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The Southern Seed Legacy (SSL) maintains a collection of over 460 named varieties of southern heirloom seeds. These seeds are donated entirely by members and friends of the SSL. We maintain them in a climate controlled facility at the University of Georgia. Although we are not an ex situ seed “bank” our collection functions as a way station between southern gardeners and farmers. We receive materials and try to distribute them as soon as possible on to other interested members who will grow them out. Any registered member of the SSL (link to membership) can receive free seed under our Pass Along Southern Seeds (PASS). Our objective is to keep southern agrobiodiversity alive, not in gene banks, but in the fields and gardens of people.

Our network is different than many seed saver groups in that we are equally interested in the cultural histories, stories, and usages of southern plants, including preparation and recipes. We collect as many stories as possible and link them to the seed.

Since all SSL seed is donated free by members and friends, we are opposed to the commercialization of seeds obtained from our collection. If seeds are obtained under the PASS program, we ask that you not pass them along to seed companies or organizations that will grow out the seed, repackage them, and then market for profit.

Click on the name of each plant below to view a picture of its seed and a description. (Last revised June 5, 2007)

1. Turkey Craw Bean 2. Clarke Range 3. Big Washington 4. Mosteller 5. Keener Corn 6. Nancy West Bean 7. Whipporwill Peas 8. Meier Family Purple Hull Pole Beans 9. Rattlesnake Pea 10. John Coykendall Butterbeans 11. Fall Bean 12. Quincy Green Beans 13. Steel Blue Cross 14. Fraklin County Bean 15. Mrs. Mack's Beans 16. Dark Pot Liquer Butter Beans 17. Wonder Pea 18. Mary Seo's Black Bean 19. Cutshort bean, Dorey Smith 20. Unknown 21. White Creaseback Bean 22. Haricot Rouge de Burkina Faso 23. Coon Corn 24. 6 Week Pea, Antique Crowder 25. White Clear Seed Peach 26. Rattlesnake Beans 27. Big Frosty Bean 28. Calico Pea 29. White Cucumber 30. Elwin Hannah Tomato 31. Cajun Jewel Okra 32. Calhoun Purple Hull H Cowpea 33. Wild Turkey Pea 34. Red Crowder Pea 35. Cherokee Pole Bean 38. Black Crowder Pea 39. Whipporwill Pea 40. Mixed Peas 42. Pink Eye Butterbean 43. Cushaw Melon 44. Antique Pole String Bean 45. Unknown Cupboard Peas 48. Overton Bean 49. Braoddus Bean 50. Whatley's Prolific 51. Robbins Melon 53. Myrtle Garmon Pea 54. Canteloupe 55. Multiple Corn 56. Unknown Butterbean 58. Sweet Sorghum 62. Smitty Pea 63. Red Ripper Pea 64. Calcutta Pea 65. Percules Crowder Pea 68. Velvet Bean 71. Collards 72. Hot Old Time Cowhorn Pepper 73. Red Calico Butterbean 74. Back Porch Butterbeans 75. Rev. Taylor Butterbean Mix 76. South Carolina Red Stick Pole Bean 77. Spinning Gourd 78. Plumgranny 79. Purple