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Wild American Ginseng Information for Harvesters, Dealers and Exporters U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Wild American Ginseng Information for Harvesters, Dealers and Exporters American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) is an important native plant that grows in hardwood forests of the United States from the Midwest to Maine, with the heart of the range occurring in the Appalachian Mountains. The roots of this plant have long been used for medicinal purposes, originally harvested by Native Americans. The majority of wild American ginseng roots harvested in the United States are exported to Hong Kong and mainland China, which became an important importer in the mid-1700s. Today, the harvest continues to have strong economic and cultural importance for many communities in the United States. The U.S. annual wholesale value of wild American ginseng roots is estimated at approximately $26.9 million.1 Mature American ginseng Gary Kauffman/USFS A brochure on “Good Stewardship please contact your State or Tribal Good Stewardship of American Ginseng To ensure the long-term sustainability Harvesting of Wild American Ginseng” regulatory office, or visit http://www. of wild American ginseng, harvesters, for each of the 19 States, with each ahpa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=154. dealers, and exporters share State’s regulations, can be downloaded for free at http://www.ahpa.org/Default. • Plant the seeds from red fruits to responsibility to follow applicable laws contribute to wild American ginseng governing harvest and trade in ginseng aspx?tabid=154. The brochures were developed in partnership with and are population growth. Always plant the and to be good stewards for ginseng seeds of the roots you harvest. To and its habitat. If this responsibility is maintained by the American Herbal Products Association. plant seeds, first squeeze the fruit not upheld, wild ginseng could become to force out and remove the seeds, depleted and disappear from native Harvesters should use good stewardship plant the seeds separately, about a forests. practices for harvesting ginseng, foot apart and an inch deep and cover Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, including: them with leaf litter. Be sure to plant Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, the seeds near where the parent Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North • Follow State and Tribal plant was harvested. Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, regulations for harvest season and plant age and/or size to allow • Only plant the seeds of wild Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, ginseng found in the area where Wisconsin, and the Menominee Indian American ginseng plants time to produce seeds for future population you are harvesting. Planting Tribe Reservation of Wisconsin allow commercially produced ginseng growth. The States and Tribe that the harvest of wild American ginseng, seeds or non-local seeds in or allow commercial harvest of ginseng subject to regulations on the harvesting near wild ginseng populations can require plants to be at least five years and trade of the species, that are negatively affect the long-term old and/or have 3 compound leaves intended to sustain it in the long term. viability of the species through the with 3-5 leaflets, whereas some introduction of genes that weaken require plants to be 10 years old and 1 Chamberlain, J. L., S. Prisley, M. McGuffin. 2013. populations. Understanding the relationships between American have 4 compound leaves with 3-5 ginseng harvest and hardwood forests inventory leaflets. Generally, ginseng harvest • Ensure future population growth and timber harvest to improve co-management of season starts September 1. To by leaving a number of the ginseng the forests of eastern United States. Journal of learn more about the requirements, Sustainable Forestry 32:605–624. plants in the area and, if you are harvesting in late October, removing Woods-grown ginseng with 3-5 leaflets. To learn more about the the leaves of the plants late in the requirements, please contact your State season. This will protect them from or Tribal regulatory office or visit http:// being harvested and allow them www.ahpa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=154. to positively contribute to future Roots of artificially propagated population growth. Older plants have (cultivated) American ginseng of any age been shown to produce more seeds. can be exported. Dealers and exporters are responsible for Harvesters can age ginseng plants before complying with and upholding State and harvest in two ways: Tribal regulations. They should not buy underage roots and/or roots harvested • Count the number of compound outside the legal harvest/buying leaves (also known as prongs) a plant season. Dealers and exporters are also has. Ginseng plants typically have discouraged from providing commercially 1-4 palmately compound leaves, each grown seeds to harvesters to supplement