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Ivy-leaved Maple, Vine-leaved Maple ACER cissifolium
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Native to Japan. * Each leaf has 3 leaflets. * Red and Orange fall foliage.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 0.22 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 21,792
  • Crop Year: 2015
United States
Illinois
European Columbine, Columbine, Dwarf Columbine Aquilegia vulgaris  Double Mix
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Stored seed can be sown in late winter in a cold frame. * It is best to sow as soon as it is ripe in a cold frame. * The plant is short lived but self sows freely producing a good quantity of seed each year.
  • Height: 2-4 feet
  • Germination: 98%
  • Botanical Name: Aquilegia vulgaris Double Mix
  • Genus: Aquilegia
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Lot#: 050827
United States
Illinois
Butcher\'s Broom, Knee Holly, Jew\'s Myrtle Ruscus aculeatus
Prices start at : 16.95 USD / 1 packet

* Mature shoots are bound into bunches and used as scourers or as besoms. Suggested mechanisms to explain this include stimulation of venous alpha 1 and 2 adrenoreceptors and decreased capillary permeability.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Collection Locale: Spain
  • Germination: 98%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,816
  • Common Name: Butcher's Broom, Knee Holly, Jew's Myrtle
  • Botanical Name: Ruscus aculeatus
United States
Illinois
Butcher\'s Broom, Knee Holly, Jew\'s Myrtle Ruscus aculeatus
Prices start at : 16.95 USD / 1 packet

* Mature shoots are bound into bunches and used as scourers or as besoms. Suggested mechanisms to explain this include stimulation of venous alpha 1 and 2 adrenoreceptors and decreased capillary permeability.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Botanical Name: Ruscus aculeatus
  • Family: Asparagaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 8
  • Genus: Ruscus
  • Quantity: 3.55 lb
United States
Illinois
Kamchatka Bugbane, Black Bugbane, Autumn Snakeroot CIMICIFUGA simplex
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This perennial blooms late in the season and makes a great transition along shady edges.
  • Lot#: 080449
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Quantity: 0.04 lb
  • Germination: 91%
  • Species: simplex
  • Genus: CIMICIFUGA
United States
Illinois
Bearded Maple ACER barbinerve
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

In habit it perhaps most resembles the native hazelnut (Corylus avellana). Again typically of many maples, it prefers growing in some shade under a protective canopy in soil which remains moist, though experience at Mustila indicates it will grow successfully...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 15
  • Germination: 71%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: ACER barbinerve
  • Collection Locale: Russia
United States
Illinois
Pearl Bush, Common Pearlbrush, Pearlbush Exochorda racemosa
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

It typically matures to 10-15' tall and as wide. The flower buds resemble white pearls, hence the common name. * Native to China, common pearlbush is a loose, upright, early-blooming, deciduous shrub with a broad rounded shape.
  • Purity: 98%
  • Seeds Type: cs
  • Species: racemosa
  • Common Name: Pearl Bush, Common Pearlbrush, Pearlbush
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Botanical Name: Exochorda racemosa
United States
Illinois
Hop Tree, Common Hoptree, Wafer Ash, Stinking Ash Ptelea trifoliata
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* A small tree but often a shrub of a few spreading stems. * Ptelea trifoliata is the second-northernmost New World representative of the Rue (Citrus) family after American prickly-ash (Zanthoxylum americanum).
  • Genus: Ptelea
  • Seeds Per Pound: 12,258
  • Collection Locale: Colorado
  • Quantity: 3.93 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Purity: 99%
United States
Illinois
Bearded Maple ACER barbinerve
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

