Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Pink ), 0 by htop

htop wrote:
Pink Thoroughwort (Fleischmannia incarnata, aka: Eupatorium incarnatum), Asteraceae Family, Texas native, perennial, blooms October through December

It is found growing in moist loamy soil areas of the South Texas Plains. It natively grows in thickets, ditches, bottomlands, swamps, wet fields and woods as well as along roads and stream banks. The stems are lax so the branches tend to bend down giving it a sprawling type growth habit. The leaves are triangular or deltoid in shape and are up to 2 inches in length. The blooms are mostly whitish, but can be pink to lilac on the tips; however, they are rarely totally white. They are a nectar source for the rounded metalmark butterfly. Dried plants have an odor similar to vanilla.

For more informatio, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/140240/index.html

Bloom buds just starting to open ...