Additional information about the Ozona Chamber of Interpretive Trail and the Rain Harvest Exhibit can be found inside Commerce & Visitor the Visitor Center. Center Thank You for visiting our site, and Crockett County PLEASE invite your friends and family to stop by as well. Interpretive Trail

About the Trail

Welcome to the Crockett County The purpose of this project is to educate local and Interpretive Trail! regional residents, and visitors across the country about the importance of water conservation, and This is an interpretation of the use of native . Hang Your Hat in History material in its native habitat within a 100 mile radius of Ozona. The trail includes a Plants are part of our heritage and the trail system Ozona Chamber of Commerce & Rain Harvest Exhibit with signage on the encourages the protection, preservation and process of collecting water for landscaping, Visitor Center respect of their contribution to our every day Tel: 325-392-3737 or www.Ozona.com livestock watering or home use. There is lives. They provide food, fiber, shelter, and are Phone:325-392-3737 also a wildlife viewing area and a watering used for medicinal and ceremonial purposes. 505 15th Street Fax: 325-392-3485 hole for and butterflies. Plants play a key environmental role for P.O. Box 1135 E-mail: [email protected] pollination, feeding livestock, and oxygen. Ozona, TX 76943 Web Site: Ozona.com

Alphabetical listing of all plants in the trail (Common Name/Scientific Name) Prairie Phlox Phlox pilosa Prairie Acacia Red Yucca Turner's Hawthorn Honey Mesquite Acacia angustissima Hesperaloe parviflora Crataegus turnerorum Guajillo Golden Dalea Hog Potato, Indian Rush-pea Wafer Ash Acacia berlandieri Dalea aurea Hoffmannseggia glauca Ptelea trifoliata Whitethorn Acacia Indigofera Black Dalea Vasey Acacia constricta Indigofera lindheimeriana Dalea frutescens Quercus vaseyana Catclaw, Gregg Acacia Creosote Bush Gregg's Dalea Three Sumac Acacia greggii Dalea greggii White Brush Goldenball Leadtree Sotol, Desert Spoon Evergreen Sumac gratissima Leucaena retusa Dasylirion wheeleri Rhus virens Sand Sage Cenzio, Purple Sage Persimmon Buffalo Currant filifolia Leucophyllum frutescens Diospyros texana Ribes aureum Prairie Sage Horse Crippler Gayfeather Mejorana Blue Sage Artemisia ludoviciana Echinocactus texensis hopffer Liatris spp. ballotiflora Fourwing Saltbush White Honeysuckle Strawberry Pitaya Mealy Blue Sage Atriplex canescens Lonicera albiflora Echinocereus enneacanthus Salvia farinacea Anacacho Orchid Agarito, Algerita Lace Cactus Autumn Sage Bauhinia lunarioides trifoliolata Echinocereus reichenbachii Salvia greggii Chocolate Blackfoot Daisy Mormon Tea Velvet Leaf Senna Berlandiera lyrata leucanthum Ephedra viridis Senna lindheimeriana Fairy Duster Showy Menodora Candelilla Texas Mountain Laurel, Mescal Bean Calliandra eriophylla Menodora longiflora Euphorbia antisyphilitica Sophora secundiflora Winecup Texas Kidneywood Fragrant Mimosa Copper Mallow Callirhoe involucrata Eysenhardtia texana Mimosa borealis Sphaeralcea angustifolia Sundrops Lindheimer's Muhly Plume Mexican Buckeye Calylophus hartwegii ssp. fendleri Muhlenbergia lindheimeri Fallugia paradoxa Ungnadia speciosa Granjeno, Desert Hackberry Devil's Shoestring Cliff Fendlerbush Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Celtis ehrenbergiana lindheimeriana rupicola Viguiera stenoloba Texas Redbud "Ozona" Sacahuista, Beargrass Texas Barrel Cactus Zexmenia Cercis canadensis var. texensis "Ozona" Nolina microcarpa Ferocactus hamatacanthus texana Mountain Mahogany Scarlet Muskflower, Devil's Bouquet Narrow-leaf Forestiera Banana Yucca Cercocarpus montanus var. argenteus Nyctaginia capitata Forestiera angustifolia Yucca baccata Desert Willow Ocotillo Pink Evening Primrose Buckley's Yucca Chilopsis linearis Oenothera speciosa Yucca constricta Damianita Cholla Gregg's Ash Thompson's Yucca Optuntia imbricata Fraxinus greggii Yucca thompsoniana Gregg's Blue Mistflower Prickly Pear Lotebush Conoclinium greggii Opuntia spp. Glandularia bipinnitifida obtusifolia

