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

It is useful for vegetating acid soils with a pH of 3.5 to 4.0, as well as alkaline soils of a pH 8.0. Bristly locust is especially adapted to stabilizing soils with active rill and gully erosion.
  • Genus: Robinia
  • Variety: fertilis
  • Quantity: 1.03 lb
  • Lot#: 9301
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Seeds Per Pound: 21,400
Iowa
Des Moines
Siberian Pea Tree, Siberian Peashrub Caragana arborescens
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

It is commonly grown throughout the northern hemisphere as a landscaping plant and ornamental . * Extremely hardy--a plant lifted from a pot in December spent the winter in zone 5 with its bare rootball frozen to the turf--still bloomed well in the spring;...
  • Height: 12 feet
  • Germination: 91%
  • Common Name: Siberian Pea Tree, Siberian Peashrub
  • Purity: 99%
  • Genus: Caragana
  • Botanical Name: Caragana arborescens
Iowa
Des Moines
Littleleaf Caragana, Littleleaf Peashrub Caragana microphylla
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Small, gray-green compound leaves, light yellow flowers in May and June; native to Siberia and northern China; Hortus says this species only gets 3' tall and has a spreading habit; may vary with provenance of seed.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Botanical Name: Caragana microphylla
  • Germination: 98%
  • Height: 3-12 feet
  • Common Name: Littleleaf Caragana, Littleleaf Peashrub
  • Seeds Per Pound: 12,712
Iowa
Des Moines
Siberian Pea Tree, Siberian Peashrub Caragana arborescens
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

It is commonly grown throughout the northern hemisphere as a landscaping plant and ornamental . * Extremely hardy--a plant lifted from a pot in December spent the winter in zone 5 with its bare rootball frozen to the turf--still bloomed well in the spring;...
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 23.79 lb
  • Germination: 91%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 17,706
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 2
Iowa
Des Moines
Orange Wattle, Coojong, Golden Wreath Wattle, Blue-leaved Wattle, Western Australian Golden Wattle, Port Jackson Willow Acacia cyanophylla - Acacia saligna , Acacia bracteata , Acacia lindleyi , Mimosa saligna , Racosperma salignum
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is also extremely vigorous when young, often growing over a metre per year. * The yellow flowers appear in early spring and late winter. * It is used for reclaiming eroded hillsides and wastelands and for stabilizing drift sands as well as for fuel.
  • Collection Locale: Italy
  • Germination: 98%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: LEGUMINOSAE
Iowa
Des Moines
Sweetfern, Sweet Fern, Sweet-fern Comptonia peregrina
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern. It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota .
  • Common Name: Sweetfern, Sweet Fern, Sweet-fern
  • Purity: 99%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 25,424
  • Quantity: 0.72 lb
  • Germination: 98%
  • Species: peregrina
Iowa
Des Moines
Japanese Pagoda Tree Styphnolobium japonicum - Sophora japonica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Japonicum contains the isoflavone glycoside sophoricoside. * Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries. * Grown for its white flowers, borne in late summer after most other flowering trees have long finished flowering.
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Genus: Styphnolobium
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Seeds Per Pound: 3,027
  • Height: 40-60 feet
  • Quantity: 9.65 lb
Iowa
Des Moines
Blue Ash Fraxinus quadrangulata
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Fraxinus quadrangulata ( Blue Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native primarily to the Midwestern United States , as well as the Bluegrass region of Kentucky and the Nashville Basin region of Tennessee.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 6,341
  • Collection Locale: Louisisna
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 25
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • Quantity: 0.88 lb
Iowa
Des Moines
Korshinsk Peashrub Caragana korshinskii
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Native to semiconsolidated sand dunes; 900-2400 m. Gansu, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, W Shanxi, Xinjiang [Mongolia]. It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion by wind...
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 20
  • Height: 5-10 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 13,620
  • Quantity: 2.8 lb
  • Crop Year: 2013
Iowa
Des Moines
Fontanesia, Syrian-privet Fontanesia phillyraeoides
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae , usually treated as comprising a single species Fontanesia philliraeoides , though some authors split this into two species (see below).
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Height: 15-25ft
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Species: phillyraeoides
  • Germination: 99%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 80,812
Iowa
Des Moines
American Beautyberry Callicarpa americana
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries, which birds and deer eat, thus distributing the seeds. It is juicy, sweet, fleshy, slightly aromatic. * The fruit is edible raw.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Family: Verbenaceae
  • Height: 6-8 feet
  • Species: americana
  • Collection Locale: LA
  • Germination Test Type: cut
Iowa
Des Moines
Sundial Lupine, Wild Perennial Lupine, Wild Lupine Lupinus perennis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Plants are hardy to about -25°c. * An easily grown plant, succeeding in any moderately good soil in a sunny position. This species is very susceptible to slug damage. Legume species.
  • Germination: 98%
  • Quantity: 9.52 lb
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Purity: 99%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Common Name: Sundial Lupine, Wild Perennial Lupine, Wild Lupine
Iowa
Des Moines
Sago Palm, King Sago Palm, Sago Cycad, Japanese Sago Palm, Funeral Palm Cycas revoluta
Price : CALL

Though often known by the common name of king sago palm , or just sago palm , it is not a palm at all, but a cycad . * Substances extracted from theseeds are used to inhibit the growth of malignant tumours.
  • Family: Cycadaceae
  • Genus: Cycas
  • Common Name: Sago Palm, King Sago Palm, Sago Cycad, Japanese Sago Palm, Funeral Palm
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
Iowa
Des Moines
Roundleaved Dogwood, Roundleaf Dogwood Cornus rugosa
Price : CALL

