October, loaded with shorter cooler days and longer colder nights, imposes changes on our lifescapes, one of which is the closing of the year’s flowering season. But just because plants stop producing flowers does not mean you have to give up wildflowering.

Now is the time to explore new perspectives in wildflowering.

As a popular recreational pursuit, wildflowering focuses on finding a plant that is in flower and identifying it with either a Latin or an American name or both. Flowers present a small portion of a plant’s life, so just because a plant lacks flowers doesn’t mean it has no identity and no ecological connectivity.

A flower produces a plant’s fruit that bears that plant’s seeds. So, how does a plant disperse its seeds? Looking at the fruit can help answer that question.

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