Seed Library


Seed Library at FL Schlagle

  • Current Open Branch Hours:
  •  Monday-Friday    9AM - 5PM
  •  Third Saturday of the month    9AM - 5 PM
  •  Sunday CLOSED

The Mr. & Mrs. F. L. Schlagle Library and Environmental Learning Center offers a seed library containing over 30 different varieties of native plants and vegetable seeds.

The seed library started in 2022 with former Education Specialist and Interim Director, Jada K. Tressler, harvesting native plant seed from around Wyandotte County Lake. Many library patrons with access to native plants also donated seeds and were able to check out other seeds. In 2023 Olivia D. Moore, Education Specialist attended the 11th Annual Seed Library Summit and gathered many ideas from like-minded librarians, Indigenous Peoples and seed keepers worldwide. With this newfound knowledge, the Seed Library’s number and types of seeds increased dramatically. The offering of seed types grew to include native plants as well as edible garden plants.

We are very grateful that our seed library received support and donations from several local organizations including Bell Crossing Farm, The Buffalo Seed Company, Camp C.A.R.V.E.R., Going to Seed, Groundwork NRG, J-14 Agricultural Enterprises, and KC Farm School at Gibbs Road. Our intent is for our patrons to check out, grow, and return seed to maintain our seed inventory.

If you are looking for more research-base planting guides and information about native plants, we recoommend the following provided by K-State Research & Extension and Missouri University:

Seed Library Rules

  • The seed library is only available for in-person checkout at FL Schlagle Library.
  • Those wishing to checkout seeds must have a physical library card in good standing.
  • Holds are currently not allowed to be placed on seeds.
  • There is no due date for seeds but we ask that patrons are open to donating their own seeds at the end of the season to continue to grow the seed library.
  • Some restrictions may apply based on seed quantity and availability.

2023 Seed Library Variety List

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Arugula

Arugula

Types of variety: Atomic, Rocket
Arugula or rocket is an edible annual plant in the family Brassicaceae used as a leaf vegetable for its fresh, tart, bitter, and peppery flavor.

Mung Bean

Beans, Mung

Types of variety: Green, Pakistani
The mung bean, alternatively known as the green gram, maash ٫ mūng, monggo, or munggo, is a plant species in the legume family.

Pole Bean

Beans, Pole

Types of variety: Aunt Lena, Blue Lake, Kentucky Wonder, New Mexico Dry, Rattlesnake
Pole beans also known as runner bean, is a plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is grown both as a food plant and an ornamental plant.

Beans, Tepary

Beans, Tepary

Types of variety: Black, Brown, Chukut Kuk, Emerald Snow, Kansas Brown, Tuscon Chris, Tuscon Mixed, Sells Pawi, White
The tepary bean is a legume native to the southwestern United States and Mexico and has been grown there by the native peoples since pre-Columbian times.

Beets

Beets

Types of variety: Cylindra, Detroit Dark Red, Golden Detroit, Touchstone Gold
The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in North America as beets, but the vegetable is also referred to as beetroot, table beet, garden beet, red beet, dinner beet or golden beet.

Brassica Mix

Brassica Mix

Types of variety: All Season Cabbage, Black Magic Kale, Dwarf Siberian Kale, Early Golden Acre Cabbage, Early Purple Vienna Kohl Rabi, Going to Seed Everything Kale Mix, Italian Green Broccoli, Lacinato Kale, Long Island Brussel Sprouts, Nappa Cabbage, Waltham 29 Broccoli, White Vienna Kohl Rabi
Brassica is a genus of plants in the cabbage and mustard family.

Cantaloupe

Cantaloupe

Types of variety: Crane, Hale’s Best PMR, Hearts of Gold, Buffalo Seeds Resurrection
The cantaloupe, rockmelon, sweet melon, or spanspek is a melon that is a variety of the muskmelon species (Cucumis melo) from the family Cucurbitaceae.

