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Field Clover Trifolium campestre     - Trifolium procumbens
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The species name campestre means "of the fields". * Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland...
  • Common Name: Field Clover
  • Botanical Name: Trifolium campestre
  • Purity: 99%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: annual
  • Height: 6-12in.
  • Family: Fabaceae
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New Zealand Sophora Sophora tetraptera
Price : CALL

* 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 to both Chile and New Zealand.
  • Common Name: New Zealand Sophora
  • Height: 30 feet
  • Botanical Name: Sophora tetraptera
  • Family: LEGUMINOSAE
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New Zealand Sophora Sophora tetraptera
Price : CALL

* 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 to both Chile and New Zealand.
  • Species: tetraptera
  • Common Name: New Zealand Sophora
  • Botanical Name: Sophora tetraptera
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
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Roundheaded Bush Clover, Rabbitfoot, Dusty Clover, Roundhead Lespedeza Lespedeza capitata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Seeds are eaten by many birds. Used as a reclamation species on very poor soils. Leaves & stems are covered with silver hair. Experimentally, it has demonstrated antitumor activity against Walker-256 carcinosarcoma and is also reportedly effective in...
  • Species: capitata
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Crop Year: 2002
  • Lot#: 021090
  • Quantity: 3.65 lb
  • Collection Locale: NE
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Sweetfern, Sweet Fern, Sweet-fern Comptonia peregrina
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall. * It tends to grow on dry sandy sites, and is associated with pine stands. * Sweet fern was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially as a poultice to treat...
  • Collection Locale: Wisconsin
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Purity: 99%
  • Genus: Comptonia
  • Seeds Per Pound: 25,424
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Indigo, Indigo Bush Indigofera pseudotinctoria
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* A shrub; red flowers in racemes. * The leaves and flowers are boiled and eaten.
  • Genus: Indigofera
  • Germination: 91%
  • Lot#: 100654
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 86,260
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
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Speckled Alder, Smooth Alder, Hazel Alder Alnus incana rugosa    - Alnus rugosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

The Latin subspecies name, meaning rugose or wrinkled, refers to the network of sunken veins prominent on the lower leaf surfaces. * Its fast rate of growth means that it quickly provides sheltered conditions to allow more permanent woodland trees to...
  • Height: 13 feet
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Germination: 67%
  • Quantity: 2.8 lb
  • Subspecies: rugosa
  • Common Name: Speckled Alder, Smooth Alder, Hazel Alder
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Indigo, Indigo Bush Indigofera pseudotinctoria
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* A shrub; red flowers in racemes. * The leaves and flowers are boiled and eaten.
  • Germination: 91%
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Crop Year: 2010
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Genus: Indigofera
  • Purity: 98%
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Mountain Mahogany, Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany Cercocarpus montanus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It makes a valuable fuel and is occasionally used in the manufacture of small articles for domestic and industrial use. * Bunches of the tied stems have been used as rough brooms. * The wood is heavy, hard and brittle.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 55
  • Height: 10-12 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 35,865
  • Genus: Cercocarpus
  • Quantity: 0.1 lb
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Birdsfoot Trefoil, Bird\'s-foot Trefoil, Birdfoot Deervetch Lotus corniculatus
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

Medium fertility, slightly acid, clay like, and loamy soils. Yellow flowers from May to July. * A herbaceous, forage, perennial, cool season legume. Will produce a complete cover in a few months.
  • Quantity: 15.15 lb
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 518
  • Purity: 99%
  • Height: 1ft
  • Genus: Lotus
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Caspian Locust, Persian Honey Locust Gleditsia caspia     - Gleditsia caspica
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Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most formidably armed of temperate...
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination: 98%
  • Family: LEGUMINOSAE
  • Seeds Per Pound: 2,270
  • Genus: Gleditsia
  • Crop Year: 2017
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Mountain Alder Alnus crispa     - Alnus viridis crispa
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Northeastern North America, Greenland. * It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its nitrogen-fixing nodules, while not growing large enough to compete with the intended timber crop.
  • Collection Locale: Matagami, Quebec, Canada
  • Common Name: Mountain Alder
  • Height: 10-15 feet
  • Species: crispa
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Germination: 40%
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Southern Wax Myrtle Myrica cerifera
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Specimens in wetter areas are more tree-like with bigger leaves. * The fruit is a source of food for a lot of bird species, including the Northern Bobwhite Quail and the Wild Turkey .
  • Species: cerifera
  • Height: 15-40 feet
  • Genus: Myrica
  • Common Name: Southern Wax Myrtle
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Japanese Pagoda Tree Styphnolobium japonicum     - Sophora japonica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Used to make the strong, springy curved "enju wood" handle used on the traditional Japanese woodworking adze, called the chouna. * A very ornamental and fast growing tree, it grows best in hot summers.
  • Height: 40-60 feet
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Germination: 83%
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Japanese Pagoda Tree
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Milk Vetch, Chinese Milk Vetch Astragalus sinicus
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop.
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Common Name: Milk Vetch, Chinese Milk Vetch
  • Germination: 91%
  • Quantity: 2.62 lb
  • Purity: 99%
  • Family: Fabaceae
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Pygmy Peashrub Caragana pygmaea
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 0.47 lb
  • Botanical Name: Caragana pygmaea
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 44
  • Family: Fabaceae
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Virginia Snake Root, Virginia Snakeroot Aristolochia serpentaria
Prices start at : 20.95 USD / 1 packet

