BIO 406D - Native Plants Fall 2005 Packet #10 – Zilker Botanical Garden – December 1 st Page 1 of 10 Summary of Plants learned in this lab: Family Genus Species ACANTHACEAE Anisacanthus quadrifidus ACANTHACEAE Justicia brandegeana * ASTERACEAE Tagetes lucida * BIGNONIACEAE Tecoma stans BROMELIACEAE Tillandsia recurvata FABACEAE Sophora secundiflora LAMIACEAE Rosmarinus officinalis * LAMIACEAE Scutellaria suffrutescens * MELIACEAE Melia azedarach * OLEACEAE Ligustrum japonicum * POACEAE Setaria scheelei RHAMNACEAE Condalia hookeri ULMACEAE Celtis laevigata VERBENACEAE Lantana montevidensis * * not native to Texas
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BIO 406D - Native Plants Fall 2005Packet #10 – Zilker Botanical Garden – December 1st Page 1 of 8
Summary of Plants learned in this lab:
Family Genus Species ACANTHACEAE Anisacanthus quadrifidus
ACANTHACEAE Justicia brandegeana *
ASTERACEAE Tagetes lucida *
BIGNONIACEAE Tecoma stans
BROMELIACEAE Tillandsia recurvata
FABACEAE Sophora secundiflora
LAMIACEAE Rosmarinus officinalis *
LAMIACEAE Scutellaria suffrutescens *
MELIACEAE Melia azedarach *
OLEACEAE Ligustrum japonicum *
POACEAE Setaria scheelei
RHAMNACEAE Condalia hookeri
ULMACEAE Celtis laevigata
VERBENACEAE Lantana montevidensis *
* not native to Texas
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armed shrubs to about 2m tall
A blue dye was obtained in frontier days from the wood.
The fruits were used during frontier days to make jelly.
ULMACEAE Celtis laevigata Sugar Berry, Sugar Hackberrysmall to medium-large tree
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ACANTHACEAE Anisacanthus quadrifidus Wright’s Anisacanthus, Hummingbird Bush
shrub to about 15m tall
native to the Edwards Plateau
FABACEAE Sophora secundiflora Texas Mountain-Laurel, Mescal BeanOne of the most beautiful native plants of Texas with clusters of flowers in Spring that smell of grape bubble gum.
Mescal beans were used as hallucinogen by Native Americans
poisonous
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