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Devil\'s Bit Scabious, Devilsbit Succisa pratensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* An herbaceous perennial, forming a basal rosette to 1', from which arise 3' flowering stems with purplish blue (rarely pink or white) flowers resembling scabiosa; likes moist, peaty soil in sun or part shade; native to Europe, north Africa, east to...
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Family: Dipsacaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 322,340
  • Crop Year: 1995
  • Common Name: Devil's Bit Scabious, Devilsbit
  • Purity: 98%
Costa Rica
San Jose
Andes Alder Alnus acuminata     - Alnus jorullensis  acuminata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Alnus acuminata (also called Alder is a species of tree in the Betulaceae family. It is found in Argentina , Bolivia , Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , Guatemala , Mexico , Panama , Peru and Venezuela .
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Purity: 98%
  • Botanical Name: Alnus acuminata
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Height: 80-90 feet
  • Species: acuminata
Costa Rica
San Jose
Swamp Tupelo, Swamp Blackgum Nyssa sylvatica  biflora
Price : CALL

A thin sharply acid pulp that is pleasant to roll in the mouth as a masticatory, it is also used in preserves. This resistance to splitting led to its use for making mauls, pulleys, wheel hubs, agricultural rollers, bowls, and paving blocks.
  • Family: Cornaceae
  • Genus: Nyssa
  • Variety: biflora
  • Height: 65-80 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
Costa Rica
San Jose
Silky Dogwood, Pale Dogwood, Swamp Dogwood, Kinikinnik Cornus amomum obliqua    - Cornus obliqua
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is a medium-sized deciduous shrub that is typically found in moist lowland areas, swamp borders, floodplains, shrub wetlands, wet meadows/prairies and along streams and ponds in Eastern and Midwestern North America (New Foundland to Ontario south to...
  • Family: Cornaceae
  • Quantity: 0.6 lb
  • Collection Locale: Dodge Co, WI
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Subspecies: obliqua
  • Species: amomum
Costa Rica
San Jose
Mountain Alder, Grey Alder, Hoary Alder, Gray Alder, European Speckled Alder Alnus incana
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* A decidious Tree growing to 18m. * A species of alder with a wide range across the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere .
  • Species: incana
  • Purity: 98%
  • Collection Locale: Poland
  • Crop Year: 2008
  • Germination: 63%
  • Quantity: 0.81 lb
Costa Rica
San Jose
Nutmeg Hickory Carya myristiciformis
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

* Trees are late coming into leaf (usually late May to June) and lose their leaves early in the autumn (usually in October). * The nuts are an oil-rich food for wildlife. These factors combine to make the trees eminently suitable for a mixed woodland...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 12
  • Quantity: 4.02 lb
  • Height: 90-110 feet
  • Collection Locale: Louisiana
  • Genus: Carya
  • Family: Juglandaceae
Costa Rica
San Jose
Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The young shoots can be eaten cooked. Typically, its stems are branched and the clump forming plants emerge in late spring after most other plants have begun growth for the year.
  • Quantity: 0.12 lb
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Common Name: Swamp Milkweed
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 90,700
  • Germination: 91%
Costa Rica
San Jose
Black Spruce Picea mariana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Blue-green foliage; bark pinkish, purplish-gray, flaky; prefers cold climates; in cultivation, distinctly cone-shaped, but more columnar in Canada; spruce beer is made from its leaves; native to northern North America, to Virginia in the mountains.
  • Crop Year: 2006
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Species: mariana
  • Genus: Picea
  • Botanical Name: Picea mariana
  • Germination: 93%
Costa Rica
San Jose
American Snowbell, Mock Orange Styrax americanus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

