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Dicot Class Asteraceae ~ Aster Family |White | yellow/orange | red/pink | blue/purple | |
Silphium albiflorum3,1,7 | .White-flowered Rosinweed | Late Spring | . |
Ray flowers white, disk flowers white, about 3 inches
across. Blooms mid to late spring, perennial. Deeply lobed,
large leaf blades, stiff and rough to the touch. Plant about 1 foot tall
with a floral stem that is about 2 ft. tall.
I had several floral stalks this year(2013). During winter winds, the stalks twisted off at the base and I found them scattered over my 3 acres with those thick, large leaves and some seed heads still intact. I suspect that is how these plants are able to spread, by the prairie winds, with the dead leaves acting as sails. |
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![]() seeds from 2015 season. compare with seeds from the yellow rosinweed |
Hymenopappus
scabiousaeus7 |
.Old Plainsman, Woolly White | Spring | . |
Bracts, white, petal-like, disk flowers, white to rose colored, multiple floral heads forming clusters at end of central stem . Spring blooming biennial. Leaves & stems blue-green with very bipinnate leaves from top to bottom.. 2 to 4 ft. tall. Single main stem with branching near the top. Some specimens may vary from that. Seems suited for a grassland species. NOTE: had to change id on this plant as it keyed out to H. scabiosaeus due to the individual flowers on each head. See picture below | |||
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Diaperia verna
Evax verna |
Spring | ||
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Diaperia prolifera
Evax prolifera |
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Ambrosia psilostachya | Western Ragweed | Perennial | |
runners; less than 1 yard tall; mine about knee high, 18"
"Used as a medicinal tea by Indians"7 mm; leaves pinnatifid;
spreads by runners.
Very Aromatic. Creamy white tiny flowers. Leaves are silvery; floral |
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Conyza canadensis
Erigeron (Conyza) canadensis |
Horseweed, Marestail | September | |
Annual, weed, small white flowers | |||
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Dysphania ambrosioides | |||
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Vernonia baldwinii
summer, fall |
Ironweed | summer, fall | |
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summer, up to 5 feet tall, perennial, rhizomatus. | |
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Cichorium intybus | Chicory | ||
blue flowers; found growing in median on State Hwy 114 between T.M.S and USHwy 377 near Roanoke. | |||
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Cirsium undulatum | Wavy leaf thistle | ||
short with grey leaves; has rhizomes so spreads. | |||
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As id'd from:
1 Wild
Flowers of Texas book by Geyata Ajilvsgi, revised ed. 2003
2 Lady Bird Johnson
WildFlower Center website,
3 Kansas State
Wildflowers website.
4 100 Texas
Wildflowers by Dorothy Baird Mattiza for the Native Plant Society of
Texas, 1993
5 Native Plant
Society of Texas
6 Texas Wildflowers
by Leo Meier & Jan Reid
7 Shiner &
Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas by Diggs, Lipscomb
& O'Kennon, 1999
8 Google
searches used to help verify and find more info
9 USDA website
Plant Database
10 Texas Flora on facebook
Wildflower Bibliography & Link page
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