Look for yard along the edges of woods just inside the shady areas as well as in fields, especial across Central Texas. The finely divided leaves, from which it gets part of its scientific name “millefolium” give it a wild carrot-like appearance …
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Patches of wood sorrel are very prevalent on forest floors, often near wild violets, cleavers, wild onions, etc… The three-lobed leaf looks similar to clover/shamrocks but sorrels have a cleft at the top, giving them a heart-shape whereas …
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Stroll past any disturbed area, especially one that’s a bit damp, and you are almost guaranteed to come across lots of this wiry, weedy, sparsely-leafed, yellow flowered plant called wireweed. It seems to love the edges of parking lots, underpasses, …
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Wild violets are a wonderful winter/spring nibble and if you’re lucky, summer and fall, too! They prefer cool, damp areas of woods during the summer but during the winter they can be found in sunnier locations including yards. The heart-shaped …
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Both the tasty Lactuca canadenesis and the somewhat bitter Lactuca floridana can grow 7-9 feet tall.
How to tell the two apart:
L. canadenesis
Leaves: deeply lobed at base of plant but much more un-lobed, grass-like at top of plant.
Sap: …
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This weed can be found everywhere and is very rich in vitamins and other nutrients. The plant body looks a lot like [bull thistle](/plants/thistle-bull) but sow thistle has a number of small, yellow flowers rather than one bulbous purple or …
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Milk thistles are easy to identify by their height (upwards of 6′ tall), beautiful purple flowers, and white veins on blue-green leaves. Start looking for it in open fields in mid-February though depending on the weather they can be found into …
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A bane to many landowners, Bull Thistles stand tall and spikely menacing across Texas fields. They can reach over four feet tall in ideal growing conditions with multiple purple flowers on each stalk. The spines along the edges of the leaves …
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As more and more people move into Texas from lesser desirable states the fields of our yellow Texas Dandelion leads to confusion in late spring and early summer. The flower looks like a [true dandelion](/plants/dandelion), except for the dabs …
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Running rampant just about any sunny place mankind has torn up soil, the tall, gangly sunflowers seem to thrive in every wasteland. The flowers are much small flowers, only 2-3 inches across, are plentiful on each thick, tall stalk.
The young …
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