[Steve Pituch]

Plant ID

Ginnie5,

Great for you to find your first plants. I couldn't bring up the photos. Can you try to store them here under your personal gallery? Also please tell us where you live. That will help us figure out what plants you have found.

Regards,
Steve Pituch

 

[Steve Pituch]

Corpus Christi Plants

OK. I've got two more mystery plants. They are numbers 4 and 5 at my website at:
http://users.ev1.net/~spituch/unidentified/unidentified.html

The first one is sort of like a lobelia and water cabbage:

The second one is like a frilly vertical dandelion. It was on a very shallow bank of a slough off of the nueces river. This is the closet thing I have found to a marshy environment. I think it looks a lot like a Spatterdock:

Do you like my sophisticated botantist terms?

Steve Pituch
(amateur aquatic plant biotopist)

 

[Steve Pituch]

The light colored lobelia-like one was found in a dried out ravine near exit 33 on rt 37 (the way to San Marcos :wink: ). It probably gets flooded only once or twice per year. I was on my way to Lake Corpus Christi. The north end of the lake unfortunately just had a lot of Water hyacinth, dead from a frost.

Pickings are really sparse down here. I dream about those ludwigia-filled Mississippi ditches.

Steve Pituch