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Yellow and Orange Wildflower Gallery

Fuzzy Flowers

Asteraceae (Compositae) - Sunflower family

Horseweed (Mare's Tail) Conyza candensis

Yellow/white flowers are about 3/8" wide and turn brown quickly.  The seed head looks like a brown flower.  Long, toothed leaves reach 4" long.  Plant can reach 4-6 feet tall.  This fast growing plant has a tap root.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, August & September 2004

(Native of Texas)

Asteraceae (Compositae) - Sunflower family

White Sagebrush (Native Wormwood) Artemisia ludoviciana

Upright plant about 16" tall.  Entire plant is covered in dense white hair.  Leaves about 1"-2" long and thick.  Flower about 1/2" long in a loose spike.  Flowers should be yellow, cold damp day.

Photo taken in Coleman County, Texas, September 2005

(Native of Texas)

Same Species but slightly different look

Similar Species

Field Sagewort (Wormwood) Artemisia campestris

Plant has one main stem with branched flower stems at top.  Green leaves have many segments, all are very narrow.  Flowers hang like bells a its vertical branch.

(Native of Texas – Taylor, Fisher)

Sand Sagebrush Artemisia filifolia

Gray bush with a single main stem.  At the top, the single flower spike branches for the flowers. Very narrow, long leaves, most have 3 segments except on the flower spike.

(Native of Texas – Runnels)

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