UNSPSC 10226026: Live echinacea purpurea

Live plant including the root ball of echinacea purpurea flowers

UNSPSC 10226026 Live echinacea purpurea is a Commodity code that nominally identifies a specific live plant species, but the recent state and local solicitations tagged under this code show little alignment with echinacea procurement. Instead, the opportunities cover landscape installation and native plant restoration work—including coastal dune plantings, roadside landscaping with irrigation, environmental site remediation, and general plant purchases—that span a broader set of plant materials and installation services. State and local issuing bodies soliciting under this code include county commissions (DeKalb County, Georgia; Pasco County, Florida; Collier County, Florida; Pinellas County, Florida), a city procurement office (Dallas, Texas), and specialized service divisions. The work ranges from capital reconstruction projects with embedded IT infrastructure (DeKalb Tennis Center), to large-scale roadside median and right-of-way beautification with full irrigation systems (Pasco County Ridge Road), to post-hurricane coastal dune stabilization using native species (Collier County Pelican Bay), to multi-year environmental management and invasive-species removal contracts (Pinellas County), to commodity plant purchases for municipal operations (Dallas).

Activity concentrates in Florida, where three of five recent opportunities were posted, spanning Pasco, Collier, and Pinellas Counties; the other opportunities are in Georgia and Texas. Representative recent solicitations include Pasco County's IFB for Ridge Road landscaping and irrigation (due April 14, 2026) covering 2.95 miles of median and right-of-way planting with a not-to-exceed contract value of $120,000; Collier County's Quick Quote for Pelican Bay coastal dune plantings (due March 13, 2026) for approximately 56,250 native dune plants across 225,000 square feet following 2024 hurricane damage; Pinellas County's RFP for five-year environmental planting, monitoring, and maintenance services (due July 29, 2025) including invasive removal and native restoration at wetlands and stormwater sites; and the City of Dallas's informal solicitation for general plant purchases (due February 3, 2026) with new, unopened materials delivered FOB to a municipal facility. The code appears to serve as a catch-all tag for plant-related work rather than a precise identifier of echinacea procurement, limiting its utility for vendors specializing in that specific species.