Shrubs and Trees

Granite Seed Company takes great care in the harvesting of shrub and tree seed. Most species are hand-collected. Our shrub seed is source-identified to insure that you will get seed which is well-suited to your site. Granite Seed offers a large selection from all areas of the West, and many species you won’t find elsewhere.

Scientific Name	Common name
Acacia constricta	White-thorn acacia
Acacia farnesiana	Sweet acacia
Acacia greggii	Catclaw acacia
Acer glabrum	Rocky Mountain maple
Ambrosia ambrosioides	Giant bursage
Ambrosia deltoidea	Triangle-leaf bursage
Ambrosia dumosa	White bursage
Amelanchier alnifolia	Saskatoon serviceberry
Amelanchier utahensis	Utah serviceberry
Arctostaphylos pungens	Pointleaf manzanita
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi	Bearberry or Kinnikinnick
Artemisia arbuscula	Low sage
Artemisia cana	Silver sagebrush
Artemisia filifolia	Sand sage
Artemisia frigida	Fringed sagebrush
Artemisia ludoviciana	Prairie sage
Artemisia nova	Black sagebrush
Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata	Basin big sagebrush
Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana	Mountain big sagebrush
Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis	Wyoming big sagebrush
Atriplex canescens	Fourwing saltbush
Atriplex confertifolia	Shadscale
Atriplex corrugata	Mat saltbush
Atriplex cuneata	Castle valley saltbush
Atriplex gardneri	Gardner saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis	Quail bush
Atriplex obovata	New Mexico saltbush
Atriplex polycarpa	Desert saltbush
Atriplex semibaccata	Australian saltbush
Atriplex tridentata	Trident saltbush
Baccharis sarothroides	Desert broom
Bassia prostrata	Forage kochia
Caesalpinia gilliesii	Bird of paradise
Calliandra eriophylla	False mesquite or Fairy-duster
Ceanothus integerrimus	Deer brush ( or Mountain lilac)
Ceanothus sanguineus	Redstem ceanothus
Ceanothus velutinus	Snowbrush ceanothus
Celtis pallida	Desert hackberry
Cercocarpus ledifolius	Curl-leaf mountain mahogany
Cercocarpus montanus	Birch-leaf mountain mahogany
Chilopsis linearis	Desert willow
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus	Douglas (or Low) rabbitbrush
Cleome isomeris	Bladderpod
Coleogyne ramosissima	Blackbrush
Cornus canadensis	Bunchberry
Cornus sericea ssp. sericea	Redosier dogwood
Dasylirion wheeleri	Desert spoon
Encelia farinosa	Brittlebush
Encelia frutescens	Bush encelia
Ephedra nevadensis	Nevada Mormon tea
Ephedra viridis	Green Mormon tea
Ericameria laricifolia	Turpentinebush
Ericameria nauseosa	Rubber rabbitbrush
Eriogonum fasciculatum	Flat-top buckwheat
Fallugia paradoxa	Apache plume
Ferocactus wislizeni	Barrel cactus
Grayia spinosa	Spiny hopsage
Gutierrezia sarothrae	Broom snakeweed
Hymenoclea salsola	Cheesebush (or White burrobush)
Isocoma tenuisecta	Burro-weed
Juniperus scopulorum	Rocky Mountain juniper
Krascheninnikovia lanata	Winterfat
Larrea tridentata	Creosote bush
Lotus rigidus	Deervetch
Lycium andersonii	Wolfberry
Lycium exsertum	Thornbush
Mahonia repens	Creeping Oregon grape
Olneya tesota	Ironwood
Parkinsonia aculeata	Mexican palo verde
Parkinsonia florida	Blue palo verde
Parkinsonia microphylla	Foothills palo verde
Peraphyllum ramosissimum	Wild crab apple
Pinus contorta var. latifolia	Lodgepole pine
Pinus ponderosa	Ponderosa pine
Prosopis juliflora velutina	Velvet mesquite
Prosopis pubescens	Screwbean mesquite
Prunus fasciculata	Desert almond
Prunus virginiana	Chokecherry
Pseudotsuga menziesii	Douglas fir
Psilostrophe cooperi	Paperflower
Purshia glandulosa	Desert bitterbrush
Purshia mexicana	Cliffrose
Purshia tridentata	Antelope bitterbrush
Quercus gambelii	Gambel oak
Rhus glabra	Smooth sumac
Rhus trilobata	Oakbrush sumac
Ribes aureum	Golden currant
Ribes cereum	Wax currant
Ribes montigenum	Mountain gooseberry
Robinia neomexicana	New Mexican locust
Rosa nutkana	Nootka rose
Rosa woodsii	Woods rose
Salvia coccinea	Scarlet sage
Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea	Blue elderberry
Sambucus racemosa	Red elderberry
Sarcobatus vermiculatus	Black greasewood
Shepherdia argentea	Silver buffaloberry
Shepherdia canadensis	Russett buffaloberry
Shepherdia rotundifolia	Roundleaf buffaloberry
Simmondsia chinensis	Jojoba
Symphoricarpos albus	Common snowberry
Symphoricarpos oreophilus	Mountain snowberry
Thymophylla acerosa	Pricklyleaf dogweed
Thymophylla pentachaeta	Golden dyssodia
Yucca glauca	Spanish bayonet or Small soapweed
Zinnia acerosa	Desert zinnia
Ziziphus obtusifolia	Graythorn