What to call shedding seeds from American basketflower

Technically, dehiscence is when any kind of fruit splits open to release seeds, so not just milkweeds. Also technically, what you’re calling Centaurea seeds are really fruit – dry ovaries tightly covering a single seed. They are indehiscent, since they don’t split open, but I don’t know of a technical term for their particular dispersal method. Botanists do love their terminology, though, so someone may have come up with something.

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