Hulled Pea 82. Red Cowpea 86. Hollister Peach 88. Ham and Gravy Peas 89. Country Gentleman Corn 91. Mammoth Melting Peas 92. African Squash 93. Holstein Cowpeas 95. Calico Cowpea 96. Late Running Cowpea 98. Brown Turkey 99. Blue Goose Combine 100. Clay Peas 101. Colossus Cowpea 103. Mississippi Purple Hull Pea 110. Bloody Butcher Corn 114. Lynch Butterbean Collection 116. White Half Runner 117. Cutshort Bean 118. Luffa 124. Yellow Watermelon 125. Tennessee White Crowder 126. White Crowder Pea 127. Hastings Cornfield Bean 128. Big Boy Pea 129. Martin Gourd 130. Unknown Pea 131. Whipporwill Crowder Pea 132. Hickory King Hastings Corn Mixed Bean 133. Hercules Pea 134. Red Ripper Pea 135. West 6 Weeks Pea 136. Pink Eye Pea 137. Colossus Pea 138. Pink-Eye Purple Hull 139. Cantaloupe 140. Hastings White Corn 141. Blue Goose Bean 142. Knuckle Hull Crowder Pea 143. Purple Hull 144. Hercules Pea 145. Johnny's Red Butterbeans 146. Colored Willowleaf Butterbean 147. Texas Longhorn Field Pea 148. Whipporwill Pea 149. Yardlong Pea 150. Striped Cornfield Beans 151. Paterge Head Bean 152. Okra 153. Small White Peach 154. Pot-Da-Pool Peas 155. Long Horn Okra 156. Cushaw Squash 157. Heirloom Pumpkin 158. Red Corn 159. Blue Corn 160. Arkansas Red and White Dent Corn 161. Jarvis Prolific Field Corn 162. Neal's Paymaster White Southern Dent Corn 163. Jellicorse Southern Dent 164. Golden Hickory King Dent Corn 165. Preacher Hill Dent Corn 166. Alabama Coshatta Flint Corn 167. Texas Honey June Sweet Corn 168. Tennessee Red Cob Dent Corn 169. Blue Carage Dent Corn 170. Alaquat Dent Corn 171. Tall Fescue 172. Okra 173. Red Delicious Apple 174. Yard Long Beans 175. Cotton 177. Tokyo Green 178. Gordan 27 179. Binton 181. Cobb 16 182. Colquitt 183. Wright 184. Ogden 185. Benning 186. Brags 187. Davis 188. Peking Black 190. Sweet Corn 191. Butterbeans 192. Toole Cotton 193. Cook Cotton 194. Jumbo Genoa Tomato 195. Pink Beefsteak Tomato 196. Sundrops Tomato 197. Arkansas Traveler Crowder 198. Jet Black Pea 199. Washday Pea 200. Whipporwill Pea 201. Gray Palapye Pea 202. Diawa Pea 203. White Field Pea 204. Zelma Zester Bean 205. Walt Qualtebaum Bean 206. Tobacco Worm Bean 207. Purple Eye Butterbean 208. Lynch Butterbean 209. Colored Willowleaf Butterbean 210. Soybean Butterbean Edamame 211. Yellow Soybean 212. Yellow Bonnet Sorghum 213. Salt's Red Sorghum 214. Rox Orange Sorghum 215. Calabasa Squash 216. Watermelon 217. Okra 218. Pea 219. Okra 220. Rooster Spur Pepper 221. Speckled Pale Butterbeans 222. Butterbeans 223. Rudebe Kia 224. Baked Beans 225. Indian Corn 226. Kentucky Wonders 227. Housta Lily 228. Speckled Half-Runner Kennedy 230. Yarrow 231. Okra 232. Turnip 233. Plum Grannies 234. Bush Beans 235. Pole Bean 236. Green Sugar Snap Pea 242. Zucchini 244. Peas 245. Butterbeans 246. Snap Pea 248. Okra 250. Spinach 251. Cucumber 252. Yellow Crooked Necked Squash 255. Canteloupe

