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Watson Rate Native Plant Preserve

Drove around Anahuac all day looking form more but this small area was all we found.

Drove around Anahuac all day looking form more but this small area was all we found.

We drove all around Anahuac looking for more of this but didn't find any.

Leaves very velvety, leaks milk if bruised

Velvet-like fuzz on top and underside of leaves

Counted 8 plants, 5 with seed.

Not a great photo, hopefully enough to get a good idea of species.

Was not expecting to find this here, nor find it above ground. Probably benefiting from the runoff of hwy 83, 6 feet away. With Thymophylla tephroleuca, Colubrina texensis, Tetraneuris scaposa.

A Trans-Pecos endemic plant, documented on a private ranch during bird surveys.

Location: high quality native bluff prairie

Location: high quality native bluff prairie on dry slope

3 plants, dry sandy prairie

I do not know this one by seed pod. So excited for , perhaps, another variety on my list.

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Matelea chihuahuensis, Animas Valley on the northwest side of the Animas Mountains, southwest of Whitmire Pass, 31.756 -108.737, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, 2 Aug 2015.

Three individual plants located. One with open seed pod and seed. This plant appears to have been uprooted but is still surviving.