Acacia angustissima—Prairie Acacia: Round Acacia greggii—Catclaw, Gregg Acacia: One of Artemisia ludoviciana—Prairie Sage: A stiff, Berlandiera lyrata—Chocolate Flower: creamy resemble shaving brushes. Seeds the most despised southwestern . As aromatic, silvery-white perennial with Chocolate flower is a velvety-leaved, 1-2 ft. are rich in protein. Readily eaten by livestock indicated by the common names (including the attractive, fragrant, whitish green foliage. perennial. Flowers droop in the heat of day. and decreases in abundance with heavy grazing. Spanish, una degato), the sharp, stout, hooked Good choice for a low-maintenance Chocolate odor may be detected when the spines, like a cat’s claws, tear clothing and flesh. groundcover. It can even take mowing. rays are plucked from the flower head.

Acacia berlandieri—Guajillo: A spreading shrub, Atriplex canescens—Fourwing Saltbush: A Calliandra eriophylla—Fairy Duster: Spring growing 3–15 feet tall. The flower is a source of Aloysia gratissima—White Brush: A fragrant, 3 ft. semi-evergreen shrub, which can slender, erect shrub to 10 ft. with squarish stems. flowers form delicate, pink balls, giving a fluffy heavy, light-colored honey, rated by many as the reach 8 ft. Extremely variable shrub: Flowers small, white, crowded on spikes up to 3 pink appearance. Belongs to a group of tropical best in the state. The seed pods are 3–5 inches compact and rounded; sprawling and low; inches long from March to November. A honey woody plants that includes acacias and mimosas. long and 1 inch or more wide. open-branched and treelike. plant, good browse for wildlife.

Acacia constricta—Whitethorn Acacia: A 9-15 Bauhinia lunarioides—Anacacho Orchid Calylophus hartwegii ssp. fendleri—Sundrops: ft., multi-trunked tree with small, yellow-orange Artemisia filifolia—Sand Sage: A semi-evergreen Tree: Native only to a few canyons in west This perennial member of the evening primrose balls of fragrant flowers. Finely segmented, shrub with feathery, silver-blue foliage. The whole central Texas and northeast . is a family requires lots of sunshine. Yellow flowers pinnate fall off during dry seasons. -2 4 in. plant is sweetly pungent. Good for erosion flattened pod. The nectar attracts butterflies bloom in April and May. beans ripen to bright red. control. A hayfever plant. and bees. Chilopsis linearis—Desert Willow: A 15-40 ft., Dalea greggii—Gregg’s Dalea: A 4-9 in., trailing Celtis ehrenbergiana—Granjeno, Desert Crataegus turnerorum—Turner’s Hawthorn: small tree or large shrub. Rapid growth, White blooms. Develops like a tree into a sub-shrub, spreading 2-4 ft. A good ground Hackberry: This deciduous plant rarely reaches drought tolerance, and ease of maintenance. cover for rocky slopes and exposed sites. 10 ft. in height. Shiny red, orange and yellow round-shaped shrub. Not an evergreen. Sought-after plant within its range. Does best Turns a purple-pink color during the summer. Tolerates dry conditions well. fruit ripens in fall but persists long after leaf-fall. with just enough water to keep it blooming Can reach up to 20 ft. Valuable to bees. and healthily green.

Dasylirion wheeleri—Sotol, Desert Spoon: Cercis canadensis var. texensis “Ozona”— Dalea aurea—Golden Dalea: A member of the May be used to make food and liquor or woven Texas Redbud “Ozona”: Propagated from a Chrysactinia mexicana—Damianita: A 1-2 ft., pea family, this grows well in rock into mats, baskets and thatching. Used in dried redbud in Ozona. Drought and limestone soil bushy, aromatic, evergreen shrub. Technically a gardens and dry soils. It is especially beneficial floral arrangements. tolerant. Showy, attractive source of honey, shrub, it is used like a flower. Very drought toler- to native bees. Looks best in mid-summer. used in treatment of dysentery. ant. Excellent for erosion control.

