Edwin Giesbers / Arid landscape with Launaea arborescens in flower, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. April 2013.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Dried Maize (Zea mays) tassel, commercial farm, Tanzania, Africa.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Dried Maize (Zea mays) tassel, commercial farm, Tanzania, Africa.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Common Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris) dried flower head, Italy, September.

Jack Dykinga / Flowering plants in dried out mud, including Yellow Beeplant (Cleome lutea) and Pretty Phacelia (Phacelia pulchella var. sabulonum) Factory Bench, Fremont, Utah, USA, May.

Christophe Courteau / Close up of man's hand harvesting Pyrethrum, which refers to several Old World plants of the Chrysanthemum genus which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads. Pyrethrum is also the...

Christophe Courteau / Man harvesting Pyrethrum, which refers to several Old World plants of the Chrysanthemum genus which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads. Pyrethrum is also the name of a natural...

Christophe Courteau / Man harvesting Pyrethrum, which refers to several Old World plants of the Chrysanthemum genus which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads. Pyrethrum is also the name of a natural...

Christophe Courteau / Man harvesting Pyrethrum, which refers to several Old World plants of the Chrysanthemum genus which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads. Pyrethrum is also the name of a natural...

Willem Kolvoort / Clove in flower with ripe seeds (Syzygium aromaticum) the seeds will be dried before use, Ambon, Indonesia

Tim Fitzharris / Wildflowers and dried grasses, Caprock Canyons State Park, Texas

Solvin Zankl / Red clover seeds (Trifolium pratense) - Europe. Plant-eating mammals, ants and earthworms are partly responsible for seed dispersal, and the seeds also carry dried remnants of the former flower, which...