The 2009 Cross Timbers Master Naturalist class took a field trip to the Bear Creek Ranch near Fort Worth last Saturday. The field trip was led by FW Nature Center Manager and prairie guru Suzanne Tuttle. Thanks Suzanne!
Here are some photos from the field trip. As you can see, I'm not the nature photographer that Troy Mullens is! :-)
(Many thanks to Michelle Villafranca of FWNC&R for correcting some of the plant names.)
Eryngo (Eryngium L.)
Cocklebur (Xanthium L.)
Skeleton plant (Lygodesmia texana)
Buckwheat (Eriogonum spp.)
Greenthread (Thelesperma filifolium)
Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum)
Chittimwood (Sideroxylon lanuginosum)
Marsh elder (Iva L.)
Green milkweed (Asclepias viridis)
Ironweed (Vernonia Schreb.)
Thanks for sharing these. I didn't get a photo of the cocklebur when there.
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