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• Ungnadia speciosa
  ...cuminate. Common in S. W. Texas; winter-kills in N. Texas at a temperature of zero. S.S. 2:73. F.S. 10:1059. Gn. 19, p. 309. H.F. II. 7:231.—Intro. int ...or small [[tree]] native to northeastern [[Mexico]] and adjacent western [[Texas]] and southern [[New Mexico]] in the [[USA]]. It is the only species in the
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• Prosopis pubescens
  ...cylindrical, 1 1/2-2 in. long: pod twisted, nearly sessile, 1-2 in. long. Texas, Calif., Mex. —The pods are used as food by Mexicans and Indians. | image_caption = Mature fruit (beans or legumes) of ''[[Screwbean Mesquite|Prosopis pubescens]]''
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• Fraxinus velutina
  ...America]], in the [[United States]] from southern [[California]] east to [[Texas]], and in [[Mexico]] from northern [[Baja California]] east to [[Coahuila]] ...is [[plant sexuality|dioecious]], with male and female flowers on separate trees. The [[fruit]] is a [[samara (fruit)|samara]] 1.5-3 cm long, with an apical
  4 KB (649 words) - 02:45, 5 August 2010
• Malpighia
  ...naturalist at Bologna, who wrote on the anatomy of plants). Malpighiaceae. Trees and shrubs, sometimes grown under glass for ornament, but known mostly from ...gs on the back.—Species 30-40 in Trop. Amer., extending as far north as S. Texas. Small describes 29 species in N. Amer. Fl. XXV, p. 152 (1910).
  2 KB (258 words) - 11:11, 29 December 2009
• Tillandsia recurvata
  ...e airflow, and high humidity, which is commonly provided by southern shade trees, often the Southern Live Oak (''[[Quercus virginiana]]'').<ref name = crow> | publisher = The Texas Agricultural Extension Service. L-5353
  4 KB (632 words) - 23:20, 27 April 2010
• Fagus grandifolia
  ...o the mountains of central [[Mexico]] is sometimes treated as a subspecies of American Beech, but more often as a distinct species, [[Mexican Beech]] ''F ...ales on the buds. The tree is [[plant sexuality|monoecious]], with flowers of both sexes on the same tree. The [[fruit]] is a small, sharply-angled [[nut
  5 KB (741 words) - 15:45, 21 July 2010
• Forestiera
  ...ies of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[olive]] family, [[Oleaceae]]. Members of the genus are often called '''swampprivets'''.<ref name="ITIS">{{cite web | Deciduous, rarely evergreen trees or shrubs: lvs. opposite, entire or serrate: fls. dioecious, apetalous, wit
  4 KB (578 words) - 03:23, 30 July 2010
• Ilex decidua
  ..."''', '''"[[deciduous holly]]"''' or '''"[[swamp holly]]"''') is a species of [[holly]] native to the [[United States]]. [[File:Ilex decidua 1.JPG|thumb|left|Leaves of ''Ilex decidua'']]
  3 KB (464 words) - 20:21, 18 March 2010
• White Ash
  ...o [[Minnesota]], south to northern [[Florida]], and southwest to eastern [[Texas]].<ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-g ...h there is some overlap in habitat distribution.<ref name=ncp>Common Trees of the North Carolina Piedmont: [http://www.ibiblio.org/openkey/intkey/web/FRA
  4 KB (676 words) - 02:11, 5 August 2010
• Pyrus soulardii
  Figs. 3286, 3287. Apparently natural hybrids of P. Malus and P. ioensis: a small tree, with much the look of an apple tree, and woolly:
  3 KB (427 words) - 10:44, 11 December 2009
• Fouquieria
  '''''Fouquieria''''' is a [[genus]] of 11 [[species]] of [[desert]] [[plant]]s, the sole genus in the [[Family (biology)|family]] '' ...na]], southern [[California]], [[New Mexico]], and parts of southwestern [[Texas]], favoring low, arid hillsides.
  4 KB (533 words) - 17:06, 3 August 2010
• Vitis vulpina
  ...and along streams from Pa. (and probably S. N. Y.) to E. Kans., Fla., and Texas. ...y-lvd. form holding its foliage very late: lvs. sometimes suggesting forms of V. rubra, deltoid with a truncate base: clusters small, the fr. ripening la
  5 KB (726 words) - 17:04, 31 October 2009
• Ilex opaca
  ...o central [[Florida]], and west to southeastern [[Missouri]] and eastern [[Texas]].<ref name=usfs>U.S. Forest Service Silvics Manual: [http://www.na.fs.fed. The European Holly does not grow in the climate of most of the United States, but the American Holly makes an excellent second choice
  4 KB (559 words) - 14:47, 29 May 2011
• Vitis linsecomii
  ...ance of drought. A promising species for the pomologist. It bears the name of Dr. Gideon Lincecum, and is often written V. Lincecumii, but if such origin ...Much like V. tricolor, but lvs. thicker and more pubescent below, and tips of shoots rusty-tomentose: berries larger and the clusters strongly shouldered
  3 KB (383 words) - 17:38, 31 October 2009
• Cedrus deodara
  |image_caption=Adult Deodar trees ....<ref name=farjon>Farjon, A. (1990). ''Pinaceae. Drawings and Descriptions of the Genera''. Koeltz Scientific Books ISBN 3-87429-298-3.</ref>
  4 KB (649 words) - 04:32, 19 May 2011
• Melia azedarach
  ..., Makino). By some considered to be a precocious and very floriferous form of M. Azedarach, but the plant grown in this country under this name and as M. ...t, the seedlings frequently reverting to the typical species. In all forms of M. Azedarach, the lvs. are 2- or 3-pinnate, the ultimate 1fts. ovate or lan
  4 KB (681 words) - 19:34, 4 January 2010
• Quercus Alba
  ...known. S.S. 8:359-61. The hybrid with Q. montana was found in the nursery of John Saul, near Washington, D. C., and has been distributed as Saul's oak ( ...for a species (rather than genus), or perhaps Varieties if there is a mix of cultivars, species, hybrids, etc -->
  3 KB (396 words) - 16:19, 11 December 2009
• Diospyros
  ...liage and partly for their edible fruits; some species are valuable timber trees. Deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs, with alternate, rarely opposite, entire lvs., without stipules:
  7 KB (1,036 words) - 18:25, 31 August 2009
• Quercus virginiana
  ...loosely called [[live oak]], the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the [[Old South]].<ref name = southern>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Quercu ...ther plant species such as rounded clumps of [[ball moss]], thick drapings of [[Spanish moss]], [[Pleopeltis polypodioides|resurrection fern]], and paras
  5 KB (747 words) - 05:13, 1 June 2011
• Green Ash
  ...rn [[Colorado]], south to northern [[Florida]], and southwest to eastern [[Texas]].<ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-g ...00494 ''Fraxinus pennsylvanica'']</ref><ref name=vplants>Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region: [http://www.vplants.org/plants/species/species.jsp?gid=
  6 KB (881 words) - 18:52, 8 May 2011

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