Category Archives: Native Plants
Neat Plant Alert: Blue Waterleaf, Hydrolea ovata
What a beauty blue waterleaf is! It’s a thorny wetlander in full bloom now–or even a little past–in the shallow water of swamps, ponds, and ditches. A mass of plants in a road ditch can be bright blue enough to … Continue reading
Ouachita Huckleberries in the Rain
A group of die-hard native plant lovers met in Crystal Springs on a rainy May 16 in pursuit of black huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata), the only true huckleberry in Arkansas. Arkansas Native Plant Society (ANPS) members in attendance were Susan Hooks, … Continue reading
Dripping Springs Field Trip a Perfect Ten on the BOP Scale
May 11, 10 a.m., a Saturday morning that couldn’t have been prettier, we gathered for the Ouachita Mountain Boys’ walk to Dripping Springs just north of Hot Springs. The rendezvous place was across the road from Kai Schulz’s house, and … Continue reading
Neat Plant Alert: Old Red Buckeye Across From Clinton School
What a welcome sight the red buckeye (Aesculus pavia) is in a spring season of so many colorless, wind-pollinated trees and shrubs. The common, cheerful plants grow nearly statewide, leafing out well before the spring starting gun is fired and … Continue reading
Meet the Plant: Rue Anemone
Rue Anemone (Thalictrum (Anemonella) thalictroides) is a native perennial occurring throughout the woodlands of eastern US. The common name is based on the appearance of the leaves being similar to those of an anemone as well as meadow rue. The … Continue reading
Meet the Tree: Toothache Tree
Toothache tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, is surely one of Arkansas’ most intriguing native plants. If you haven’t been introduced, chew on a twig or a piece of bark for a few minutes and feel your mouth and tongue start to tickle … Continue reading
Neat Plant Alert: Yellow Trout-Lilies at Bell Slough
Arkansas Native Plant Society (ANPS) loves to get pictures from our members to post. Please keep sending them in! This beautiful stand of yellow trout-lilies (Erythronium rostratum) is blooming right now at Bell Slough near Mayflower. Yellow trout-lilies grow in … Continue reading
Neat Plant Alert – Viola pedata
Eric Hunt, an ANPS member from Little Rock, captured this Viola pedata on September 30, 2012 near Cantrell/Highway 10. The Showy Bird’s Foot Violet is usually a spring bloomer, but is not above trying its luck at fall reproduction. ANPS … Continue reading
Neat Plant Alert – Yellow False Foxglove by the Road is a Super Find
Yellow False Foxglove was seen blooming along Lawson Road (just east of the concrete plant) in Little Rock by one of our Arkansas Native Plant members. He stopped, took pictures and got them to us for a “neat plant alert.” … Continue reading
Neat Plant Alert – Water Stargrass on Buffalo
Peggy Kratzer sent these pictures of water stargrass, Heteranthera dubia, that she and Amy Johnson discovered on July 11 growing and blooming both beside and in the water along the Buffalo River near Painted Bluff at Buffalo Point.
