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Scientific Name |
Common Name and Description |
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Rhus glabra |
Common Name: Smooth Sumac or Scarlet Sumac
Leaves: Leaflets 11-31, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, to 12 cm long, sharply serrate, glaucous beneath
Flowers: Greenish, in a large dense terminal panicle to 25 cm long, puberulous (slightly hairy)
Fruit: Scarlet, viscid-pubescent, compressed, ~4 mm in diameter
Habitat: On dry sandy hillsides and banks
Range: East Texas west to Brazos, Eastland and Armstrong counties; from New England and Quebec south to Florida, Texas, Arizona and northern Mexico
Group: Dicot
Family: Anacardiaceae
Growth Habit: Tree/Shrub - 3 m high, bright autumn foliage and scarlet fruiting panicles
Duration: Perennial
U.S. Nativity: Native |
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Cardiospermum halicacabum |
Common Name: Heartseed or Balloon Vine
Leaves: Alternate, biternate; leaflets ovate-lanceolate to rhombic-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, acuminate at apex, incisely lobed and toothed, to about 8 cm long and 3 cm wide
Flowers: About 4 mm long; petals obovate yellowish or whitish, racemose-paniculate or corymbose clusters
Fruit: Membranaceous 3-lobed 3-celled inflated pod 3-4.5 cm in diameter; seeds black, 5 mm in diameter, cordate scar gives this plant its name
Habitat: Sprawling over ground and trailing over weeds and bushes in open waste ground or brushy areas in northeast, central, and south Texas; widespread in warmer regions of the Western Hemisphere
Range: Texas; most of the eastern United States
Group: Dicot
Family: Sapindaceae
Growth Habit: Vine/Subshrub/Forb/Herb - stem wiry, several-ribbed
Duration: Annual/Biennial/Perennial
U.S. Nativity: Native |
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Ungnadia speciosa |
Common Name: Mexican Buckeye or Texas Buckeye
Leaves: Leaflets 3-7, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, to 12 cm long and 4 cm wide, pubescent beneath when young but soon glabrate
Flowers: Lateral fascicles, appearing before or with the leaves from the axils of the preceding season, pink to purplish-pink, fragrant; calyx deeply 5-lobed; petals 4 or 5, obovate, 7-10 cherry red stamens
Fruit: Large somewhat woody stipitate 3-lobed smoothish pod, pale-green, often suffused with red, 3.5-5 cm thick; seeds spherical, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, dark-brown to blackish, poisonous
Habitat: In rocky areas in canyons and on slopes and ridges
Range: in south, central, and west Texas, east to Dallas county; in New Mexico and Mexico
Group: Dicot
Family: Sapindaceae
Growth Habit: Tree - rarely 10 m high with a trunk 2 dm in diameter
Duration: Perennial
U.S. Nativity: Native |
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