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Northeast Texas Chapter Native Plant Society of Texas Vol. 11, No. 6 September 2005 The purpose of the Native Plant Society of Texas is to promote the conservation, research and utilization of the native plants and plant habitats of Texas, through education, outreach and example. Monthly Meeting: Regular meetings are the third Thursday of the month 7:00 PM at St. Mary's Catholic Church Parish Hall, 2108 Ridgewood, Longview (just off Hollybrook Drive). No meeting in December. SEPTEMBER 15TH Presentation by Ricky Maxey from Parks & Wildlife on the “Bats of East Texas”. Also we will vote on the acceptance of our by-laws. Please bring the copy of the by-laws that came with your August Newsletter last month, or you may print them directly off of our newsletter page on our website at: http://www.npsot.org/NortheastTexas/index.php Future Programs: October 20th November 17th December January 19th 2006 Presentation by Dr. Cheryl Boyette, coordinator of children’s workshops at SFA, who will inform us on educating young children in the appreciation of native plants. Tentative: Slide presentation by Betsy Farris on the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. NO DECEMBER MEETING Flo Oxley from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin. 2 President’s Corner by Floyd Anderson These are the best of times: cooler temps, fall blooms, colored leaves, and some rain. East Texas is and has been a wonderful place to live. We have enough and to spare. Remember those who are suffering now and take advantage of our time to share the bounty of nature in East Texas. Floyd Anderson Contributions to the newsletter are welcome and greatly appreciated. Articles of interest and items for the Calendar of Events are needed. Deadline for the October newsletter is October 5th. You can contact Rosanna by email as listed below or mail to: 492 Leisure Lane, Waskom, Texas, 75692 For information call or email: President: Secretary/Treasurer: Program Chairman: Publicity Chairman: Newsletter: Floyd Anderson Betty Lee Ellen Anderson Margie McCoy Rosanna Salmon 903-938-7077 903-984-5636 903-938-7077 903-645-3735 903-935-0660 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Tyler NPSOT: Monthly meetings first Monday of the month 7:00 PM, at Walter Fair Memorial Methodist Church, 1712 Old Omen Road, Tyler, TX. Contact Jim Showen, President 903-566-0733, web page www.npsot.org/Tyler Northeast Texas Field Ornithologists: General membership meeting first Tuesday of the month 6:30 PM at St. Mary’s Catholic Church Parish Hall. Website address: http://members.tripod.com/netfo_tx/ Gregg County Master Gardener: Monthly meeting on second Wednesday, 12:00 noon, in the Gregg County Extension Office, 405 E. Marshall Street, Longview, TX 3 Gregg Co. Fall Garden and Landscape Seminar: Saturday, September 17 , from 8:30am to 1:00pm at First United Methodist Church Faith Center. For more information contact the Gregg Co Extension Office 903 236 8429, or mailto:[email protected] th SFA Fabulous Fall Festival: Saturday, October 1st, 9:00am – 3:00pm. Sale located on the SFASU Intramural Fields next to the SFASU Mast Arboretum on Wilson Drive. Come early and bring your wagon! NPSOT Fall State Symposium: Annual symposium will be held in the Trans Pecos region October 20-23rd. For more information on places to stay, contact the Chambers of Commerce in Alpine: 432-837-2326, Fort Davis: 432-426-3015, Marathon: 432-386-4516, and Marfa: 432-729-4942 To view other upcoming events, workshops and seminars of the native plant world log onto the following: http://www.wildflower.org/?nd=calendars Baptisia Over a year ago, my mother (Frances Beavers) told my husband, Floyd, about a very pretty and unusual plant she had seen growing just over the fence on the property next to hers. It was a little bush with yellow flowers. By the time we actually took time to look at it, it was no longer blooming, but still was an attractive plant with sage-colored leaves. There were several plants in the area, so we brought home a whole plant, hoping we might be alble root it. However, it just changed to a charcoal color in the vase and did nothing else. Through conversations with Logan Damewood, Floyd did know what the plant was and called it Baptista and Indigo. We looked it up in our wildflower books and found several interesting descriptions. Peterson Field Guides: Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers provides the following descriptions and easy-to-identify line drawings: 4 Little-Tree Wild Indigo, Baptisia nuttalliania ,is an erect, treelike plant with a bare lower stem. The flowers are pale yellow and solitary. The flowers seem to rise from the central base of the leaves. They are common in woodlands. We think that this plant is the one my mother found on the clear-cut property next to her home. In riding around the back roads of our East Texas area, we have learned to spot this plant frequently. We recognize them easily by the little green mounds. Sometimes there will be only one or two little bushes, but occasionally there were be many bushes in an area. This time of the year, they are a charcoal color, which seems to be their fall and winter look. Upright Wild Indigo, Baptisia sphaerocarpa, is an erect, oblong, mounded plant with bright yellow flowers on erect, elongated racemes. It grows in open places in loamy soil. (This plant is pictured in color as described below. We do not think we have seen one ourselves.) Languid Wild Indigo, Baptisia leucophaea, is a low, mound-like plant with long, graceful sprays of pale yellow flowers that curve downward around the periphery. Mature flower pedicels are three or more cm long. It grows in woods and dunes in the eastern third of Texas. This plant is Floyd’s favorite. We found it on the highway between Gilmer and Tyler and have been back several times to try to harvest some seeds. They seeds seemed to be defective, but we will probably try again. According to the Loughmiller’s Texas Wildflowers, the b. sphaerocarpa is also called Bush Pea (Yellow Wisteria). They provide a color picture, which makes identification easier, and relate that they have seen a 15-acre pasture almost covered with it. This perennial plan blooms April to May. The Loughmillers also describe the wild indigo or nodding indigo, b. leucophaea, as growing in rounded clumps 12 to 18 inches tall. It has rather large yellow flowers that grow in clusters on the upper 10 to 18 inches of the stem, bending slightly toward the ground, thus the name nodding indigo. They say it grows in the eastern third of the state in open woodlands and pastures and along roadsides. This perennial plant blooms March to April. The Loughmillers provide a little more information about the Baptisia. Several species grow in East Texas, all with the same leaf structure, but the flowers may be yellow, cream-colored, white, or blue. The indigo blue dye is not made from this plant, but rather from the genus Indigofera. Floyd and I have enjoyed discovering these plants this spring and summer as we traveled from town to town in our part of beautiful East Texas. We do not have a picture of the plant in my mother’s neighbor’s woods, but we do have a photo of Floyd’s favorite, the one we searched for seeds. Since they are perennials, hopefully, next year there will be wetter weather and a better crop. The more erect plant we think may be the same as the one near my mother’s, since the flowering habit is similar. We think we have not yet found the b. sphaerocarpa. Ellen Anderson ** This is just a note to let everyone know that we have a new website. Our website is a sub-site of the main NPSOT website which can be found at http://www.npsot.org Our chapter’s new website can be accessed thru the main state site by “clicking” on the chapters link, and then “clicking” on Northeast Texas, OR you can go directly to our new home page at http://www.npsot.org/NortheastTexas/index.php