When in bloom, they cover the plant creating a fragrant, white cloud. * A small delicate shrub with 1" white bell-shaped flowers in small clusters from the leaf axils, in early or mid summer; bright green flowers; grayish fruit in fall; prefers moist,...
  • Common Name: American Snowbell, Mock Orange
  • Species: americanus
  • Height: 8-15ft
  • Germination: 71%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 3,632
Costa Rica
San Jose
Shallow Sedge Carex lurida
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The seedheads resemble small sweetgum balls but do not grow above the foliage. Its grass-like leaves grow up to 3' tall from short stout rhizomes. * This carex is common throughout southern and central Missouri in the moist soil beside ponds, streams...
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Species: lurida
  • Crop Year: 2007
  • Lot#: 070660
  • Purity: 97%
  • Botanical Name: Carex lurida
Costa Rica
San Jose
White Lobelia, Great White Blue Lobelia, White Cardinal Flower Lobelia siphilitica  Alba
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. * The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family. * It was believed by some native North American Indian tribes that if the finely ground roots...
  • Seeds Per Pound: 15,000,000
  • Common Name: White Lobelia, Great White Blue Lobelia, White Cardinal Flower
  • Quantity: 0.11 lb
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Botanical Name: Lobelia siphilitica Alba
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
Costa Rica
San Jose
Common Rose Mallow, Crimsoneyed Rosemallow, Marsh Mallow Hibiscus moscheutos
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is found in wetlands and along the riverine systems of the southeastern United States from Texas to the Atlantic states, its territory extending northward to southern Ontario . An infusion of the dried stalks has been used in the treatment of inflammation...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Species: moscheutos
  • Botanical Name: Hibiscus moscheutos
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 44
  • Genus: Hibiscus
  • Common Name: Common Rose Mallow, Crimsoneyed Rosemallow, Marsh Mallow
Costa Rica
San Jose
Joe Pye Weed, Spotted Joe Pye Weed EUTROCHIUM maculatum     - Eupatorium maculatum    , EUPATORIADELPHUS maculatus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

They are native to Eastern North America and have non-dissected foliage and pigmented flowers. They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds. * Eutrochium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in Asteraceae.
  • Species: maculatum
  • Family: COMPOSITAE
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,252,000
  • Germination: 60%
Costa Rica
San Jose
Water Tupelo Nyssa aquatica
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* They are long-lived trees, commencing to bear seeds when about 30 years old and usually producing heavy crops each year. * Water Tupelo often occurs in pure stands. The seed is mainly distributed by water.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 681
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Species: aquatica
  • Germination: 63%
  • Family: Cornaceae
  • Height: 90-100 feet
Costa Rica
San Jose
Oregon Crab Apple Malus fusca
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A poultice of the chewed bark has been applied to wounds. * Pacific crabapple fruits was prized by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, and were gathered all along the coast.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Genus: Malus
  • Quantity: 0.09 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Height: 30-40 feet
  • Purity: 99%
Costa Rica
San Jose
Scarlet Hawthorn Crataegus columbiana
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

The fruits and flowers have a hypotensive effect as well as acting as a direct and mild heart tonic. It may still take another 18 months to germinate. It is normally used either as a tea or a tincture.
  • Species: columbiana
  • Height: 12-16 feet
  • Botanical Name: Crataegus columbiana
  • Collection Locale: Lincoln, MT
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 8,530
Costa Rica
San Jose
Chinese Sumac, Potanin Sumac Rhus potaninii
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum. Paitan is antiseptic, astringent and haemostatic.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Height: 40 feet
  • Family: ANACARDIACEAE
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Genus: Rhus
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
Costa Rica
San Jose
American Elder, Elderberry, Common Elder, Sweet Elder, Blackberry Elder, American Elderberry Sambucus canadensis
Price : CALL

