A spiny, spindly plant at McKinney Roughs
From a hike at Inks Lake one mild, drizzly midday in January
We saw a short clump and a 6' tall clump growing adjacent to one another.
One of the pix shows the square stem.
A Sunday hike at Bastrop State Park, mostly along the Red trail.
From a hike at Hosmer Grove on Haleakala, Maui
From a hike at Hosmer Grove on Haleakala, Maui
From a hike at Hosmer Grove on Haleakala, Maui
From a hike at Hosmer Grove on Haleakala, Maui
From a trip to the peak of Haleakala, Maui
From a trip to the peak of Haleakala, Maui
From a trip to the peak of Haleakala, Maui
From a short hike at Makawao Forest Reserve, Maui
From the Road to Hana, Maui
From the Road to Hana, Maui
From the Road to Hana, Maui
From the Road to Hana, Maui
From the Road to Hana, Maui
From the Road to Hana, Maui
From the Road to Hana, Maui
ID is a guess
From the Road to Hana, Maui
From a trip to Honolua Bay in Maui
From a trip to Honolua Bay in Maui
From a trip to Honolua Bay in Maui
From a trip to Honolua Bay in Maui
From Kahanu Garden on the Road to Hana, Maui
From Kahanu Garden on the Road to Hana, Maui
From Kahanu Garden on the Road to Hana, Maui
From a hike at Iao Valley, Maui
From Kahanu Garden on the Road to Hana, Maui
From Kahanu Garden on the Road to Hana, Maui
From Kahanu Garden on the Road to Hana, Maui
None of the suggested IDs looked at all right, so I'm going with the order that Kalanchoe belongs to.
From Kahanu Garden on the Road to Hana, Maui
Turtle watching at Ho'okipa Beach Park
Reminds me of hairy marbleseed from central Texas.
From Kahanu Garden on the Road to Hana, Maui
From a trip to Honolua Bay in Maui
From a trip to Honolua Bay in Maui
From a trip to Honolua Bay in Maui
"Uluhe" in Hawaiian
From a short hike at Makawao Forest Reserve, Maui
From an early morning walk one breezy mild morning in late April. For the 2022 City Nature Challenge
From a walk at the Berry Springs Park & Preserve, one bright, warm day in late April
From a drive on the back roads in the Elgin/Paint Creek vicinity
This early clump of milkweed had attracted a lot of bumblebees (or things that look like bumblebees).
Here's the observation for the milkweed: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5460722
From a hike on the Hill Trail at St Edward's Park - lovely views, but not a lot blooming
From Milton Reimers Ranch for the 2021 City Nature Challenge
From a late hike at Bastrop State Park one brisk December evening
Maybe Trametes?
This bracket fungi was growing enthusiastically all over a fallen log
From a lunchtime walk along Waller Creek. For the 2019 City Nature Challenge.
From a pleasant evening hike as Bastrop State Park in early May. For the 2021 City Nature Challenge.
Completely naturalized from the original planting over a decade ago.
From a hike at Buescher State Park one balmy March day
From a hike at Buescher State Park one balmy March day
From a hike at Buescher State Park one balmy March day
From an autumnal evening hike at Bastrop State Park in early November
A bright, sunny day at Slaughter Creek Trail in south Austin
From a hike at Buescher Syaye Park in early Nov
From Bastrop State Park on a coolish, misty evening.
for the 2018 City Nature Challenge
This specimen has much smaller spines than I thought was characteristic for horse crippler cactus--but perhaps it's fairly variable?
UPDATED: changed from Echinocactus texensis to Cactaceae based on Sam's comments below.
X: 8
Y: 0
Transect: Ten.Mes
Height Pole @ 2m
Martin Dies Jr State Park
Unknown shrub with dark green, pinnate foliage and curiously chubby stems. From a distance, squinting, it sort of looks like rosemary, so we've dubbed it "pseudo-rosemary," though if I don't know that it's fragrant. Also, when you look closer, the leaves look more like Japanese yew.
Unknown shrub with interesting dark red, semi-translucent berries. Also has small, spatulate, light green to grey-grey foliage and prominent white stems/bark.
I'm thinking it might be Javelina Bush (Condalia ericoides)?
UPDATED: Added more photos showing measurements of leaves and fruit--see all 11. 10/9/2016
I'm still feeling pretty wobbly about ID'ing condalias, but this one came with an identifying sign.
Observation is of the heart-leafed plant with long, straight stems.
From a hike at Purgatory Creek Natural Area in San Marcos
UPDATED2: Got it! Aristolochia erecta. It is a Dutchman's pipe relative after all.
I'm utterly stumped. I thought it was a Sarracenia, but it seems there's only 1 Sarracenia in Texas, and this isn't it.
I wracked my brains for weird, tubular burgundy flowers and tried Jack-in-the-pulpit and Dutchman's pipe--neither of those was right.
The 2 other genera in Sarraceniaceae aren't native to Texas (and also don't exactly look like this). The spots, in particular, seem weird--pitcher plants seem to favor stripes and reticulations, not spots. Also, the long, thin bit projecting over the mouth of the tube looks much too long compared to most pitcher plants I've found online.
What am I missing? Who is this little oddity?
UPDATE1: It's put on some new flower buds, and the pic Mr P took includes a better view of the plant's grassy leaves: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5979385
From a nature tour in the Leakey-Vanderpool-Utopia area
This is the first time I've seen a yellow paintbrush--we pulled over to check it out. From the road, it actually looked (to me) more like a yellow bluebonnet than a painbrush. Nifty either way.
From a visit to the unique old-growth sabal palm forest at the Sabal Palm Sanctuary on the Rio Grande River.
These flowers are much smaller than the only milkvine I'm familiar with (pearl milkvine), so presumably some other species?
UPDATE: Hmm... Doesn't look like any of the Matelea blooms on the Identotron for the Edwards Plateau. Is this something else entirely??
From a hike at Bauerle Ranche Park on a sultry June evening.
From a hike at Slaughter Creek Trail one beautiful evening in April.
Here's a thing I've never seen before. Identotron says it's a "button medick," which looks about right.
From the meadows by Prosperity Bank in Elgin
From Bastrop State Park on a coolish, misty evening.
for the 2018 City Nature Challenge
from the fertile river bottom along the San Gabriel
This plant has unbefreakinglievably tiny leaves and fruit.
I'm assuming it's a legume.
From a hike at Slaughter Creek Trail one beautiful evening in April.
This was the awesomest observation from this hike. Those two-petaled fringed flowers are crazy--they look like jazz hands.
From a long hike in Bastrop State Park one purgatorial morning/afternoon in July
Observation is of the interesting peachy-gold 4-petaled flower.
From a Jeep tour at Elkins Ranch, next to Palo Duro Canyon State Park
There was a lot of this spiky white wildflower, with which I am not familiar.
UPDATED: Found it! Onosmodium bejariense. I suspect it's the bejariense subspecies, as those observations seem to be more consistently hairy and curvy-stemmed, like mine.
Lots of flowers and butterflies at Spring Lake Preserve today.