Pussy toes
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Pussy toes (Antennaria parlinnii)! Did you think it was going to be a kitty cat? 😉 This was a favorite plant that Shirley liked to show me in Cooke County. It was certainly easier to see there since it was on the roadside.
Pussy Toes (Antennaria parlinnii) are in the Asteraceae family but are missing the familiar ray flowers (the part that looks like petals). So do you think it looks like pussy’s toes?
This tree was weird and missing part of the bark at the base. It also has a light brown crust fungus on which has black insect holes (About two thirds up the trunk). I call it the ostrich skin fungus.
This tree might have made a nice place for a swing?
I thought the inner bark looked like teeth.
Looks like a weird dinosaur to me.
Hard to catch a close up the Goatweed Leafwing.
A prickly pear’s pads in a series.
Huge grapevine!
Lots of violets. This was bit more pale that some of the earlier ones we saw.
Cool lichens and moss in the root of tree!
The leaves on a horsetail are at the joints/nodes and are tiny!
This creek was a bit different than most of the creeks I have walked on the grasslands. It had a lot of the fine limestone gravel and fossils.
Here you can see the fossil in the water.
View of the creek and Gracie!
I forgot to mention, we heard a Black and White Warbler along the creek. Yesterday, the Black-chinned hummer showed up at home. Today at the house, I had a Scissortail Flycatcher and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. And the Carpenter Bees were buzzy about at my wood pile. And I saw two Monarchs! Guess those down at Kathy’s house finally made it up here. 😉
That is a really nice creek! Wonder if it will have any different odes in summer
You had a very busy day! I saw a monarch yesterday too.
That is a HUGE grapevine!
We were trying to observe a Goatweed Leafwing the other day and those things never stop. Ours was pale and beat up, not pretty like this one.
Nice creeks you come across!
Claire, Good question! Maybe I will see this summer.
Kathy, I don't know if people get records of grapevines, but this one is certainly one of the bigger ones we have seen.
I have not heard of records being kept on vines but it would be a winner or up there in the top.