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American Elm Ulmus americana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Dirr notes that several forms occur, but the one most of us recall fondly divided into several major trunks topped by spreading, arching, pendulous branches. * The glorious elm that used to line American streets.
  • Genus: Ulmus
  • Botanical Name: Ulmus americana
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 145
  • Species: americana
  • Family: Ulmaceae
  • Germination Test Type: cut
Iowa
Des Moines
Striped Maple, Moose Maple, Moosewood ACER pensylvanicum
Price : CALL

* A species of maple native to northern forests in eastern North America from southern Ontario east to Nova Scotia and south to eastern Illinois and New Jersey Conservation Plant Characteristics Acer pensylvanicum L.
  • Common Name: Striped Maple, Moose Maple, Moosewood
  • Family: Aceraceae
  • Purity: 99%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 30
  • Genus: ACER
  • Crop Year: 2017
Iowa
Des Moines
Western Virgin\'s Bower, Western White Clematis, Pepper Vine, Old-man\'s Beard, Yerba De Chiva, Western Clematis Clematis ligusticifolia
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

Unlike Black Pepper or Capsicum, however, the compounds in clematis cause internal bleeding of the digestive tract if ingested internally in large amounts. * It was called "pepper vine" by early travelers and pioneers of the American Old West.
  • Purity: 95%
  • Germination: 83%
  • Crop Year: 1992
  • Botanical Name: Clematis ligusticifolia
  • Genus: Clematis
  • Lot#: 9201
Iowa
Des Moines
Blue Paloverde Parkinsonia florida     - Cercidium floridum    , Cercidium floridum floridum
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

It is a rapidly growing large shrub or small tree, and rarely survives to 100 years. The plant is drought-deciduous, shedding its foliage for most of the year, leafing out after rainfall.
  • Botanical Name: Parkinsonia florida
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Common Name: Blue Paloverde
  • Collection Locale: Thermal, CA
  • Genus: Parkinsonia
  • Germination: 98%
Iowa
Des Moines
Jerusalem Thorn, Mexican Palo Verde, Jellybean Tree, Parkinsonia, Palo Verde Parkinsonia aculeata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Common names include Mexican Palo Verde , Parkinsonia , Jerusalem Thorn , and Jellybean Tree . * Parkinsonia aculeata is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae . * Large yellow fragrant flowers in loose clusters, in spring; green branches,...
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Germination: 99%
  • Common Name: Jerusalem Thorn, Mexican Palo Verde, Jellybean Tree, Parkinsonia, Palo Verde
  • Crop Year: 2001
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Genus: Parkinsonia
Iowa
Des Moines
Blue Spruce Picea pungens  glauca  AZ Kaibab
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * Our Majestic seed source is the only one that we sell that has a better blue color than Kaibab. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range.
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Common Name: Blue Spruce
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Location: AZ Kaibab
  • Variety: glauca
  • Species: pungens
Iowa
Des Moines
English Holly Ilex aquifolium
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* An excellent hedge plant, tolerating hard clipping and maritime exposure and forming a dense stock-proof shelter. * Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass Holly or Mexican Holly)...
  • Family: Aquifoliaceae
  • Quantity: 1.2 lb
  • Common Name: English Holly
  • Collection Locale: Italy
  • Height: 20-30 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 12,258
Iowa
Des Moines
Tufted Hairgrass Deschampsia cespitosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Numerous flower stems rise in summer from the foliage mound to a height of 3' bearing wide, airy panicles (to 20" long) of tiny, variably-colored flowers (tones of gold, silver, purple and green) which form a cloud over the foliage that is particularly...
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 2018
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Botanical Name: Deschampsia cespitosa
  • Quantity: 1.02 lb
Iowa
Des Moines
Mugo Pine, Mugo Pine Tree, Mountain Pine Pinus mugo  mughus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Pinus mugo mughus is an outdoor tree and with protection from extreme heat and cold, it can stay outdoor all year long. This Bonsai is a good one for beginners because it is low-maintenance, a slow grower, and has a burly frame.
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 68
  • Purity: 98%
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Species: mugo
  • Seeds Per Pound: 63,866
Iowa
Des Moines
Mugo Pine Tree, Mountain Pine Pinus mugo  rostrata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Unlike most species of pine. * Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m,...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Crop Year: 2012
  • Common Name: Mugo Pine Tree, Mountain Pine
  • Quantity: 1.46 lb
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Purity: 99%
Iowa
Des Moines
Manchu Striped Maple ACER tegmentosum
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Green to greenish purple stems with white stripes; of open habit with yellow fall color. * Native to northeast Asia.
  • Botanical Name: ACER tegmentosum
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Crop Year: 1999
  • Quantity: 2.54 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 10,669
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 48
Iowa
Des Moines
Lace Bark Pine, Bunge\'s Pine Pinus bungeana
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Recommended for buffer strips around parking lots or for median strip plantings in the highway. * Established plants tolerate drought, succeeding in hot dry sites. * It is grown as ornamental plant in East Asian classical gardens where it symbolizes...
  • Quantity: 4.41 lb
  • Botanical Name: Pinus bungeana
  • Common Name: Lace Bark Pine, Bunge's Pine
  • Seeds Per Pound: 3,031
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
Iowa
Des Moines
Yaupon, Yaupon Holly, Cassina Ilex vomitoria
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Too small for commercial exploitation, the wood is used locally for turnery, inlay work, woodenware etc. * A lovely, useful plant with white or gray bark, shiny dark green leaves, translucent quarter-inch scarlet fruit in large quantities; takes well...
  • Quantity: 1.83 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 61,909
  • Germination: 91%
  • Common Name: Yaupon, Yaupon Holly, Cassina
  • Species: vomitoria
  • Collection Locale: Louisiana
Iowa
Des Moines
Silk-floss Tree Chorisia speciosa     - Ceiba speciosa
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

