Friday, May 31, 2019

Flower Child: Bringle/TAMUT Spring 2019 - April / May


One of the great things about being back in Texarkana is Bringle lake.  Love my walks out there, with a little loop through TAMUT.  Though my walks are for exercise, I love that I learn about new wildflowers nearly every time I go.  That's a different kind of wellness!

Gotta love native plants! They are great for pollinators, wildlife, air quality, and soil.

Would love any suggestions or corrections on ID's.

April 30:

Pretty pattern

Common Slider - these guys need help off the road quite often around Bringle

Southern Dewberry - a bramble

Southern Dewberry -- grows yummy berries

Southern Dewberry -- in the Rose family


Spiderwort - possibly Western

Spiderwort - or is it Ohio?

A surprise find!  Redpurple Beebalm


Redpurple Beebalm - beautiful bloom

Redpurple Beebalm - small grove on the east side of Bringle


Redpurple Beebalm

Redpurple Beebalm
May 1:

I love the new look that the Hairy Vetch has this week!

Texas Vevain

also known as Texas Verbena

May 8:


Lady Bird's Centaury


3 Canada Goose couples and their goslings at TAMUT



Indian Blanket



Three-Toed Box Turtle -- I helped him out of the road on University

But something told me he'd didn't want me to


May 20:


Carolina Horsenettle -- Nightshade

Carolina Horsenettle -- Nightshade
 not a true nettle, but a member of the nightshade family instead.
Carolina Ruellia

Carolina Ruellia

Carolina Ruellia

Carolina Ruellia

Rabid Wolf Spider

Rabid Wolf Spider

Plains Coreopsis

Plains Coreopsis

Arrowhead Clover

Arrowhead Clover

white Pinklady Primrose

Lady Bird's Centaury
May 21:




Neat little ant mounds starting. Not sure what kind of ants.



possibly a Cricket Frog -- unfortunely, dead



May 28:


herbwilliam

Plains Coreopsis with a little Herbwilliam in the corner

Plains Coreopsis

Plains Coreopsis




May 30:  Nearly skipped my Bringle walk this morning.  So glad I didn't.  I got to see Purple Passion Flower, Water Dragon, Black-eyed Susan, and St. Andrew's Cross (a new one for me.

I kinda like the Passionflower leaves

so glad to have caught a glimpse of  this out of the corner of my eye

Purple Passionflower

also called Maypop

it grows on a vine


Herbwilliam -- not as tall as Queen Ann's lace and doesn't have the little red flower in center


Water Dragon

also known as Lizard Tail -- fuzzy pic taken from a bridge

Tho invasive, gotta love the beauty of Kudzu: "the vine that ate the south"

a bouquet of Sneezeweed greeted me in front of Golf Ranch

also known at Bitterweed

in the sunflower family

hard to see, but this is a new one for me -- St Andrew's Cross

looks like a little shrub
fun watching the goslings grow up


Lemon Beebalm and Black-eyed Susan






May 31:  

a better look at the St. Andrew's Cross today



what a difference a day makes with the Purple Passionflower




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