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Utah Agave Agave utahensis
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Can be dried for future use or soaked in water to produce a flavourful beverage. * Agave utahensis is a rosette-shaped agave having blue-green sharp-spiked leaves. The seed usually germinates in 1 - 3 months at 20°c.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Genus: Agave
  • Common Name: Utah Agave
  • Botanical Name: Agave utahensis
United States
Illinois
Edelweiss
Prices start at : 7.49 USD / each

Grows 6-12'' tall and 6-9'' wide. It is bound to be a subject of conversation in your garden. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green foliage.
  • Genus: Leontopodium alpinum
  • Spread: 6-9''
  • Colors: White
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Max Height (feet): 6-12"
United States
Illinois
Oleander, White Oleander Nerium oleander Alba
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

The flowers grow in clusters at the end of each branch; they are white, pink, red or yellow, 2.5–5 cm (0.98–2.0 in) diameter, with a deeply 5-lobed corolla with a fringe round the central corolla tube.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 283,750
  • Family: Apocynaceae
  • Variety: Alba
  • Height: 6-20 feet
  • Quantity: 0.15 lb
  • Germination: 63%
United States
Illinois
Slash Pine Pinus elliottii
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Deep green needles, 5"+; 6" cones; a source of pulp, timber, rosin, and turpentine; native to the southeast U.S. It is fast-growing, but not very long-lived by pine standards (to 200 years), and prefers humid climates and moist soil.
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Species: elliottii
  • Germination: 98%
  • Quantity: 1.12 lb
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Botanical Name: Pinus elliottii
United States
Illinois
Shrubby St. Johnswort Hypericum prolificum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Also tolerates some drought. Tolerates wide range of soils, including dry rocky or sandy soils. Blooms on new growth. Can be grown as a hedge. Also useful for stabilizing embankments.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 3,286,960
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 562
  • Species: prolificum
  • Common Name: Shrubby St. Johnswort
  • Collection Locale: Missouri
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
United States
Illinois
Matucana Peruvian Torch Cactus, Matucana Peruvian Torch Trichocereus peruvianus Matucana
Prices start at : 12.95 USD / 1 packet

Besides mescaline, it also contains varying phenethylamines and other substances in minimal proportions * Today it is still used by Curanderos (medicine men) of northern Peru. * The active compound is 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine or mescaline which...
  • Genus: Trichocereus
  • Germination: 40%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 342,680
  • Common Name: Matucana Peruvian Torch Cactus, Matucana Peruvian Torch
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Purity: 98%
United States
Illinois
Utah Agave Agave utahensis
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Can be dried for future use or soaked in water to produce a flavourful beverage. * Agave utahensis is a rosette-shaped agave having blue-green sharp-spiked leaves. The seed usually germinates in 1 - 3 months at 20°c.
  • Family: Agavaceae
  • Height: 3-12 feet
  • Genus: Agave
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
United States
Illinois
European Fan Palm Chamaerops humilis - Phoenix humilis
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

It also has numerous sharp needle-like spines produced on the leaf stems; these protect the stem growing point from browsing animals. The young shoots or suckers from the bottom of the plant are also used.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 10
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Species: humilis
  • Collection Locale: Italy
  • Quantity: 5.42 lb
  • Botanical Name: Chamaerops humilis
United States
Illinois
Common Juniper Juniperus communis
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* A tea is made by boiling the leaves and stems. The male cones are yellow, 2–3 mm long, and fall soon after shedding their pollen in March–April. It is dioecious , with male and female cones on separate plants, which are wind pollinated.
  • Crop Year: 2012
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 74
  • Common Name: Common Juniper
  • Germination: 65%
  • Collection Locale: Italy
  • Genus: Juniperus
United States
Illinois
Myrtle Oak Quercus myrtifolia
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It is part of the red oak group. It is native to the southeastern United States ( Mississippi , Alabama , Florida , Georgia , South Carolina ). Leaves are obovate with bristle at the rounded tip.
  • Botanical Name: Quercus myrtifolia
  • Genus: Quercus
  • Family: Fagaceae
  • Common Name: Myrtle Oak
United States
Illinois
Tree Tobacco Nicotiana glauca
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

Plants can survive the winter outdoors in the milder parts of Britain, though they usually act as herbaceous perennials in such conditions. * Tree tobacco is native to South America but it is now widespread as an introduced species on other continents.
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Quantity: 0.03 lb
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 618
  • Common Name: Tree Tobacco
  • Botanical Name: Nicotiana glauca
  • Height: 6-8 feet
United States
Illinois
Needle Juniper, Temple Juniper, Temple Juniper Juniperus rigida
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A very ornamental plant. * It is grown as an ornamental tree, often planted in temple grounds in Japan. It is closely related to Juniperus communis (Common Juniper) and Juniperus conferta (Shore Juniper), the latter sometimes treated as a variety or subspecies...
  • Species: rigida
  • Height: 20-30 feet
  • Common Name: Needle Juniper, Temple Juniper, Temple Juniper
  • Botanical Name: Juniperus rigida
United States
Illinois
Snowdrop Bush Styrax officinalis
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

