Sprouting Seed Taxonomy

Taxonomy = a system for naming and organizing things, especially plants and animals, into groups which share similar qualities. In plants taxonomy is broken down like this: Family - Genus - Species - Cultivar.

Our list is alphabetical - starting with the Family - then the Genus, Species, and so on. We love knowing who is related to who, but our list is not as complete as it might be. We will work on it further, if time ever allows.

Some Cultivar (Variety) names may change on rare occassion - that is, we may get a different one now and then. Most are unknown. Our seeds come - for the most part - from small organic family farms. The farmers have saved their seeds for many years - in some cases generations. The seeds had - at some time - a cultivar name, but it has been lost or forgotten. The way we see it - when a farmer grows plants to seed year after year, it becomes its own cultivar in that it is acclimatized and through the selection process, develops some traits uniqe to that farm. That of course can not be strictly true or we would have an infinite number of cultivars, but it is a concept worth sharing.