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Chinese Haw Crataegus pinnatifida
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

It has been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels and to improve blood circulation. * The wood is heavy, hard, tough, close-grained. A pleasant flavour. * The fruit is antibacterial, anticholesterolemic, cardiotonic, hypotensive, stomachic, vasodilator.
  • Species: pinnatifida
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 13
  • Common Name: Chinese Haw
  • Quantity: 2.75 lb
  • Botanical Name: Crataegus pinnatifida
  • Genus: Crataegus
United States
Iowa
European Red Elderberry, Red Elderberry Sambucus racemosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

The fruits are popular with birds, who distribute the seeds. * The blossoms have been used in the treatment of measles. * The fruit is a bright red or sometimes purple drupe containing 3 to 5 seeds.
  • Common Name: European Red Elderberry, Red Elderberry
  • Species: racemosa
  • Genus: Sambucus
  • Height: 10-15 feet
  • Quantity: 0.64 lb
  • Botanical Name: Sambucus racemosa
United States
Iowa
Fleshy Hawthorn Crataegus succulenta
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The fruit is excellent for making jellies, it can also be dried for later use. A small fruit with a sweet, juicy and pulpy flesh. * Crataegus succulenta is a species of hawthorn known by the common names fleshy hawthorn and succulent hawthorn .
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Height: 15-20 feet
  • Crop Year: 2007
  • Collection Locale: Manitoba, Canada
  • Genus: Crataegus
  • Purity: 99%
United States
Iowa
Downy Hawthorn Crataegus mollis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

This tree inhabits wooded bottomlands, the prairie border, and the midwest savanna understorey. It can be used as a hedge. * Crataegus mollis , known as Downy Hawthorn or Red Hawthorn , occurs in eastern North America from southeastern North Dakota east...
  • Botanical Name: Crataegus mollis
  • Genus: Crataegus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 20
  • Height: 25-30 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 8,172
  • Purity: 99%
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Iowa
Chinese Pear, Sand Pear, Harbin Pear, Ussurian Pear Pyrus ussuriensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Used as a rootstock for P. Pyrifolia culta in Korea, it is very frost resistant. * This makes a beautiful flowering tree all on its own even though it is primarily grown as an extremely cold hardy rootstock for grafting edible pear varieties.
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Species: ussuriensis
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 42
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 10,896
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Iowa
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...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Botanical Name: Cornus rugosa
  • Species: rugosa
  • Height: 6-10 feet
United States
Iowa
Hard Fescue, Sheep Fescue Festuca ovina  duriuscula
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown. * It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs , for example in the Portlethen Moss , Scotland.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 481,240
  • Common Name: Hard Fescue, Sheep Fescue
  • Genus: Festuca
  • Germination: 80%
  • Botanical Name: Festuca ovina duriuscula
  • Crop Year: 2013
United States
Iowa
Black Ash Fraxinus nigra
Price : CALL

* A small deciduous tree with coarse ascending branches and a slender, sometimes bent or leaning trunk. Extremely hardy and fond of wet areas and sites with poor drainage; native to central and northeastern U.S. * Logs of wood can be beaten with mauls...
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • Botanical Name: Fraxinus nigra
  • Height: 45-60 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
United States
Iowa
Downy Hawthorn Crataegus mollis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

This tree inhabits wooded bottomlands, the prairie border, and the midwest savanna understorey. It can be used as a hedge. * Crataegus mollis , known as Downy Hawthorn or Red Hawthorn , occurs in eastern North America from southeastern North Dakota east...
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Botanical Name: Crataegus mollis
  • Germination: 56%
  • Genus: Crataegus
  • Collection Locale: North Dakota
  • Purity: 99%
United States
Iowa
Walter Dogwood Cornus walteri
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* An easily grown plant, it succeeds in any soil of good or moderate fertility, ranging from acid to shallow chalk. * This species is closely related to C. * The fruit is a source of oil.
  • Crop Year: 2011
  • Common Name: Walter Dogwood
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Family: CORNACEAE
  • Quantity: 3.44 lb
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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Iowa
European Mountain Ash Sorbus aucuparia
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

It has compound leaves and is native from Europe to Siberia. All parts of the plant contain tannin and can be used as a black dye. * A cosmetic face-mask is made from the fruits and is used to combat wrinkled skin.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Common Name: European Mountain Ash
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 69
  • Purity: 99%
  • Height: 30-50 feet
  • Quantity: 31.89 lb
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Iowa
Niagara Big Bluestem Andropogon gerardii   Niagara
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) . * Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened seed at a time when soil temperatures have reached 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 156,876
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Height: 4-6 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 290
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Iowa
Green Mormon Tea, Mormon Tea, Green Ephedra, Mountain Joint Fir, Brigham Tea Ephedra viridis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The stems of most members ofthis genus contain the alkaloid ephedrine and are valuable in the treatment of asthma and many other complaints of therespiratory system. The whole plant can be used at much lower concentrations than the isolated constituents...
  • Family: Ephedraceae
  • Collection Locale: UT
  • Botanical Name: Ephedra viridis
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 45
  • Quantity: 2.21 lb
  • Germination Test Type: TZ
United States
Iowa
Chlorosarca Hawthorn Crataegus chlorosarca
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

Useful for making tool handles, mallets and other small items. * The wood is heavy, hard, tough, close-grained. * Seedling trees take from 5 - 8 years before they start bearing fruit, though grafted trees will often flower heavily in their third year.
  • Height: 15-20 feet
  • Species: chlorosarca
  • Common Name: Chlorosarca Hawthorn
  • Purity: 99%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Seeds Per Pound: 22,612
United States
Iowa
Hard Fescue, Sheep Fescue Festuca ovina  duriuscula
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown. * It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs , for example in the Portlethen Moss , Scotland.
  • Common Name: Hard Fescue, Sheep Fescue
  • Variety: duriuscula
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Seeds Per Pound: 481,240
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
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Iowa
Tecate Cypress Cupressus guadalupensis  forbesii   - Hesperocyparis forbesii    , Cupressus forbesii
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

