Analysis
NAICS 11142 is the 2022 NAICS industry for nursery and floriculture production, part of 1114 (Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production). Census lists 32 example activities under it in the official index.
Census lists 5 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 11121, 11311, 44424 and 42491. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.
Across its national industries Census lists 32 index entries; typical ones are azalea farming and bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding….
Its goods appear in 47 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 0603 (cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets…), 0602 (other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and…) and 0601 (bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
For example, growing vegetable and melon bedding plants are classified in 11121 (Vegetable and Melon Farming) instead.
County Business Patterns does not cover crop and animal production, so there is no establishment count for it; farms are counted by the Census of Agriculture instead.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) growing nursery and floriculture products (e.g., nursery stock, shrubbery, cut flowers, flower seeds, foliage plants) under cover or in open fields and/or (2) growing short rotation woody trees with a growing and harvesting cycle of 10 years or less for pulp or tree stock (e.g., cut Christmas trees, cottonwoods).
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Growing vegetable and melon bedding plants | 11121 Vegetable and Melon Farming |
| Operating timber tracts (i.e., growing cycle greater than 10 years) | 11311 Timber Tract Operations |
| Retailing nursery, tree stock, and floriculture products primarily purchased from others | 44424 Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Retailers |
| Merchant wholesale distribution of plant seeds and plant bulbs primarily purchased from others | 42491 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers |
| Merchant wholesale distribution of nursery stock (except seeds and plant bulbs) primarily purchased from others | 42493 Flower, Nursery Stock, and Florists' Supplies Merchant Wholesalers |
Index entries (32)
- Azalea farming
- Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants)