Texas Gardening: Gathering wildflower seed, 2 by postoaksavannah

postoaksavannah wrote:
One of the few good things about August in Texas is that many of the spring and summer wildflower seeds are maturing and ready for harvest. Today, I gathered American basket flower, Silver bluestem and lanceleaf prairie gaillardia. I would love to hear from those who also reap the harvest of the wilds.The basket flower seeds are visible in the pod as black specs The pictures show bluestem seed ready when easily stripped from the stem. This particular stand of basket flower was especially purple and I had kept my eye on this roadside fence protected from the mowers. I have had great success sowing seed in my two quarter acre pocket prairies Happy hunting! I