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Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
Growing on a frequently mowed roadside.
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Earpod Wattle (Acacia auriculiformis)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
Little weed tree at the edge of a road, photographed over several days.
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Lesser Burdock (Arctium minus)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
Destroyer of sweaters.
The last photo is of a seedling, derived from the plants pictured, photographed a couple of months later.
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Horse Crippler Cactus (Homalocephala texensis)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
With developing fruit.
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Column Oak (Quercus × columnaris)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
Quercus palustris × rubra, growing with both parent species, which are common at this location.
The last three photos are of fruit from (1) Q. palustris, (2) hybrid, and (3) Q. rubra at this site.
My thanks to Albert Garofalo for showing me this woodland.
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Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
Enormous tree for this species, perhaps 60ft tall and 2ft DBH. If it hadn't been flowering, from a distance I might have thought it was an old oak. Last year's infructescence collected off the ground beneath the tree.
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Eyebright Ayenia (Ayenia euphrasiifolia)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
Growing in a very dry, frequently mowed roadside lawn.
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Climbing Dayflower (Commelina diffusa)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
Lawn weed.
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Field Chickweed (Cerastium velutinum var. velutinum)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
Serpentine soil area.
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Pipevine (Aristolochia macrophylla)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
A vine growing around low tree branches.
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Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
Germinating as weeds in garden beds and sometimes lawns, usually persisting for up to a couple of years, until they get weeded or mowed out of existence.
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Sichuan Pepper (Zanthoxylum simulans)Observer
douggoldmanDescription
Old, cultivated tree, possibly planted over a century ago (as were many of the plantings in this area of the arboretum). Trunk and bark photos (last five) from February 2018.
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Large-thorn Hawthorn (Crataegus macracantha)Observer
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My thanks to Heather Schibli and Zack Harris for accompanying me to this site.
