Hello all,
I have native plant seed for trade, I am looking for native plant seed. Thanks for looking!
99% of my seed will be cleaned of chaff. Milkweed..I'll send you the whole pod, or the fuzz w/seed attached, and rattlesnake master..I'll either send the whole pod or crush it up, you get seed and chaff. If you're totally anti-chaff, then you probably shouldn't trade with me, and I'd say you need to get out more. Chaff happens.
Please use bubblewrap when you send your seeds. Sorry about that...that's my only condition. Edit..I lied. There is another condition. I will need your address. In a DG mail. I'm not a stalker, pervert, or any other sort of ne'er do well. I'm not asking for your SS or credit card #'s, for cripe's sake. Relax already! ;-)
I really prefer trades for other US native plant seeds(forbs, grasses, wetland and bog), but if you have something non-native and interesting...give me a tootle!
When seed is ready, there will be an asterisk by it! Updated 11/23/05. The native plants are all NE Illinois genotypes, or SE Wisconsin genotype. All of these seeds can be late fall/winter/very early spring sown. They all need cold/moist stratification, which you can also do in your fridge.
Sorry this is so dang long, but I've been trading for so dang long! Newbies appreciated and treated like the sweet, dewy youths that they are.
Native Plants
Grasses
*Big Bluestem (collected at the Lake Bluff, IL train station)
*Indian Grass
*June Grass(1 trade)
*Little Bluestem (4 trades)
*Switch Grass
Various Forbs
*Boltonia asteroides (many trades)
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia Cardinalis)
*Side oats Grama (20 trades)
*Mexican Hat (yellow)(20 trades at least!)
*Ratibida Pinnata (10 trades)
*Ratibida Lancinata (10 trades at least)
*Meadow Blazing Star (liatris ligulistylis, many trades)
Prairie Blazing Star (OUT)
*Baptisia Australis (many trades)
*Joe Pye weed (20 trades)
*New England Aster
*Foxglove Beardtongue (penstemon digitalis)
*New York Ironweed(15 trades)
*Soloman's Seal (berries, 4 or 5 to a trade-double dormancy required)You will have to clean the berry off the seed. Or, just throw the berries out in the woods and see what happens
*Elm Leaf Goldenrod (spreads cheerily. Beware)
Prairie Dock
Compass plant
*Cup Plant (Silphium Tereberinatheum)
*Turtle Head, pink (chelone)
Milkweeds
*Swamp Milkweed, (Asclepius Incarnata, 10 trades)
*Butterfly Weed (Asclepius Tuberosa)
*Prairie Milkweed (Asclepius Pumila)
Non-Native perennials, or Native Cultivars:
*light pink Hollyhock
*Scabiosa (cream colored, dozens of trades)
Wanted:
Spilanthes (eyeball plant, toothache plant)
Native forbs and/or grasses..prairie, woodland, wetland or bog.
Basil
Plain old blue Morning Glories
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Have For Trade: Native Plant seed
I have Jack in the Pulpit seeds (Arisaema triphyllum) that is native to New England states. I also have Dragon Claw millet, Echinops Ritro, Balsmaina Impatiens (purple) & blue Balloon flower, & lots of Morning Glories. (mixed colors but mostly blue/purple)
The Jacks are easy to grow & will spread by seed & bulb-lets.
I am interested in the Turtle Head or Cardinal Flower.
Let me know if I have anything that interests you!
Julie
I have some Spilanthes for your Prairie Milkweed if you want to trade. LMK, Ronnie