#tickseeds

Great Fun and a Little Bit of Interesting Artistic License

Golden and Grey Sometimes when editing photos it’s fun to make changes that we know would never happen in real life. One of my favorite things to do is to turn part of the photo to black and white and keep part of it in color. There are all sorts of fun things you can do with this! I thought that since I introduced the Florida State Flower, the tickseed, yesterday tonight would be a good night…

The Beautiful Florida State Flower is the Tickseed introduces one type of tickseed flower, Leavenworth’s tickseed, that is found only in Florida. It explains the tickseed’s family connections, habitat, and it’s use as an ornamental flower.

Tickseed with Friend Actually, there are seventeen species of tickseeds, twelve of which are native to Florida, and two of which can only be found in the wild in Florida. Florida has adopted the entire tickseed genus (Coreopsis) as the state flower. But I’m actually going to focus my post on one of those species, the Leavenworth’s tickseed. It is one of the two very similar looking tickseeds…