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Indian Rattlebox Crotalaria assamica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance. * They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Species: assamica
  • Quantity: 1.87 lb
  • Height: 2-4 feet
  • Common Name: Indian Rattlebox
Tennessee
Knoxville
Lead Plant, Leadplant Amorpha canescens
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The compound leaves of this plant appear leaden due to their dense hairiness. * Plants have an extensive root system, they tolerate poor dry soils and are also wind resistant, they are used as a windbreak and also to prevent soil erosion.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Botanical Name: Amorpha canescens with hulls
  • Species: canescens
  • Seeds Per Pound: 100,334
  • Crop Year: 2017
Tennessee
Knoxville
Maryland Senna, Wild Senna Senna marilandica     - Cassia marilandica
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

A poultice of the root has been used in treating sores. The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully ripe in the autumn. An infusion has been used in the treatment of fevers and heart problems.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 52
  • Genus: Senna
  • Crop Year: 1999
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Common Name: Maryland Senna, Wild Senna
  • Quantity: 3.96 lb
Tennessee
Knoxville
Siberian Pea Tree, Siberian Peashrub Caragana arborescens
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

The plant is native to Siberia and parts of China and neighboring Mongolia and Kazakhstan . * Caragana arborescens , or Caragana or Siberian peashrub or Siberian peashrub , is a species of legume .
  • Collection Locale: Montana
  • Seeds Per Pound: 17,706
  • Purity: 99%
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Genus: Caragana
Tennessee
Knoxville
Carob Tree, St. John\'s Bread, Saint John\'s Bread Ceratonia siliqua
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Carobs are also known as St. John's bread because, according to tradition of some Christians, St. John the Baptist subsisted on them in the wilderness. * As a xerophytic (drought-resistant) species, carob is well adapted to the ecological conditions...
  • Collection Locale: Italy
  • Quantity: 4.43 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Genus: Ceratonia
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Purity: 99%
Tennessee
Knoxville
False Indigo, Desert False Indigo, Bastard Indigobush Amorpha fruticosa
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Fruticosa grows as a glandular, thornless shrub which can reach 5 or 6 meters in height and spread to twice that in width. * Plants have an extensive root system and are also fairly wind tolerant, they can be planted as a windbreak and also to prevent...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 74
  • Crop Year: 2006
  • Germination: 91%
  • Height: 6-10 feet
  • Common Name: False Indigo, Desert False Indigo, Bastard Indigobush
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
Tennessee
Knoxville
Buck Brush, Snowbrush Ceanothus, Red Root, Tobacco Brush Ceanothus velutinus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It grows up to 4 meters tall but generally remains under three, and forms colonies of individuals which tangle together to form nearly impenetrable thickets. This means that when used on the skin it will not remove the natural body oils, but nor will...
  • Crop Year: 2011
  • Collection Locale: Idaho
  • Height: 9-12 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Genus: Ceanothus
  • Quantity: 0.18 lb
Tennessee
Knoxville
Mealy Wattle, Sweet Acacia, Needle Bush Acacia farnesiana     - Vachellia farnesiana    , Mimosa farnesiana    , Poponax farnesiana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* An essential oil called Cassie is distilled from the flowers. * While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia.
  • Collection Locale: India
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
  • Height: 25-30 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 4,959
  • Botanical Name: Acacia farnesiana
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
Tennessee
Knoxville
Scotch Laburnum Laburnum alpinum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Gorgeous yellow flowers in 15" pendulous clusters in May, beautifully displayed against deep green leaves; few trees are more lovely in flower; small, short-trunked tree or large shrub; seeds poisonous if eaten; native to Alps and Eastern Europe (and...
  • Quantity: 1.8 lb
  • Purity: 99%
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 19,076
  • Genus: Laburnum
  • Collection Locale: Ukraine
Tennessee
Knoxville
Sweetfern, Sweet Fern, Sweet-fern Comptonia peregrina
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* A broad, flat-topped shrub native to northeast U.S.; has fragrant foliage, long, narrow, frondlike leaves; a nitrogen-fixer, so good for poor soils; takes sun or part shade. It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme...
  • Quantity: 0.72 lb
  • Botanical Name: Comptonia peregrina
  • Collection Locale: Wisconsin
  • Family: Myricaceae
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 22
Tennessee
Knoxville
Sickle Keeled Lupine, Sicklekeel Lupine Lupinus albicaulis   Hederma
Price : CALL

It is a hairy, erect perennial herb often exceeding a meter in height. Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 10 leaflets each up to 7 centimeters long. It is native to the western United States from Washington to California , where it grows mostly in mountain...
  • Common Name: Sickle Keeled Lupine, Sicklekeel Lupine
  • Botanical Name: Lupinus albicaulis Hederma
  • Cultivar: Hederma
  • Height: 2-5 feet
  • Genus: Lupinus
Tennessee
Knoxville
Utah Agave Agave utahensis
Price : CALL

Seed - ground into a flour. Plant out in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts, and give some protection from the cold for at least their first few winters. Flower stalk - roasted[183].
  • Family: Agavaceae
  • Species: utahensis
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Botanical Name: Agave utahensis
Tennessee
Knoxville
Common Bladder Senna, Bladder Senna Colutea arborescens
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The shrub takes a rounded form and has many branches covered in deciduous leaves. It is 2 to 3 centimeters long and contains many seeds. * The leaves are sometimes used as a substitute for senna as a laxative,though they are much milder in their action.
  • Lot#: 9001
  • Common Name: Common Bladder Senna, Bladder Senna
  • Seeds Per Pound: 34,000
  • Botanical Name: Colutea arborescens
  • Height: 10 feet
  • Collection Locale: NY Genoa
Tennessee
Knoxville
Thornyleaf Ononis, Spiny Restharrow Ononis spinosa
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow . * The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised.

