Descriptive Flora 



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or cleft segments. Flowers irregular, oddly shaped, spurred, 

 distributed on about the upper third of the flower stalks which 

 are one to three feet tall. Fruit three slender, erect pods split- 

 ting on the inner side. Not as common as the following species. 



Delphinium albescens Rydb. Larkspur. Delphinium. 



Similar to Delphinium carolinianum but with sepals white 

 or nearly so (often pale violet) and with a green spot on each. 

 Lateral petals bearded, 2-cleft, the lobes not diverging. March 

 to May. Common. 



Anemone decapetula Ard. Anemone. 



First flower of spring under the oaks and elms and living 

 in pockets of weathered limestone rocks, in patches by the roads 

 and following the sharp lines of creeks and ravines. Rising 

 directly from the oblong, tuberous root are one to several slender 

 three-forked leaf-stalks with three leaflets at the end of each 

 fork. Leaflets generally purple underneath. The beautiful, 

 delicate blossoms are about an inch across, white (frequently 

 pink underneath) , blue or bluish-purple, and tip the one to two 

 or three stalks that come out of the cluster of root leaves, each 

 stalk bearing a circle of deeply cut, leaf -like bracts midway be- 

 tween the blossom and the ground. Sepals and petals about a 

 dozen. Stamens numerous, unequal in length. Fruit a fuzzy 

 cylinder 1 to 3" long, forming the upper portion of the flower 

 stalk and made up of small flat achenes buried in woolly hairs. 

 Named for Ariemos, the wind god of the Greeks, who used the 

 Windflower to announce his presence and mark his course in the 

 spring. January, February and March. (One or more flowers 

 may come out of the circle of leaf -like bracts) . 



Clematis drummondii Torr & Gray. Texas Virgin's Bower. 



Grey Beard. Grand-dad. 



Small vine generally climbing over bushes and fences, with 

 noticeable white flowers in summer and conspicuous plumes of 

 silky feathery-tailed seeds in the Autumn. Leaves pinnately 



