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Click on Coloring Page to expand, then print and color. WinterSown suggests bright gold for the flowers and medium green for the stems and leaves. |
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Coreopsis grandiflora pods and seeds. |
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Coreopsis grandiflora is a large-flowered, showy wildflower perennial with bright and cheery, golden ray flowers. Allow the flowers to mature and die back naturally. The petals will drop and form a seed pod where the center of the flower was. This will swell and mature to a deep russet brown, soon afterwards the stem below the pod will brown as it dies back. The pod will open in cup-like fashion, inside will be about a dozen small scale-shaped seeds an 1/8" in size. They are two-toned dark brown, with a darker greyish-brown stripe vertically centered in the middle of the seed. |
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How do you store seeds? There's lots of wonderful ways!
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Tip suggests these links for further study.
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Tickseed
Wikipedia.Org |
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Coreopsis grandiflora
by Dr. William C. Welch, Professor and Landscape Horticulturist Texas A&M University |
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Coreopsis grandiflora ~ Tickseed
Ornamental Plants plus Version. 3.O Fact Sheet No. 407 Michigan State University Extension |
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Butterfly Gardening
by Joe Cullen, Extension Entymologist Home and Garden Information Center Fact Sheet No. HGIC 1701 Clemson University Cooperative Extension Services |
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