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Narrowleaf Plantain, Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* A good fibre is obtained from the leaves, it is said to be suitable for textiles. The leaves contain mucilage, tannin and silic acid. * Considered to be an indicator of agriculture in pollen diagrams, P.
  • Genus: Plantago
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Species: lanceolata
  • Seeds Per Pound: 225,910
  • Germination: 90%
  • Quantity: 0.92 lb
North Carolina
Durham
Hungarian Lilac Syringa josikaea
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Syringa josikaea ( Hungarian Lilac ) is a species of Lilac , native to central and eastern Europe , in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary , Romania , and western Ukraine . * A good hedging plant, it is very tolerant of trimming.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 44,078
  • Height: 6-12 feet
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 88
  • Germination: 91%
  • Crop Year: 2017
North Carolina
Durham
Scarlet Sage, Cherry Red Sage, Texas Sage, Blood Sage Salvia coccinea
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Spreading growth to 12". The hairy leaves, scalloped on the edges, are pea green, varying in size, all the way up to 3 in (7.6 cm) long and 2 in (5.1 cm) wide. Blooms from summer to autumn with red flowers up to 3/4" long.
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Height: 12 inches
  • Genus: Salvia
  • Purity: 99%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 353
North Carolina
Durham
French Marigold Tagetes patula
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

About 35 kilos of oil can be extracted from 1 hectare of the plant (yielding 2,500 kilos of flowers and 25,000 kilos of herbage). * Secretions from the roots of growing plants have an insecticidal effect on the soil, effective against nematodes and to...
  • Common Name: French Marigold
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 141,875
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Species: patula
  • Genus: Tagetes
North Carolina
Durham
Mugwort, Common Wormwood, Felon Herb, Chrysanthemum Weed, Wild Wormwood, St. John\'s Plant Artemisia vulgaris
Price : CALL

* Artemisia vulgaris ( mugwort or common wormwood ) is one of several species in the genus Artemisia which have common names that include the word mugwort. This species is also occasionally known as Felon Herb , Chrysanthemum Weed , Wild Wormwood , Old...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Species: vulgaris
  • Common Name: Mugwort, Common Wormwood, Felon Herb, Chrysanthemum Weed, Wild Wormwood, St. John's Plant
  • Height: 3-7 feet
North Carolina
Durham
Max Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum maximum     - Chrysanthemum maximum
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing 30 to 70 centimeters tall with many large serrated leaves around the base of the stem on winged petioles. * It is native to France and Spain but it can be found growing wild in other parts of the world as an...
  • Seeds Per Pound: 755,987
  • Genus: Leucanthemum
  • Common Name: Max Chrysanthemum
  • Botanical Name: Leucanthemum maximum
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
North Carolina
Durham
Sneezewort, Sneezeweed Achillea ptarmica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked.
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Species: ptarmica
  • Quantity: 0.06 lb
  • Genus: Achillea
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Collection Locale: England
North Carolina
Durham
Amur Mountain Ash Sorbus pohuashanensis
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position. Dislikes dry soils. * A small tree with compound leaves, white flowers in clusters to 4", 1/4" orange-red fruit; native to northern China.
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 163,440
  • Common Name: Amur Mountain Ash
  • Botanical Name: Sorbus pohuashanensis
  • Species: pohuashanensis
  • Germination: 77%
North Carolina
Durham
Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle Echinops sphaerocephalus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 cm in diameter, packed with blue-gray disc florets . * Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across,...
  • Lot#: 9401
  • Germination: 91%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 39
  • Genus: Echinops
  • Height: 5-6 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 36,320
North Carolina
Durham
Sweet William Dianthus barbatus   Single Mix
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

It is best treated as a biennial in the garden. The flowers have a strong clove-like scent. * A very ornamental plant, its flowers are very attractive to butterflies and moths. * Plants self-sow freely when grown in a suitable position.
  • Genus: Dianthus
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Sweet William
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Species: barbatus
  • Seeds Per Pound: 453,092
North Carolina
Durham
Sweet William Dianthus barbatus   Single Mix
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

It is best treated as a biennial in the garden. The flowers have a strong clove-like scent. * A very ornamental plant, its flowers are very attractive to butterflies and moths. * Plants self-sow freely when grown in a suitable position.
  • Species: barbatus
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Sweet William
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Cultivar: Single Mix
North Carolina
Durham
Ocean Spray, Cream Bush Holodiscus discolor
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

A very ornamental plant, when fully dormant it is hardy to about -15°c, though the young growth in spring can be damaged by late frosts. It is common in the Pacific Northwest where it is found in both openings and the forest understory at low to moderate...
  • Germination: 40%
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,135,000
  • Collection Locale: Montana
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
North Carolina
Durham
Cream Scabious, Cream Pincushions Scabiosa ochroleuca
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads. It is native to Europe and western Asia.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Lot#: 9401
  • Family: Dipsacaceae
  • Common Name: Cream Scabious, Cream Pincushions
  • Seeds Per Pound: 50,000
  • Botanical Name: Scabiosa ochroleuca
North Carolina
Durham
French Marigold Tagetes patula
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

About 35 kilos of oil can be extracted from 1 hectare of the plant (yielding 2,500 kilos of flowers and 25,000 kilos of herbage). * Secretions from the roots of growing plants have an insecticidal effect on the soil, effective against nematodes and to...