The same species is considered to occur native to California (a Mediterranean-American disjunct distribution. Some believe it to have been the stacte used together with frankincense , galbanum , and onycha to make Ketoret , the Tabernacle incense of the...
  • Collection Locale: Tobin, California
  • Quantity: 0.6 lb
  • Botanical Name: Styrax officinalis
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Height: 5-7 feet
  • Crop Year: 2015
United States
Illinois
Forget-Me-not, Chinese Hound\'s Tongue Cynoglossum amabile Firmament
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens. * Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese...
  • Genus: Cynoglossum
  • Family: Boraginaceae
  • Germination: 91%
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Quantity: 5.7 lb
  • Cultivar: Firmament
United States
Illinois
Shell Leaf Penstemon, Large Beard-tongue, Large Beardtongue, Large Beard Tongue Penstemon grandiflorus
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Penstemon grandiflorus is a perennial plant of the genus Penstemon. * A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of chest pains and stomach aches. * A very ornamental plant! * Succeeds in ordinary rich garden soils so long as they are well-drained.
  • Species: grandiflorus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 332
  • Genus: Penstemon
  • Germination: 91%
  • Purity: 96%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
United States
Illinois
American Beautyberry Callicarpa americana
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

It is juicy, sweet, fleshy, slightly aromatic. * The fruit is edible raw. * American Beautyberry ( Callicarpa americana ) is an open-habit, native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards .
  • Seeds Per Pound: 343,939
  • Family: Verbenaceae
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: American Beautyberry
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Height: 6-8 feet
United States
Illinois
Yellowbells, Yellow Trumpetbush Tecoma stans
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Yellow Trumpetbush is a ruderal species , readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy , and cleared land and occasionally becoming an invasive weed The leaves and roots of the plant contain bioactive compounds, especially monoterpenes , which may have...
  • Seeds Per Pound: 617,440
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: Tecoma stans
  • Germination: 31%
  • Purity: 99%
  • Species: stans
United States
Illinois
Camel Thorn, Camelthorn, Giraffe Thorn, Kameeldoring, Mokala Acacia erioloba
Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

* The Mokala National Park in the Northern Cape is named after this tree. * Native to Tropical Africa.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 50 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 6
  • Collection Locale: South Africa
  • Botanical Name: Acacia erioloba
  • Crop Year: 2014
United States
Illinois
English Ivy Hedera helix
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* The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Hedera helix for cough, bronchitis. * It climbs by means of aerial rootlets which cling to the substrate.
  • Family: Araliaceae
  • Common Name: English Ivy
  • Botanical Name: Hedera helix
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
United States
Illinois
Indian Rattlebox Crotalaria assamica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods. * Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance.
  • Genus: Crotalaria
  • Botanical Name: Crotalaria assamica
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 55
  • Seeds Per Pound: 25,878
  • Height: 2-4 feet
  • Germination: 98%
United States
Illinois
Rose Moss Portulaca grandiflora
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

In India, it is called "nau bajiya" or "9 o'clock flower" as it blooms in morning around 9:00 am. * The common name of moss rose is quite descriptive of this plant's key ornamental features: ruffled, rose-like flowers (to 1” diameter) appearing on prostrate...
  • Family: Portulacaceae
  • Crop Year: 2012
  • Species: grandiflora
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Rose Moss
  • Quantity: 0.41 lb
United States
Illinois
Bishop Pine, Bishop Pine, Obispo Pine, Santa Cruz Pine, Dwarf Marine Pine, Pricklecone Pine Pinus muricata
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

The species is often smaller, stunted and twisted in coastal exposures. * The mature trees grow to a height of 15-25 m, rarely up to 34 m, with a trunk diameter of up to 1.2 m. It is drought-tolerant and grows on dry, rocky soil.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Common Name: Bishop Pine, Bishop Pine, Obispo Pine, Santa Cruz Pine, Dwarf Marine Pine, Pricklecone Pine
  • Germination: 98%
  • Species: muricata
  • Purity: 99%
  • Botanical Name: Pinus muricata
United States
Illinois
Maryland Senna, Wild Senna Senna marilandica - Cassia marilandica
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The leaves and seedpods are cathartic, diuretic and vermifuge. * Senna marilandica , or Maryland Wild Senna , is a flowering plant in the United States . They are best used with Foeniculum vulgare seeds in order to counteract a tendency to cause gripe.

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    • Germination: 99%
    • Quantity: 3.96 lb
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Genus: Senna
    • Common Name: Maryland Senna, Wild Senna
    • Purity: 99%
    United States
    Illinois
    Nana Heavenly Bamboo, Dwarf Heavenly Bamboo Nandina domestica Nana
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    This varient will grow to 3 feet tall. It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green; attractive white flowers in panicles atop the stems,...
    • Height: 2-3 feet
    • Genus: Nandina
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
    • Botanical Name: Nandina domestica Nana
    • Species: domestica
    United States
    Illinois
    Ponderosa Pine, North Plateau Ponderosa Pine, Western Yellow Pine Pinus ponderosa ponderosa
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * An infusion of the dried buds has been used as an eye wash. Ponderosa from British Columbia, western Montana, Idaho, and Washington, Oregon, California & Nevada east of the Cascades crest.
    • Botanical Name: Pinus ponderosa ponderosa
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 16
    • Purity: 99%
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
    • Subspecies: ponderosa
    • Quantity: 3.11 lb
    United States
    Illinois
    Japanese Black Pine Pinus thunbergii China - Pinus thunbergiana China
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Of irregular habit, roughly conical. Pinus thunbergii prefers cooler climates and loves full sun. Easily grown from seed in the early spring, the seeds are soaked in water to start germination.
    • Collection Locale: China
    • Quantity: 16.16 lb
    • Seeds Per Pound: 27,240
    • Botanical Name: Pinus thunbergii China
    • Purity: 99%
    • Common Name: Japanese Black Pine
    United States
    Illinois
    Mountain Ebony, Orchid Tree Bauhinia variegata
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Common names include Orchid tree and Mountain-ebony. * Purple or lavender terminal flowers. * A decidious Tree growing to 12m. * Native to India and China.
    • Botanical Name: Bauhinia variegata
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 12
    • Crop Year: 2015
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Quantity: 3.43 lb
    • Collection Locale: India
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    Illinois
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