Frostweed you may be right or it could be Rubus hispidus.
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Species: R. hispidus
I am surprised as this is not what I have always assumed were dewberries. I guess I must have encountered wild blackberries instead.
None of the descriptions I found that were close matches including the one you found and the Rubus hispidus mentioned anything about the sweet fragrance. The smell is very pleasant. The sites I found say the berries are not tasty.
Interesting facts, I learn new things about what God gives us everyday.
Charlene
Native Plants found in the Wild.
Don't these look like Drummond Phlox? It's such a pretty color, but I didn't see any that color under the Drummond Phlox images. On Hwy. 71, on return trip from the College Station RU.
This pretty penstemon was near Bastrop, Texas. Don't know for sure, but my best guess is Penstemon laxiflorus, the Loose-Flowered Penstemon. It's quite a challenge drive anywhere during April in TX...when you really like blooming natives and just want to look at all the wildflowers along the road. Gotta look for one of the bumper stickers like I used to have...I BRAKE FOR WILDFLOWERS.
Linda, the phlox looks like the old fashioned perennial garden phlox that pop up in my yard. They have been left to cross for years, and many have gone back to that shade. Was their a house site near where you found it. I love the penstemon. Trying to get some to grow in raised areas of my much too damp yard.
lol, I brake for wildflowers as well - even have DH doing it now.
Linda, those are adorable, it could also be Prairie phlox, Phlox pilosa, what do you think?
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PHPI
What an interesting topic and how many lovelies out there totally unknown to us. We have quite a few that were gifts from the birds I guess :). Among them is what the plant lab identified as 'sparkleberry'....a wild blueberry and they grow in huge drifts
Another native is 'Solomon Seal' which is really charming in the growth habit
Lovely plants, Bugme. I wish I had that Sparkleberry, they are really neat.
I have Phlox pilosa....I think their color is paler and the "star" mark isn't much seen on them, and they don't get as tall as these. It could have been planted, I suppose. They were on a roadside slope way up to some land and a house could be seen way back on the land. There were what looked like Baby Blue Eyes there on the slope also...we wondered about that, because in our area those are usually in shady to dappled light areas and these were in the sun. Many people here would like to grow any kind of blueberry, but they need acidic conditions...bummer! That Solomon's Seal is neat. We don't see that here.
Beautiful flowers and very nice pictures.
The Phlox pilosa is blooming now....nice plant I found at a native plant nursery. BTW, I'm so grateful for the nurseries who sell only natives or primarily natives...it can't be easy for the owners, who could surely make a lot more money by selling the same old plants as most ordinary nurseries do. Even those that sell primarily nonnatives have a tough time. Locally the only real "chain" nonnative nursery (other than the big-box ones) is pulling out of this area. Anyway, I do what I can to buy from the native nurseries to keep them going. Anyway, P. pilosa does look different than the other phlox I saw!
It sure does Linda, I got some of it this year and I like it a lot, it is also very scented.
Wood Betony, Pedicularis canadensis
http://ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/pediculariscana.html
Shooting stars, Dodecatheon meadia
Oh Wow! those are gorgeous too Gran.
Wood betony colony with Flowering Dogwood
Sweet pictures.
I'm discovering many wildflowers growing in our woods. I can identify the lady slippers, we have one in bloom, so beautiful! I also have some pink (the flowers looks like honeysuckle) plants but they aren't on a vine more on a woody stem. Anyone have a thought? I'll try to get some pics up soon. Thanks.
Here is bloodroot (Sanguinaria)
You probably have found tartarian honeysuckle--shurb instead of a vine--beautiful--but I think its an invasive. Nice bloodroot--ours are past here:(
Our wildflowers in the woods are just starting.
They are all early this year, due to sudden warmth (that is now gone) but I did get some pictures yesterday.
The ever common, but still beautiful marsh marigold.
Although not a "field" flower. We get acres of these in the swamp. (sometimes even blooming under the water)
They are just starting to bloom, will peak next weekend and then last another week.
Also known as cowslips, Caltha palustris
Thanks, that what I thought.
(although someone on another forum when I posted pictures last year said they were two different plants)
I have seen pictures of the two plants that look different. Ours here look like a cross between the two.
Here's one from my recent trip to Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. Epipactis gigantea.
And another one. Enceliopsis nudicaulis var. corrugata. Endemic to the Refuge.
And another. Astragalus phoenix. Also endemic to the refuge. This one and the Enceliopsis are both federally Threatened species.
Not much to look at right now, but also endemic and Threatened, Ivesia eremica.
Ash Meadows is home to dozens of endemic plants, fish, snails, bugs, and probably some other critters too. Most of them are on the federal Threatened or Endangered species lists. 30 years ago the Refuge was covered with farms and due to become a huge housing tract.
Here's the last one, Psorothamnus fremontii. Not rare but a neat find when you've been walking through a desert full of gray and thorny plants.
Where is Ash Meadows national Wildlife Refuge? It looks like such a delicate environment. Nice to see some desert plants as well as the beautiful marsh plants.
Yes, I agree. Getting to see all kinds of wild plants, really fun.
Ash Meadows is west of Las Vegas, near the Califonia border. Devil's Hole (part of Death Valley NP) is within the refuge. Despite it's close proximity to Vegas it only gets a few visitors, most of them are bird watchers.
Oh, all those plants are so neat! Good to see those that I don't see around here! And I'm glad they saved Ash Meadows. I know a little of the "gray and thorny" plants from the Texas desert. This is Lace Cactus....not in the desert, but grows in the Texas hill country. The cacti are starting to bloom around here.
Gorgeous photos!!
Oh, that is so beautiful! Good photo, Linda!
Fire Pinks, Silene virginica
http://www.2bnthewild.com/plants/H120.htm
LindaTX, those cacti blossoms are glorious!!
Davis, it might be a native azalea as they do grow on woody stems.
Here is a Texas endemic found at Tandy Hills nature preserve, Fort Worth.
Engelman's Sage, Salvia engelmannii; lots of it covering the hills.
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=SAEN2
Antelope Horns Milkweed, Asclepias asperula, also found at Tandy Hills, the Monarchs love this one.
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=ASAS
I have to share a little Ky. spring. The view of my back yard up the hill. all the white dots are trillium.
George
