Results: Wildflower Season
1.
1.
Do you like to grow or raise wildflowers?
Yes
45%
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827 votes
No
33%
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612 votes
Undecided
7%
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134 votes
Not Applicable
15%
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277 votes
2.
2.
The Importance of the Wild Annuals and the Wild Perennials. Which facts are you familiar with?
Annuals are the ones that grow and bloom quickly from seed, then die at the end of their first year. However, they often drop seed and return to some degree as new plants.
50%
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925 votes
Perennials are the ones that grow more slowly, don't bloom until their second year, and then return year after year from the same roots, forming larger and larger clumps.
50%
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934 votes
N/A
38%
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695 votes
3.
3.
Which wildflowers do you like?
Marigolds
41%
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754 votes
Wild Roses
43%
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788 votes
Black-Eyed Susans or Sunflowers
39%
•
729 votes
African Daisies
30%
•
558 votes
Cosmos
27%
•
502 votes
Blanket Flowers (also known as Gaillardia)
24%
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447 votes
Poppies
38%
•
709 votes
Corn Flowers (also known as Bachelor Buttons)
29%
•
542 votes
N/A
27%
•
496 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
•
40 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.18% | 10 | |
| all | 0.11% | 6 |
| all of them | 0.04% | 2 |
| bluebonnets | 0.04% | 2 |
| lillies,tulips | 0.02% | 1 |
| any and all of them | 0.02% | 1 |
| Zinnias | 0.02% | 1 |
| Lavender | 0.02% | 1 |
| ALL OF THEM ! | 0.02% | 1 |
| petuna | 0.02% | 1 |
| i | 0.02% | 1 |
| all of them and love them all!! | 0.02% | 1 |
| carnations | 0.02% | 1 |
| butter cups, violets, forget me nots | 0.02% | 1 |
| violets | 0.02% | 1 |
| I let the wild grow the wildflowers. | 0.02% | 1 |
| Blue Bonnets | 0.02% | 1 |
| Phlox | 0.02% | 1 |
| Tulip | 0.02% | 1 |
| all flowers | 0.02% | 1 |
| Impatients | 0.02% | 1 |
| IRIS | 0.02% | 1 |
| lilacs | 0.02% | 1 |
| Queen Anne's Lace, cornflowers, Thistles, lots of others | 0.02% | 1 |
4.
4.
Here are a few wildflower facts. Which facts are you familiar with?
There are over 20,000 species of flowering plants in North America, belonging to about 300 different families.
12%
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229 votes
Those that grow in the wild or on their own, without cultivation, are called "wildflowers". Wildflowers indigenous to the continent are called "natives".
31%
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573 votes
Flowering plants are called Angiosperms. Fossil records indicate they appeared suddenly on the planet about 80 to 90 million years ago.
12%
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225 votes
Archaeological evidence shows that early man knew of seeds 50,000 years ago, since their discovery in a cave in Northern Iraq.
10%
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178 votes
Flower taxonomy and plant taxonomy is divided into four essential components: Description, Classification, Identification and Naming.
10%
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193 votes
Interesting common wildflower names: Liverwort, Bloodroot, Forget-me-Not, Dutchman's Breeches, Trout Lily, Buttercup, Fireweed and Drummond Phlox.
24%
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453 votes
N/A
50%
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917 votes
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