Hi,
It is none of the above. You should be finding light brown cone shaped things like in this photo.
http://echinacea.umn.edu/images/achenes.jpg
The brown around the edge is not always so dark.
If you don't find any, finches may have eaten them.
Remy

Here is a link that might be useful: Echinacea Page on the Seed Site

Ok take a look at your picture a and you see the little white "coneish" looking things that are not in the picture B. Those are the seeds. The long black things are chaff. HTH

Paula

In picture A and D, you have a black stick and a small tan/brown triangle/cone shaped thing...that is the seeds. You should take off the stick at the top. Coneflower seeds are about tannish to brown in colour and do not look like cosmos seeds

Lol! I'm an idiot. I didn't realize your pic extended beyond the screen, sorry.
Origami is correct. The cone shaped parts in D are seed, and Origami has better eye sight than me for pic A, but I can now see a coneshape attached to another shape in A.
Remy

Thank you all. My pictures are not too good to identify anyway. I could not get as close as I wanted to, but it just got so blurring. Thank you for all your helps.

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Guess which part I threw out and which part I kept. Wish I would have seen this thread 3 months ago.

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Do I need to put my seed in the refrigerator before planting. Zone 7-8