Spiderwort is a native plant here in Indiana, as well as a large potion of the eastern United States that blooms in early summer. One of my favorite things about this perennial plant is that will grow in sun, part shade, as well as shady spots. Spiderwort comes in a range of colors. The most common is a blue but they can also be purple, a dark red, and white. The flowers are only open for about a day however, each stalk has multiple flower heads. Like Hosta plants, Spiderwort is usually propagated by splitting up chucks of the plant grouping and planting them somewhere else. But if you want to, you can save the seeds and grow your own. If you are worried about seeds escaping, you can put a Toole bag over the flower heads once they have all closed.
To collect the seeds, you will want to wait until the flower heads have dried up, turned brown, and are nice and crunchy. Each one of these seed pods can have between 6-12 seeds in them.
The seeds are unusual looking, they are smaller than a grain of rice, grey in color, and they kind of look like a stone belly button or eyeball.
Since the spiderwort in a perennial plant, the seeds will need to go through a process called cold stratification before you plant them. This process simulates winter conditions. I have a video on the cold stratification process if you want to learn more.
If you would like to purchase some of the seeds I’ve collected here today, you can do so on my Etsy shop or on my website circle city seed.com.
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Happy seed saving.