| Plant Photo | Scientific Name | Common Name and Description | Seed Photo |
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Quercus stellata | Common Name: Post Oak
Leaves: Deciduous, thick, hard and membranous, usually about 8 cm long and 6 cm broad, obovate to elliptic or obtriangular in outline apices rounded, bases cuneate to cordate, undulately or deeply 2-4 lobed on each side, upper surface is lustrous and glabrous except for the sprinkling of minute stellate hairs, lower surface dull, more densely stellate-pubescent or glabrate, quite glaucous Flowers: Staminate catkins 5-8 cm long, rather loosely flowered; pistillate catkins 3-10 cm long Fruit: Solitary or paired, moderate size or rarely large, cups 12-25 mm broad and 18 mm high, cup-shaped or sometimes goblet-shaped, cup scales oblong to triangular-ovate; acorns to 3 cm long and 18 mm broad Habitat: Dry upland woods, frequently on sandy soil Range: Central Texas; and north to Kansas, and most of the eastern United States Group: Dicot Family: Fagaceae Growth Habit: Tree - moderate size tree Duration: Perennial U.S. Nativity: Native |
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Carya illinoinensis | Common Name: Pecan
Leaves: Leaves to 5 dm long, leaflets 9-17, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, the margin coarsely and often doubly serrate, to 2 dm long and 75 mm wide, dark yellow-green and glabrous above and pale and glabrous or pubescent beneath, the terminal leaflet only slightly broader than uperr lateral ones Flowers: Staminate Fruit: Clusters of 3-11, ovoid to ellipsoid, pointed at apex, rounded at the base Habitat: Low rich grounds along streams, bottomlands and moist open woodlands Range: Central and northwest Texas; and most of the eastern United States Group: Dicot Family: Juglandaceae Growth Habit: Tree - about 50 m high, with a massive trunk to 2 m in diameter that is often enlarged and buttressed at the base Duration: Perennial U.S. Nativity: Native |
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Pinus cembroides | Common Name: Mexican Piņon Pine
Leaves: Needles 3, sometimes 2, in a bundle, 25-45 mm long slender, dark-bluish green; bundle sheath about 5 mm long Flowers: Staminate flowers Fruit: Cones ovoid, 2.5-4 cm long, reddish-brown, with thick blunt scales; seeds brown, hard shelled, usually about 1 cm long Habitat: Mesas and mountain slopes Range: South half of Trans Pecos, Texas; west to southeast Arizona and New Mexico Group: Gymnosperm Family: Pinaceae Growth Habit: Tree - to 10 m or more tall, with a trunk 5 dm or more in diameter Duration: Perennial U.S. Nativity: Native |
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Celtis laevigata var. Texana | Common Name: Texan Sugarberry, Hackberry, or Palo Blanco
Leaves: Entire to somewhat serrate, thin and membranaceous to coriaceous, uniformly pale-green on both surfaces, with conspicuous veins, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or sometimes ovate-lanceolate, typically long-acuminate apex commonly prolonged and curving at the tip, leaves of fruiting branches less than half as broad as long, 4-10 cm long 15-45 mm broad Flowers: Appearing with the leaves on the young branchlets; staminate flowers in fascicles towards the base; perfect flowers above, solitary in the axils of the leaves; calyx 5-lobed Fruit: Drupes subspherical, 5-8 mm in diameter, beakless, orange to brown or red, on pedicels 6-15 mm long; stone 4.5-7 mm long and 5-6 mm broad Habitat: Sandy loam, rocky soil or alluvial soil along streams in woodlands, palm groves and thickets Range: In the east two thirds of Texas, west to Hardeman, King and Val Verde counties, south to Cameron county; from Florida to Oklahoma and north to Virginia, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas; also in northeast Mexico Group: Dicot Family: Ulmaceae Growth Habit: Tree/Shrub - to 30 m high, with spreading often pendulous branches to form a broad crown Duration: Perennial U.S. Nativity: Native |
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