The document provides details on field trips planned for the Symposium 2014 of the Native Plant Society of Texas, taking place October 16-19 in Texarkana. On Thursday and Sunday, there will be outbound trips to prairies and gardens in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma showcasing native plants. Friday afternoon trips include visiting Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge by charter bus or exploring nearby state parks. Sites feature orchids, ferns, grasses and flowers in their natural habitats. Participants will learn about the plants from local guides and have opportunities to see wildlife. The document shares photos from various trip locations to highlight the native flora and fauna.

1. Preview of Field Trips Planned for
Symposium 2014
Native Plant Society of Texas
Texarkana Convention Center
By Belinda McCoy McLaughlin, Symposium Field Trip Chairman

2. Thursday, Oct. 16 — Inbound trips
• Mary Talbot Prairie, west of New Boston, Texas
(eastbound from DFW –West Texas area)
• Miller County Sandhills Natural Area, south of
Texarkana, Ark.
(eastbound or northbound folks)
• Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park, north of
Shreveport, La.
(northbound from Houston-Austin-San Antonio)

3. Friday, Oct. 17 — Afternoon trips
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge (charter bus)
• Caddo Lake State Park/Graceful Ghost steamboat
(charter bus)
• Mary Talbot Prairie (repeat) (personal cars)
• White Cliffs Natural Heritage Area, Arkansas
(personal cars)
• Red Slough Wildlife Management Area, Okla.
(personal cars)

4. Sunday, Oct. 19 — Outbound trips
• Private property of David and Pam Adams, Atlanta
(southbound)
• Black Mountain Gardens, Daingerfield (southbound or
westbound)
• Red Slough Wildlife Management Area, Okla. (repeat)
(westbound)
• Mary Talbot Prairie, New Boston (repeat) (westbound)
• Royal Hills, private property, pine plantation managed
for natives, east of Vivian, La. (southbound)

5. Mary Talbot Prairie, New Boston
Mima mound,
indicative of
virgin prairie
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6. Grasses galore!

7. Hidden flower treasures
Milkweed in
seed stage
Ladies’
tresses
orchid

8. Miller County Sandhills Natural Area, AR

9. One of the few remaining examples of relatively undisturbed
sandhill vegetation in southwestern Arkansas

10. Golden aster
Pitcher sage
St. Andrew’s cross

11. Tree
huckleberry/
farkleberry
Possumhaw
holly
Rusty
blackhaw
viburnum

12. Weird fungi
Riddell’s spike moss—
indigenous to sandhills
ecosystem only
Milkweed vine pod

13. Sand post oak

14. Field trip leader Joe Stuckey

15. Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park, La.

17. Parsley hawthorn
Resurrection fern

18. Dwarf palmettos

20. River birch

21. Paw-paw

22. Meadow
area
Power line right-of-way, view left upon entrance
View right upon entrance

23. Native petunia
Rattlesnake master
Meadow beauty

24. Passionflower fruits
Native spider lilies
Ironweed

25. Park headquarters

26. “Plant “ room to teach children dichotomous key

27. “Live animal” room

29. Canebrake rattlesnakes Copperhead

30. American Bald Eagle
Birds of Prey Aviary
Eastern screech owl

31. Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge

34. Longleaf pines

35. Virgin bottomland
hardwood forest—
Harrison Bayou

36. Path to Harrison Bayou

37. Coneflower
Liatris/gayfeather
Meadow beauty

38. Caddo Lake State Park

39. Paw-paws

40. Christmas ferns

41. Little hip hawthorn

43. Pavilion built by Civilian Conservation
Corps in 1930s—at hilltop on nature
trail at Caddo Lake SP

44. Ebony spleenwort at pavilion

45. Blunt-lobed cliff
fern at pavilion

46. Aster

47. Carolina buckthorn

48. Basswood
Basswood

49. Graceful Ghost Steamboat, Karnack, Texas

50. Friday night catfish dinner location,
followed by talk by Greg Grant

51. White Cliffs Natural Area, AR

52. Rattlesnake master
Shrubby St. John’s wort
Native
petunia

53. Dwarf palmettos

54. Prickly pear cactus
Purple prairie clover

55. Milkweed vine

56. Crested coralroot—orchid

57. Brown-eyed Susan
(Rudbeckia triloba)
St. John’s wort

58. Ashe’s juniper—in Arkansas

61. Still
Arkansas!

62. Red Slough Wildlife Management Area, OK

64. Buttonbush

65. Water primrose Green milkweed

66. American lotus as seen from
observation deck at one reservoir

67. American lotus

68. Frogfruit
Meadow beauty

71. David Arbour,
WMA biologist’s aide,
field trip leader,
with black rat snake

72. Not everyone is impressed with the snake!

73. Dwarf palmettos

74. Bladderwort—
carnivorous species

75. Blue waterleaf

77. Pam and David Adams property, Atlanta
Orange-fringed orchid—August bloomer
Possum-haw viburnum

78. Swamp sunflower
Meadow beauty
Blue waterleaf
Ironweed

79. Milkweed vine (fruit)
Bog hemp
Camphor weed

80. Pam’s potting shed

81. Black Mountain Gardens, Daingerfield

82. Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba)
LiatrisPurple coneflower
Flame
acanthus
Chile pequin
Cardinal flower

83. Blackfoot
daisy
Gaillardia/
Indian blanket
American beautyberryButterfly
weed

84. Spicebush swallowtail Gulf fritillary
Ladybug Mockingbirds

85. Royal Hills, Vivian, La.

87. Grancy graybeard/
fringetree fruit

88. Rose vervain
Blue sage
Meadow beauty

89. Pine tree moss growing on sandhill

90. Mexican plum
Muscadines

91. Young native plant lover
Ali (Belinda McCoy
McLaughlin’s great-niece)
admiring the muscadines,
with Royal Tyler in
background

92. Lizard’s tail
Jack in the pulpit

94. Royal fern
Netted chain fern
Wood fern

95. Symposium 2014
Native Plant Society of Texas
Oct. 16-19, 2014
Texarkana Convention Center
See You There!
Copyright © 2014 Belinda McCoy McLaughlin