Native plants are valuable in our landscapes, for their own beauty as well as for how they support bees, butterflies and other insects and indirectly feed most of our songbirds.  You can purchase native plants and seeds.  But you can also collect seed yourself, and use it to enhance our parks, nature preserves, and home landscapes.  Our goal with this web site is to give you some information that can help you collect seed of some native plants, and make our landscape more natural, diverse, and interesting.
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Why collect seed

When you can purchase seed of many native plants, why collect them yourself?

Principles of Seed collection

Although there is great variety of types of seed, there are some general principles.

Seed collection guides for specific plants

Learn how to recognize and pick seed of many native plants.