Table 41. Nursery, Greenhouse, Floriculture, Sod, Mushrooms, Vegetable Seeds, and Propagative Materials 
Grown for Sale: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Crops 
Under glass or other protection 
In the open 
Value of sales 
Farms 
Square feet 
Farms 
Acres 
Farms 
Dollars 
Aquatic plants 
2012 
- 
- 
9 
4 
9 
17,200 
2007 
2 
(D) 
8 
2 
9 
35,584 
Bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers-dry 
2012 
5 
3,300 
5 
5 
10 
21,530 
2007 
5 
15,406 
8 
6 
10 
23,705 
Cuttings, seedlings, liners, and plugs 
(see text) 
2012 
29 
215,431 
24 
94 
47 
(D) 
2007 
26 
281,694 
44 
60 
55 
3,467,512 
Floriculture crops - 
bedding/garden plants, cut flowers and 
cut florist greens, foliage plants, potted 
flowering plants, and other floriculture and 
bedding crops, total 
2012 
458 
20,594,382 
718 
1,740 
1,004 
45,619,458 
2007 
479 
21,999,212 
845 
2,429 
1,096 
75,709,230 
Bedding/garden plants 
2012 
45 
334,941 
75 
82 
101 
2,577,620 
2007 
39 
292,541 
95 
89 
117 
3,629,168 
Cut flowers and cut florist greens 
2012 
164 
8,919,535 
506 
1,347 
612 
15,948,686 
2007 
160 
8,485,657 
595 
1,529 
676 
25,844,224 
Foliage plants, indoor 
2012 
82 
6,020,216 
50 
163 
104 
7,974,411 
2007 
88 
7,401,708 
107 
712 
142 
19,773,809 
Potted flowering plants 
2012 
212 
5,271,086 
97 
91 
281 
18,844,143 
2007 
257 
5,803,062 
90 
88 
282 
26,282,791 
Other floriculture and bedding crops 
2012 
20 
48,604 
39 
57 
53 
274,598 
2007 
3 
16,244 
16 
10 
14 
179,238 
Flower seeds 
2012 
- 
- 
1 
(D) 
1 
(D) 
2007 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Greenhouse fruits and berries (see text) 
2012 
7 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
7 
(D) 
2007 
4 
3,796 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
1,944 
Total greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
99 
1,854,934 
(X) 
(X) 
99 
9,137,967 
2007 
96 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
91 
10,062,567 
2012 farms by area: 
1 to 999 square feet 
29 
7,048 
(X) 
(X) 
29 
87,519 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 square feet 
22 
30,100 
(X) 
(X) 
22 
210,426 
2,000 to 2,999 square feet 
7 
16,500 
(X) 
(X) 
7 
82,140 
3,000 to 3,999 square feet 
4 
13,170 
(X) 
(X) 
4 
33,308 
4,000 to 5,999 square feet 
11 
48,856 
(X) 
(X) 
11 
88,748 
6,000 to 9,999 square feet 
10 
74,794 
(X) 
(X) 
10 
203,610 
1 0,000 or more square feet 
16 
1,664,466 
(X) 
(X) 
16 
8,432,216 
1 0,000 to 1 9,999 square feet 
4 
52,000 
(X) 
(X) 
4 
164,500 
20,000 to 39,999 square feet 
3 
63,866 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
207,700 
40,000 or more square feet 
9 
1,548,600 
(X) 
(X) 
9 
8,060,016 
Greenhouse tomatoes 
2012 
40 
1,195,143 
(X) 
(X) 
40 
7,883,953 
2007 
33 
873,449 
(X) 
(X) 
33 
6,477,757 
Other greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
70 
659,791 
(X) 
(X) 
70 
1,254,014 
2007 
71 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
66 
3,584,810 
Mushrooms 
2012 
3 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
(D) 
2007 
3 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
(D) 
Nursery stock crops (see text) 
2012 
140 
1,713,868 
342 
971 
401 
16,887,355 
2007 1 
168 
883,390 
457 
1,137 
473 
23,275,977 
Sod harvested 
2012 
(X) 
(X) 
34 
169 
34 
4,571,099 
2007 
(X) 
(X) 
29 
86 
28 
4,471,517 
Vegetable seeds 
2012 
4 
736 
10 
37 
14 
20,670 
2007 
10 
19,425 
14 
7 
21 
19,710 
Vegetable transplants 
2012 
11 
3,866 
13 
5 
19 
36,718 
2007 
- 
- 
12 
7 
12 
8,000 
2007 data do not include Other nursery stock. 
30 Hawaii 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
