#convolvulaceae

3.25.21 - another morning glory bloomed

I have driven past the cemetery in Batesville, TX hundreds of times on my way to and from my hometown, but we never actually stopped there until this month. Bordered by agricultural fields on three sides and US-57 on the fourth, it’s quite packed. The plants are typical of species found on alluvial deposits in this region, and regular mowing favors low-growing species (though the last picture shows guayacan Guaiacum angustifolium, normally a shrub or small tree, stubbornly growing as a mat). Also pictured are scarlet spiderling (Boerhavia coccinea), a normal guayacan with bud, scarlet muskflower (Nyctaginia capitata), Texas bindweed (Convolvulus equitans), and Berlandier’s trumpets (Acleisanthes obtusa).