111422 Floriculture Production

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in growing and/or producing floriculture products (e.g., cut flowers and roses, cut cultivated greens, potted flowering and foliage plants, and flower seeds) under cover and in open fields.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Establishments primarily engaged in retailing floriculture products primarily purchased from others are classified in Industry 444240, Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Retailers.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 111422

The Census index assigns these 14 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants)
• Cultivated florist greens growing
• Cut flower growing
• Cut rose growing
• Cuttings farming
• Flower growing
• Flower seed production
• Foliage growing
• Hanging basket plant growing
• House plant growing
• Ornamental plant growing
• Plant, ornamental, growing
• Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing
• Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 111422

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 111422, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $3.75 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 0119), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 01190Growing of other non-perennial cropsUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

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