Texas Gardening: beach plant i.d. needed, 1 by decklife

decklife wrote:
I've been working on getting i.d.'s for various pretty wild things growing in the "salt flats" around here. We are two blocks from Aransas Bay. The plant i.d. forum didn't have an answer on this one. It looks somewhat like pictures of dune thistle, Actites megalocarpa, but the description of that plant puts it much much smaller than the ones growing around here. The lot where this is growing will get a house on it very shortly, so I'm looking to rescue one of these.