From the seeds it is possible to obtain vegetable oil (both edible and industrially useful). * The natural habitat of the silk floss tree is the north-east of Argentina, east of Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Collection Locale: India
  • Quantity: 1.02 lb
  • Genus: Chorisia
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Bombacaceae
Iowa
Des Moines
Orange Cotoneaster, Franchet\'s Cotoneaster, Wintergreen, Franchet Cotoneaster Cotoneaster franchetii
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant can be grown as an informal windbreak hedge in all but the most exposed situations. * Cotoneaster franchetii ( Franchet's Cotoneaster ) is a species of Cotoneaster native to southwestern China , in the provinces of Guizhou , Sichuan , Xizang...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Common Name: Orange Cotoneaster, Franchet's Cotoneaster, Wintergreen, Franchet Cotoneaster
  • Botanical Name: Cotoneaster franchetii clean seed
  • Seeds Per Pound: 30,000
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 64
Iowa
Des Moines
Japanese Barberry Berberis thunbergii
Price : CALL

* Plants can be grown as a medium-size hedge. * Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species of Berberis , native to Japan and eastern Asia .
  • Height: 4-7 feet
  • Genus: Berberis
  • Common Name: Japanese Barberry
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
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Des Moines
American Hornbeam, Hornbeam, Blue Beech, Ironwood, Musclewood, Water Beech, Muscle-beech, Smooth-barked Ironwood Carpinus caroliniana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It also grows in Canada (southwest Quebec and southeast Ontario), Mexico (central and southern), Guatemala, and western Honduras. It has a shallow, wide-spreading root system. It is native to eastern North America, from Minnesota and southern Ontario...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Common Name: American Hornbeam, Hornbeam, Blue Beech, Ironwood, Musclewood, Water Beech, Muscle-beech, Smooth-barked Ironwood
  • Family: Betulaceae
  • Species: caroliniana
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 38
  • Germination Test Type: cut
Iowa
Des Moines
Burgundy Lace Japanese Maple ACER palmatum matsumurae  Burgundy Lace
Price : CALL

