Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve and Big Thicket, Texas, June 21 - 22, 2026

Photo 01. Low pinebarren milkwort (Polygala ramosa) in...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 02. Close-up of yellow flowers of low pinebarren...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 03. A seedling of a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 04. Fragrant blooms of the swamp titi (Cyrilla...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 05. A pinewoods rose-gentian (Sabatia gentianoides...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 06. Tuberous grass-pink orchid (Calopogon tuberosus...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 07. close-up of a late-season bloom of a pale pitcher...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 08. Pale pitcher plant (Sarracenia alata) in Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 09. Blooming Marsh Fleabane (Pluchea foetida) in...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 10. Distinct blossoms of Marsh Fleabane (Pluchea...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 11. Flowering stalk of the Sharp Blazing Star...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 12. Flower spike of the golden colicroot (Aletris...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 13. Inflorescence of a Virginia bunch-flower...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 14. Virginia bunch-flower (Melanthium virginicum) in...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 15. Intricate floral structure of hollow Joe-Pye weed...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 16. A single inflorescence of clustered bushmint...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 17. Some brownish shoot in a swamp in Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 18. Woolly rose-mallow (Hibiscus lasiocarpos) in...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 19. Insect gall on Liatris in Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 20. Red milkweed (Asclepias rubra) in Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 21. Cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum) with...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 22. Developing fruit cluster of Jack-in-the-pulpit...Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 23. Polypore mushrooms Hexagonia cucullata (also...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 24. Chalky White Bolete mushroom (Boletus...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 25. Top view of Chalky White Bolete mushroom (Boletus...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 26. Section of Chalky White Bolete mushroom (Boletus...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 27. Caps of polypore mushrooms Hexagonia cucullata...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 28. Undersides of polypore mushroom Hexagonia...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 29. Pore surface with distinct angular, diamond-to...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 30. Top view of polypore mushroom Microporellus...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 31. Side view of polypore mushroom Microporellus...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 32. Underside of polypore mushroom Microporellus...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 33. Leaves of Smilax pumila (Sarsaparilla vine) south...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 34. Fungus Trichoderma gelatinosum group on a...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 35. Close-up of fleshy stromata distinctly punctate...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 36. Young stromata of fungus Trichoderma gelatinosum...National Preserve. Warren, Texas

Photo 37. Spores of polypore mushrooms Hexagonia cucullata...Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas

Photo 38. Spores of Chalky White Bolete mushroom (Boletus...Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas

Photo 39. Hyphae of young stromata of fungus Trichoderma...Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas

Photo 40. Asci with spores (in Comgo Red, with x40...Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas