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Observed on private property with permission to visit and post observations. Access is by advance landowner permission only.

All over this drink
I counted 30 plus growing wild in this area on ROW’s
And in washes
I haven’t seen this many wild sennas in the wild

Silky Sophora
Elephant Mountain WMA Chalk Valley

var. edwardsiana

Growing on a well decayed Quercus agrifolia log.

Thanks to Evelyn Chea for showing me the location - it's the same log from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195513390

Parque Ecológico Chipinque

Very cool to see the yucca moths pollinating the open flower!

Growing in the Chisos Mountains at about 7,200' in elevation.

Details: Corolla tube 8 mm, extending beyond calyx; lobes 4-5 mm (limb 10 mm wide); calyx lobes 7-8 mm. Entire plant densely hirsute with long hairs. Perennial but without woody caudex.

Likely O. worthingtonii

US-285; 7 mi. N Sanderson

Dermatophyllum juanhintonianum (B.L.Turner) B.L.Turner
New names in Dermatophyllum (Fabaceae). Phytoneuron 2012-3: 1–4. Published 1 January 2012.

I found one plant is pubescent at the same limestone foothill...both foliage and stems.

But it hasn't bloomed yet.

With lake level at about 14 ft. below normal pool elevation these organisms proliferate over an area of at least several hundred sq. ft. at this locality on a slowly drying mud flat.

huge shrub sprawling over cliff edge pretty high up

About 15 foot vine growing into the canopy of a Mesquite Tree