How do you tell male and female bison apart?
Pictured is a male bison. You can tell he is a boy, because his horns stand straight up. Horns on a female bison curve inward.
This is a new species I have never encountered on the Llano Estacado – Haploesthes Greggii, or more commonly know as False Broomweed. This native evergreen is a subshrub with dark green foliage and is aromatic. It is unpalatable to wildlife and livestock. It is found on clay-loam soils that have been mechanically or chemically disturbed.
Rose Prickly Poppy is one showy native wildflower.
Basket Flower (Centaurea americana) pollinates in an unusual way. It’s stamens are sensitive to the touch, so when roving insects make contact with them, as seen in this photo, they contract instantly, pushing pollen out over the insect to be carried to the next blossom.
Baby Greater Roadrunners… a once in lifetime opportunity was captured with this photo in Terry County in Texas.
There has to be a historical significance behind the naming of this draw in Texas that is located in Glasscock County. You just don’t come up with the word “cannibal” out of the air…
There are some days you just need to make fun of the wind here on the Texas Plains…