Wild Coyote & Leaping Pronghorn, Dec 2023, ink.

List of north american prairie species shown here, roughly top to bottom: Northern Bobwhite, Engelmann's Milkweed, Augochlora sweat bees, Indiangrass, Pronghorn, Widow Skimmer dragonfly, Blue Darter dragonfly, Common (White) Yarrow, Bluet damselfy, Coyote, Giant Grassland Cicada, seeds of Prairie False Foxglove, American Basketflower seedheads, Firewheels, Prickly Pear cactus, Rainbow grasshoppers, Sideoats Grama.

Two-spotted Longhorn Bee, Melissodes bimaculatus, feeding on American Basketflower, Houston, TX, Harris county, 5/4/23

Photographs by Paxon Kale cc

Scientific Name: Plectocephalus americanus; syn. Centaurea americana Common Name(s): American basketflower, American star-thistle Family: Asteraceae (aster) Life Cycle: Annual Leaf Retention: N/A Habit: Forb USDA L48 Native Status: Native Location: Plano, Texas Season(s): Spring

I believe the most current scientific name for this plant should be P. americanus, yet many sites, including the USDA Plants Database, still use C. americana.

The bracts just beneath the flower head each end in sharp tips, and together they form a basket-weave pattern that give this plant one of its common names. Another common name refers to the flower’s appearance, but aside from the bracts, this plant lacks the spiky features usually found on thistles and is not closely related to them.

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Bighead Knapweed, Giant Knapweed, Armenian Basketflower / Großköpfige Flockenblume, Riesen-Flockenblume (Centaurea macrocephala) Seed source / Bezugsquelle für Saatgut: www.saatkontor.de

Oct 2023, pen & inks. Grass is not all the same.

Many people don't know that grasslands have fall colors. This is partly because over 75% of the prairie habitat on the North American continent has been destroyed by agriculture, systematic destruction, and more recently by urban sprawl. We have less than 1% of historic tallgrass prairie remaining. Please learn about these beautiful and rare spaces to help them, and if you get the chance, go see a prairie in national grassland or in a state or national park.

Aside from the sparkly ink, this illustration has a narrower color range than the Red Hills mixedgrass prairie it represents.

Species: Little bluestem (S. scoparium), big bluestem (A. gerardii), maidenhair (Sporobolus sp.), sideoats grama (B. curtipendula), blooming prairie blazing star (Liatris sp.), and the late season remnants of basketflower (Centaurea americana) and dwarf four-nerve daisy (Tetraneuris linearifolius).

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American basketflower that was also on the side of the road when I drove to the observation deck.

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