In habit it perhaps most resembles the native hazelnut (Corylus avellana). Again typically of many maples, it prefers growing in some shade under a protective canopy in soil which remains moist, though experience at Mustila indicates it will grow successfully...
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Purity: 98%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 15
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Common Name: Bearded Maple
United States
Illinois
Hop Tree, Common Hoptree, Wafer Ash, Stinking Ash Ptelea trifoliata
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* A small tree but often a shrub of a few spreading stems. * Ptelea trifoliata is the second-northernmost New World representative of the Rue (Citrus) family after American prickly-ash (Zanthoxylum americanum).
  • Genus: Ptelea
  • Collection Locale: Colorado
  • Purity: 99%
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Family: Rutaceae
  • Botanical Name: Ptelea trifoliata
United States
Illinois
Sakhalin Euonymus Euonymus sachalinensis     - Euonymus planipes
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The white inner bark is used in making string shoes. * Profuse scarlet fruit in early fall; leaves pale yellow in fall; sun or part shade; native to northeastern Asia.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 58
  • Genus: Euonymus
  • Botanical Name: Euonymus sachalinensis
  • Species: sachalinensis
United States
Illinois
Shamel Ash, Evergreen Ash, Mexican Ash, Tropical Ash Fraxinus uhdei
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* This Mexican native is drought tolerant and grows very quickly in tropical areas as a timber tree.
  • Botanical Name: Fraxinus uhdei
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 44
  • Height: 60-80 feet
  • Genus: Fraxinus
  • Quantity: 0.54 lb
United States
Illinois
Bumalda Bladdernut Staphylea bumalda
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Seed capsules are often described as being "bladder-like" in appearance, hence the common name of bladdernut. It is native to open forests, thickets and disturbed areas in Japan. The Japanese form of this species is rather tender in Britain, but in general...
  • Common Name: Bumalda Bladdernut
  • Quantity: 0.88 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Species: bumalda
  • Crop Year: 1999
  • Lot#: 9902
United States
Illinois
European Bladdernut Staphylea pinnata
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Stored seed should be sown as early in the year as possible and given cold stratification - it might not germinate until spring of the following year.
  • Botanical Name: Staphylea pinnata
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Family: STAPHYLEACEAE
  • Germination: 95%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,589
  • Species: pinnata
United States
Illinois
Forest Poppy Hylomecon vernalis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This poppy is a perennial that spreads via rhizomes, typically no taller than 30 cm. The pinnate leaves usually have five soft green leaflets, although three and seven occur as well, each with a shape ranging from lanceolate-oblong to rhombic, and a...
  • Lot#: 080431
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Crop Year: 2008
  • Seeds Per Pound: 299,640
  • Family: PAPAVERACEAE
United States
Illinois
Corkbark Fir Abies lasiocarpa  arizonica
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* The Corkbark Fir Abies lasiocarpa var. Arizonica occurs in United States: Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, typically at elevations of 2400-3400 m, where it commonly grows with Picea engelmannii (Burns and Honkala 1990)carpa.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Quantity: 0.59 lb
  • Height: 80 feet
  • Collection Locale: Apache National Forest, AZ
  • Common Name: Corkbark Fir
United States
Illinois
Yellow Corydalis, Yellow Rock Fumewort, Yellow Fumatory, Golden Bleeding Heart Corydalis lutea     - Pseudofumaria lutea
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

It grows wild in cracks in old walls where drainage is excellent. * Pseudofumaria lutea (syn. Corydalis lutea; Yellow Corydalis) is a short-lived perennial plant native to the southern foothills of the south-western and central Alps of Italy and Switzerland,...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Species: lutea
  • Common Name: Yellow Corydalis, Yellow Rock Fumewort, Yellow Fumatory, Golden Bleeding Heart
  • Crop Year: 2002
  • Seeds Per Pound: 238,350
  • Family: FUMARIACEAE
United States
Illinois
Fragrant Olive, Sweet Osmanthus Osmanthus fragrans
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

Sweet osmanthus is also the 'city flower' of Hangzhou , China. The flowers have a scent of apricots. * The unripe fruits are preserved in brine like olives. ; Japanese : ??? The very fragrant flowers are used by the Chinese to impart a pleasant aroma...
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 2.16 lb
  • Genus: Osmanthus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 7
  • Common Name: Fragrant Olive, Sweet Osmanthus
  • Botanical Name: Osmanthus fragrans
United States
Illinois
Striped Maple, Moose Maple, Moosewood ACER pensylvanicum
Price : CALL

