My Fall Woodland

Woodland fern

Missouri violet, Viola missouriensis
Texas native

Missouri violet seed pod, Viola missouriensis

Texas violets Viola villosa, Viola aff. missouriensis, Viola palmata, and Viola bicolor. 

Mustang grape, liania
Vitis mustangensis

The Mustang grape vine grows along the fence row and up the native oak tree trunks.  If it is not trimmed each year the vines can grow and cover the tree canopy, weakening the trees.

 

Mustang grape, leaf  (Vitis mustangensis)

The leaves of the Mustang grape are variable in size and shape. 

Wood-sorrel, Oxalis

The wood-sorrel is a perennial herb. The flower buds or inflorescence are very similar to an umbel, because the pedicels all arise from the same point. They are borne on a long naked peduncle called a scape.

Wood-sorrel, Oxalis

"Oxalis drummondii A. Gray, (for its discoverer, Thomas Drummond, 1780–1835, Scottish botanist and collector in North America), DRUMMOND’S OXALIS. Glabrous perennial; bulb scales 3- ribbed; scapes to 30 cm tall, glabrous, with 4–8 flowers; sepals 5–7 mm long, the apical tubercles ± confluent; petals 15–23 mm long, pinkish purple; capsules 7–9 mm long. Sand or limestone soils, woodlands or prairies; Coryell, Dallas (Reverchon), and Somervell cos., also Brown Co. (HPC) and Fort Hood (Bell or Coryell cos.—Sanchez 1997); South TX Plains and Edwards Plateau, e to Gonz. (Diggs, 1999)

Oxalis violacea L., (violet), VIOLET WOODSORREL. Glabrous perennial; bulb scales 3-ribbed; scapes to 30(–40) cm tall, with 4–19 flowers; sepals 4–6 mm long; petals 14–20 mm long, violet to pinkish purple (rarely white); capsules 4–6 mm long. Sandy open woods, rarely in prairie clay; se and e TX w to West Cross Timbers. Late Mar–early May, repeating sparingly Sep–Oct. and then without leaves. (Diggs, 1999)"*

Bibliography______________________________________________

Diggs, George M, and Barney L. Lipscomb. The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas. Fort Worth, TX: Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 2014. Print.


*Diggs, George M, Barney L. Lipscomb, and Robert J. O'Kennon. Shinners and Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas. Fort Worth: Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 1999. Print.