Tag Archives: native Texas plants

Oxalis at the rancho

Posted on May 2, 2010 | Comments Off on Oxalis at the rancho

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My favorite native at the rancho, a member of the wood-sorrel family. Unfortunately, it’s a cool-weather flower and, as the days get hotter, it will disappear until, oh, about December.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles, Texana

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Turk’s Cap

Posted on July 7, 2007 | Comments Off on Turk’s Cap

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This favorite of the Texas native ornamental shrubs can be found all over Austin. Buy a house and it comes free with your yard. Or you could spend every spring finding the fuzzy leaves and pulling them up. But then you’d miss the funny, red flowers some 19th century settler apparently thought looked like a fez. Hummingbirds and butterflies love them.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana

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