The berries and flowers are edible. Also effective in shrub borders, roadside plantings, wet or low areas or as a screen. Rich in vitamin C. * Perhaps best when massed in naturalized areas where suckering spread is acceptable.
  • Genus: Sambucus
  • Family: CAPRIFOLIACEAE
  • Height: 12 feet
  • Common Name: American Elder, Elderberry, Common Elder, Sweet Elder, Blackberry Elder, American Elderberry
Costa Rica
San Jose
Milkweed, Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The unopened flower buds are eaten cooked. It is in the genus Asclepias , making it a type of milkweed . * The latex in the stems is a suitable replacement for chicle and can be made into a chewing gum.
  • Genus: Asclepias
  • Collection Locale: Genoa, NY
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Milkweed, Common Milkweed
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 84
Costa Rica
San Jose
Sugar Hackberry, Sugarberry, Southern Hackberry, Hackberry Celtis laevigata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Sugarberry's range extends from the Eastern United States west to Texas and south to northeastern Mexico. The species can also be distinguished by habitat: where the ranges overlap, Common Hackberry occurs primarily in upland areas, whereas Sugarberry...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Genus: Celtis
  • Collection Locale: Louisiana
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Species: laevigata
Costa Rica
San Jose
Peppermint Mentha x piperita
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Peppermint is commonly thought to soothe or treat symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, indigestion, irritable bowel, and bloating, although most of these effects have not been adequately demonstrated in human research.
  • Common Name: Peppermint
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Collection Locale: New York
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Seeds Per Pound: 2,500,000
  • Height: 1-3 feet
Costa Rica
San Jose
Chinese Sumac, Potanin Sumac Rhus potaninii
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum. Paitan is antiseptic, astringent and haemostatic.
  • Purity: 96%
  • Height: 40 feet
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 64
  • Botanical Name: Rhus potaninii dried berries
  • Lot#: 9401
Costa Rica
San Jose
Hairy Leafcup, Bear\'s Foot Smallanthus uvedalius     - Polymnia uvedalia    , Osteospermum uvedalia    , Smallanthus uvedalia
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* Flowering period during the summer is long, attrracting many pollinators. * The large leaves, up to 1 foot long, are interesting. * Does well along woods edges as a background plant in perennial gardens.
  • Height: 3-5 feet
  • Species: uvedalius
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 10
  • Botanical Name: Smallanthus uvedalius
  • Purity: 99%
Costa Rica
San Jose
Rattlesnake Mannagrass, Rattlesnake Grass, Canada Manna, Quaking Grass, Canadian Mannagrass Glyceria canadensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Some mannagrasses are considered weeds while others are endangered in their native habitats. The base of the grass grows along the ground and may root at several places. * This grass is native to the northeastern USA and eastern Canada; it grows in wetland...
  • Genus: Glyceria
  • Seeds Per Pound: 588,500
  • Species: canadensis
  • Family: Poaceae
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 436
Costa Rica
San Jose
Nutmeg Hickory Carya myristiciformis
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

* Trees are late coming into leaf (usually late May to June) and lose their leaves early in the autumn (usually in October). * The nuts are an oil-rich food for wildlife. These factors combine to make the trees eminently suitable for a mixed woodland...
  • Purity: 99%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 69
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Collection Locale: Louisiana
  • Species: myristiciformis
  • Family: Juglandaceae
Costa Rica
San Jose
Joe Pye Weed, Trumpetweed, Purple Thoroughwort, Queen Of The Meadow EUTROCHIUM fistulosum     - Eupatorium fistulosum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1.5–3 m (5–10 feet) tall, found in moist, rich soil alongside ditches and marshes, or in wet forests. It flowers from mid-summer to the first frosts, makes an attractive backdrop in garden plots, and...
  • Quantity: 0.01 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 726,400
  • Botanical Name: EUTROCHIUM fistulosum
  • Genus: EUTROCHIUM
  • Germination: 83%
  • Crop Year: 1998
Costa Rica
San Jose
Fox Sedge Carex vulpinoidea
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Vulpinoidea grows well in damp to very wet soils in full sun to partial shade. It is native to North America, including most of Canada and the United States and part of Mexico, and it is known in Europe and New Zealand as an introduced species .
  • Quantity: 4.28 lb
  • Family: Cyperaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 1030
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Species: vulpinoidea
  • Genus: Carex
Costa Rica
San Jose