Carrots

Carrots

Types of variety: Chantenay Red Core, Danvers Half-long, Nantes Half-long, Oxheart
The carrot is a root vegetable, typically orange in color, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist.

Corn, Sweet

Corn, Sweet

Types of variety: Ambrosia, Andes, Black Aztec, Country Gentleman, Early Glow, Going to Seed Sweet Mix, Silver Queen
Sweet corn, also called sugar corn and pole corn, is a variety of corn grown for human consumption with a high sugar content.

Cowpeas

Cowpeas

Types of variety: Brown Crowder, Hog Brain, Lofthouse Landrace, Purple Hull, Queen Anne Blackeye, Sea Island Red
The cowpea is an annual, herbaceous legume from the genus Vigna. Its tolerance for sandy soil and low rainfall have made it an important crop in the semiarid regions across Africa and Asia.

Cucumber

Cucumber

Types of variety: Boston Pickling, Buffalo Seeds Resurrected, Going To Seed Everything Mix, Lemon, Straight 8, White Wonder
The cucumber is a widely cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables.

Garden Companions

Garden Companions

Types of variety: Genovese Sweet Basil, Georgian Landrace Sweet Basil, Ghanaian Basil, North Macedonian Landrace Sweet Basil, Albanian Landrace Dill, Boquet Dill, Nasturtium, Lilliput Zinnia, Cut and Come Again Zinnia
A variety of herbs and flowering plants for planting alongside vegetables.

Lettuce

Lettuce

Types of variety: Black Seeded Simpson, Hungarian Crisphead, Parris White Romaine, Turkish Crisphead, Turkish Leafy Landrace, Turkish Romaine Landrace
Lettuce is an annual plant of the family Asteraceae. It is most often grown as a leaf vegetable but sometimes for its stem and seeds.

Marigold Mix

Marigold Mix

Types of variety: Assorted
Calendula is a genus of about 15–20 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae, that are often known as marigolds

Okra

Okra

Types of variety: Burgandy, Clemson Spineless, Cote d’Ivorie Landrace, Emerald, Dwarf Long Pod
Okra, Abelmoschus esculentus, known in many English-speaking countries as Okro, is a flowering plant in the mallow family. It has edible green seed pods.

Peppers, Hot

Peppers, Hot

Types of variety: Aji Amarillo Grande, Aji Limo, Cayenne, Early Jalapeno, Fish, Jalapeno, Serrano
Hot peppers are varieties of the berry-fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, which are cultivated for their pungency. They are widely used in many cuisines as a spice to add "heat" to dishes.

Phytoremediation Mix

Phytoremediation Mix

Types of variety: Alfalfa, Indian Mustard, Sunflowers
Phytoremediation is the use of green plants and the associated microorganisms, along with proper soil amendments and agronomic techniques to either contain, remove or render toxic environmental contaminants harmless.

Squash, Maxima

Squash, Maxima

Types of variety: Going To Seed Maxima Mix
Cucurbita maxima, one of at least five species of cultivated squash, is one of the most diverse domesticated species.

Squash, Mixta

Squash, Mixta

Types of variety: Amish Pie Pumpkin, Burgess Buttercup, Lofthouse Landrace 
Cucurbita mixta or Cucurbita argyrosperma, also called the cushaw squash and silver-seed gourd, is a species of winter squash originally from the south of Mexico.

Squahs, Moschata

Squash, Moschata

Types of variety: America, Brulee Butternut, Honeynut Butternut, Lofthouse Landrace, Waltham’s Butternut
Cucurbita moschata is a species originating in either Central America or northern South America. It includes cultivars known as squash or pumpkin.

Squash, Pepo

Squash, Pepo

Types of variety: Gills Golden, Sugar Pie, Table Queen, Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato 
Cucurbita pepo is a cultivated plant that yields varieties of winter squash and pumpkin, but the most widespread varieties belong to the subspecies called summer squash.

Sunflowers

Sunflowers

Types of variety: Mammoth Grey, Sunspot, Skyscraper, Titan
Helianthus is a genus comprising about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae commonly known as sunflowers.

