Licence verification
Is a plant nursery licensed in New York? How to check
Does New York publish a public registry?
Yes. The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets maintains a public register of licensed nursery dealers and growers. View the registry .
What we hold
- Records on file
- 3,065
- 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 New York is licensed. Only the 3,065 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
- Dealer: 1
- Big Box: 4
- Unclassified: 3,060
How to verify a specific business
Search our New York 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
A public Socrata open-data CSV/API export ("Nursery Growers and Greenhouse").
The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets publishes its Nursery Growers and Greenhouse registry as a live, public open-data export, a Socrata CSV/API feed rather than a static PDF.
We matched the New York businesses shown above against that export. Because it is a live feed rather than a dated document, we record our own pull date as the as-of date, and every current match falls inside the 90-day cap described above and shows "State-licensed." A New York business with no badge at all may hold a real, current registration we simply have not matched against this export, whether from a name difference or a listing the export does not carry under that name.
The department's own open-data export 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 missing match for us to re-check against the export's next refresh.
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
New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, as of 2026-08-04.