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Cedar Ridge Preserve

May 13, 2018 by Travis Ward in Plant Hunt

Cedar Ridge Preserve is a 600 acre tract of land just southwest of downtown Dallas, adjacent to Cedar Hill State Park. The preserve is maintained by Audubon Dallas, including the 9 miles of trails among the hilly terrain of juniper and oak forest. 

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May 13, 2018 /Travis Ward
Cedar Ridge Preserve, Cedar Hill State Park, Joe Pool Lake, Cedar Bluff, Audubon Dallas, Blackland Prairie, hike, hiking, Juniper, Oak, Castilleja purpurea, Prairie paintbrush, Castilleja, Cercis canadensis, Lonicera sempervirens, Eastern redbud, Coral honeysuckle, honeysuckle, Lonicera, Cercis, redbud, Erythronium albidum, Erythronium, White trout lily, Trout lily, Camassia scilloides, Wild hyacinth, Camassia, Death camas, Liatris, gayfeather, Asclepias asperula, Antelope horns milkweed, Asclepias, milkweed, Lithospermum incisum, Fringed puccoon, Lithospermum, Aesculus glabra var. arguta, Texas buckeye, buckeye, Aesculus, Viburnum rufidulum, Rusty blackhaw virburnum, Viburnum, Ceanothus herbaceus, Ceanothus, New Jersey tea, Ungnadia speciosa, Mexican buckeye, Ungnadia, Yucca pallida, Paleleaf Yucca, Yucca, Rhus aromatica, Fragrant sumac, Sumac, Rhus, Cornus drummondii, Roughleaf Dogwood, Dogwood, Cornus, Travis Ward Horticulture
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Ranger Creek

December 03, 2017 by Travis Ward in Plant Hunt

I recently explored another topographically-interesting area of southwestern Throckmorton County in north central Texas. Ranger Creek between the YL Ranch, where I explored last summer, and the Clear Fork of the Brazos River is a north to south, intermittent waterway that crosses limestone outcroppings. Starting near an oil well on the YL Ranch, I began my 5 mile roundtrip trek south following Ranger Creek. 

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December 03, 2017 /Travis Ward
Throckmorton, Throckmorton County, Throckmorton Texas, Ranger Creek, Brazos River, Clear Fork of the Brazos River, Reynolds Bend, Camp Cooper, YL Ranch, Eustoma exaltatum, Texas bluebells, Sapindus saponaria, Western Soapberry, Soapberry, Juniperus pinchotii, Redberry Juniper, schoolhouse, Aloysia gratissima, Beebrush, Bee brush, Rivina humilis, Pigeonberry, Ephedra antisyphilitica, Mormon tea, Yucca arkansana, Arkansas yucca, Echinocereus reichenbackii, Lace cactus, fossils, Ungnadia speciosa, Mexican buckeye, Cylindropuntia leptocaulis, Christmas cactus, Melampodium leucanthum, Blackfoot daisy, Liatrus punctata, Gayfeather, Mimosa borealis, Fragrant mimosa, Penstemon cobaea, Prairie penstemon, Ilex decidua, Possumhaw holly, Phyla nodiflora, Frog fruit, Eupatorium serotinum, Late-flowering boneset
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