Outdoors

Grazing Oklahoma: Passionflower

July 25, 2018 0

By Mike Proctor Characteristics: Passionflower is a large, herbaceous, perennial vine with tendrils and three-lobed leaves. Foliage tends to be a dark green. The sepals and petals are white with some additional structures providing the […]

Grazing Oklahoma: Cat’s Claws Sensitive Briar

June 29, 2018 0

By Mike Proctor Characteristics: Cat’s claw sensitive briar is a warm-season, native, perennial forb with bright pink flowers and recurved spines (like a cat’s claw). The leaves are bi-pinnately compound, having leaflets that split again […]

Grazing Oklahoma: Indian Paintbrush

May 25, 2018 0

By Mike Proctor Characteristics: Indian paintbrush has brightly colored bracts, which are modified leaves directly below a flower. The bracts provide most of the plant’s color, while the flowers themselves are much less apparent. Indian […]

Grazing Oklahoma: Tharp’s Spiderwort

April 27, 2018 0

By Mike Proctor, Noble Research Institute research associate / mdproctor@noble.org Characteristics: Some say Spiderworts get their name from their sticky sap, which resembles a spider web after drying. Others say it is because their leaf […]

Oklahoma State Parks: McGee Creek State Park

March 26, 2018 0

By Laci Jones As the warm season makes its way across the Sooner state, Oklahoma state parks are a haven for Oklahomans looking to get outdoors. On the southwest side of the Ouachita Mountain Range […]

Grazing Oklahoma: Honey Locust

March 16, 2018 0

By Mike Proctor, Noble Research Institute research associate / mdproctor@noble.org Characteristics: Honey locust is a medium-sized, deciduous tree with pinnate leaves on older branches and bi-pinnate leaves on the younger stems. Its most distinguishing character […]

Grazing Oklahoma: Eastern Red Cedar

February 9, 2018 0

By Mike Proctor, Noble Research Institute research associate / mdproctor@noble.org Characteristics: Eastern red cedar is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree with small, scale-like needles. It grows differently depending upon the habitat. When growing in […]