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	Dot Lang's  Flower Notes for east Wise County, Texas Flowers by Color
	Work  Progressing Yellow to Orange Flowers Click on Family name or species name to view more photos and my plant notes. Click on thumbnails to view larger photos. Plant family in alphabetical order by Scientific family name. Most are in the Dicot class. Monocots noted in yellow with a * by their Family name.	Cells with this color are  Foreign imports Local but not in my fields:

Dicot Class
Scientific Family Name Common Family Name	Common Name Genus, species
Apiaceae Parsley Family	Prairie Parsley,  Polytaenia texana 7  (J.M. Coult. & Rose) Mathias & Constance	Prairie Parsley (off-site link)  "Prairie Parsley is an indicator plant of original prairie. It is rarely found in disturbed areas"Off-siteLink Important nectar plant. Polytaenia nuttalia is another very similar species.  The only difference noted in the key7 is the seed shape in cross cut.	This year (2014) appeared to be a banner year in my area for the seeds to germinate as I saw plants where I had seen none or very few in past years.  I don't recall seeing any last year.  I did have one in my yard two years ago but none this year nor last so I collected some seed and will disperse them where I'd like to find them on my land.  2015 has proved to be an even better year for this species.  Seeing lots along the roadsides and some old pastures... and 2 in my front field! not seeded by me. 2017: none appeared on my land this year though had several last year.  Saw many elsewhere.
Asteraceae Aster Family	Four-nerve daisy Tetraneuris linearifolia annual, winter, spring	Clasping-Leaf Coneflower Dracopis amplexicaulis	Engelmann's Daisy Engelmannia peristenia	Saw-Leaf Daisy Grindelia squarrosa
	Texas Yellow Star Lindheimera texana spring	Yellow Top 7 Cut-Leaf Groundsel 1 Packera tampicana spring	1Texas Dandelion, Small flower Desert-Chicory  Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus spring	Common Dandelion Taraxacum officianale year around
	Thelesperma, Greenthread Thelesperma filifolium spring thru fall	Blanket Flower Gaillardia pulchella spring	Maximilian Sunflower Helianthus maximiliani fall	Spiny sowthistle  Sonchus asper
	Helianthus annuus Common Sunflower	Rudbeckia species Cone Flower	False Annual Broomweed Amphiachyris dracunculoides	Goatsbeard, Western Salsify Tragopogon dubius
	Silphium laciniatum7 Compass Plant, Rosinweed 1st found summer 2015 at corner	Heterotheca canescens 3 Hairy Golden Aster. late Spring, Summer, fall 1st noticed Fall 2014	Lactuca serriola Prickly Lettuce pretty but is  considered a weed.	Common Groundsel Senecio vulgaris
	Helenium elegans,10,7 Pretty Sneezeweed Found summer 2016 at corner		Lactuca saligna 10 Willowleaf lettuce 1st found spring 2015
Bignoniaceae  Trumpet-Creeper Family	Trumpet Creeper, Trumpet Vine Campsis radicans  Texas native cultivar
Boraginaceae Borage Family	Fringed Puccoon Lithospermum incisum early spring
Brassicaceae  Mustard Family	Bladder pod Lesquerella species spring (March - ...		Myagrum perfoliatum	Rapistrum rugosum
Caryophyllaceae Pink Family	Broom Whitlow-Wort Paronychia virginica, Spreng. 2,7	Close-up of Broom Whitlow-Wort flowers Summer, Fall blooming plant, perennial
Cactaceae Cactus Family	Prickly Pear Cactus Opuntia  species	# Spineless Prickly Pear Cactus Opuntia ellisiana Griffiths # Texas native ornamental  tiny glochids (slivers) are very irritating (Bloomed 2018)	Spineless Prickly Pear Cactus Opuntia ellisiana Griffiths # Texas native ornamental  tiny orange/red glochids (slivers) are very irritating  Taylor County, Buffalo Gap, Perini restaurant
Crassulaceae Stonecrop  or Succulent Family	Yellow Stonecrop  Sedum nuttallianum7	Sedum nuttallianum	Note: these first showed up on my place last year (2016).  More were  visible this year(2017).  suspect that seeds had floated over from the large patch several hundred feet away near the lake during the spring floods of 2015. 2019 they have become more prevalent along the exposed shelf.  Annual	Sedum nuttallianum Seedlings before flowering
Cucurbitaceae Gourd Family	Buffalo Gourd Cucurbita foetidissima
Euphorbiaceae Spurge Family	Warty Euphorbia Euphorbia spathulata Lam. 7 spring, bumpy seedpods	2 Texas Queens Delight Stillingia texana  spring	Noseburn, Nettle Tragia  ...	Wedgeleaf Euphorbia Euphorbia longicruris (Scheele)7 smooth seedpods early spring
Fabaceae Bean Family	Golden Dalea Dalea aurea	5 Hall's Prairie Clover Dalea hallii	Two-Leaved Senna Senna roemeriana 1, 7	Button Clover or Button Medic Medicago orbicularis
	Pencil Flower ? Stylosanthes biflora		Yellow-Puff Neptunia lutea	Small bur clover Medicago minima 7
Linaceae Flax Family	Stiff-Stem flax Linum berlandieri mid spring	Just an artsy photo of the flax flower after it's dropped off the plant and collecting dew; also showing that all 5 "petals" are connected i.e.  funnelform.
Malvaceae Mallow Family	Spreading Fanpetals  Sida abutifolia 7Mill. Sida filicaulis Torr. & Gray	Sida abutifolia Sida filicaulis	Likes full sun, opens in afternoon, closes just a couple hours later. a perennial according to the books. Notice how close the petals and leaves look similar to the Cutleaf Evening Primrose below, however it is 5 petaled.
Onagraceae Evening-Primrose Family	Stemless Evening Primrose Oenothera triloba spring	Big-Fruit Evening Primrose Oenathera macrocarpa Nutt. spring, down to 1 plant only on our property due to lake flooding 2015.	Cutleaf Evening Primrose 2Oenothera laciniata spring annual	Sundrops, Day Primrose Calylophus berlandieri spring
Rubiaceae Madder Family				Piedmont Bedstraw Galium pedemontanum (Bellardi) All. 9 small invasive weed
Scrophulariaceae Figwort Family	Paintbrush Castilleja indivisa
Solanaceae Nightshade Family	Buffalo Bur Solanum rostratum  summer	Ground Cherry Physalis  species	another ground cherry smaller Physalis species, flrs about 1.5cm across, 1cm in length. cream-colored with no dark centers. Calyx encloses seed pod with purple veined ribs.

Monocot Class
Common Family Name Scientific Family Name	Common Name Genus, species
Hypoxidaceae Hypoxis Family	Yellow Star Grass Hypoxis hirsuta 1 spring

As ID'd from:
¹ Wild Flowers of Texas book by Geyata Ajilvsgi,
²Lady Bird Johnson WildFlower Center website,
³Kansas State Wildflowers website.
⁴100 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
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