Photo credits: Bob Stahmer (image 1), Alison Colwell (images 2-4), Center for Plant Diversity Herbarium Staff (image 5)

This plant drops its seeds as they mature along the flowering stalk, making retrieving them an especially difficult task. We improvised by hanging the plants on clotheslines in pollination bags to catch what we could! Hanging them in the sun for two weeks helped with after-ripening too.

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