הזיהויים של nancyed

These images are being uploaded for multiple reasons:

1. To begin a collection of images of plants of Balcones Canyonlands NWR;
2. To document a rather uncommon wildflower at that Refuge; and
3. To have a set images illustrating my ad hoc technique for getting close-up images with a small point-and-shoot camera.

A small population of Low Loosestrife has been known along Doeskin Branch on the Refuge for several years. Several plants were blooming on this date. The plants are very habitat specific, growing in the silt of a limestone-bedded creek. The present specimen was in a low spot in the creek bed which had flowing water from recent rains.

Nice to see this uncommon plant still blooming in these drought conditions. These particular plants had been submerged earlier in the year but were now exposed and blooming. Note the different leaf types on the same plant: The broad rounded leaves grew when the plant was submerged; the narrowly ovate leaves are the aerial growth form.