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Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus)Observer
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Pineywoods breed domestic cattle.
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Prairie Rabdotus (Rabdotus mooreanus)Observer
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Medium sized snail, about 4 cm long, with elongated conical shell roughly 2.5 cm in length. Shell has about 5 whorls and faint stripes. Observed in garden.
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Section AigeirosObserver
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Medium Sized trees with heart shaped leaves. Leaves have a serrated edge shape (soft with no spines). The flowering bodies on different trees appear to be male/female. The male (?) flowering bodies are red, the female (?) are greenish brown.
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Chinaberry (Melia azedarach)Observer
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A medium sized tree with small five petal purple flowers. Last year's dried and rotten fruit could be seen in the leaf litter and hanging from branches. Fruit are about 1.5 cm diameter, and their color is uncertain (dried and possibly faded).
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Field Madder (Sherardia arvensis)Observer
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Plant has leaves circling stem, with a cluster of leaves and multiple small, four-lobed purple flowers growing at the end of the stem.
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Straggler Daisy (Calyptocarpus vialis)Observer
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Small yellow flowers growing at the top of a leafy stalk less than 15 cm tall.
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Sow Thistles (Genus Sonchus)Observer
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Multilobed spiny leaves with yellow flowers and tufted seeds. Leaves are clustered at the base but smaller leaves occur along the flower stem. Leaf veins are reddish in color.
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Spotted Medick (Medicago arabica)Observer
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Clover-like leaves with reddish brown spots in the center of its leaves.
The plants had not yet flowered.
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Texas Paintbrush (Castilleja indivisa)Observer
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Multiple pale and red petaled flowers arranged around a stem. Often seeded with Bluebonnets on roadsides in Texas.
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Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum)Observer
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Variegated leaves with spines on leaves and flower bud. Flower buds had not opened at time of photo.
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Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)Observer
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Long multilobed leaves growing from the base with single yellow flowers on stalks. The flowers mature quickly to form fuzzy balls of tufted windblown seeds. New flowers continue to form after the first seeds form, so flowers and viable seeds occur on the same plant.
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Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana)Observer
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A medium sized deciduous tree with white flowers. The leaves have not grown in yet at the time of the photo.
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Sweet Acacia (Vachellia farnesiana)Observer
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A medium sized tree with small leaves, yellow flowers and thorns. It's branches are relatively densely spaced.
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Southern Dewberry (Rubus trivialis)Observer
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White five petal flowers with thorny trailing stems, including thorns on leaves. Vinelike habit, but no holdfasts or preference for climbing. This plant seems happier trailing on the ground than climbing trees. Stems can extend more than ten feet along the ground, but plants can also stand up a foot or so.
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Shepherd's-Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)Observer
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Small white flowers clustered together. Heart shaped seed pods that look like leaves form on the flower stalks, but the true leaves are further down the plant stem.
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Tenpetal Anemone (Anemone berlandieri)Observer
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Single white flower with radial petals and stamens around a green conelike center. The leaves are multilobed, long and arranged radially around the stem. These flowers close at night and open in the morning.
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Henbit Deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule)Observer
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Small purple flowers arranged in circular patterns around the stem and leaves circling the stem at the flow buds.
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Bur Clover (Medicago polymorpha)Observer
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Short plant with clover-like leaves and habit but with small yellow flowers.
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Canadian Meadow Garlic (Allium canadense)Observer
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Straight Leaves w. hollow center, somewhat flattened compared to store-bought green onions. When crushed, the leaves have a distinct onion scent. The plant has a small white bulb below ground.
It does not appear to be in flower.
Re-photographed in March, the plant looks like it's setting bulblettes on the end of its stems where flowers should be. Waiting to see if these buds flower.
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Crowpoison (Nothoscordum bivalve)Observer
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White Flowers with Straight Leaves.
This plant appears to like the same habitat as wild onion.