Plate 2 



Typical intermittent creek containing running- water for a brief 

 period following rains. The rich soil of the rock-strewn ravines in 

 the background supports a varied vegetation, including redbud, wild 

 plum, mimosa, buckeye, hop-tree, clematis, vetch, buttercups and 

 phacelia. Growing among the rocks in the foreground are phlox, 

 vetch, lace flower, balloon vine, wild onion, chickweed, speedwell, 

 and many others. (Photo by Hans Specht). 



Dry creek bed and limestone bluff of the Edwards Plateau. 

 The creek bed in the foreground supports a scanty growth of mois- 

 ture-loving plants, — scraggly sycamores, stubby growths of Mexi- 

 can walnut, willow-leaved groundsel, fragrant-flowered buttonbush, 

 and prickly-stemmed dewberries. On the rich irregular ledges of 

 the broken bluff in the background one finds cliff brakes, wall 

 flower, ragwort, scarlet salvia, prickly pear, Commelinantia, slender 

 beargrass, rose mallow, spiderwort, Perezia and a host of others. 

 In fact by working a series of these bluffs, one may take a good 

 representation of the Flora of the limestone region. 



