IDENTIFIER Seed heads

Know your poppies from your cow parsley? Fear not, you can take a walk on the wild seed with our handy guide.

Cow parsley A mighty seed-producer: up to 10,000 per plant. Rather than cows, the seeds are most commonly moo-ved by tractors, cars and lorries. Teasel Deserves to hold its head up high. Once used in the textile industry, it feeds birds*, and keeps insects fed and watered over winter. Alliums The plant family that gives us onions and garlic and more, but also flower heads with sculptural beauty over the winter months. Thanks shallot. Honesty To be honest, these silvery, paper-y pods are easily spottable. Other names include money plant and moneywort, they're a pretty penny. Poppy The dispersal is less ‘pop’, more pepper pot, as the head acts like a shaker: though that doesn't account for seeds ending up between your teeth… Rosehips Drawn to the colourful hips, it's birds and squirrels that disperse its seeds: a process called ‘zoochory’,…

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