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Bristly Locust, Rose Acacia, Rose Locust Robinia hispida  fertilis   - Robinia fertilis
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

It has the ability to fix nitrogen in the soil, and with light shade it does not inhibit growth of annual and perennial herbs. It provides quick, woody, vegetative cover on droughty, critical areas needing stabilizing cover.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 21,400
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 91
  • Purity: 99%
  • Crop Year: 1993
  • Botanical Name: Robinia hispida fertilis
  • Collection Locale: Pennsylvania
Illinois
Chicago
Italian Alder Alnus cordata
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it also makes some of this nitrogen available to other plants growing nearby.
  • Crop Year: 2012
  • Genus: Alnus
  • Height: 50-80 feet
  • Quantity: 0.14 lb
  • Common Name: Italian Alder
  • Collection Locale: Italy
Illinois
Chicago
Mountain Mahogany, Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany Cercocarpus montanus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It has thin and smooth bark. A red to brown dye can be obtained from the root bark. It makes a valuable fuel and is occasionally used in the manufacture of small articles for domestic and industrial use.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 55
  • Botanical Name: Cercocarpus montanus
  • Purity: 90%
  • Collection Locale: ID
  • Crop Year: 2016
Illinois
Chicago
Siberian Pea Tree, Siberian Peashrub Caragana arborescens
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Caragana arborescens , or Caragana or Siberian peashrub or Siberian peashrub , is a species of legume . It is commonly grown throughout the northern hemisphere as a landscaping plant and ornamental .
  • Germination: 91%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 17,706
  • Species: arborescens
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 35
  • Collection Locale: Montana
  • Quantity: 23.79 lb
Illinois
Chicago
Roundheaded Bush Clover, Rabbitfoot, Dusty Clover, Roundhead Lespedeza Lespedeza capitata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant contains several biologically active compounds. An open or shrubby growth form with round shaped flower heads attached to stems near the ends. An extract of the plant is of disputed utility in chronic kidney disease.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 154,360
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Species: capitata
  • Lot#: 021090
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 58
Illinois
Chicago
Sweetfern, Sweet Fern, Sweet-fern Comptonia peregrina
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota . It is still used for most of the same purposes in modern herbalism.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Germination: 98%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 25,424
  • Collection Locale: Wisconsin
  • Height: 4-5 feet
  • Purity: 99%
Illinois
Chicago
Mountain Mahogany, California Mountain Mahogany, Western Mountain Mahogany Cercocarpus betuloides
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* This shrub has a typical size of three to five meters - 9-15 feet in height. The shrub's white flowers are small, clustered, and mildly scented. * The wood of the shrub extremely hard and reddish, from which the common name comes.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 14
  • Genus: Cercocarpus
  • Botanical Name: Cercocarpus betuloides
  • Collection Locale: CA
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Seeds Per Pound: 12,030
Illinois
Chicago
Mountain Mahogany, Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany Cercocarpus montanus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It has thin and smooth bark. A red to brown dye can be obtained from the root bark. It makes a valuable fuel and is occasionally used in the manufacture of small articles for domestic and industrial use.
  • Purity: 90%
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Height: 10-12 feet
  • Botanical Name: Cercocarpus montanus
  • Seeds Per Pound: 35,865
  • Genus: Cercocarpus
Illinois
Chicago
Texas Mountain Laurel, Mescal Bean, Texas Mescalbean, Frijolito, Frijolillo Sophora secundiflora     - Calia secundiflora
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* An evergreen shrub with compound leaves, 1" violet-blue fragrant flowers in 2-3" pendulous clusters; pods 1-7"; seeds are bright red, sometimes used for necklaces, but are said to be poisonous; native to Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico.
  • Germination: 95%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 568
  • Quantity: 3.32 lb
  • Common Name: Texas Mountain Laurel, Mescal Bean, Texas Mescalbean, Frijolito, Frijolillo
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Purity: 99%
Illinois
Chicago
Scorpion Senna Hippocrepis emerus     - Coronilla emerus
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* These shrubs are usually found in wooded and bushy areas, on sunny, warm and dry slopes and around forest edges. * Hippocrepis emerus reaches on average 50–150 centimetres (20–59 in) of height, with a maximum of 200 centimetres (79 in).
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Botanical Name: Hippocrepis emerus
  • Height: 5-6 feet
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Purity: 99%
  • Collection Locale: Italy
Illinois
Chicago
Forget-Me-not, Chinese Hound\'s Tongue Cynoglossum amabile   Firmament
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not . This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens.
  • Botanical Name: Cynoglossum amabile Firmament
  • Species: amabile
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Common Name: Forget-Me-not, Chinese Hound's Tongue
  • Seeds Per Pound: 107,144
Illinois
Chicago
Lavafield Jackbean, Awikiwiki Canavalia pubescens
Prices start at : 19.95 USD / 1 packet

* Canavalia pubescens, commonly known as ʻawikiwiki or Lavafield Jack-bean, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. * Its natural habitats are dry forests and low shrublands.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Lavafield Jackbean, Awikiwiki
  • Collection Locale: Hawaii
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 1
  • Germination: 90%
  • Species: pubescens
Illinois
Chicago
New Zealand Sophora Sophora tetraptera
Price : CALL

Used for bearings, turnery, cabinet work, ornamental uses etc. * Sophora is one of the four genera of native legumes in New Zealand; the other three are Carmichaelia , Clianthus , and Montigena .Flowering of Kowhai is staggered, from July through to November,...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Botanical Name: Sophora tetraptera
  • Common Name: New Zealand Sophora
  • Height: 30 feet
Illinois
Chicago
Judas Tree Cercis siliquastrum
Price : CALL