Dalea frutescens—Black Dalea: Thornless Diospyros texana—Texas Persimmon: Shrub or small tree with very hard wood, usually Conoclinium greggii—Gregg’s Blue Mistflower: shrub up to 3 ft. tall; stems gray to light brown, Cercocarpus montanus var. argenteus— twigs are thin, reddish brown. Small, purple multi-trunked. Male and female flowers on A perennial up to 2 ft. tall with palmate leaves. Mountain Mahogany: Often under 3.3 ft. in flowers in dense heads or spikes at the ends of separate plants, appearing in March and April. Small, purplish-blue flowers cluster together to height because of browsing, it can reach 20 branches, from July to October. Fruit is an Fruit fleshy, round, up to -1 in. diameter. feet. The species is considered to be long lived. form puffy, 2 in., cushion-like flower heads. inconspicuous capsule. Echinocereus enneacanthus—Strawberry Pitaya: Euphorbia antisyphilitica—Candelilla, Wax Fendlera rupicola—Cliff Fendlerbush: Also Fouquieria splendens—Ocotillo: Also known as New stems grow as side branches, later turning Plant: Numerous, rarely branched, waxy stems known as false mock orange. A member of the Devil’s walking stick. Leaves appear only after upward, giving them a long, curling appearance. resemble a cluster of slender, pale-green hydrangea family. Provides excellent browse rain and wither when the soil dries. Ocotillo Bright green with a wrinkled appearance, looking candles. This plant is in the same as the for , , and deer. means little in Mexican Spanish. withered in dry periods. holiday favorite Poinsettia.

Echinocereus reichenbachii—Lace Cactus: Fraxinus greggii—Gregg’s Ash: Evergreen, grows Ferocactus hamatacanthus—Texas Barrel Starts out as a sphere and gradually evolves its Eysenhardtia texana—Texas Kidneywood: An to 15 ft. and 10 ft. width. Has a small winged seed Cactus: Also known as giant fishhook cactus. cylindrical form, rarely taller than 8 in. May form unarmed, much-branched shrub. This tree was and inconspicuous flowers with smooth gray bark. The flowers are fragrant, though one should be one stem or branch into a dozen or more. once used in remedies for kidney and bladder Drought tolerant. ailments. steady on one’s feet when smelling them.

Echinocactus texensis hopffer—Horse Crippler: Fallugia paradoxa—Apache Plume: In full flower Glandularia bipinnitifida —Verbena: Spanish Forestiera angustifolia– Narrow-leaf Broader than long, is normally 1-2 inches and up their white petals are attractive against the dark name, Moradilla, comes from morado Forestiera: Also called Elbow Bush, livestock to 12 inches across. Has crippled many horses. foliage. Fruit clusters with feathery, purplish tails (“purple”) and means “little purple one.” and birds browse on its twigs and fruit. An Flower is somewhat fragrant. said to resemble Apache headdress. Forms brilliant displays of pink or light purple, important source of nectar for bees. covering acres of ground. Hesperaloe parviflora—Red Yucca: Not a Larrea tridentata—Creosote Bush: 3-5 ft., Liatris punctata - Gayfeather: A long —Blackfoot Daisy: yucca, this produces soft, yucca-like, evergreen evergreen shrub which can reach 10 ft. taproot makes this drought-tolerant. Low, round, bushy plant. Flower heads of 8-10 leaves. Deer browse the foliage, while flowers Decoctions from its leaves are used as Can be used to treat heart pain, broad white rays surrounding a small yellow attract hummingbirds. antiseptics and emetics. Its pungency fills stomachache, improve appetite, central disk which are solitary and terminal on the air following rains. bladder and kidney problems, or slender stalks. applied to swellings.

Hoffmannseggia glauca—Hog Potato, Indian Rush-pea: This plant has small, edible swellings Leucaena retusa—Goldenball Leadtree: Small, Menodora longiflora—Showy Menodora: This on the that provide good nourishment for multi-trunked tree or large shrub, 12-15 ft. tall, Lonicera albiflora—White Honeysuckle: Long, plant has a long, narrow tube flower, with the many animals and were also used as food by which can reach 25 ft. Bark is flaky and cinnamon- graceful, sometimes twining branches of hidden inside the tube. Grows 12-18 Native Americans. The Spanish name, Camote colored. A good browse plant for cattle. white honeysuckle can reach 10 ft. Serves as inches tall. de Raton, means mouse’s sweet potato. browse for deer. Its berries attract birds.

