![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/08t.jpg) Green nymph of grasshopper on a dried leaf of bracken fern on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/10t.jpg) Skunk in tail-high threat posture among bracken fern on Forest Service Road 203 near Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3172/jpeg/22t.jpg) Black eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta) with bracken fern at Forest Service Road 203 near Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3367/jpeg/10t.jpg) Fresh leaves of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3503/jpeg/05t.jpg) Malformed leaves of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Road FS 203 near Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 30, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3503/jpeg/08t.jpg) Irregularly grown leaves of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Road FS 203 near on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 30, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3482/jpeg/04t.jpg) Crosier (a coiled young fern frond) of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 3, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3503/jpeg/24t.jpg) Crosier (a coiled young fern frond) of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 30, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3367/jpeg/13t.jpg) Fiddlehead of bracken fern on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2480/jpeg/06t.jpg) Young leaves of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest west from Richards. Texas, April 9, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2480/jpeg/16t.jpg) Unfolding leaves of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest west from Richards. Texas, April 9, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3366/jpeg/05t.jpg) Shoot of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3367/jpeg/11t.jpg) Fiddleheads of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3001/jpeg/22t.jpg) Butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) and bracken fern on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 7, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3367/jpeg/15t.jpg) Uncurling leaf of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2704/jpeg/15t.jpg) Sanguine purple coneflower (Echinacea sanguinea) and bracken fern on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3503/jpeg/23t.jpg) Young leaf of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Road FS 203 near on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 30, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3367/jpeg/20t.jpg) Pattern of a young leaf of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2968/jpeg/07t.jpg) Flower of butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) among bracken fern on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, June 22, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3510/jpeg/29t.jpg) Downy phlox (Phlox pilosa) blooming over bracken fern on road FS203 near Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 13, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3118/jpeg/14t.jpg) Flower of Carolina jessamine fallen on bracken fern on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest east from Trail Head No.4. Texas, March 15, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3172/jpeg/31t.jpg) Climbing fern (Lygodium japonicum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2705/jpeg/03t.jpg) Curved leaves of bracken ferm with insect eggs on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/24t.jpg) Climbing fern and Canadian moonseed vine on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2542/jpeg/18t.jpg) Clitocybula lacerata(?) mushrooms in a shallow ditch or depression near Forest Road 302, under bracken fern, in a pine forest, on partially burned ground after prescribed fire in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2542/jpeg/20t.jpg) Close up of Clitocybula lacerata(?) mushrooms in a shallow ditch or depression near Forest Road 302, under bracken fern, in a pine forest, on partially burned ground after prescribed fire in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2480/jpeg/17t.jpg) Fiddleheads of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest west from Richards. Texas, April 9, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2480/jpeg/05t.jpg) Shoot of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest west from Richards. Texas, April 9, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2894/jpeg/06t.jpg) Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, March 28, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2542/jpeg/19t.jpg) Clitocybula lacerata(?) mushrooms among pine needles in a shallow ditch or depression near Forest Road 302, under bracken fern, in a pine forest, on partially burned ground after prescribed fire in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2894/jpeg/21t.jpg) Bracken fern with a fallen flower of Carolina jessamine on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, March 28, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3189/jpeg/12t.jpg) Yellow leaves of laurel greenbrier (catbriar, bamboo vine, Smilax laurifolia) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/03t.jpg) Leaves of blackjack oak and greenbrier on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/09t.jpg) Curled leaves of beautyberry on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/28t.jpg) Young leaves of a small oak on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3123/jpeg/26t.jpg) Fallen trumpet of Carolina jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens) on bracken fern on Stubblefield section of Lone Star hiking trail north from Trailhead No. 6 in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 2, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/06t.jpg) Leaves of paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)(?) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3208/jpeg/01t.jpg) Beautyberry and pines at sunrise on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 11, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3208/jpeg/03t.jpg) Pines in morning mist on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 11, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3152/jpeg/17t.jpg) Amanita subsolitaria (Lepidella) mushroom under pines on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 14, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3216/jpeg/02t.jpg) Some white Amanita mushrooms under pines on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 25, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2818/jpeg/14t.jpg) White resupinate polypore mushroom with embedded dry fern leaves on bark of a fallen pine branch on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest, Texas, November 19, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2543/jpeg/08t.jpg) Climbing fern (Lygodium japonicum) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3216/jpeg/04t.jpg) Gills of white Amanita mushrooms under pines on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 25, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2830/jpeg/19t.jpg) Yellow leaves of hickory on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, December 15, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3216/jpeg/03t.jpg) Side view of white Amanita mushrooms under pines on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 25, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/759/jpeg/18t.jpg) Young leaves of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) in Lembolovo, 40 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 12, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3233/jpeg/31t.jpg) Spores of a bolete mushroom Xerocomus illudens(?) under pines collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3233/jpeg/35t.jpg) Spores of a bolete mushroom Xerocomus illudens(?) (larger) under pines collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2733/jpeg/14t.jpg) Bolete mushrooms Gyroporus subalbellus or may be G. roseialbus under pines on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 27, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2476/jpeg/24t.jpg) Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on Lone Star Hiking Trail south from Stubblefield Campground in Sam Houston National Forest. Huntsville, Texas, April 2, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/22t.jpg) Deutero fungus (Neocercosporidium smilacis, Cercospora smilacis) on leaves of common greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3209/jpeg/12t.jpg) Yellow leaves of catalpa(?) on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, August 13, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3128/jpeg/11t.jpg) Yellow Coreopsis flower on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3127/jpeg/21t.jpg) Young leaves of oak on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3128/jpeg/16t.jpg) Young leaves of an oak on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3233/jpeg/06t.jpg) Yellow star-grass (Hypoxis) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3128/jpeg/02t.jpg) Young leaves of hickory on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3128/jpeg/17t.jpg) Back lit young leaves of an oak on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3128/jpeg/03t.jpg) Young leaves of beautyberry on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2733/jpeg/18t.jpg) Young oak leaves on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 27, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3375/jpeg/08t.jpg) Bracken ferns and pines on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 1, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3047/jpeg/17t.jpg) Bolete mushroom with yellow pores turning blue on a broad trail under pines and oaks behind a creek crossing, near a trail junction on South Wilderness Loop Trail at Little Lake Creek Wilderness in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, October 23, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2722/jpeg/10t.jpg) Cap some pale yellow Amanita mushroom on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 3, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/20t.jpg) Large bolete mushroom with yellow pores and pink stem on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/19t.jpg) Cap of a large bolete mushroom with yellow pores and pink stem on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3128/jpeg/06t.jpg) Pleated leaves of Carolina buckthorn (Frangula caroliniana) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/22t.jpg) Underside of a large bolete mushroom with yellow pores and pink stem on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3233/jpeg/28t.jpg) Spores of a large bolete with yellow pores, pink stem collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3197/jpeg/26t.jpg) Young leaves of chamberbitter plant (stonebreaker, Phyllanthus niruri) on Forest Service Road 203 near Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 28, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3116/jpeg/01t.jpg) Greenbrier leaves with rust fungus Puccinia smilacis, collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2722/jpeg/09t.jpg) Side view of some pale yellow Amanita mushroom on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 3, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2722/jpeg/11t.jpg) Dissected view of some pale yellow Amanita mushroom on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 3, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3248/jpeg/11t.jpg) Golden yellow bolete mushrooms Buchwaldoboletus hemichrysus near a stump of a burned pine on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 21, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3232/jpeg/23t.jpg) Cross section of a large bolete mushroom with yellow pores and pink stem on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 7, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2543/jpeg/14t.jpg) Young leaves of a tree on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2951/jpeg/27t.jpg) Leaves of Virginia creeper on a charred pine on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 2, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3116/jpeg/02t.jpg) Underside of greenbrier leaves with rust fungus Puccinia smilacis, collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3115/jpeg/29t.jpg) Rust fungus Puccinia smilacis on greenbrier leaves under a microscope, collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3633/jpeg/08t.jpg) Climbing fern (Lygodium japonicum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, October 20, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3172/jpeg/14t.jpg) Some reddish shoot on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/01t.jpg) Dayflower (Commelina) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/04t.jpg) Bushes of beautyberry on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3184/jpeg/05t.jpg) Shoot of elm or may be plum on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3172/jpeg/20t.jpg) Forest Service Road 203 near Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2265/jpeg/11t.jpg) Climbing fern (Lygodium japonicum) on a forest road near Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, May 23, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2528/jpeg/16t.jpg) Leaves of Partridge pea (Cassia fasciculata) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 15, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2528/jpeg/13t.jpg) Young leaves of flameleaf sumac on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 15, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2543/jpeg/09t.jpg) Leaves of partridge pea (Cassia fasciculata) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3099/jpeg/07t.jpg) Japanese fern (Lygodium japonicum) on Lone Star Hiking Trail near Pole Creek in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, January 22, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3116/jpeg/04t.jpg) Urediniospores of rust fungus Puccinia smilacis on greenbrier leaves under a microscope, collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3115/jpeg/30t.jpg) Urediniospores of rust fungus Puccinia smilacis on greenbrier leaves under a microscope, collected on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3186/jpeg/25t.jpg) Yellow leaves of jumpseed (knotweed, Persicaria virginiana) with some rust fungus on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 3, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3172/jpeg/17t.jpg) Green berries of grape on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3172/jpeg/15t.jpg) Ripening berries of blackberry on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3172/jpeg/18t.jpg) Blue dayflower (Commelina) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3172/jpeg/32t.jpg) Foxtail-like grass (Setaria) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3172/jpeg/13t.jpg) Old cattle pond overgrown by a pine forest on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 9, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2674/jpeg/17t.jpg) Orange-yellow rust fungus Puccinia poarum (Puccinia liatridis) on basal leaves of gayfeather (Liatris) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 26, 2020
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