Site with deep, coarse sand (Carizzo Fmn) and many sand endemic plants. There were a few individual N. sayersensis growing in partial shade along fenceline and many more growing at the edge of a post oak woodland across the fence.

Purple-red foliage caught my eye; thought maybe a Castellija (sp? paintbrush) or a linear Asclepias, but no milky sap upon braking leaf margin. Aristolochia a possibility...? That would be very cool. In very sandy soil. Seems to have a single bud wanting to emerge at terminal end. We think back to flag & found the tiniest of flowers (and lightning bug eating on leaf). SO COOL

This may be Sabal miamiensis, per the descriptions at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr357. The single specimen is more than 6 feet tall, with leaves more than 3 feet across. This is either Sabal etonia or Sabal miamiensis, because the margins of leaf segments have filamentose fibrils. The two things that may support miamiensis are (1) leavds are orbicular and (2) many of the leaf segments are entire, lacking fibrils. If miamiensis, this could be an important find, since that species may be extinct in the wild, and also rare to extinct in captivity. If this was a landscape specimen, it was probably planted more than 50 years ago (given the location's history).

Here's another mystery forb that I can't even put into a family. It has:
-- A few single ascending weak stems which are angulate in cross-section, ridged in inflorescence, sparsely short villous.
-- Lower leaves petiolate, opposite, lax, rhombic-ovate, 3-5 cm long, by 2-3 cm wide; impressed venation above; stellate (?) pubescent above. Size reduced above.
-- Inflorescence (best close-up in 3rd image) is a racemose array of simple and compound, oppositely arranged spike-like clusters of tiny flowers; each raceme branch subtended by a reduced leaf. Flowers sessile on spike axis, densely clustered, especially distally. May be monoecious (?) but I can't find stamens or staminate flowers for sure. Apparent pistilate flowers 5-merous, minute (2 to 3 mm across) with a deeply divided hyaline perianth, each segment lanceolate, acuminate. Pistil ovoid or globose, style possibly divided (?).
I can't discern any fruits but I might assume they are minute capsules. The inflorescences have an abundance of small clusters of fine fluffy hairs, but I can't tell if they derive from the inflorescence or are foreign to the plant and just stuck on it. (I suspect they are part of the inflorescence.)
Growing in partial shade of oak-juniper woodland.

I've tried to place this in any of several families in the Caryophyllales order, such as Amaranthaceae (incl. Chenopodiaceae), Polygonaceae, etc., as well as Urticaceae and others, but I can't find anything like this.

i came across this plant in a prairie area. as i usually do for plants with purple flowers like this, i took a closer look to see what kind of plant this was. probably not Conoclinium coelestinum, since the flowers looked wrong. probably more like a Chromolaena, but not really like Chromolaena odorata. the leaves were different... could this be the fabled Chromolaena ivifolia?

This is a mystery shrub (to me). Several of these were growing in a wet spot along the begining of a trail at the Nature Center at Galveston Island SP. They consisted of a rather stiff straight vertical stem about 4 to 5 ft tall with a few large, thick, lanceolate leaves near the top and conspicuous "winter buds" up and down the reddish stems. I can't even put this into a plant family.

Additional info: Based on known size of my hand, the larger leaf I am holding has a blade length of 11.1 cm, width 3.6 cm, and a petiole length est. as 2.4 cm.