This plant should probably be listed as Leavenworthia texana(as it is many other places). my primary justification for this beyond morpho...Read Morelogy is this reference "Texas plants had a chromosome number
of 2n = 22 (Nixon 1987, pers. comm. in Mahler 1987, pp. 239, 241) while
the Oklahoma L. aurea had 2n = 48 (Rollins 1963, pp. 9-11; Beck et al.
2006, p. 156)"
west Houston, TX (Zone 9a) | September 2006 | positive
This is plant is on the "watch list" for admission to the federal endangered species act. The annual plant was first discovered by US Arm...Read Morey officer Dr. Leavenworth on small prairies in San Augustine, Texas in 1830. It occurs in rare alkaline "islands" of soil found in the Weches Formation in the Pineywoods of East Texas which is normally on the acidic side. It blooms golden-yellow in mid to late winter and is endemic to Sabine and San Augustine Counties in East Texas. It grows on open prairie grasslands and IS NOT AN AQUATIC PLANT.
This plant should probably be listed as Leavenworthia texana(as it is many other places). my primary justification for this beyond morpho...Read More
This is plant is on the "watch list" for admission to the federal endangered species act. The annual plant was first discovered by US Arm...Read More
Leavenworthia aurea var. texana is Endemic to Texas.