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern...
  • Family: Cornaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Species: rugosa
  • Common Name: Roundleaved Dogwood, Roundleaf Dogwood
Iowa
Des Moines
Lawson\'s Pine Pinus lawsonii
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Pinus lawsonii occurs in forest and woodland at 1300-2600 m elevation. * It grows with various species of Quercus and a variety of other pines . * Climate is warm-temperate to temperate with 600-1500 mm annual precipitation and a November to May dry...
  • Species: lawsonii
  • Quantity: 1.29 lb
  • Purity: 99%
  • Height: 80-100 feet
  • Germination: 98%
  • Collection Locale: Mexico
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Beefwood, River Sheoak, River Oak, Creek Oak, River Oak Casuarina, Kasa, Australian Pine Casuarina cunninghamiana
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

In suitable climates, the plant is much used in windbreaks, shelterbelts and for land reclamation. Cones are small, rectangular and about 1 centimetre across. * Gold, green and grey dyes are obtained from the leaves.
  • Botanical Name: Casuarina cunninghamiana
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Seeds Per Pound: 390,440
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 321
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 100 feet
Iowa
Des Moines
Southern Wax Myrtle Myrica cerifera
Price : CALL

Three consecutive years of shoot destruction may kill all plants affected. It grows naturally in wetlands, near flowing bodies of water, sand dunes , fields, hillsides, pine barrens , and in both needleleaf and mixed-broadleaf forests.
  • Family: MYRICACEAE
  • Species: cerifera
  • Genus: Myrica
  • Common Name: Southern Wax Myrtle
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Georgia False Indigo, False Indigo, Savannah Indigobush Amorpha georgiana confusa - Amorpha cyanostachya
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Order: Fabales Bromhead family: Fabaceae Lindl. Agardh subclass: Magnoliidae Novak ex Takht. * This is a beautiful flowering shrub with an extremely limited range in North Carolina.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: Amorpha georgiana confusa
  • Purity: 99%
  • Crop Year: 1988
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 95
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
Iowa
Des Moines
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.
  • Germination: 67%
  • Family: Betulaceae
  • Quantity: 0.14 lb
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Purity: 99%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 186,140
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Douglas Fir Pseudotsuga menziesii glauca AZ Apache
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It grows at higher elevations (to 9500') with a slower growth rate, and has shorter cones (to 3"), blue-green needles and better winter hardiness. * Douglas fir seeds are an extremely important food for small mammals.
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Location: AZ Apache
  • Genus: Pseudotsuga
  • Germination: 88%
  • Species: menziesii
  • Seeds Per Pound: 36,320
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Common Rue Ruta graveolens
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* A hardy perennial with gray or blue-gray rather frilly leaves, extremely fragrant (although many dislike the pungent scent); woody base; causes dermatitis in some people, for dry sunny places; also used medicinally and as a condiment; inconspicuous...
  • Family: Rutaceae
  • Species: graveolens
  • Germination: 98%
  • Quantity: 2.32 lb
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Germination Test Type: cut
Iowa
Des Moines
Tickseed, Largeflower Tickseed, Large-flowered Tickseed, Coreopsis Coreopsis grandiflora
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

The common name is large-flowered tickseed. * 3" yellow-orange flowers in midsummer; native to southern U.S. * Coreopsis grandiflora is a perennial plant species of the tickseed genus, Coreopsis, in Asteraceae.
  • Quantity: 0.05 lb
  • Collection Locale: North Carolina
  • Height: 1.5 to 4 feet
  • Purity: 98%
  • Common Name: Tickseed, Largeflower Tickseed, Large-flowered Tickseed, Coreopsis
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
Iowa
Des Moines
Gowen Cypress Cupressus goveniana
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Rough gray bark, bright green leaves; native to Monterey County, California * Cupressus goveniana is a species of cypress endemic to coastal California in the United States , where it is found in small, scattered populations, not in large forests.
  • Height: 100-140 feet
  • Common Name: Gowen Cypress
  • Purity: 98%
  • Botanical Name: Cupressus goveniana
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
Iowa
Des Moines
Gladwin Iris, Gladdon, Roast Beef Plant, Stinking Iris Iris foetidissima
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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 seeds that remain until midwinter; likes lime; native to western and Mediterranean Europe.
  • Species: foetidissima
  • Height: 3 feet
  • Family: Iridaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 3,178
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 17
  • Genus: Iris
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European Columbine, Columbine, Dwarf Columbine Aquilegia vulgaris Double Mix
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* The blue flowers and on occasion white flowers are bonnet shaped. * The plant is short lived but self sows freely producing a good quantity of seed each year. * It is best to sow as soon as it is ripe in a cold frame.

98%

    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 57
    • Genus: Aquilegia
    • Germination: 98%
    • Variety: Double Mix
    • Purity: 98%
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
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    Des Moines
    Judas Tree Cercis siliquastrum
    Price : CALL

    * The flowers can be eaten raw. These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch at the tip. * This species forms a small tree up to 12 metres in height and 10 metres in width.
    • Genus: Cercis
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Quantity: 4.57 lb
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Species: siliquastrum
    • Germination: 98%
    Iowa
    Des Moines
    Mealy Wattle, Sweet Acacia, Needle Bush Acacia farnesiana - Vachellia farnesiana , Mimosa farnesiana , Poponax farnesiana
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia. * A deliciously scented essential oil, it has a fragrance of violets.
    • Common Name: Mealy Wattle, Sweet Acacia, Needle Bush
    • Germination: 98%
    • Height: 25-30 feet
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Purity: 99%
    • Genus: Acacia
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    Des Moines
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