Corn
Montana Lavender Clay

Stunning lavender flour corn with 8-12 inch ears, produces silky, soft cornmeal. Vigorous, early-producing, bred by Ed Schultz.

About Montana Lavender Clay

(Zea mays) Flour Corn. A stunning lavender flour corn with long slender 8-to 12- inch long ears in an attractive pastel shade that produces silky, soft cornmeal. This vigorous and early-producing corn was bred by Ed Schultz of Montana. Ed has made a name for himself as an expert corn breeder with great knowledge and respect for the Native American corn varieties that he loves to work with. One look at the unmistakable lavender kernels shows that this blended Native American variety is descended from the lavender parching corn of the Mandan tribe. In 1808, Thomas Jefferson received seeds of a lavender-colored Mandan Red Clay corn; he reported that the seeds were given to him by Lewis and Clark from their 1804 contact with the Mandan tribe in present day North Dakota. Schultz has taken the lovely lavender-clay color and rugged cold hardiness of Mandan corn while selecting for more slender and uniform ears and short, stout plants. A stellar feat of breeding from a solid foundation of superlative ancient genetics. 90 days to maturity