Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 1-99 - Fish, Game and Enforcement, Forestry and Recreation
Chapter NR 28 - Wild plants
Section NR 28.01 - Definitions

(1) "Carry-over roots" are those wild ginseng roots still in the possession of licensed dealers or harvesters after March 31 of the year following the harvest season.

(2) "Dealer" means any person buying more than 8 ounces of wild ginseng annually.

(3) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of natural resources.

(4) "Engage in business" in this chapter includes but is not limited to purchasing, selling, holding, brokering, billing or receiving payment for, contracting for or advertising wild ginseng either for cash or on consignment.

(5) "Green ginseng" means a ginseng root from which the moisture has not been removed by drying.

(6) "Harvest" means cutting, gathering, rooting up, severing, injuring, destroying, removing or carrying away any wild plant or parts thereof.

(7) "Own land" means ownership interest in property by deed or land contract.

(8) "Transaction" means purchase, gift, exchange or sale of wild ginseng.

(9) "Wild ginseng" means dry root, live root, seed or other parts of American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) that is not grown or nurtured by a person.

(10) "Woods-grown ginseng" means ginseng that has been nurtured in any way by humans, including but not limited to watering, weeding, use of pesticides, soil tillage and fertilization.