Ok to bring in small, cut and dried flowers and leaves, and small stones, into the USA?

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Am I ok to have done this?

Nobody except CBP can tell you definitively.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Specialty/seasonal/holiday food and plant items

In passenger baggage, every fruit or vegetable as well as every meat or poultry product must be declared to a CBP Agriculture Specialist or CBP Officer and must be presented for inspection - regardless of its admissibility status.

Fruits and Vegetables: Travelers may check the general admissibility of fruits and vegetables by consulting APHIS's FAVIR database at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/favir/. Simply select the type of fruit or vegetable in

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You can bring the flowers and stones to the United States but you must declare them to Customs for Agriculture inspection.

Bringing Agricultural Products Into the United States

If the Agriculture Officer allows them, you're good to go. If not, they will be seized and destroyed, but you will not be fined or suffer any other consequences because you declared them.

People get in trouble for smuggling.

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