Photos / Sounds
What
Texas Snakewood (Colubrina texensis)Observer
beeblossomseedsDescription
Shrub with zig-zag branches. Height 20 dm. Leaf arrangement alternate. Leaves one per node or in fascicles at nodes. Blade simple, elliptic to obovate. Leaf margins with 10+ shallow serrations. Secondary veins arcuate. Flowers greenish yellow with five sepals, five petals, five stamens. Fruit a dry capsule 8 mm wide. New growth on stems white tomentose.
Photos / Sounds
What
Mousesear (Stachys crenata)Observer
beeblossomseedsDescription
Clusters of flowers form an interrupted spike. Corollas lavender, bilaterally symmetrical, 6 mm long. Forb 35 cm tall. Stem branched from base, square in cross section, hirsute. Internodes longer than leaves. Leaf arrangement opposite. Leaves simple, ovate. Leaf margins crenate. Fruit a schizocarp with 4 nutlets.
Photos / Sounds
What
Gouldian Finch (Chloebia gouldiae)Observer
beeblossomseedsDescription
Blue leg band.
Photos / Sounds
What
Beaked Panicum (Coleataenia anceps)Observer
beeblossomseedsDescription
Ligule is erose membrane and less than 0.5 mm long.
Photos / Sounds
What
Mexican Honey Wasp (Brachygastra mellifica)Observer
beeblossomseedsDescription
Branch supporting the nest broke yesterday morning. Nest first observed in about 20 feet above ground at far end of cedar elm branch.
Photos / Sounds
What
Japanese Climbing Fern (Lygodium japonicum)Observer
beeblossomseedsDescription
Observed on campus of Texas State University. This fern was growing with climbing fig, Ficus pumila, at the base of a parking garage.
Photos / Sounds
What
Kleingrass (Panicum coloratum)Observer
beeblossomseedsDescription
Plants 100 cm tall. Spikelets 2.6 mm long. Lower glumes 1.2 mm long. Ligule a ciliated membrane. One patch along a two-track road.
Photos / Sounds
What
Harris' Three-Spot (Harrisimemna trisignata)Observer
beeblossomseedsDescription
Observed on Ilex decidua.
Photos / Sounds
What
Paraguayan Windmill Grass (Stapfochloa canterae)Observer
beeblossomseedsDescription
Occasional patches between railroad tracks. Associated species include Johnsongrass and sumpweed.
Photos / Sounds
What
Cope's Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis)Observer
beeblossomseedsDescription
Frog stayed on bottle tree for two days.