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821-01. 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, 2010Similar picturesLarge thumbnails | Use small thumbnails | View as slideshow |
 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  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  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  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. Frozen sap extruded from stem. College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. Frost ribbons sprouting from young plants. College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. The stems split and exude sap that freezes into fascinating shapes. College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. Sap within its stalks bursts forth to form icy formations along its lower stems. College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 3, 2022  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. At the first hard freeze, even though the plant has gone to seed and looks dead, the roots are still active. The sap freezes, splits open the stem and forms these "frost-flowers". College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. Frothy texture of frozen sap extruded from stem looks like cotton candy. College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. After a heavy frost at night frostweed shows its ribbons of frost (as in ribbon candy). College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 3, 2022  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) after hard freeze in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 10, 2024  Ice flowers on frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 1, 2020  Flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2020  Flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 11, 2013  Bumblebee on flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 23, 2013  Curly ice crystals grown on frostweed after hard freeze in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 3, 2022  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) at frosty morning in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 3, 2022  White flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) on Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 23, 2020  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  Inflated stems of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) at cold morning in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 3, 2022  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 22, 2021  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2020  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 24, 2012  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 26, 2022  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 3, 2022  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 26, 2021  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 11, 2013  Dry plant of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 13, 2023  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) with aphids in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 15, 2014  Dry plants of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 8, 2023  Dry leaves of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 8, 2023  Curly ice crystals grown on frostweed after hard freeze in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 13, 2019  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 7, 2009  Crab spider on frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 22, 2021  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) with a love bug (Plecia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 20, 2020  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) with black aphids in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 9, 2019  Red aphids on a shoot of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 18, 2020  Red and black aphids on a plant of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 12, 2021  Black aphids on leaves of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 3, 2022  Inflated stems of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) at cold morning in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 1, 2020  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) at frosty morning on a pipeline forest cutting in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 1, 2020  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  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  Yellow leaves of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) with a rust fungus Coleosporium viguierae(?) on a pipeline right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 19, 2022  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) with yellow and brown leaves with a rust fungus Coleosporium viguierae(?) on a pipeline right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 19, 2022  Spores of a rust fungus Coleosporium viguierae(?) (under a microscope, in KOH solution) found on leaves of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) from a pipeline right of way in Lick Creek Park a day before. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2022  Spores of a rust fungus Coleosporium viguierae(?) (under a microscope, in Lugol solution) found on leaves of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) on a pipeline right of way in Lick Creek Park a day before. College Station, Texas, August 18, 2022  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) on Park Hudson Trail. College Station, Texas, August 6, 2014  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  Young puffball mushrooms Lycoperdon curtisii together with Nostoc on a sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 10, 2024  Frost-weed (Verbesina virginica) on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 12, 2008  Ice flowers on frostweed in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 3, 2022  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, November 17, 2019  Shoot of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 3, 2022  Crab spider on frostweed (Verbesina virginica) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, October 31, 2021  Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) with an ant on Stubblefield section of Lone Star hiking trail north from Trailhead No. 6 in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, October 1, 2020  Green form of chrysalis (pupal stage of butterfly) of Black Swallowtail formed on a plant stem in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 1, 2010  Rosemary frostweed (Sun rose, Helianthemum rosmarinifolium) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 19, 2010  Ice flowers on frostweed in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 5, 2022  Ice flowers on frostweed in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 1, 2020  Thin light colored grainy corticioid fungus on a thin fallen broadleaf tree in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 2, 2023  Details of ice flowers on frostweed in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 1, 2020  Spring beauty flowers (Claytonia virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 27, 2024  Sewage line right of way in fog in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 15, 2010  Red berries of yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) with freeze in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 27, 2010  Morning freeze on henbit deadnettle flowers on a lawn in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 8, 2020  Dense fog on sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 15, 2010  Ice crystals on a frostweed stems at morning in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 3, 2022  Dead tree on sewage line right of way in fog in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 15, 2010  Deer Run Trail on sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 15, 2010  Flowerhead of sneezeweed (bitterweed, Helenium amarum) with down-flexed petals in dew in Lick Creek Park, with yellow ray flowers that bend downward. College Station, Texas, September 30, 2008  Freeze on prairie in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 3, 2012  Yucca with morning freeze in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 3, 2022  Dead leaves of agave after hard freeze in the Gardens at Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, March 27, 2021  Common chickweed (Stellaria media) with morning freeze in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 10, 2024  Sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 14, 2012  Sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 4, 2012  Sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 8, 2011  Sewage line in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 18, 2014  Sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 27, 2008  Winter rosette of bull thistle (Cirsium horridulum) with freeze in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 3, 2022  Line of holes bored by Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker birds (sapwells) in a tree bark in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 24, 2010  Sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park after ice storm. College Station, Texas, January 17, 2007  Oaks on sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 4, 2012  Oak trees on sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 4, 2012  Road near sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 4, 2012  Oak tree on sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 27, 2008  Icy grass on sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park after ice storm. College Station, Texas, January 17, 2007  Flowers of yellow Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans) on sewage line right-of-way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 26, 2021  Patterns of layers of gypsum crystals (selenite) in area of Jebel Al-Nakhsh in south-western Qatar, February 7, 2014  Sewage line right of way with some ice in Lick Creek Park after ice storm, view to the west. College Station, Texas, January 17, 2007  Sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park after ice storm, view to the west. College Station, Texas, January 17, 2007  Tiny flowers of hooded windmill grass (Chloris cucullata(?)) on a sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 18, 2020  White flowers late-flowering boneset (Eupatorium serotinum) on sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 23, 2020  Patterns of bark of dead oak on Racoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 17, 2013  Thin grey-brown fungus on a hardwood log in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 2, 2023  Alum Creek crossing on a sewage line right of way at rainy weather in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 25, 2024 |