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)"*

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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.

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Reference Books:

Ajilvsgi, Geyata, Wildflowers of Texas, Shearer Pub., Fredericksburg, TX, 2003

Correll,D. S.,M. C. Johnston, Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas, 1979

Curry, Mary, North Central Texas Wildflowers, Mary Curry Pub., Decatur, TX, 2015

Diggs, George, Barney Lipscomb, Robert O’Kennon, Shinner’s and Mahler’s   Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas, Austin College and BRIT Publishers, 1999, pages 572-4

Eason, Michael, Wildflowers of Texas, Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2018

Eastman, John, Wildflowers of the Eastern United States, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2014 Enquist, Marshall, Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country, Lone Star Botanical, Austin, Texas, 1987 Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman, Wildflowers of the Western Plains, A Field Guide,  University of TX Press, Austin,1992

Loughmiller, Campbell and Lynn, Texas Wildflowers, A Field Guide, University of TX Press,  Austin, TX, Revised 2006

Martin, Laura C., The Wildflower Meadow Book-A Gardener’s Guide, East Woods Press,  Fast & McMillan Press, Charlotte, NC, 1986

Nieland, Lashara, Willa Finley, Lone Star Wildflowers, A Guide to Texas Flowering Plants,  Texas Tech Univ. Press, Lubbock, TX, 2009

Phillips, Harry R., Growing and Propagating Wildflowers, University of North Carolina Press,  Chapel Hill, 1985 

Reaume, Tom, 620 Wild Plants of North America, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 2009 Steiner, Lynn M., Prairie-Style Gardens, Timer Press, Portland, OR, 2010 Tull, 

Delena, George O. Miller, A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, & Shrubs of Texas,  Gulf Publishing, Houston, 1991 Wills, Mary Motz, Howard Irwin, Roadside Flowers of Texas, Univ. of TX Press, Austin, Texas, 1961

Online sources:

Flora of North America,  floranorthamerica.org 

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center,  wildflower.org 

Master Gardener Program,  wimastergardener.org 

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service,  plants.usda.gov

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