Browsers that can not handle javascript will not be able to access some features of this site.
Skip Navigation
Michigan Department of Agriculture Michigan.gov
Michigan.gov HomeMDA Home | Sitemap | Contact MDA | Keywords | FAQ | Online Services | eMDA
Printer Friendly Version Printer Friendly   Text Only Version Text Version  Share this page.
Nursery Definitions

Annual Plants Plants that complete their life cycle within one growing season.  Examples of annual plants include impatiens, petunias, tomato plants and pepper plants. Those plants that survive through the winter and produce new growth the following spring are not considered to be annual plants.
Plant Grower
or Dealer
Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation offering for sale herbaceous perennials, or biennial nursery stock, small fruit plants and asparagus, rhubarb and other perennial roots.
Nursery Grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown, or cultivated for the purpose of distributing or selling nursery stock
Nursery Dealer Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation who buys nursery stock with the intent of reselling or re-shipping it independent of a nursery operator or, or who is engaged with a nursery operator or dealer in handling nursery stock on a consignment basis.
Nursery Stock All botanically classified hardy perennial or biennial trees shrubs, vines, and plants, either domesticated or wild, cuttings, grafts, scions, bulbs, buds, rhizomes, or roots thereof, fruit pits; also other such plants and plant parts for, or capable of, propagation, excepting seeds of field crops, vegetables, or flowers, corms and tubers.
Related Content
 •  Operation Safe
 •  Give Pests the Push-off this Winter!

Michigan.gov Home | MDA Home | Contact MDA | State Web Sites | FAQ
Privacy Policy | Link Policy | Accessibility Policy | Security Policy | Michigan News | Michigan.gov Survey

Copyright © 2001-2009 State of Michigan