Hello Everyone, I hope I didn't dampen anyone's enthusiasm with the prospect of the endemics overload. May be knowing which plants are endemic isin't that important, however, I have spent a good ammount of time checking the list for the ones that are better known,
and so, I will be posting 10 at a time to keep it from being too tedious.
Of the 325 plants listed on Vascular Plants Endemic to Texas, A to Z, I found aproximately 40 that I recognized, so here are the first 10, with latin and common names.
Wild Petunia, ( Ruellia drummondiana )
Rain Lily, ( Cooperia smalii )
Slim Milkweed, ( Asclepias linearis )
Crown Coreopsis, ( Coreopsis nuecensides )
Sand Hill Wooly-white ( Himenopappus )
Coastal Gayfeather, (Liatris bracteata )
Texas Groundsell, ( Senicio ampullaceus )
Crownbreard, Cow-pen Daisy ( Vervesina encelloides )
Engelman's Prickly Pear ( Opuntia engelmanii )
Texas Venus' looking glass, (Triodanis coloradensis )
Pictures of some of these can be found on this page.
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/mbierner/bio406d/PlantPics_archive.htm
I hope it helps. Josephine.
Gardening with Texas Native plants @ Wildflowers. Part 3.
Oh, Josephine I must admit I did get dampened but, not by you! Other stuff. :-( Is there a part of this project you would like me to do?
Hello John, at this time I have them all sorted out, but after I finish posting the plants I recognized, you could go over the list, if you want to do it,( it is tedious) and post the ones that you recognize, and I didn't. You don't have to do this, of course, only if you feel like it.
ok
Here is a picture of my little Red Buckeye,( Aesculus pavia) I is in full bloom now, and it is gorgeous. I wish it lasted all summer.
Well, here comes the second installment from Vascular Plants Endemic to Texas.
Widow's Tears, ( Commelina anomala) I think just about everyone has some of this one.
Texas Spiderwort, ( Trandescatia humilis) Very common too.
Texas Bluebonnet, ( Lupinus subcarnosus) No comment.
Texas Oak, Spanish Oak, ( Quercus buckleyi ) Very common.
Chisos Oak, ( Quercus graciliformis) Not as common.
Propeller Plant, (Herbertia lahue ) Bettydee has lots of these.
Sand Brazoria, ( Brazoria arenaria ) Not common.
Engelman Sage, ( Salvia engelmannii)
Big Red Sage, (Salvia Pensteminoides )
Texas Poppy Mallow, ( Callirhoe scabriuscula) Fairly common.
May be you guys are familiar with some of the plants that I'm not.
Please let me know if you are familiar with some of them. Josephine.
Your Buckeye is gorgeous! What a great plant to have!
Hello Mel, nice to hear from you. Remember when you came to visit it was just starting to open?
When are you going to post some of yours?
Here is a close up of the flowers, I just love it.
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Oh thanks. i WAS going to ask for a closeup!
I don't know what ya'll consider a native, that I have, that you haven't seen.... You are doing such a great job at it!
I have some gorgeous Lantan's (orange/yellow/red) that I can't take my eyes off of! The bog sage is blooming! I will take some new pictures tomorrow and post some next week. I am so thankful for the rain that just finished! My Plants are SO very happy!
mel
Mel, you do have quite a few plants that are native, and they don't have to be different plants from the ones I have posted. Every picture is special and shows things in a different way.
I love the pictures that you have in your album, so post away, to your heart's content.
Yes! the rain has done wonderful things for the plants, everything looks so green and lush.
We are planning on going to the Texoma Roundup on Sunday the 15th of May.
We will be meeting Sweezel, Trunnels, Texasgarden, and John, so I am very excited, wish you and Konkreetblond could come too. I suppose you do know about it?
May be I should have said something sooner, but we didnt know for sure if we were going untill just recently. Let me know if you girls are interested.
Josephine.
We'd love to have both of you too! http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/487322/
I wish I could go, but won't be able to make one so far away. I'll be happy to get together closer tho. :)
Closer to what and when? How about something with a native plant/butterfly theme?
John, that's a good idea. Maybe have a get-together not as big as a RU, but something with a theme as you suggested.
Just a sugestion as that is my current gardening passion. ;-)
Well, there is always the Texas Discovery Garden's in Fair Park? That's a longer drive for John than anyone though. They have a nice butterfly garden plus other gardens. I have actually been wanting to go over there during lunch, because I work downtown. I actually looked at the website yesterday, but decided to go to the Arboretum instead because it's free (with my membership).
Well, did we have in mind to visit a garden together? or did we have in mind a plant swap?
I don't know if all of you are aware, but 75154 in Red Oak is trying to get a plant swap going this spring or early summer.
We don,t know where we will have it yet, but there is Veterans Park in Arlington, that I think might be a good place. It has a Xeriscape garden, and a Native plant garden and it is free.
They have a covered picnic area and lots of trees, Mitch ( 75154) had mentioned another park
but we haven't talked about what that park is like. I guess we need to discuss it a bit more.
Mitch, has started a thread on the Roundup forum ( Dallas Area Plant Swap) so we could comunicate there or here. ( She )(he) Please let me know which one, I can't tell by the name, did start it and I volunteered to help, but so far nothing has been set.
