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Ennis Bluebonnet Trails

April 17, 2016 by Travis Ward in Plant Hunt

One of Texas' most notable wildflowers, and the state flower, is Lupinus texensis, or Texas Bluebonnet, and there is a festival centered around this flower over one weekend in April each year in Ennis, Texas, a community about 30 miles south of Dallas.

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April 17, 2016 /Travis Ward
Texas, Wildflower, wildflowers, Blackland Prairie, Lupinus texensis, Bluebonnet, Ennis, Bluebonnet Trails, Sisyrinchium, angustifolium, Blue Eyed Grass, Erigeron, annuus, Daisy Fleabane, Tradescantia, Spiderwort, Callirhoe, involucrata, Winecup, Oenothera, speciosa, Showy Primrose, Primrose, Lindheimera, texana, Texas Yellowstar, Gaura, coccinea, Scarlet Gaura, Castilleja, indivisa, Indian Paintbrush, Paintbrush, Asclepias, oenotheroides, Zizotes, Milkweed, asperula, Antelope horns milkweed, Bellardia, trixago, Trifolium, incarnatum, Crimson Clover, Rubus, trivialis, Dewberry, Vicia, dasycarpa, Winter Vetch
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Oak Point Nature Preserve

January 26, 2016 by Travis Ward in Plant Hunt

In Plano, a suburban city in the Dallas metropolitan area, the community has purchased 800 acres of farmland and utility right-of-ways to create a sprawling, multi-use park. The design of the park is great in its simplicity as it's mostly open with run and bike trails. The focus of the park is preserving the land and restoring the property to its pre-human existence. The park is also home to one of the few native prairie remnants still intact in Collin County. 

Dormant foliage of summer's past can be interesting and beautiful during cold, winter months, but difficult to properly identify. This post will highlight the prairie plants of Oak Point with identifications when possible.

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January 26, 2016 /Travis Ward
Plano, Collin County, Oak Point Nature Preserve, Dallas, Park, Prairie, Helianthus, Sunflower, Packera, obovata, Golden Groundsel, Symphoricarpos, orbiculatus, Coralberry, Gleditsia, triacanthos, Honeylocust, Pyrus, calleryana, Pear, Symphyotrichum, ericoides, Heath Aster, Rubus, trivialis, Dewberry, Quercus, macrocarpa, Burr Oak, Bur Oak, Oak, Prunus, Plum, Tridens Albescens, White Tridens, grass, Asclepias asperula, Asclepias, Milkweed, Bothriochloa, laguroides, Physalis, paper lanterns, Andropogon, glomeratus, Bushy Bluestem, Silver Bluestem, Bluestem, Agalinis heterophylla, Prairie Agalinis, Xanthium strumarium, Cocklebur, Desmanthus, Desmanthus illinoensis, Illinois Bundleflower, Salvia farinaceae, Mealy Blue Sage, mushrooms, Cedar Elm, Elm, Rowlett Creek, Native plants, Texas native plants
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