I just sent you an email. I looked at your want list and did not see any there, I do notice you want peonies. You have reached the right person. Send me an email and I can send pictures of which ones I am diving. flowersbytheriver2@comcast.net This post was edited by illinoisdoglover on Fri, Jun 14, 13 at 22:29

Fantastic list of seeds! I think it is just great that you have focused your life on nature at such a young age. I too would love to have 10 (maybe 5) acres someday to plant a wonderland of natives plants, and am already doing that on 1.25 acres. Difference is, my interest didn't come into sharp focus until age 45. :) There are quite a few seeds on this list I am interested in, and I checked your want list and I have a few on that list. Maybe we can do a trade this fall? Just a note - on your want list is Cynanchum louiseae - this is an extremely invasive non-native vine that is becoming a serious problem in the Northeast US. And it has the additional problem that Monarch butterflies will "sense" it is in the Milkweed family, lay eggs on it, and then it will kill the caterpillars because it is toxic to Monarch larvae.

This is a very difficult question. Different botanists have described different numbers of varieties within this species, using different characteristics. No varieties at all are described in one of the most recent references, the Flora of North America, although this work does describe the problem. Quoting from the Flora of North America page linked below: Achillea millefolium is morphologically variable and has been treated as either a single species with varieties or as multiple distinct species. At least 58 names have been used for North American specimens. Some early workers (e.g., J. Clausen et al. 1948) thought the native North American plants were taxonomically distinguishable from introduced, Old World plants. Other workers (e.g., R. J. Tyrl 1975) have treated A. millefolium as a cosmopolitan, Northern Hemisphere polyploid complex of native and introduced plants that have hybridized, forming diploid, tetraploid, pentaploid, hexaploid, septaploid, and octoploid plants and/or populations constituting a single, variable species. An older work, Gleason and Cronquist's "Manual of Vascular Plants" makes a relatively simple distinction between native and introduced Achillea: "Typical European A. millefolium, a hexaploid with flat leaves, the relatively broad ultimate segments all in nearly the same plane, is rarely introduced in our range. Our native forms are mostly tetraploid, with narrower leaf-segments disposed in various planes so that the leaf is airily 3-dimensional. These represent the transcontinental ssp. lanulosa (Nutt.) Piper, consisting of several varieties as yet not well understood." You could try contacting the company that prepares the wildflower mix and asking about the origin of their seed. Here is a link that might be useful: Achillea millefolium in Flora of North America

Hello, Do you still have the seeds you listed on Gardenweb? I'm interested in quite a few, but I doubt I have anything interesting for you. So will you please have a look at my have list at http://davesgarden.com/community/trading/list.php?list=have&member=JonnaSudenius If there are interesting things on it for you, please let me know. Kind regards, Jonna Du kanske vill titta på: tradelist Jonna Sudenius