Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native plants @ Wildflowers. Part 3., 0 by frostweed

frostweed wrote:
Here is a beautiful,( and terrible at the same time ) plant that is native to Texas. Bull Nettle
( Cnidoscolus texanus ) This is a perennial with beautiful pure white flowers that look like Stephanotis, and smell wonderful.
The seeds are edible and were much used by Indian tribes. However the plant is very caustic, and can cause a severe rash if touched.
We saw it last Sunday at Pappy Elkin's Park. This park is fairly new, and actually quite wild, with just wild meadows and woods, and a few paths, but id you look closely, you can see many treasures. Here is the plant.