American basket flower

11 years ago

I love to celebrate a new wildflower when they walk onto my land. I have 2 very healthy basket flowers where I have never seen them before on this land. God knows I have been yanking yellow star thistle and canadian thistle all spring long. It is great to get a new-to-me native show its face here instead. It looks a little like a thistle flower. It and I am lucky that I wasn't on auto pilot in my yanking frenzy. I would love to post a photo but my computer is down and I am not able to get my photos downloaded and all that jive to my flicker account. I will be out there in the morning with my camera.I found it just as the sun was going down. It was right where I want to plant a salvia gregii. I almost dug it up.

I included the LBJ wildflower entry for it below.

Here is a link that might be useful: American Basket Flower

Comments (7)

tx_ag_95
11 years ago
I like it!!! Let me know if you have extra seeds for next year!
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
Original Author
11 years ago
They say it is the most common wildflower in Texas. Then how come I don't see it that much?I never see a lot of them. One of the common names for it is American star thistle. LOL. I really was yanking at the Yellow star thistle right before I got to it. How 'bout that for immediate gratification!
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linda_tx8
11 years ago
It's a lovely plant! So sweet. I invited here years ago...gathered seed from roadside plants. Hope you can persuade them to naturalize!
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
Original Author
11 years ago
Late last night I had this really indistinct memory from a couple of years back of finding a scraggly thistle-ish pinkish flower It had another tiny thing that had some seed next to it with a little fluff on it. I grabbed it and walked off. It disappeared from my hand by the time I got to the seed bank. I must have gone to the nursery area first because these came up right by a pathway to it from where I spied the plant.

Hey Linda, do you grow Texas prairie parsley? I will have some seed from it. I sure do like that plant. I here that the butterflies like it.
rock_oak_deer
11 years ago
Very nice, it's always good when a new native shows up on its own.
linda_tx8
11 years ago
I'm not sure about Texas prairie parsley. I've got some kind of wild parsley-like plant that gets really big...like something on steroids...already gone to seed now. I'll look up that species you mentioned. Been meaning to find an ID for the plant I have. I've also got Daucosma laciniata (starting to bloom now). The butterfly caterpillars can use both of them. But I haven't seen that kind of butterfly yet this year.
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
Original Author
11 years ago
The plant I have that is called Texas prairie Parsley , aka Polytaenia texana is noted below. I was looking at Daucosma laciniata. Does that have sticky- hairy small seeds????. I am confused by all these queen ann's lace look alikes. I think I am going to add this to the thread about Queen ann's lace.

Here is a link that might be useful: Polytaenia texana