Josephine.
This is the third group of Vascular Plants Endemic to Texas.
Actually I had this done down to the last plant, and I went to look up if it was perennial, or annual, and I lost the whole thing, and had to do it all over again, Grrrrrrrrr!
So here it goes again.
Amelias Sand Verbena, ( Abronia ameliae ) Beautiful perennial plant, have seen only photos.
Giant Four O'clock, ( Mirabilis gigantea ) I don't think this is the common one I have.
Park's Gaura, ( Gaura villosa ) there is a lot of this plant around here, very pretty.
Drummond Wood Sorrell, ( Oxalis drummondii ) also common.
Texas Crabgrass, ( Digitaria texana ) I think we all know and "love" this one.
Lindheimer Muhly, ( Mulenberbergia lindhemieri ) this is a beautiful and popular grass.
Texas Wild Rice, ( Zizania texana) I did't know we had a native wild rice.
Tharp's Phlox, ( Phlox drummondi ) Annual phlox usually red.
Texas Phlox, ( Phlox pilosa ) perennial , usually pink.
Golden eye Phlox, ( Phlox roemeriana ) Annual, very pretty.
I was thinking about visiting a garden together. Between the RU's and my own nursery "habit", I just couldn't handle taking on more plants, or trying to propagate more. I'd really like an opportunity to mix (1)meeting & visiting with DG folks, (2)getting to wander around a garden/park/arboretum with fellow enthusiasts, and (3)learning together.
A butterfly garden that includes Texas natives would be ideal. Fair Park or the Arboretum or Veterans Park are not too far. Shade is important as I am a wus these days. ;-)
Actually, I would enjoy just meeting. I also need to catch up from my recent planting, and I always enjoy a garden tour!
mel
Me too.
It sounds like ya'll are going to have a great time. If the timing were better we might make it on our way to Missouri to pick up our daughter at school. She has to be out of the dorm on the 15 th. If we could just delay the end of the semester a week....... But I doubt that the school would find that idea very interesting.
Those places sound good to me too. I am just now getting my beds in order, so I'm not up for a swap just yet. I'm sure we could all use a day to relax!
Perhaps we should start a new thread for this? We could discuss the date, as I know many of you "Northerners" are going to the Lake Texoma RU, so we would need to work around that.
That RU is next weekend.
I think Maggiemoo is right to start a new thread, because if we keep it on this one, some people that don't watch this thread might miss the opportunity to come and meet other menbers.
You guys decide who is going to do it, and which forum to put it on, is that o.k.?
Or we can just leave it here if you like.
I suppose that meeting before it gets too hot would be a good idea, but I am pretty much open on Sundays except for Father's day.
Josephine.
Vascular Plants Endemic to Texas.
Hincley's Columbine, ( Aquilegia chrysantha ) Perennial
Scarlet Clematis, ( Clematis Texensis) Perennial
Houston Meadow-rue, ( Thalictrum Texanun )
Texas Hawthorn, ( Crateagus Texana) perennial
Canyon mock-orange, ( Philadelphus Ernestii ) perennial
Texas mock-orange, ( Philadelphus Texensis ) perenial
Plateau Gerardia, ( Agalinis edwardiana ) annual
Fringed Paintbrush, ( Castilleja ciliata) annual
Tall Paintbrush, ( Castilleja elongata ) annual
Lindheimer's Paintbrush, ( Castilleja purpurea ) annaual
Guadalupe Penstemon, ( Penstemon guadalupensis ) perennial
Wright's Penstemon. ( Penstemon wrightii ) Perennial.
And that's all folks. I hope this has been of help, this is not complete by any means,
but they are the ones on the list that I recognized the most.
If you guys are interested you can post more of them, I think it would be fun.
We went for a walk mother's day afternoon to Pappy Elkin's Park, and found some very pretty wildflowers. This one is an adapted species, not a native, but I love it.
Corn Poppy, ( Papaver rhoeas ) you don't see them in the wild very often.
Ans a close up, sooo pretty.
Yummmm....I want some of those! :)
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.
And a close up of the beautiful flowers of Bull Nettle.
Ouch that hurts me just to see it. I have been stung by it before! They should use that for interrogations!
Yes, but have you ever smelled the flowers? You have to pick them very carefully.
Like poison ivy, ONCE was enough. I'll just take your word for it!
Another lovely find at Pappy Elkins' park, Purple Larkspur ( Delphinium carolinianum)
I am not sure that this is the native kind, the flowers seem to be larger than the ones in the pictures of the natives I have seen. However they were growing in the wild and they were beautiful, could be another escapee. They are perennial.
And a close up of the flowers, are they gorgeous?
Hello Bettydee, We made another discovery at Papy Elkins' park. You posted some of this some time back, then I found out that it is a Texas endemic, and we have it basically in our neighborhood. It is Woolly White, ( Hymenopappus ) It is a biennial, the book Wildflowers of Texas shows it with rose colored disk flowers and calls it ( hymenopappus artemisiaefolius )
This one had cream colored disk flowers, like yours, so they must be a different variety.
Here is a stand of it.
The flower cluster, soft and delicate.
