Nalle Bunny Run Virtual Tour with Bill Carr 2021-03-20

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

This is an important ground cover in dark, dense oak-juniper woods with shallow, rocky soil. It's one of the only things that can help stop erosion in these areas. It is grass-like, but it is a sedge.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

This was a new milkweed for me, growing in the sandy prairie habitat area.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

The best plant of the day was found by Bill Carr in a little canyon in the soutwest corner of the preserve. Green Dragon is a remnant species from when central Texas was a wetter place. It is an eastern species that is rare in Travis County. It likes sheltered limestone canyons that hold more moisture.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

This is a less common species of Green Briar.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

On the left is a front foot track, on the right is a rear foot track.

Taken on Hill Country Conservancy's Nalle Bunny Run wildlife preserve. We were recording a virtual hike with Bill Carr and Bill Dodd, focusing on plants. HCC staff members Carolyn Stephens and Sarah Dean were recording most of the video.

In the Nalle family cemetary we found several plants with tiny flowers, which can live in mowed areas. This one is Carolina Ponysfoot (Dichondra carolinensis).