Licence verification
Is a plant nursery licensed in Iowa? How to check
Does Iowa publish a public registry?
Yes. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship maintains a public register of licensed nursery dealers and growers. View the registry and view the companion list .
What we hold
- Records on file
- 847
- As of
- 2026-08-04
Fields captured: licence number, business name, address, county, phone, source URL, and this as-of date, for every record.
A "State-licensed" badge only asserts current licensure while its registry file is 90 days old or less; past that, the badge on an affected listing states its as-of date instead of claiming current status.
We do not claim every nursery listed on this site in Iowa is licensed. Only the 847 businesses matched against this exact registry carry a "State-licensed" badge on their own listing page, each linking back to this registry as its citation.
Licensed by regulatory role
- Grower: 243
- Dealer: 604
How to verify a specific business
Search our Iowa directory for the business by name. A "State-licensed" badge on its listing page means we matched it against this exact registry, with the date we checked. If it isn't in our directory yet, check the state's own list (growers/dealers) or the state's own list directly.
Format
Two separate paginated web listings, one for licensed growers and one for licensed dealers.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship publishes two separate public lists, one for licensed nursery growers and one for licensed nursery dealers, both paginated web listings on the department's own data site.
We matched the Iowa businesses shown above against those two lists directly. Neither page prints an as-of date of its own, so our own pull date stands in for it, and that badge is good for 90 days before switching to the plain as-of-date form described above. A "State-licensed" badge here means a match against one of those two lists as of that date; an unbadged Iowa business may still hold a real grower or dealer license we simply have not matched, since a name difference between our record and the state's own spelling is enough to miss a real match.
The department's own grower and dealer pages above are the record to correct first if your business is wrong or missing there. This directory's own correction link, on any listing page, lets you flag it for us to re-check.
Other states we hold a registry for
Only these 11 states publish (or make bulk-extractable) a public licensed-nursery registry we've verified directly. Every other state is silent here on purpose, not overlooked.
Sources
- https://data.iowaagriculture.gov/licensing_lists/nurserygrowers/
- https://data.iowaagriculture.gov/licensing_lists/nurserydealers/
Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, as of 2026-08-04.