Forked Bluecurls notepad Texas Red Oak

Texas Red Oak

Requires well-draining soil

exotic lawn grasses like Bermuda and St

It can tolerate many soils

but only after about 25 years of growing

Forked Bluecurls notepad Texas Red OakTrichostema dichotomum A small, self seeding annual plant in the mint family with 2 or 3 blue, 2 lipped flowers at the tips of short branches arising from the leaf axils. Found in dry, open, sandy woodlands and around rock outcrops. Its native habitat runs from southern Maine south to Florida, west to Texas and north to Missouri and Michigan. The flowers are borne in late summer and fragrant. An annual herbaceous forb with opposite, simple leaves, and