with 3 to 5 leaflets. That is a single native ginseng populations. leaf is comprised of 3-5 leaflets. I’m interested in harvesting American • Count the number of stem scars ginseng. Is it legal to harvest it where I live? on the rhizome (also known as root American ginseng can be legally neck) of the plant. Each year of harvested in 19 States and on one plant growth adds a stem scar to Tribe’s land (listed above). To learn the rhizome when the leaf stem dies about the State and Tribal regulations Forest Farming CC BY ND 2.0 back in the autumn. Ginseng roots for the harvest of American ginseng, can be aged before removing them American Ginseng visit http://www.fws.gov/international/ from the ground by simply removing Plant Diagram pdf/table-list-of-states-and-tribes- the soil around the area where the with-approved-export-programs-for- plant’s rhizome joins the root. Once furbearers-alligators-and-ginseng.pdf. the soil is removed, count the stem In other States and Tribal lands where scars on the rhizome. A 5 year old it is known to occur, American ginseng plant will have 4 stem scars on the is protected from harvest through rhizome. If there are fewer than 4 regulations that vary across jurisdictions. stem scars, carefully cover the below Contact the specific State or Tribal ground portion of plant with soil as it regulatory agency for more information. is under aged to harvest. It is illegal to harvest American ginseng To learn more about how to determine roots on most State lands and all the age of American ginseng, visit http:// National Park Service land. Harvest of www.fws.gov/international/plants/how- wild ginseng from U.S. Forest Service to-determine-the-age-of-ginseng-plants. National Forest lands is allowed by html. permit only and is limited to certain National Forests. Visit http://www.fs.fed. All 19 States and the Menominee Tribe us/locatormap/ to determine whether have harvest seasons for wild ginseng the National Forest in your area allows plants. Ginseng harvested before the ginseng harvesting. Dr.Sara Souther Dr.Sara season begins will not have produced mature fruits (red in color) with seeds What should I know about American needed for population growth. ginseng before harvesting it? Measuring stem scars It is the responsibility of the harvester Harvesting ginseng out of season is to determine where it is legal to harvest illegal and can result in fines and/or jail wild ginseng, any restrictions on the time, depending on the law. To learn method of harvest, the harvest season, when the harvest season is in your State and any permits required. Harvesters or on Tribal lands, as well as any other should also consult the Good Stewardship applicable State or Tribal regulations, section above to ensure that they are please contact your State or Tribal sustainably harvesting wild ginseng. regulatory office or visit http://www.ahpa. org/Default.aspx?tabid=154. The States that allow commercial harvest of wild and wild-simulated ginseng I’m interested in exporting American (see definition of wild-simulated below) ginseng. What are the regulations on its require plants to be at least five years old export? and/or have 3 compound leaves with 3-5 American ginseng is listed in Appendix leaflets. Other States and the Menominee II of the Convention on International Tribe require plants to be seven or 10 Trade in Endangered Species of Wild years old and have 4 compound leaves Fauna and Flora (CITES), a global treaty USDA-APHIS enacted to ensure that international trade • Field-grown ginseng is ginseng Three-prong ginseng in plants and animals does not threaten grown under artificialshade their survival in the wild. The species structures. was listed in Appendix II in 1975 due to concerns about overharvest. Appendix II Wild and wild-simulated American includes species that, although currently ginseng roots can only be legally not threatened with extinction, may exported if they were harvested from become so without trade controls. plants that are 5 years of age or older and were harvested during the designated In order to ensure that the roots are from State or Tribal harvest season (see the legal and sustainable sources, a CITES section above for more information on permit is required to export American these requirements). ginseng. The CITES listing of American ginseng includes roots of both wild and In addition to the CITES regulations cultivated origin, and covers the export on exporting ginseng, ginseng must be Kerry Wixted of whole and sliced roots, and parts of certified by the State or Tribal regulatory roots (including root fibers), but excludes agency before it can be transported out powder or manufactured finished of the State. Contact the specific State products (e.g., teas, tonics, capsules, or Tribal regulatory agency for more extracts, and confectionery). information, or visit http://www.ahpa.org/ Default.aspx?tabid=154. Export permits are issued based on a legal acquisition finding and a non- Because of its listing in Appendix II of detriment finding.
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