261. Angie's WPA Bean 262. Missouri Yellow Flesh Watermelon 263. Black Crowder 266. Bandy Black Bean 268. Jacob's Cattle Bean 269. Cherokee Trail of Tears Green Bean 270. Kansas Cantaloupe 275. White Bunch Bean 276. Greasy Grit/40 Bushel Bean 277. Plumgranny 278. Sunflower 280. Johnson Beans 281. Snow on the Mountain 282. Red and Black Field Peas 283. Speckled Field Pea 284. Tennessee White Greasyback 288. Moon and Stars Watermelon 291. Birdhouse Type Gourd 296. Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean 297. Scotch Bonnet Pepper 298. Snow Peas 299. Plumgranny 300. Etowah Cornfield Bean 309. Black Eyed Susan 310. Small Marigold 311. Quincy Green Beans 312. Green Sweet Pea 315. Field Crowder Peas 318. Clary Sage 331. Field Corn 335. Bloody Butcher Corn 336. Scarlet Runner Bean 337. Old Fashioned Hollyhock 339. Moon Plant 340. Yellow Pear Tomato 341. Pink Ping Ping Tomato 343. Golden Queen Tomato 345. Fred Hayes Seiburn Peas 347. White Pole Bean 348. October Stringless Cornfield Beans 350. Cherokee Blue and White Corn 351. Turkey Eye Bean 352. Clara Half Runner 353. Old Time German Pole 354. RL's Yellow Bunch 355. MM's Cutshort Bean 356. Milk and Cider 357. Case Knife Bean 358. Mr. Hunt's Red Watermelon 359. Millenium Gourd 360. Stockshiny Bean 361. White Half Runner 362. Whipporwill Pea 363. Sugar Grove Mustard 364. RL's White Cowfield 365. Phalaris 365. Phalaris 366. Daniel's Corn 367. Red Pea 369. Black Butterbean 370. Magenta Spruce Gragantos 371. Daniel's Bloody Butcher Corn 372. Pie Pumpkin Seed 373. Speckled Crowder Pea 374. Sea Island Cotton 375. Nanny Mae's Bean 376. Three Bean Salad Mix 377. Maisie's Pumpkin 378. Oriental Cucumber 379. Old Time Golden Stick 380. Carol's Sponge Gourd 381. Mirabelle Blanch Tomato 382. Sugar Grove Mustard 383. Pak Choi Cabbage 384. Chinese Cabbage 385. Oriental Eggplant  386. Flat Kale 388. Cucumber 389. Cylindrical Beet 390. Akebia 391. Asparagus Beans 393. Watercress 394. Malabar Spinach 395. Hickory King Corn 396. Italian Bulbing Fennel 397. Flattened Canteen Gourd 398. Cushaw Heirloom Squash 399. Cherry Tomato 400. Hong Kong Bittermelon 401. Butternut 402. Wheat 403. Beautiful Garden Seed 404. Wu Wein Zi 405. Orange Bread Pear Tomato 406. Oriental Radish 407. Fordhook Bush Lima Beans 408. Dixie Speckled Butterbean 409. Little Marvel English Peas 410. Jackson Wonder Speckled Butterbean 411. Sugar Snap Peas 412. Texas Cream 40 Conch Peas 413. Dwarf Essex Rape Greens 414. Red Peanut Bush Beans 415. Tendergreen Bush Bean 417. Haricot Rouge 418. Calico Crowder Cowpea 419. Brown Crowder Pea 420. Sadandy Cowpea 421. Purple Peacock Pole Snap Bean 422. Mississippi Silver Crowder Cowpea 423. Lady Finger Cowpeas 424. Burgundy Okra 425. Black Turtle Beans 426. Betty's White Okra 427. Habanero Peppers 428. Early White Bush Scalloped Squash 429. Greasy Bean 430. Hickory Cane 431. Lynch Butterbean Collection 432. Jacob's Cattle Bean 433. Sweet Pickling Peppers 434. Carolina Gold Rice 435. Carolina Black Peanut 438. Brickman's Heirloom Mustard 441. African Winter Squash 442. Whippoorwill Pea 443. Yellow Highland Chiapas Corn 444. White Highland Chiapas Corn 445. spaghetti squash 446. butternut squash 447. crook neck squash 458. hastings cornfield bean 460. red ripper southern pea 461. jacobs cattle bean 462. tender green bush beans 463. steel blue cross bean 464. jumbo genoa tomato 465. turkey eye bean 466. Edamame Butterbean Soybeans 468. san marzona tomato 469. rattlesnake beans 470. Ernie's Nuts 471. Nest Egg Gourd 472. Hillbilly Tomato 473. Akers West Virginia Tomato 474. German Johnson Tomato 475. Old Brooks Tomato 476. Box Car Willie Tomato 477. Aunt Ginny's Purple Tomato 478. Cherokee Purple Tomato 479. Cherokee Ceremonial Tobacco 480. Bullface Tobacco 481. Greasy Greens Collards 482. Velvet Bean 483. Pole Bean 484. Turkey Craw 485. October-type Bean 486. Juanita Smith Pole Bean 487. White Christmas Butterbean 488. Black Butterbean 489. Carolina Red Butterbean 490. Old-Timey Fence Butterbean 491. Flossie Powell Butterbean 492. Polecat Peas 493. Red Ripper Pea 494. Cream and Tan Field Peas 495. African Field Pea 496. Purple Hull Whipporwill Field Peas 497. Goober Peas 498. Pearl River County Peanut 499. Choppee Okra 500. Louisiana Nankeen Cotton 501. Brown Bunch Bean (2) 502. Mama Byrd Shelly 503. White Shelly 504. Old-Timey White Bunch Bean 505. Half Runner Turkey 506. Half Runner 507. Greasy 508. Presley Bean 509. Sylvia Bean 510. Medium Sized Greasy Bean 511. Big Snowball Cornfield Bean 512. Brannock Triplett Cornfield 513. Greasyback Cornfield 514. Greasy Cutshort 515. Turkey Craw Bean 516. Big Greasy 517. White Greasy Beans 518. Pink Tip 519. Six Week Bean 520. White and Brown Greasy Cutshorts 521. Granny Bradley 522. Old-Timey Pumpkin 523. Grandma's Old Little White Cucumber 524. Bradford Parsnip 525. New Guinea Bean or Snake Gourd 526. Oak Leaf Mustard 527. Cherokee Blue Mustard 528. Hickory King Corn 529. Coushaw Squash