Her space in Carbondale, Ill., is filled with wildflowers such as cone flowers and tickseed. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening's Final Frontier: the 'Hellstrip'] Reference
A field of wildflowers, tidy-tips and mullein and tickseed and bindweed, sloped steeply down to the edge of the mesa. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
As she went she picked a bouquet of wild-flowers -- whatever caught her eye -- fleabane, angelica, tickseed, heal-all. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
In the place of the grass and mixed weeds, I've placed a tickseed and two lavender plants. From Wordnik.com. [Irregular Times] Reference
The tickseed coreopsis also loves this wet ground, which is another reason I never mow there. From Wordnik.com. [Roundrock Journal] Reference
Spring: columbine, tickseed, lupine, daisies and most other annuals and perennials in the chrysanthemum family, Oriental poppies, thyme. From Wordnik.com. [Sun Journal] Reference
As for the seeds, you'll want to choose plants that require little maintenance, such as native wildflowers like California poppies, tickseed and purple cosmos. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Act I: In back of the deserted manse there grew a tangle of untamed shrubbery (wisteria, lilac, azalea), weeds, wildflowers (snapdragon, tickseed, beebalm, aster, hollyhock, heliotrope, cornflower), and, unexpectedly, roses, among which, according to season, bloomed a Black Jade miniature rose and several rogue Hybrid Teas (Crimson Glory, Double Delight, Fragrant Cloud, Mr. Lincoln) and a cream-white single bloom Sombreauil Tea. From Wordnik.com. [The light that draws the flower] Reference
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