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Saving seeds of Coreopsis grandiflora ~ tickseed is easy to do!

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.

Coreopsis grandiflora pods and seeds.

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.    

How do you store seeds? There's lots of wonderful ways!
A CD Rom storage unit for the wall holds packs of seeds inside vinyl pockets.

We'll show you how! Visit the Seed Storage Gallery.

Tip suggests these links for further study.
Tickseed
Wikipedia.Org
Coreopsis grandiflora
by Dr. William C. Welch, Professor and Landscape Horticulturist
Texas A&M University
Coreopsis grandiflora ~ Tickseed
Ornamental Plants plus Version. 3.O
Fact Sheet No. 407
Michigan State University Extension
Butterfly Gardening
by Joe Cullen, Extension Entymologist
Home and Garden Information Center
Fact Sheet No. HGIC 1701
Clemson University Cooperative Extension Services
List of Suggested Butterfly Garden Plants
How to Create a Butterfly Garden
Butterfly.Org
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