Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Yellow ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Thrift-leaf Perky Sue, Four-Nerve Daisy, Slender-stem Bitterweed, Plains Hymenoxys (Hymenoxys scaposa)


This plant self-seeds easily. The seedhead turns totally white when dry and and the empty seedhead persists on the plant. Notice how the dried petals turn inward. So, there are yellow blooms with white seedheads on the plant at the same time making the plant look as though it has yellow as well as white blooms on it from a distance. I cut the dried bloomstalks from the plant after the seedhead has dried. This can be accomplished easily with a weed whacker.

Seedhead that has not dried totally yet ...

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