The species is commonly known as Virginia snakeroot and is native to eastern North America, from Connecticut to southern Michigan and south to Texas and Florida. * The Virginia snakeroot is attracting increasing interest for its medicinal virtues and...
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Germination: 23%
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Height: 20 inches
  • Purity: 99%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 3
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Red Clover, Medium Red Clover Trifolium pratense   Medium
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Dietary amounts of red clover are safe, but medicinal quantities may cause rash-like reactions, muscle ache, headache, nausea, vaginal bleeding in women, and slow blood clotting.
  • Germination: 90%
  • Height: 6-24 inches
  • Seeds Per Pound: 178,262
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Purity: 99%
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Bouncing Bet, Soapwort, Bouncingbet Saponaria officinalis
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

Its strongly irritant action within the gut is thought to stimulate the cough reflex and increase the production of a more fluid mucus within the respiratory passages[ Other common names are Bouncing Bet and Sweet William; locally it is simply "the Soapwort"...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 97
  • Crop Year: 2012
  • Germination: 83%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Caryophyllaceae
  • Common Name: Bouncing Bet, Soapwort, Bouncingbet
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Coffee Tree, Chinese Coffee Tree, Soap Tree, Yunnan Bean Gymnocladus chinensis
Prices start at : 12.95 USD / 1 packet

* A deciduous tree growing to 12 m (39ft 4in) at a slow rate. It is in flower in April, and the seeds ripen in October. Several sources say that it is a relatively short tree compared with the American relative.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 192
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Botanical Name: Gymnocladus chinensis
  • Quantity: 4.04 lb
  • Genus: Gymnocladus
  • Height: 20-45 feet
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Christmas Rose, Black Hellebore Helleborus niger
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

The large, flat flowers, borne on short stems from midwinter to early spring, are white, or occasionally pink. * This species produces flowering plants in 2 - 3 years from seed. Take care since the plant resents disturbance.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 70,370
  • Common Name: Christmas Rose, Black Hellebore
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Crop Year: 1999
  • Collection Locale: Germany
  • Germination: 83%
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Russian Olive Elaeagnus angustifolia
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Because the plant fixes atmospheric nitrogen, it makes a hedge that enriches the soil rather than depriving it of nutrients. * Elaeagnus angustifolia ( Russian Silverberry , Oleaster , or Russian-olive ) is a species of Elaeagnus , native to western...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: Elaeagnus angustifolia
  • Common Name: Russian Olive
  • Height: 15-20 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 2,746
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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.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Genus: Acacia
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
  • Height: 25-30 feet
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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Blue Wild Indigo, Rattleweed, Blue False Indigo, Indigo Weed, Rattlebush, Horse Fly Weed Baptisia australis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Australis is an herbaceous perennial that reproduces both sexually and asexually by means of its spreading rhizomes . Australis is the most commonly cultivated species in its genus, and is also cultivated beyond its native continent in other areas such...
  • Botanical Name: Baptisia australis
  • Common Name: Blue Wild Indigo, Rattleweed, Blue False Indigo, Indigo Weed, Rattlebush, Horse Fly Weed
  • Quantity: 0.07 lb
  • Height: 3-4 feet
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
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Table King  Squash, Acorn Squash Cucurbita pepo   Table King
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* Although considered a "winter" squash, acorn squash belongs to the same species as all "summer" squashes (including zucchini and yellow crookneck squash). * Seeds are started after all danger of frost is past and the soil is warm or within 3–4 weeks...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: annual
  • Species: pepo
  • Common Name: Table King Squash, Acorn Squash
  • Purity: 99%
  • Genus: Cucurbita
  • Lot#: 9401
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Blackberry-lily, Blackberry Lily, Leopard Lily, Leopard flower Belamcanda chinensis     - Iris domestica
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* The seed is best sown as soon as it is ripe in a cold frame. Belamcanda chinensis , Belamcanda punctata Moench , Gemmingia chinensis ( L. Likes moist soils, but poorly-drained ones, particularly in winter, can be fatal.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 16,344
  • Common Name: Blackberry-lily, Blackberry Lily, Leopard Lily, Leopard flower
  • Germination: 83%
  • Height: 3 feet
  • Purity: 99%
  • Genus: Belamcanda
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Turnip, Purple Top White Globe Turnip Brassica rapa  Lorifolia Purple Top White Globe
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* The purple topped turnip root will reach 4-5 inches in diameter and matures in 40 to 60 days. * The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * High in Vitamins! * Purple Top White Globe Turnip is an outstanding Heirloom variety.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 204,300
  • Height: 18-24 inches
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Variety: Lorifolia
  • Botanical Name: Brassica rapa Lorifolia Purple Top White Globe
  • Purity: 99%
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