Tomatillo

Tomatillo

Types of variety: Purple
The tomatillo, also known as the Mexican husk tomato, is a plant of the nightshade family bearing small, spherical, and green or green-purple fruit of the same name.

Tomato, Cherry

Tomato, Cherry

Types of variety: Aji Red F1, Blue Goldberry, Evil Olive, Buffalo Seeds Green Doctors, Honeycomb F1, Large Red, Peach Cobbler Cherry, Sungold F1, Sunrise Bumblebee, Buffalo Seeds Two Tone Red, Yellow Pear
The cherry tomato is a type of small round tomato believed to be an intermediate genetic admixture between wild currant-type tomatoes and domesticated garden tomatoes.

Tomato, Slicing

Tomato, Slicing

Types of variety: All Welcome, Black Krim, Dr. Wyche’s Yellow, Golden Jubilee, Lemon Boy F1, Maraglobe, Open Minded, Purple nagual, Roma, Russian Anna Banana, Zebras
The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant.

Watermelon

Watermelon

Types of variety: lack Diamond, Charleston Grey, Crimson Sweet, Desert Split, Petite Yellow, Scaly Bark, Sugar Baby, Tendersweet Orange, Yellow Mixed
Watermelon is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit. A scrambling and trailing vine-like plant, it is a highly cultivated fruit worldwide, with more than 1,000 varieties.

Black Eyed Susan

Black Eyed Susan

Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed Susan, is a North American flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Eastern and Central North America and naturalized in the Western part of the continent as well as in China.

Thistle Mix

Thistle Mix

Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterized by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae.

Coneflower Mix

Coneflower Mix

Types of variety: Purple 
Echinacea is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family. It has ten species, which are commonly called coneflowers.

Coreopsis

Coreopsis

Types of variety: Lanceleaf, Tickseed
Coreopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Common names include calliopsis and tickseed, a name shared with various other plants.

Illinois Bundleflower

Illinois Bundleflower

Desmanthus illinoensis, commonly known as Illinois bundleflower, prairie-mimosa or prickleweed, is a common plant in many areas of the south central and Midwestern US.

Ironweed

Ironweed

Types of variety: Purple 
Cyanthillium cinereum, also known as little ironweed, is a species of perennial plants in the sunflower family.

Joe Pye Weed

Joe Pye Weed

Eutrochium is a North American genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds.

Larkspur

Larkspur

Types of variety: Dwarf 
It is a popular garden plant and cut flower, grown from seed every year, with numerous cultivars in shades of pink, blue, purple and white.

Liatris Mix

Liatris Mix

Types of variety: Blazing Star Bottlebrush 
Liatris, commonly known as gayfeather and blazing star is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae native to North America.

Milkweed Mix

Milkweed Mix

Types of variety: Butterfly, Spider
Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged.

Prairie Clover

Prairie Clover

Types of variety: Purple 
Dalea is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as prairie clover or indigo bush.

River Oats

River Oats

Types of variety: Aunt Lena, Blue Lake, Kentucky Wonder, New Mexico Dry, Rattlesnake
Chasmanthium latifolium, known as northern wood-oats, inland sea oats, northern sea oats, and river oats is a species of grass native to the central and eastern United States, Manitoba, and northeastern Mexico.

Sunflowers, Native

Sunflowers, Native

Types of variety: Maximilian, Willow-Leaf
Helianthus is a genus comprising about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae commonly known as sunflowers.

Tick Trefoil

Tick Trefoil

Types of variety: Aunt Lena, Blue Lake, Kentucky Wonder, New Mexico Dry, Rattlesnake
Desmodium is a genus of plants in the legume family Fabaceae, sometimes called tick-trefoil, tick clover, hitch hikers or beggar lice.

Contact Us

FL Schlagle
Oliva Moore is overseeing KCKPL's FL Schlagle Seed Library. Contact her directly at omoore@kckpl.org.