The Seed Collector Who Roams the City’s Marshes

Patrick Over is one of two seed collectors with the city’s parks department. Photo: NYC Parks When the New York City Parks Department plants bright-orange butterfly milkweed, soft-purple mountain phlox, or lush royal ferns, there’s a good chance that these and other native plants were started from wild seeds gathered by Patrick Over, one of the city’s two official seed collectors.

Another we’ve done that probably no one would know is the globe flatsedge. The seed head actually looks like a globe. Sedges look like grass, but they’re a whole different botanical family and this one only grows in coastal habitats. Part of the reason it’s endangered in New York State is that there’s only a few counties that have the coastline for it. There’s a lot of it, actually, in Ocean Breeze Park in Staten Island.

The Nantucket Juneberry is a sad case. It was on South Avenue near the Teleport on Staten Island, and I think the last time we looked for it, it was no longer there. We have seeds, but we’re not sure where to put it back into the wild. Normally, you’d find it in coastal grasslands — but it’s rare in the first place because a lot of the grasslands and open areas have been developed.After collecting, I take the seeds back to the nursery.

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