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This was the final of our "10 Park Study" -- Lancaster's Ten Mile Creek Preserve. What a great evening with some naturalists to document nocturnal critters. https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/sambiology/52902-south-dallas-county-parks-project-species-surveys-in-10-parks

Williamson County, Texas; northwest part of county
8/15/2019
Liatris glandulosa

Small population of 70 or 80 plants in right of way on both sides of a sloped county road in northwest Williamson County. The right of way was rocky, gravelly, and sloped and therefore fortunately unmowable. No plants were seen on the other side of either fence line.

Leaving obscured as this plant is still rare and as far as I know this is the only known population in Williamson County.

After this morning's dove surveys, I stopped by Spring Creek Forest Preserve to look for a plant (Thorow-wax/Bupleurum rotundifolium). No luck on finding the plant, but I did spot quite a few other cool plants and other stuff! :)

Castilleja sessiliflora Pursh.

In xeric mixed grass prairie occupying the slopes and bottom of a canyon system developed upon fine sandy loam derived from the Antlers Sand (Aptian) with calcareous overwash from the Walnut Clay (Albian).

Population first found by @mycoheterotrophism.

Rhus trilobata Nuttall. var. trilobata.

Leaves glabrous on both surfaces with eciliate to sparsely ciliate margins. Fruit sparsely pilose with simple hairs in addition to short glandular hairs.

At margin of flat ridgetop Walnut Limestone Glade developed upon Cretaceous (Albian) Walnut Clay Formation.