![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/04t.jpg) Slender bush clover (Lespedeza virginica) in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3006/jpeg/09t.jpg) Slender bush clover (Lespedeza virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 12, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/671/jpeg/07t.jpg) Slender bush clover (Lespedeza virginica) on roadside of Road 364, near Sugarloaf Mountain. Gause, Texas, September 20, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1109/jpeg/25t.jpg) Slender bush clover (Lespedeza virginica) in Lake Bryan Park. Bryan, Texas, October 10, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2247/jpeg/10t.jpg) Slender bush clover (Lespedeza) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 18, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2916/jpeg/05t.jpg) Shoot of Slender bush clover (Lespedeza)(?) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 22, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1474/jpeg/03t.jpg) Shoot of Slender bush clover (Lespedeza)(?) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 3, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3130/jpeg/20t.jpg) Shoot of slender bush clover (Lespedeza) on Forest Service Road 231 near North Wilderness Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, April 14, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2743/jpeg/32t.jpg) Shoot of bush clover (Lespedeza thunbergii) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 28, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3189/jpeg/10t.jpg) Green grasshopper on hairy bush clover (Lespedeza hirta) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1109/jpeg/09t.jpg) Little Volcano Bush Clover (Lespedeza liukiuensis Little Volcano ) in Antique Rose Emporium. Independence, Texas, October 6, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3189/jpeg/04t.jpg) Hairy bush clover (Lespedeza hirta) with rust fungus Uromyces lespedezae or may be Cercospora on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3189/jpeg/06t.jpg) Leaves of hairy bush clover (Lespedeza hirta) with rust fungus Uromyces lespedezae or may be Cercospora on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3189/jpeg/05t.jpg) Shoots of hairy bush clover (Lespedeza hirta) with rust fungus Uromyces lespedezae or may be Cercospora on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/866/jpeg/02t.jpg) Black swallowtail butterfly (Papilio polyxenes) at morning on a stalk of Slender bush clover in Lake Bryan Park. Bryan, Texas, June 2, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2467/jpeg/10t.jpg) Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a twig of elm tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 15, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2531/jpeg/19t.jpg) Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a fallen twig in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 18, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2782/jpeg/05t.jpg) Flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3618/jpeg/17t.jpg) Flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) both in natural light and under 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight from Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 11, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3510/jpeg/39t.jpg) Shoot of tick clover or may be bush clover on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 13, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1452/jpeg/08t.jpg) Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a twig in Central Park. College Station, Texas, July 8, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/844/jpeg/02t.jpg) Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 18, 2010.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/01t.jpg) Boletus harrisonii mushrooms in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2823/jpeg/20t.jpg) Ice flowers on frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 1, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/22t.jpg) Flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 11, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/03t.jpg) Pink fuzzybean (Strophostyles umbellata) in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/02t.jpg) Oysterling mushrooms Crepidotus mollis in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2565/jpeg/25t.jpg) Toothed spurge (Euphorbia dentata)(?) in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3479/jpeg/08t.jpg) Spring beauty flowers (Claytonia virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 27, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/19t.jpg) Bumblebee on flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 23, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2233/jpeg/11t.jpg) Spring beauty flowers (Claytonia virginica) in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 4, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1318/jpeg/09t.jpg) A tree limb with slender orange bush (Teloschistes exilis) and Ramalina lichens on Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 26, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2462/jpeg/07t.jpg) Clover leaves in dew in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 11, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/08t.jpg) Split porecrust mushroom (Schizopora paradoxa)(?) on an oak log in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/10t.jpg) Mushrooms Henningsomyces candidus on rotting wood in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/12t.jpg) Hairy bracket mushroom (Trametes hirsuta) in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/11t.jpg) Resupinate polypore mushroom on rotting wood in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2245/jpeg/19t.jpg) Heliocybe sulcata mushrooms on a dry bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, April 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2462/jpeg/08t.jpg) Morning dew on clover leaves in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 11, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/06t.jpg) Cyphelloid fungus Henningsomyces candidus on rotten wood in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/09t.jpg) Texture of split porecrust mushroom (Schizopora paradoxa)(?) on an oak log in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2758/jpeg/23t.jpg) White flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) on Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 23, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/675/jpeg/16t.jpg) Snowy flowers of groundsel bush (seepwillow, Baccharis halimifolia) in dew on Deer Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 30, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2525/jpeg/08t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) with black aphids in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 9, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2471/jpeg/03t.jpg) White clover (Trifolium repens) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 22, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/675/jpeg/15t.jpg) Fluffy white flowers of groundsel bush (seepwillow, Baccharis halimifolia) on Deer Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 30, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2245/jpeg/18t.jpg) Side view of Heliocybe sulcata mushrooms on a dry bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, April 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2245/jpeg/17t.jpg) Upper view of Heliocybe sulcata mushrooms on a dry bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, April 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2977/jpeg/06t.jpg) Mushroom Thelephora cuticularis at the base of Yaupon bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, July 8, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2245/jpeg/20t.jpg) Lower view of Heliocybe sulcata mushrooms on a dry bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, April 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/726/jpeg/06t.jpg) Slender vervain (verbena) flowers in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 25, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2782/jpeg/04t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3027/jpeg/11t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 22, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1107/jpeg/15t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 24, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3251/jpeg/20t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 26, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2566/jpeg/07t.jpg) Tubular fruiting bodies of a cyphelloid fungus Henningsomyces candidus on rotten wood in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3413/jpeg/18t.jpg) Dry plants of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 8, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3413/jpeg/17t.jpg) Dry leaves of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 8, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3416/jpeg/08t.jpg) Dry plant of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 13, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2787/jpeg/23t.jpg) Flowers of Texas bushclover (Lespedeza texana(?)) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 25, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2472/jpeg/18t.jpg) Flowers of cretanweed (scaly hawkbit, Hedypnois cretica) taken from a lawn near a creek crossing on Gerge Bush Drive. College Station, Texas, March 24, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3027/jpeg/16t.jpg) Crab spider on frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 22, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/791/jpeg/09t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 7, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2782/jpeg/06t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) with a love bug (Plecia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2977/jpeg/07t.jpg) Underside of black fan-shaped mushrooms Thelephora cuticularis at the base of Yaupon bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, July 8, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/820/jpeg/18t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. Petals of frost flowers are very delicate and will break when touched. College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3624/jpeg/23t.jpg) Slender orange-bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) both in natural light and under 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight on a twig from Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 22, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/669/jpeg/06t.jpg) Frost-weed (Verbesina virginica) on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 12, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2325/jpeg/09t.jpg) Tiny flowers of slender threeseed mercury (shortstalk copperleaf, Acalypha gracilens) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 2, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1474/jpeg/01t.jpg) Slender threeseed mercury (shortstalk copperleaf, Acalypha gracilens) with tiny flowers in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 3, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/820/jpeg/20t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. Layers of ice are formed into exquisite patterns that curl into "petals" that resemble flowers. College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3625/jpeg/03t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight from Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3613/jpeg/05t.jpg) Slender orange-bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight from a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 1, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2811/jpeg/06t.jpg) Slender orange-bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a bush of upland swamp-privet at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, November 6, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2999/jpeg/24t.jpg) Shoot of slender threeseed mercury (shortstalk copperleaf, Acalypha gracilens) with tiny flowers in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 4, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3084/jpeg/15t.jpg) Slender orange-bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a twig of upland swamp-privet bush at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, December 20, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/821/jpeg/01t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. Thin layers of ice are often formed into exquisite patterns that curl into "petals" that resemble flowers. College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2610/jpeg/19t.jpg) Close up of slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 8, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2433/jpeg/20t.jpg) Apothecia of slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 23, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2433/jpeg/18t.jpg) Tuft of slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on an oak in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 23, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2610/jpeg/20t.jpg) Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a twig of an elm in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 8, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2610/jpeg/22t.jpg) Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a tree in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 8, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3617/jpeg/19t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight from Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 9, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3618/jpeg/16t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight from Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 11, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2872/jpeg/12t.jpg) Prostrate polypore mushroom Cerioporus mollis (Datronia mollis)(?) on a dry Japanese Privet bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, February 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2872/jpeg/15t.jpg) Pore surface of a mushroom Cerioporus mollis (Datronia mollis)(?) on a dry Japanese Privet bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, February 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2872/jpeg/17t.jpg) Details of polypore mushroom Cerioporus mollis (Datronia mollis)(?) on a dry Japanese Privet bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, February 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2872/jpeg/18t.jpg) Texture of polypore mushroom Cerioporus mollis (Datronia mollis)(?) on a dry Japanese Privet bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, February 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2610/jpeg/18t.jpg) Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a small elm tree in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 8, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2610/jpeg/21t.jpg) Parmelia and Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a small elm in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 8, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2433/jpeg/17t.jpg) Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a thin oak branch in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 23, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/820/jpeg/21t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. Petals of "frost-flowers" are easily melted and are usually visible in the early morning or in shaded areas. College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3251/jpeg/05t.jpg) Some slender grass on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 26, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2872/jpeg/16t.jpg) Effused-reflexed polypore mushroom Cerioporus mollis (Datronia mollis)(?) on a dry Japanese Privet bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, February 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2872/jpeg/14t.jpg) Patches of resupinate polypore mushroom Cerioporus mollis (Datronia mollis)(?) on a dry Japanese Privet bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, February 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2891/jpeg/05t.jpg) Prostrate polypore mushroom Cerioporus mollis (Datronia mollis) on a dry branch of Japanese privet bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, March 25, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2872/jpeg/13t.jpg) Close-up of prostrate polypore mushroom Cerioporus mollis (Datronia mollis)(?) on a dry Japanese Privet bush in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, February 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2620/jpeg/05t.jpg) Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a twig of a small tree in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2433/jpeg/16t.jpg) Slender orange bush lichen (Teloschistes exilis) on a small oak in semiopen area in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 23, 2019
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