About this Event
Wild Ones Greater Cleveland and Oberlin Preserve are teaming up to provide you this FREE educational hands-on workshop on native plant seed collection.
Come and collect seeds for your garden or donate the seeds to collect to Wild Ones Greater Cleveland for future community activities and projects!
This is a great opportunity to start the sequence of collecting, cleaning, packaging and winter sowing.
Logistics:
-Bring paper bags or small envelopes to collect seeds and dress for some off trail walking.
-Parking for several cars on site, with overflow parking a short walk away at the sports complex.
-Restrooms are also available at the sports complex.
Registration required
What kinds of seeds might you encouter?
- Sweet black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia subtomentosa
- Flat-topped goldenrod, Euthamia graminifolia
- Common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca
- New England Astor, Aster novae-angliae
- Marsh Mallow, Hibiscus moschutoes
- Prairie Rosinweed, Silphium integrifolium
- Virginia Mountain Mint, Pycnanthemum virginianum
- White Indigo, Baptisia alba
- Wild Senna, Senna hebecarpa
- Foxglove Beard tongue, Penstemon digitalis
- Grey Coneflower, Ratibida pinata
- Switch grass, Panicum virgatum
- Prairie dock, Silphium terebinthinaceum
- Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea
- Blazing star, Liatris spicata
- False indigo bush, Amorpha fruticosa
- Partridge Pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata
- Joe Pye, Eutrochium maculatum
Event venue & nearby stays
425 W Hamilton St, 425 West Hamilton Street, Oberlin, United States
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