Licence verification
Is a plant nursery licensed in Maine? How to check
Does Maine publish a public registry?
Yes. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Division of Animal and Plant Health maintains a public register of licensed nursery dealers and growers. View the registry .
What we hold
- Records on file
- 1,065
- As of
- 2026-04-23
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. 1,065 of the 1,065 records on file here are older than that cap: those listings currently show the unconfirmed, as-of-date form of the badge, not "State-licensed."
We do not claim every nursery listed on this site in Maine is licensed. Only the 1,065 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
- Big Box: 105
- Unclassified: 960
How to verify a specific business
Search our Maine 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 directly.
Format
An annual dated PDF alphabetical listing of licensed producers and dealers.
The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's Division of Animal and Plant Health publishes an alphabetical PDF listing of licensed nursery producers and dealers.
We matched the Maine businesses shown above against that listing. The document states its own currency directly, "companies licensed as of April 23, 2026," and every one of those matches carries that same date, now just past the 90-day cap described above. Every one currently shows the plain as-of-date form rather than "State-licensed," stating what the file said on April 23 without claiming it is still current today. A Maine business with no badge at all may hold a real, current license we simply have not matched against this file.
The division's own alphabetical listing above is the record to check or correct first. This directory's own correction link, on any listing page, lets you flag a wrong or outdated match for us to re-check against Maine's next published listing.
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
Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Division of Animal and Plant Health, as of 2026-04-23.