Leucophyllum frutescens—Cenzio, Purple Sage: Mimosa borealis—Fragrant Mimosa: Long, Indigofera lindheimeriana—Indigofera: A Compact shrub, 2-5 ft. tall, occasionally reaches Mahonia trifoliolata—Agarito, Algerita: 3-6 slender, intricately-branched stems of this 2-6 perennial subshrub named after Ferdinand 8 ft. in height, and -4 6 ft. in width. Popular ft. evergreen shrub, can reach 8 ft. in favorable ft. deciduous shrub. Thorns scattered along the Lindheimer, who is often called the Father of water-conserving ornamentals in the conditions. Wood bright yellow. Fruit a branches. Fragrant, pink flowers occur in soft, Texas Botany. Southwest. red berry, edible, appearing from May to July. dense ball-shaped clusters. Nolina lindheimeriana—Devil's Shoestring: Opuntia imbricata—Cholla, Desert Walking Quercus vaseyana—Vasey Oak: Incredibly Ribes aureum—Buffalo Currant: Adaptable Resembles a large clump of grass in the open Stick: Large, showy, reddish-purple flowers drought tolerant, but stress can cause it to plant, tolerating standing water to drought. and in light shade on limestone slopes and cliffs. open wide. ripen from green to rose to grow only into a small tree. Deer, squirrels, wild Provides nectar to hummingbirds, butterflies Flowers about 3/16 inch wide, white to cream, yellow. First bush-like cholla when traveling turkeys and other wildlife feed on the acorns. and bees. Birds, bears and rodents eat the fruit. numerous on slender branches. from the East to the Southwest.

Salvia ballotiflora—Mejorana, Blue Shrub Nolina microcarpa—Sacahuista, Beargrass: Prosopis glandulosa—Honey Mesquite: A shrub or Rhus trilobata—Three Leaf Sumac: Drought Sage: Much-branched aromatic shrub with Not a true grass but a succulent member of the small tree to 30 ft. Twigs are armed with sharp tolerant. Useful in erosion control. Only female square stems. Leaves are opposite with lily family. It has been utilized to construct thorns up to 2 inches. Cattlemen regard as range plants produce flowers and berries. Food for serrated margins, hairy above and below. baskets. Sacahuista is a combination of two weeds and eradicate them. Indians prepared meal birds and . Flowers bluish-purple in elongated clusters. Aztec words: zacatl (grass) and huitztli (thorn). and cakes from the pods.

Rhus virens—Evergreen Sumac: Fruit matures Nyctaginia capitata—Scarlet Muskflower, Salvia farinacea—Mealy Blue Sage: Named for Devil's bouquet: This plant is a member of Ptelea trifoliata—Wafer Ash: Aromatic shrub or in mid-September and is covered with fine hair. the mealy-white appearance of the , the Four-O’clock family. Flowers open in cool small tree with a rounded crown. The bitter Grown to make a nice, thick hedge or screen, which are covered with felted hairs. The leaves of evening and close in the hot sun of the bark of the , like other aromatic barks, has fast growing, generally insect and disease-free, may or may not have teeth. next day. been used for home remedies. and drought tolerant. Salvia greggii—Autumn Sage: A popular Sphaeralcea angustifolia—Copper Mallow: Wedelia texana—Zexmenia: A small shrub, Ziziphus obtusifolia—Lotebush: Frequent in landscape plant in the Southwest, used as a Normally 2–3 feet tall, sometimes up to 6 feet. from 8 in. to 3 ft. tall. Woody branches send unshaded places with very shallow soil over small, ornamental, flowering shrub or as a low Flowers blooms between June and November down roots and gradually increase the limestone. Bark with lengthwise cracks hedge. Disease and insect free, drought tolerant. and may bloom more than once during that time plants’ circumference. It is long-lived and resulting from radial growth. Inconspicuous Once established, should not be fertilized if rains are favorable. non-aggressive. flower clusters.

Senna lindheimeriana—Velvet Leaf Senna: A Ungnadia speciosa—Mexican Buckeye: An 8-12 Yucca baccata—Banana Yucca: Grows in bushy perennial, 3-6 ft. high. Effective in a ft., deciduous tree, can reach 30 ft. in height. clumps with short, reclining stems. The wildflower garden as a specimen or background Sweetish but poisonous seeds are sometimes flowering stem is up to 40 in. tall, bears large, plant. An important source of food for birds. pendant, fleshy, white flowers with a red-purple used by children as marbles. tinge.

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The Ozona Chamber of Commerce would like to express our sincere appreciation to the Lady Johnson Wildflower Center Sophora secundiflora—Texas Mountain Laurel, for granting permission to use much of the Mescal Bean: Brilliant, lacquer red seeds were Viguiera stenoloba—Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye: Yucca thompsoniana—Thompson's Yucca: photography and information found in this valued by indigenous people for ornament and Grows 2-4 ft. Prolific, daisy-like, yellow-orange Grows 6–12 feet high, treelike, with a trunk brochure. ceremonial use. Highly poisonous alkaloid flowers bloom atop leafless stalks. Extremely 5–8 inches in diameter, usually unbranched. cytosine, widely cited as a narcotic and drought-tolerant plant. Makes an excellent tall Stays neat and will adapt to any soil and hallucinogen. ground cover or small flowering shrub. reflected heat.