus: Exochorda
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Upland Cotton, Mexican Cotton, American Upland Cotton, Wild Cotton Gossypium hirsutum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This is the most important cotton of commerce. It requires a minimum of 140 days from planting to harvest. It is widely grown in regions of the world where the growing season is long enough to allow the fruit to mature.
  • Common Name: Upland Cotton, Mexican Cotton, American Upland Cotton, Wild Cotton
  • Botanical Name: Gossypium hirsutum
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 16
  • Purity: 99%
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Iowa
Pecan Carya illinoinensis  commercial varieties
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Trees are probably much hardier when grown in areas with hot summers. * Source of the commercial pecan; a tall, straight-trunked tree, fastest growing of the hickories; likes deep, rich soil; native to central midwest south to Mexico
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 9
  • Height: 65-130 feet
  • Germination: 98%
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Glossy Privet Ligustrum lucidum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Good results have also been achieved when the fruit has been used in treating respiratory tract infections, hypertension, Parkinson's disease and hepatitis. * Noxious weed in California * Chinese privet has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for...
  • Botanical Name: Ligustrum lucidum
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Common Name: Glossy Privet
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 35
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Texas Red Oak, Buckley\'s Oak, Buckley Oak Quercus buckleyi     - Quercus texana
Price : CALL

* It is smaller and more likely to be multi-trunked than its close relative, the Shumard Oak . * Its previous scientific name was Quercus texana which is now the scientific name for Nuttall's Oak and thus has led to much confusion when referencing this...
  • Common Name: Texas Red Oak, Buckley's Oak, Buckley Oak
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Genus: Quercus
  • Height: 45 - 75 feet
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Niagara Big Bluestem Andropogon gerardii   Niagara
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) . * Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened seed at a time when soil temperatures have reached 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Collection Locale: PA
  • Family: Poaceae
  • Common Name: Niagara Big Bluestem
  • Quantity: 7.33 lb
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Red Mulberry, American Mulberry Morus rubra
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Fruits are red turning dark purple, birds love them; more open and irregular than M. * A cloth can be made from the fibrous bark. Alba; dark green leaves, yellow in fall; native to eastern and central United States in rich moist soil.
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Botanical Name: Morus rubra
  • Species: rubra
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 30-60 feet
  • Purity: 98%
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Upland Cotton, Mexican Cotton, American Upland Cotton, Wild Cotton Gossypium hirsutum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This is the most important cotton of commerce. It requires a minimum of 140 days from planting to harvest. It is widely grown in regions of the world where the growing season is long enough to allow the fruit to mature.
  • Collection Locale: Texas
  • Family: Malvaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 16
  • Species: hirsutum
  • Botanical Name: Gossypium hirsutum
  • Crop Year: 2016
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Upright Prairie Coneflower Ratibida columnifera     - Ratibida columnaris
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads.
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Species: columnifera
  • Height: 24-30 inches
  • Collection Locale: TX
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 216
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Christmas Candlestick, Klip Dagga, Lion\'s Ear Leonotis nepetifolia
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

It can also be found growing abundantly in much of Latin America and the West Indies. * It is native to tropical Africa and southern India. * It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but...
  • Height: 3-8 feet
  • Family: Lamiaceae
  • Germination: 91%
  • Botanical Name: Leonotis nepetifolia
  • Species: nepetifolia
  • Common Name: Christmas Candlestick, Klip Dagga, Lion's Ear
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Gobbler Sawtooth Oak Quercus acutissima   Gobbler
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Quercus acutissima lives in deciduous forests at altitudes of up to 2,200 metres (7,200 ft) in South Asia and South East Asia. * The acorns are eaten by jays, pigeons, and squirrels .
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 10
  • Family: Fagaceae
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Height: 75-90 feet
  • Common Name: Gobbler Sawtooth Oak
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