UNSPSC 10418011: Dried cut hirta rudbeckia

Dried cut bloom of the hirta variety of rudbeckia

UNSPSC 10418011 Dried cut hirta rudbeckia, a Commodity code, nominally designates ornamental dried plant material, but recent state and local solicitations tagged with this code show minimal direct procurement of the specified product. The two recent opportunities in the dataset span unrelated service categories: one addresses environmental planting, invasive plant removal, native plant installation, monitoring, and site maintenance across wetlands and stormwater facilities; the other solicits arts and craft and recreational supplies for parks and recreation departments. Neither aligns with procurement of dried cut hirta rudbeckia flowers or similar horticultural commodities. The issuing bodies span different government tiers — a county environmental management program and a consolidated city government's parks department — but both opportunities address service delivery or broad supply categories rather than the specific dried botanical material the code nominally covers.

Geographic activity is limited and geographically dispersed: Pinellas County, Florida has posted an environmental planting and maintenance RFP with a response deadline of July 29, 2025, and Columbus Consolidated Government in Georgia issued an arts and craft supply RFB due February 25, 2026. The code shows little evidence of active procurement aligned with its nominal scope of dried cut hirta rudbeckia. The mismatch between code assignment and actual solicitation content suggests either miscoding at the point of posting or that state and local governments are not currently purchasing this Commodity through formal competitive procurement tracked in public notice systems.