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...
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...
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,...
By Mike Proctor, Noble Research Institute research associate / [email protected] Characteristics: Some say Spiderworts get their name from their sticky sap, which resembles a spider web...
By Mike Proctor, Noble Research Institute research associate / [email protected] Characteristics: Honey locust is a medium-sized, deciduous tree with pinnate leaves on older branches and bi-pinnate...
By Mike Proctor, Noble Research Institute research associate / [email protected] Characteristics: Eastern red cedar is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree with small, scale-like needles. It...
By Mike Proctor Characteristics: Musk thistle is an introduced forb with abundant spines and large pink flowers. It is a biennial, which means it lives for...
By: Rob Cook, Noble Research Institute pasture and range consultant/[email protected] Characteristics: Old world bluestems are introduced, warm-season, perennial bunch grasses. Mature height is about two to...
By Josh Gaskamp Characteristics: Bois d’arc, also called Osage orange or horse-apple, is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree. Before Christopher Columbus, its range was largely...
By Josh Gaskamp Characteristics: Common sunflower is an annual, warm-season forb native to North America. It can occasionally grow taller than 12 feet high in moist,...