* It will fit into smaller landscape plantings. * Hardy and beautiful. * This is a striking American cultivar of the "ribbon-leaf" group of Japanese Maples.
  • Subspecies: matsumurae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Common Name: Burgundy Lace Japanese Maple
  • Botanical Name: ACER palmatum matsumurae Burgundy Lace fresh/green seed
  • Family: Aceraceae
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Des Moines
Blue Spruce, Colorado Blue Spruce Picea pungens  glauca  NM Carson
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range. * This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds.
  • Variety: glauca
  • Botanical Name: Picea pungens glauca NM Carson
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Purity: 99%
  • Location: NM Carson
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 2
Iowa
Des Moines
Green Lace-leaf Japanese Maple ACER palmatum matsumurae  Dissectum Viridis
Price : CALL

* The fall color is golden to red. * It has gracefully arching branches and grows somewhat faster than other cultivars.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Species: palmatum
  • Genus: ACER
  • Family: Aceraceae
  • Common Name: Green Lace-leaf Japanese Maple
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Des Moines
Trident Maple ACER buergerianum     - ACER buergeranum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree reaching a height of 5-20 m with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter. * Rich green leaf turns gorgeous in fall--yellow, orange, red; much used as street tree in Japan, Korea, and the Pacific Northwestern USA Trident...
  • Common Name: Trident Maple
  • Botanical Name: ACER buergerianum
  • Family: Aceraceae
  • Height: 75 feet
  • Germination: 83%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 42
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Des Moines
Umbrella Pine, Japanese Umbrella Pine, Koyamaki SCIADOPITYS verticillata
Prices start at : 15.95 USD / 1 packet

It is the sole member of the family Sciadopityaceae and genus Sciadopitys , a living fossil with no close relatives, and known in the fossil record for about 230 million years. * Its genus name comes from the Greek prefix sciado- meaning "shadow" and...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 12
  • Germination: 43%
  • Botanical Name: SCIADOPITYS verticillata
  • Family: TAXODIACEAE
  • Species: verticillata
  • Height: 90 feet
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Des Moines
Parney Cotoneaster, Milkflower Cotoneaster Cotoneaster coriaceus     - Cotoneaster lacteus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Petiole 4–8 mm, initially densely yellow tomentose, subglabrous when old; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, sparsely tomentose or glabrescent at fruiting; leaf blade obovate to elliptic, 2–4.5 × 1.2–2.8 cm, thickly leathery, midvein prominently...
  • Germination: 91%
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Collection Locale: Italy
  • Lot#: 9101
  • Genus: Cotoneaster
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 88
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Des Moines
Atrolineare Japanese Maple ACER palmatum amoenum  Atrolineare  - ACER palmatum amoenum  Atrolineare
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Leaves start off red in the spring fade to greenish red in the summer and then turn crimson in the fall.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Common Name: Atrolineare Japanese Maple
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Subspecies: amoenum
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Des Moines
Honeylocust, Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos
Price : CALL

The juiceof the pods is antiseptic. * The seeds have been roasted and used as a coffee substitute. * The pods have been made into a tea for the treatment of indigestion, measles, catarrh etc.
  • Botanical Name: Gleditsia triacanthos
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Genus: Gleditsia
  • Height: 60-100 feet
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Des Moines
White Fir, Concolor Fir Abies concolor concolor   NM, Santa Fe
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is popular as an ornamental landscaping tree and as a Christmas Tree. * The crushed leaves have a strong lemony scent. Highly recommended for zones 5 and 6. Therefore a little bluer in color than the Colorado and a little more cold hardy than the...
  • Botanical Name: Abies concolor concolor NM, Santa Fe
  • Height: 100 feet
  • Crop Year: 2009
  • Quantity: 2.13 lb
  • Common Name: White Fir, Concolor Fir
  • Species: concolor
Iowa
Des Moines
Thornless Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos   Inermis
Price : CALL

* Our "Thornless" seed comes very true. It is very adaptable to soils and displays excellent salt tolerance. * Current research is examining the leaves as a potential source of anticancer compounds.
  • Common Name: Thornless Honey Locust
  • Botanical Name: Gleditsia triacanthos Inermis
  • Genus: Gleditsia
  • Height: 60-100 feet
  • Cultivar: Inermis
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