The largest plant I found. The species is common in Boquillas Canyon. It is interesting that it doesn't seem to occur anywhere else.
WA Herbarium collection G Byrne Voucher 7639
Mesic upland Quercus stellata woodland remnant on cemetery grounds.
Hardin County, only one plant located.
spurs >10mm, less than 20mm
Possible undescribed species originally found by Deb Manley blooming in March of this year. Fairly widespread in this area but very tiny most plants less than the size of a penny. Can still see the prominent and long ligules for which this species, whatever it is, is so distinct.
Posting this despite the immense amount of gatekeeping, pruinose stiffs in the upper echelons of Texas Botany that it will piss off due to how exciting it is, how much it has been selected for by an extremely dry environment (da wool) and the amount of people it will inspire to know that new species are still being described in this state in the 21st century. Amen
Low-lying plant on rock
On Dalea frutescens. Flowers smelled very pleasant/sweet. Sweat bees and this blue stopped by to pollinate while I was here.
The species is dioecious so all flowers are unisexual. The flowers lack petals. The perianth is a spiral of sepals. Male and female flowers arrange their sex organs on a unisexual column (like unisexual orchids in the genus Catasetum). In both flowers the central column terminates in a fleshy disc I presume would be called a compitum. In female flowers the receptive, stigmatic papillae ar arranged under the compitum on the surface of the style. In male flowers the column is a pistilode also with a fleshy compitum. Sessile anthers re fused to the pistilode style.
I found these at the back of San Marcos outlet mall!
We bought our truck from San Macros car dealer during the pandemic. My truck needed an oil change that's why we went to San Macros today. The car dealer dropped us off at the outlet mall. Since we have a dog, that's why we decided to see what's growing at the back of shopping mall.
There are hundreds of them!
Trying to cover almost everything, but especially Quercus geminata.
On sandstone
Somewhat scabrid leaves, looked like it had a basal burl, occurring on magic geology with Tecate Cypress. Area reportedly under threat of development
After a very long absence hyenas are back in Gorongosa National Park. This place is still getting better every time I come here.💚💚💚💚
On fallen log. Playing with batch processing.
Diogmites crudelis launched itself from the top of the flower lower right. The bee escaped.
Local escape first collected here in 1958. Amazing that it has managed to hold on for this long!
I returned to this site, an alkali wetland in Fish Slough yesterday (6/13/2023) to collect and photograph this enigmatic Carex. I collected a number of sheets and will be distributing them to others as suggested by Barbara Wilson. It is defenitely trigonous, short rhizomatous, glabrous throughout, perigynia about 3mm long with a short 0.5mm beak, teeth about 0,3 to 0.4 mm long. It keys to nothing (closest thing C. viridula) in TJM2. It keys to C. parryana in IMF, Apparently C. parryana var. brevisquama is a homotypic synonym for C. holmgreniorum. Thus I concur with Reznicek via Barbara Wilson over my earlier observation of this plant.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/106526060
Redmaids, Calandrinia ciliata - now menziesii, West Camino Cielo, Santa Ynez Mountains
Fruit dehisce into gelatinous blobs of seeds on damp days. They probably stick to anything traversing the paths they occupy.
On Salix. Cap vinaceous red in KOH. Stems aqua in ultraviolet light, other surfaces uv-. Stem hollow, slightly yellowish in center. Context white, caulocystidia present.
This single plant was the target of our quest today. And finding it was extremely...EXTREMELY surprising. This plant (i.e. a stem from apparently the same underground rhizome) was first discovered in March 1984 by me. At the time, I tentatively identified it as Trillium gracile, a species of southeast Texas and eastward. The ID has been debated and the remarkable occurrence of the plant at this location is very curious (long story). I had rechecked this plant probably 15 years ago and it was still present, and now--some 35 years after its first discovery, it is still putting up a flower in a lonely attempt to propagate. (There is, and has always only been, just the one plant here.) All of us, including eminent botanist Bill Carr (4th image) and Dr. George Yatskievych (U.T. Herbarium, 5th image, kneeling to photograph the plant) were just floored that we could refind the plant.
The plant is found in a mesic shaded canyon head at a permanent spring. The plant is in moist silty loam at the base of a bluff adjacent to the springhead pool, with abundant leaf litter, under mature oak-ash-elm-juniper woodland. Aside from a wealth of recent invasives (Japanese Honeysuckle, Glossy Privet, etc.), the site includes several relictual species of very local occurrence in Travis County, including:
-- Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
-- Cross Vine (Bignonia capreolata)
-- Bristly Greenbrier (Smilax tamnoides [= S. hispida])
-- Eastern Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
Patch/"cave" 2
Cow hair moss here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141463987
Campbell Valley Regional Park, Langley, BC, Canada
albr-0029
Sheet of paper is 2in on a side.
Completely without costa.
Boshniaka at Aklavik - parasite on alder
Growing on the base of a Beech
All the Texas Tauschia started to bloom in the park.
Pretty dramatic leaf shape for Q. nigra
A cultivated tree I've been watching for nearly ten years, and I suspected it was a hybrid because it's not like the other oaks planted here in a long row (all Quercus austrina), and is not like any oak species I know of. It has a dense crown with lots of fine branching; fairly small, semi-coriaceous leaves, with a few that persist well into the winter; and thick, pubescent twigs. I suspected that a live oak was one parent, but based on the leaf shape I wondered if the other parent was a post oak or a burr oak. I hadn't found any acorns until recently, when I found one very large acorn with a thick cap, which excludes any post oak species but is fitting for burr oak.
Another interesting thing about this tree is that twigs with fully developed terminal buds have powdery mildew on their leaves, whereas twigs without properly developed terminal buds have leaves free of powdery mildew.
Photos taken in September 2021 and January 2022.
This tree species is both cultivated and naturalized here. The first ten photos are of a cultivated individual, and the remaining nine photos are of young, naturalized individuals. The leaves in the fifth photo, of leaves side-by-side, were collected from a single 2-foot length of twig. Photos 11-12 are of a young tree that had fairly normal leaves, then got cut down and thereafter resprouted, making sharply lobed leaves typical for this species when regenerating from severe damage. Photos 13-17 are of saplings only a few years old.
The leaf shape variation is pretty extreme in this species.
The rounded lobes are common on young Q. pagoda, and the pubescent abaxial surfaces, twigs, and petioles are characteristic. Upper surface of more mature leaves are rather dark. Some of the leaves are infected with what is likely Erysiphe abbreviata, which is common on Q. pagoda in this area.
Known individual.
Fruit photos taken about a month later.
Growing with Carya carolinae-septentrionalis, C. glabra, and C. ovata.
What appears to be tiny plants with tiny red blooms growing in water in a rock drainage basin near Inks Lake. The second photo with a wide view has several fallen live oak leaves for scale. The small pond was about 3 or 4 feet long and maybe an inch or two deep.
Near the southern range limit for the species.
Photos of fruit (last two) taken a few weeks after the flower photos.
Growing on a magnolia cone. Handed to me by @masonlalley
nebrascensis seems like the best fit