* The deep pink flowers are produced on year-old or older growth, including the trunk in late spring ( cauliflory ). * The flowers can be eaten raw. These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch at the tip.
  • Common Name: Judas Tree
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 58
  • Height: 25-36 feet
  • Family: Fabaceae
Illinois
Chicago
Blue Wild Indigo, Rattleweed, Blue False Indigo, Indigo Weed, Rattlebush, Horse Fly Weed Baptisia australis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is considered to be a desirable plant in the garden due to its deep blue to violet spring flowers, the attractive light green compound leaves, and also for the somewhat unusual oblong fruits that emerge in the late summer.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 31,780
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Height: 3-4 feet
  • Collection Locale: Tennessee
  • Germination Test Type: cut
Illinois
Chicago
Edelweiss
Prices start at : 7.49 USD / each

Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage.
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Max Height (feet): 6-12"
  • Genus: Leontopodium alpinum
  • Spread: 6-9''
  • Colors: White
Illinois
Chicago
Washoe Pine Pinus washoensis
Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

Ponderosa subsp. Ponderosa is distinguishable in the field and certainly occurs at the type locality (Mount Rose, Nevada). Ponderosa, as detailed on that page. Washoensis populations do not warrant distinction as a variety or even a subspecies of P.
  • Common Name: Washoe Pine
  • Seeds Per Pound: 14,074
  • Height: 180 feet
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
  • Genus: Pinus
Illinois
Chicago
Silver Wattle, Mimosa Acacia dealbata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Has various edible uses, such as cooking the flowers and obtaining a gum from the trunk * Native to southeastern Australia in New South Wales , Victoria , Tasmania , and the Australian Capital Territory .
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 70
  • Seeds Per Pound: 32,688
  • Species: dealbata
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Quantity: 0.52 lb
  • Germination: 98%
Illinois
Chicago
Yellow Sweetclover Melilotus officinalis
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Prior to World War II before the common use of commercial agricultural fertilizers, the plant was commonly used as a cover crop to increase nitrogen content and improve subsoil water capacity in poor soils * Sweet clover contains coumarin that converts...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 395
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Height: 3-4 feet
  • Botanical Name: Melilotus officinalis
  • Species: officinalis
Illinois
Chicago
Hedge Maple, Common Maple, Field Maple ACER campestre
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A deciduous Tree growing to 15 m, at a fast rate. * A maple native to much of Europe , north to southern England (where it is the only native maple), Denmark , Poland and Belarus , and also southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus , and north Africa...
  • Common Name: Hedge Maple, Common Maple, Field Maple
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 68
  • Botanical Name: ACER campestre
  • Genus: ACER
  • Family: Aceraceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 6,810
Illinois
Chicago
Mugo Pine, Mugo Pine Tree, Mountain Pine Pinus mugo  mughus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Drought tolerant, disease and insect tolerant are also good assets for a bonsai. * Unlike most species of pine. Plant seeds in the fall and deep soil evenly moist in deep well-drained soil.
  • Common Name: Mugo Pine, Mugo Pine Tree, Mountain Pine
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 68
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Quantity: 20.5 lb
  • Crop Year: 2016
Illinois
Chicago
White Fringetree, Old Man\'s Beard, Grancy Grey Beard Chionanthus virginicus
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native to the southeastern United States but hardy nearly everywhere; dark green leaf sometimes a golden yellow in fall.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Height: 30 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,906
  • Collection Locale: S. New Jersey
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 12
  • Species: virginicus
Illinois
Chicago
Butter And Eggs, Common Toadflax, Yellow Toadflax Linaria vulgaris
Price : CALL

It is obtained from the flowers according to other reports. It has also been introduced and is now common in North America . * This is considered a noxious weed in some areas. * A yellow dye is obtained from the whole plant.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Genus: Linaria
  • Height: 18-24 inches
  • Family: Scrophulariaceae
Illinois
Chicago
Colorado Columbine, Colorado Blue Columbine, Rocky Mountain Columbine Aquilegia caerulea     - Aquilegia coerulea
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona . * Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 67
  • Genus: Aquilegia
  • Botanical Name: Aquilegia caerulea
  • Crop Year: 2009
  • Family: RANUNCULACEAE
Illinois
Chicago
Gladwin Iris, Gladdon, Roast Beef Plant, Stinking Iris Iris foetidissima
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Prefers a moist soil but succeeds in dry soils and, once established, is drought tolerant. * Insubstantial purplish or yellow flowers in early to mid summer; more impressive are the large pods that split open to reveal clusters of scarlet or orange-red...
  • Species: foetidissima
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Purity: 99%
  • Crop Year: 2000
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 17
  • Family: Iridaceae
Illinois
Chicago
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. Worldwide, the figure is about 90% of all production for this species. * Gossypium hirsutum , known as Upland Cotton or Mexican Cotton , is the most widely planted species of cotton in the United States,...
  • Purity: 99%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 16
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Germination: 80%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: annual
  • Botanical Name: Gossypium hirsutum
Illinois
Chicago
Rose Moss Portulaca grandiflora
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

In Vietnam, it is called "hoa m??i gi?" meaning "ten o'clock flower", because the flower is usually in full bloom at 10:00 in the morning. * It requires almost no attention and spreads itself very easily.
  • Height: 6 in.
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Common Name: Rose Moss
  • Collection Locale: Colorado
  • Genus: Portulaca
  • Species: grandiflora
Illinois
Chicago