* The northernmost stand, in Orange County, which comprises a large area on the upper limits of Coal Canyon and on Sierra Peak in the Santa Ana Mountains, burned in a 2006 wildfire.
  • Quantity: 0.13 lb
  • Variety: forbesii
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Botanical Name: Cupressus guadalupensis forbesii
  • Common Name: Tecate Cypress
  • Height: 20-30 feet
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Iowa
Manchurian Hazelnut Corylus sieboldiana  mandshurica   - Corylus mandshurica
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* In culture, since 1882. * Common in mixed and coniferous forests as undergrowth , sometimes, especially in the burned areas and clearings , forms thickets. Fruiting in September.
  • Genus: Corylus
  • Seeds Per Pound: 544
  • Height: 10-15 feet
  • Family: Betulaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
  • Common Name: Manchurian Hazelnut
United States
Iowa
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. Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47.
  • Height: 1-2 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 85
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Common Name: Twoleaf Senna, Twin-leaf Senna
  • Collection Locale: New Mexico
  • Genus: Senna
United States
Iowa
Georgia Oak, Stone Mountain Oak Quercus georgiana
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

* The tree was first discovered in 1849 at Stone Mountain, Georgia, where several specimens grow along the popular walk-up trail. * In the wild they are often shrub-like. * The Georgia oak ( Quercus georgiana ), also called the Stone Mountain oak , is...
  • Species: georgiana
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 25 to 50 feet
  • Germination: 83%
  • Common Name: Georgia Oak, Stone Mountain Oak
  • Collection Locale: Georgia
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Iowa
Grape Ivy, Japanese Creeper, Woodbine, Boston Ivy, Japanese Ivy Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Resembles Virginia Creeper except that 5" leaf is 3-lobed and shinier. * Parthenocissus tricuspidata is a flowering plant in the grape family ( Vitaceae ) native to eastern Asia in Japan , Korea , and northern and eastern China .
  • Seeds Per Pound: 16,344
  • Germination: 91%
  • Quantity: 6.49 lb
  • Botanical Name: Parthenocissus tricuspidata
  • Purity: 98%
  • Genus: Parthenocissus
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Iowa
Turkey Oak Quercus laevis
Price : CALL

It is native to the southeastern United States , occurring on the coastal plain from Delaware south to central Florida , and west to southeast Louisiana . * The American Turkey Oak ( Quercus laevis ) is a member of the red oak group of oaks .
  • Species: laevis
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Family: Fagaceae
  • Common Name: Turkey Oak
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Iowa
Riverflat Hawthorn, Western Mayhaw, Mayhaw Crataegus opaca
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Clusters of showy pink or white flowers appear before and with the leaves. River-flat hawthorn or may haw is a small tree or shrub, to 30 ft., with spiny branches and oval to oblong, dark-green leaves.
  • Crop Year: 2011
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Purity: 99%
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 18,160
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Iowa
Giant Evergreen-chinquapin Castanopsis chrysophylla
Price : CALL

Over much of its range, giant chinkapin shows several growth forms; it grows in a wide variety of habitats but is rarely a dominant component of any stand. Ecologically and taxonomically, it remains a poorly understood species.
  • Botanical Name: Castanopsis chrysophylla
  • Family: FAGACEAE
  • Common Name: Giant Evergreen-chinquapin
  • Height: 80-90 feet
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Iowa
Green Mormon Tea, Mormon Tea, Green Ephedra, Mountain Joint Fir, Brigham Tea Ephedra viridis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The stems of most members ofthis genus contain the alkaloid ephedrine and are valuable in the treatment of asthma and many other complaints of therespiratory system. The whole plant can be used at much lower concentrations than the isolated constituents...
  • Species: viridis
  • Genus: Ephedra
  • Botanical Name: Ephedra viridis
  • Collection Locale: UT
  • Common Name: Green Mormon Tea, Mormon Tea, Green Ephedra, Mountain Joint Fir, Brigham Tea
  • Germination: 79%
United States
Iowa
Tatarica White Mulberry, White Mulberry, Tatarian White Mulberry Morus alba  tatarica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Berries, white. * This is a cold hardy variety of the species. * Originally imported as food for silkworms. * The white mulberry ( Morus alba ) is a fast-growing, small to medium sized tree.
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Species: alba
  • Family: Moraceae
  • Collection Locale: Ukraine
  • Germination: 91%
  • Purity: 99%
United States
Iowa
Riverflat Hawthorn, Western Mayhaw, Mayhaw Crataegus opaca
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Clusters of showy pink or white flowers appear before and with the leaves. River-flat hawthorn or may haw is a small tree or shrub, to 30 ft., with spiny branches and oval to oblong, dark-green leaves.

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    • Purity: 99%
    • Germination: 99%
    • Height: 30 feet
    • Crop Year: 2011
    • Quantity: 0.51 lb
    • Family: Rosaceae
    United States
    Iowa
    Spiny Saltbush, Shadscale Atriplex confertifolia
    Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The leaves are cooked and used as greens. * The seed is used in pinole or ground into a meal and used as a thickener in making bread or mixed with flour in making bread. * Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic...
    • Crop Year: 2013
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
    • Botanical Name: Atriplex confertifolia
    • Germination: 86%
    • Quantity: 3.65 lb
    • Seeds Per Pound: 47,216
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    Iowa