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    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Purity: 98%
    • Lot#: 9501
    • Family: Fabaceae
    • Common Name: Thornyleaf Ononis, Spiny Restharrow
    • Germination: 98%
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Italian Alder Alnus cordata
    Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Shiny green leaves. * Native to southern Italy (including Sardinia ) and Corsica. * An excellent windbreak for maritime areas, it grows quite quickly and establishes well even in very windy sites.
    • Purity: 99%
    • Height: 50-80 feet
    • Genus: Alnus
    • Family: Betulaceae
    • Quantity: 0.14 lb
    • Collection Locale: Italy
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    New Zealand Sophora Sophora tetraptera
    Price : CALL

    * The wood is compact, dense, heavy, of great strength, tough, elastic, extremely durable. * Beautiful 2" golden yellow pealike flowers in pendulous clusters to 8", in May; pod, to 7", has four wings; evergreen or semideciduous compound leaves; native...
    • Common Name: New Zealand Sophora
    • Genus: Sophora
    • Family: LEGUMINOSAE
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Japanese Pagoda Tree Styphnolobium japonicum     - Sophora japonica
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * A yellow dye is obtained from the seedpods and the flowers * S. * Grown for its white flowers, borne in late summer after most other flowering trees have long finished flowering.
    • Height: 40-60 feet
    • Crop Year: 2016
    • Germination: 83%
    • Quantity: 9.65 lb
    • Purity: 99%
    • Common Name: Japanese Pagoda Tree
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Black Locust, Yellow Locust, False Acacia Robinia pseudoacacia
    Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Black Locust is highly valued as firewood for wood-burning stoves; it burns slowly, with little visible flame or smoke, and has a higher heat content than any other species that grows widely in the Eastern United States, comparable to the heat content...
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
    • Species: pseudoacacia
    • Quantity: 80.35 lb
    • Seeds Per Pound: 24,062
    • Purity: 98%
    • Crop Year: 2017
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Sundial Lupine, Wild Perennial Lupine, Wild Lupine Lupinus perennis
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is widespread in the eastern part of the USA (from Florida to Canada), Canada (south of Ontario), and on the coasts of the Arctic Ocean, where it grows on sand hills. * Perennial wildflower, palm shaped leaves, blooms 2nd and 3rd year and successive...
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Germination: 98%
    • Family: Fabaceae
    • Genus: Lupinus
    • Crop Year: 2018
    • Species: perennis
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    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. It is threatened by habitat destruction, mainly due to introduced grazing mammals.
    • Germination Test Type: estimate
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
    • Seeds Per Pound: 542
    • Botanical Name: Canavalia pubescens
    • Height: 20-30 feet
    • Family: Fabaceae
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Washoe Pine Pinus washoensis
    Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine. Ponderosa subsp. Ponderosa is distinguishable in the field and certainly occurs at the type locality (Mount Rose, Nevada).
    • Family: Pinaceae
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Species: washoensis
    • Crop Year: 2014
    • Height: 180 feet
    • Botanical Name: Pinus washoensis
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Piute Cypress Cupressus nevadensis
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    Polkinghorn and to visit the grove she described (Abrams 1919). The leaves are scale-like, highly glandular, resinous and aromatic, 2-5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots.
    • Common Name: Piute Cypress
    • Lot#: 9201
    • Crop Year: 1992
    • Quantity: 0.35 lb
    • Height: 40-50 feet
    • Purity: 99%
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Korshinsk Peashrub Caragana korshinskii
    Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

    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 and rain.
    • Purity: 96%
    • Family: Fabaceae
    • Botanical Name: Caragana korshinskii
    • Collection Locale: China
    • Crop Year: 2013
    • Genus: Caragana
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Smooth-bark Mexican Pine Pinus pseudostrobus
    Price : CALL

    It has been introduced in New Zealand near sea level and has done well. It grows between 1300-3250 m. From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa , Mexico to Honduras . * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico.
    • Botanical Name: Pinus pseudostrobus
    • Common Name: Smooth-bark Mexican Pine
    • Family: PINACEAE
    • Genus: Pinus
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Aaron\'s Beard, Rose-of-Sharonwort, Creeping St. Johnswort, Goldflower Hypericum calycinum
    Price : CALL

    The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens . It is indigenous to southeast Europe and southwest Asia . The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs.
    • Crop Year: 2016
    • Collection Locale: CA
    • Purity: 99%
    • Seeds Per Pound: 1,401,235
    • Height: 1-2 feet
    • Family: Clusiaceae
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Washoe Pine Pinus washoensis
    Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine. Ponderosa subsp. Ponderosa is distinguishable in the field and certainly occurs at the type locality (Mount Rose, Nevada).
    • Genus: Pinus
    • Height: 180 feet
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
    • Crop Year: 2014
    • Quantity: 1.03 lb
    • Family: Pinaceae
    Tennessee
    Knoxville
    Jojoba, Pignut, Goat Nut, Deer Nut, Wild Hazel, Quinine Nut, Coffeeberry, Grey Box Bush Simmondsia chinensis
    Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

    * A much-branched evergreen shrub; dull-green or sage-green leaves; small green flowers, male and female on separate plants; produces edible nuts, the oil from which was once used as a substitute for sperm oil; needs full sun, dry soil; native to the...
    • Species: chinensis
    • Family: Simmondsiaceae
    • Germination: 91%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 14
    • Seeds Per Pound: 685
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    Tennessee
    Knoxville