Trinity Forks Chapter sponsored a children's art contest to celebrate Texas Native Plant Week. Children's art contests have been a tradition with NPSOT since the early celebrations of Wildflower Day at TWU nearly 30 years ago. (photo Anna Bussart)
A couple of years ago, Kathy and I were fortunate to be on a field trip that visited Burleson Prairie, a several-hundred-acre restoration project on the Blackland Prairie near Temple. Being fairly naïve about prairies, we were surprised by such a large variety of native plants, both grasses and forbs, on the Burleson Prairie. read more »
May 10, 2004 was a big day for me… or I should say, a big-red day. On that day, Patty Leslie Pasztor and I kayaked through limestone canyons on Cibolo Creek a couple of miles southeast of Boerne. We wanted to compile data on the native vegetation of that undeveloped corridor, because it was then in danger of being compromised by highway construction. read more »
Nolina texana commonly is called beargrass, bunch-grass, or basket grass, but it is a member of the agave family, making it a cousin of yucca, sotol, and century plant. Another name is sacahuista.
NPSOT recognized notable achievements and acts to promote native plants at its 2009 annual Awards Banquet in Wichita Falls on October 17.
