Grindelia
I don’t remember if I have visited Ball Knob (LBJNG) before in the heat of the summer. In fact my search thru my photos only show I had been there in April and May. However I have been there in the winter looking for lichens and mosses at the very least. My guess is that I just didn’t label photos with the location or misspelled the names. Additionally Kathy and I just had a discussion about not being able to locate photos, print or computer files. LOL Anyhow on Tuesday I decided to pay Ball Knob a summer visit. Hey you never know what you will find. 🙂
At this point in the walk there were still no Gumweeds that were blooming. That changed as we went around the “corner” at the bottom of the mesa.
Could this ancient whale be the heaviest animal ever?
When This Beetle Gets Eaten by a Frog, It Heads for the ‘Back Door’
Keep looking!
The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
I love that pose of Scooter Cheatum in that article. Was it NPSOT that posted it?
FYI my grindelia is in bud but not opened yet. I finally identified it as the same one you have above. But there is only one plant and has been here since 2019 in my yard. I have to assume it came in on something I brought with me from North TX. I’ll have to look closely to see if anything has stuck to it 🙂
No the article was in the Coop’s magazine. Maybe the Gumweed came with the plums? Did I give you blackberries too? I love the sticky plants!
I’m not very fond of grasshoppers but those are pretty. Spider is pretty too.
Yes you gave me plum and blackberry seeds. The blackberries have sprouted well but not the plums.
both are in pots in the plant corral. The grindelia is wild growing in my side yard. I checked it today. It actually is nearly at the end of its blooming. And mine is not sticky at all, anywhere. Odd.
Odd about your Grindelia. Maybe not hot enough 😉😂
Ha ha.
Abby mentioned to me that one species is less sticky. I forget which one. That’s apparently the one I seeded in my yard.
Ball Knob! I drove by there recently and thought it was past time for a visit. I love that spot.
There are so many neat species of plants on and around Ball Knob. I remember finding orchids down below. I probably have photographed more stuff there than any other unit.