Photo 2945046, (c) Chuck Sexton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Chuck Sexton

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What

Devil's Shoestring (Nolina lindheimeriana)

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gcwarbler

Date

January 27, 2016

Description

Common on the dry rocky slopes in the Hill Country SNA in Bandera County. This particular plant was curious in that the leaves didn't seem as flat as those I see in the Austin area and I cannot see any "serrulate" edges of those leaves in my images. In the second image, note how the dried flower stalks stick well above the foliage (i.e. the narrow stalks arrising from the leaves and not the big thick sotol flowering stalks that are in the background). In our other species, N. texana, the flower clusters are short and tucked down among the leaves.

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