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Grazing North Texas – Engelman’s Daisy
By Tony Dean
After another month or two of cold weather, we will begin to see some of the native wildflowers appearing on the countryside. A few of these spring flowers are perennials, like Engelmann’s daisy, and come back from the roots year after year. Engelmann’s daisy grows from a very large stout taproot making it very drought resistant.
Forbs are an important part of our grazing land production, especially perennial forbs like Engelmann’s daisy. Engelmann’s daisy is one of the “big four” of native perennial forbs in Texas. The other three include Maximillian sunflower, bush sunflower and Illinois bundleflower.
Engelmann’s daisy, also called Cut-leaf daisy, produces a winter rosette, or small growing point, on the soil surface during winter months. Later in the spring and early summer, several branches grow from the winter rosette and can reach height and width of three feet at maturity.
Branches and leaves are covered with stiff hairs. Leaves are mostly basal, eight” to 12” long, and deeply lobed. The yellow flowers have eight petals. Flowers open in late afternoon and bloom through the night but fade during the hottest part of the day.
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By: Jelly Cocanougher
Delicate microbes buried just beneath the surface. We walk by them, unbeknownst to us. Spores, spawn, and sclerotia, each with distinct characteristics. It is said that these fungi are all connected, speaking to one another as they populate the earth. The interconnectedness of all living things and the decaying world, such beauty lies within these otherworldly alien organisms.
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