* It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in July. * A stripebark with vivid white stripes on green or gray-green bark; vivid yellow fall color. * A decidious Tree growing to 4.5 m.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 30
  • Species: pensylvanicum
  • Common Name: Striped Maple, Moose Maple, Moosewood
  • Germination: 98%
  • Genus: ACER
United States
Illinois
Red Buckeye, Firecracker Plant Aesculus pavia    Northern
Price : CALL

* It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in September. * Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas to Florida in the south.
  • Botanical Name: Aesculus pavia Northern
  • Family: Hippocastanaceae
  • Genus: Aesculus
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Height: 15 feet
United States
Illinois
Roundleaved Dogwood, Roundleaf Dogwood Cornus rugosa
Price : CALL

The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood, but does not extend past 50°N (Soper and Heimburger...
  • Genus: Cornus
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Species: rugosa
  • Common Name: Roundleaved Dogwood, Roundleaf Dogwood
United States
Illinois
Aaron\'s Beard, Rose-of-Sharonwort, Creeping St. Johnswort, Goldflower Hypericum calycinum
Price : CALL

* A good ground cover plant, succeeding in the heavy shade of trees and in dry shade. The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs. It is a popular, semi- evergreen garden shrub with many named cultivars and hybrids derived from it.In North America...
  • Common Name: Aaron's Beard, Rose-of-Sharonwort, Creeping St. Johnswort, Goldflower
  • Quantity: 0.07 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Genus: Hypericum
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Germination Test Type: cut
United States
Illinois
Hairy Leafcup, Bear\'s Foot Smallanthus uvedalius     - Polymnia uvedalia    , Osteospermum uvedalia    , Smallanthus uvedalia
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is said to be of great use when applied externally to stimulate hair growth and is an ingredient of many hair lotions and ointments. * Does well along woods edges as a background plant in perennial gardens.
  • Quantity: 0.28 lb
  • Botanical Name: Smallanthus uvedalius
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Purity: 99%
  • Genus: Smallanthus
United States
Illinois
Chalk Maple ACER saccharum leucoderme    - ACER leucoderme
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* It lives in the understory in moist, rocky soils on river banks, ravines, woods, and cliffs. * A deciduous tree native to the southeastern United States from North Carolina south to northwest Florida and west to eastern Texas.
  • Purity: 98%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 16
  • Quantity: 0.36 lb
  • Germination: 77%
  • Botanical Name: ACER saccharum leucoderme
United States
Illinois
European Bladdernut Staphylea pinnata
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Stored seed should be sown as early in the year as possible and given cold stratification - it might not germinate until spring of the following year.
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Species: pinnata
  • Botanical Name: Staphylea pinnata
  • Purity: 99%
  • Collection Locale: Ukraine
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
United States
Illinois
Forest Poppy Hylomecon vernalis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This poppy is a perennial that spreads via rhizomes, typically no taller than 30 cm. The pinnate leaves usually have five soft green leaflets, although three and seven occur as well, each with a shape ranging from lanceolate-oblong to rhombic, and a...
  • Height: 12-16 inches
  • Botanical Name: Hylomecon vernalis
  • Family: PAPAVERACEAE
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Species: vernalis
  • Crop Year: 2008
United States
Illinois
Siberian Fir Abies sibirica
Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

* A coniferous evergreen tree native to the taiga east of the Volga River and south of 67°40' North latitude through Turkestan, northeast Xinjiang, Mongolia and Heilongjiang. It is used in construction, furniture, and wood pulp.
  • Genus: Abies
  • Height: 90 feet
  • Purity: 97%
  • Quantity: 0.72 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Seeds Per Pound: 33,596
United States
Illinois