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    • Common Name: French Marigold
    • Purity: 99%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 307
    • Crop Year: 2018
    • Germination: 99%
    • Species: patula
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Oriental Photinia Photinia villosa
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Dark green shiny leaves, yellow, bronzy, and red in fall; 1/3" bright red fruit, good bird food; large shrub, can be trained as a small tree; susceptible to fireblight; native to Japan, Korea, China.
    • Common Name: Oriental Photinia
    • Crop Year: 1998
    • Lot#: 9806
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    • Purity: 97%
    • Germination: 83%
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Upright Prairie Coneflower Ratibida columnifera     - Ratibida columnaris
    Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

    * It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads.
    • Botanical Name: Ratibida columnifera
    • Purity: 57%
    • Quantity: 1.35 lb
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    • Germination Test Type: estimate
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 216
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Yellow Coneflower, Prairie Coneflower, Gray-head Coneflower, Gray-head Mexican-hat Ratibida pinnata     - Rudbeckia pinnata
    Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

    It can grow in moist or dry habitat. * It is native to the central and eastern United States and Ontario in Canada. * The disc heads have a scent reminiscent of anise when crushed.
    • Botanical Name: Ratibida pinnata
    • Germination: 91%
    • Seeds Per Pound: 463,080
    • Genus: Ratibida
    • Height: 3-5 feet
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Twoleaf Senna, Twin-leaf Senna Senna roemeriana
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long. Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft.
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 85
    • Botanical Name: Senna roemeriana
    • Height: 1-2 feet
    • Quantity: 0.46 lb
    • Lot#: 9701
    • Seeds Per Pound: 88,530
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Twoleaf Senna, Twin-leaf Senna Senna roemeriana
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long. Its showy, yellow, pea-like flowers occur in upper axillary clusters. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft.
    • Common Name: Twoleaf Senna, Twin-leaf Senna
    • Botanical Name: Senna roemeriana
    • Species: roemeriana
    • Lot#: 9701
    • Collection Locale: New Mexico
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    North Carolina
    Durham
    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...
    • Lot#: 9501
    • Genus: Succisa
    • Botanical Name: Succisa pratensis
    • Collection Locale: Hungary
    • Species: pratensis
    • Quantity: 0.69 lb
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Tecate Cypress Cupressus guadalupensis  forbesii   - Hesperocyparis forbesii    , Cupressus forbesii
    Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

    * A Tecate Cypress planted at Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco is showing vigor and produces viable cones at forty years of age. * Cupressus forbesii is native to montane chaparral and woodlands habitats in the western Peninsular Ranges.
    • Seeds Per Pound: 50,848
    • Crop Year: 2018
    • Germination: 33%
    • Quantity: 0.13 lb
    • Common Name: Tecate Cypress
    • Height: 20-30 feet
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Yellow Coneflower, Prairie Coneflower, Gray-head Coneflower, Gray-head Mexican-hat Ratibida pinnata     - Rudbeckia pinnata
    Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

    It can grow in moist or dry habitat. * It is native to the central and eastern United States and Ontario in Canada. * The disc heads have a scent reminiscent of anise when crushed.
    • Family: Asteraceae
    • Species: pinnata
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Collection Locale: Colorado
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 460
    • Germination: 91%
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Christmas Candlestick, Klip Dagga, Lion\'s Ear Leonotis nepetifolia
    Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Leonotis nepetifolia, also known as klip dagga, Christmas candlestick, or lion's ear, is a species of plant in the genus Leonotis and the family Lamiaceae (mint). * It is native to tropical Africa and southern India.
    • Crop Year: 2015
    • Purity: 98%
    • Collection Locale: Hawaii
    • Botanical Name: Leonotis nepetifolia
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 335
    • Genus: Leonotis
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Dense Blazing Star Liatris spicata   Floristan White
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is also used in treating kidney diseases. It is commonly grown in gardens for its showy purple flowers (pink or white in some cultivars). * The plant is said to be extremely efficacious when used as a local application in the treatment of sore throats...
    • Genus: Liatris
    • Germination Test Type: Cut
    • Purity: 75%
    • Seeds Per Pound: 152,000
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    • Height: 2 feet
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Basket-flower, American Star-thistle, Basket Flower, American Starthistle, American Basketflower, Sweet Sultan, Shaving Brush Centaurea americana
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Centaurea americana , commonly called American Starthistle or American Basketflower , is an annual native to the southern central United States and northeastern Mexico. * The plant looks similar to the thistles but lacks their prickly characteristics...
    • Germination: 80%
    • Collection Locale: China
    • Germination Test Type: Actual
    • Height: 5-6 feet
    • Crop Year: 2016
    • Seeds Per Pound: 34,958
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Nootka Rose Rosa nutkana
    Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

    * A poultice of the chewed leaves has been used to alleviate the pain of bee stings. This plant is native to Western North America where it grows in moist openings and less often on open hillsides.
    • Genus: Rosa
    • Seeds Per Pound: 32,234
    • Quantity: 1.43 lb
    • Collection Locale: Montana
    • Height: 6-8 feet
    • Species: nutkana
    North Carolina
    Durham
    Summer-sweet, Sweet Pepper Bush, Coastal Sweetpepperbush, Summer Sweet, Summersweet Clethra Clethra alnifolia
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The stalk of the blossom is used as a soap substitute. * An oval shrub with pleasing dark green leaves and very fragrant white flowers in upright terminal racemes in late summer; does well in heavy shade; yellow or golden brown fall color; may expand...
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 54
    • Family: Clethraceae
    • Germination: 30%
    • Collection Locale: MA
    • Genus: Clethra
    • Botanical Name: Clethra alnifolia
    North Carolina
    Durham