Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Hermannia texana
Hermannia texana A. Gray
Texas Burstwort, Mexican Mallow
Sterculiaceae (Cacao Family)
USDA Symbol: HETE9USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Hermannia texana
Texas Hermannia
Stercullaceae
Location: Midway from Oakwell Farms Pky & Ira Lee Rd., 30 m S of Camden Circle--Oakwell Farms.
Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: About 1/4 shade. Nominal moisture. Alkaline, alluvial soil.
Description: Low shrubby plant, to 45 cm tall, pubescent throughout. Leaves orbicular herbaceous, long petioled, dentate, alternate, medium green. Flowers axillary, 5-merous, pendulous, several in a cyme, orange-red.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jul 11, 1987
Specimen number: 254
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0515
Accession Date: Aug 24, 1993
Accession Number: 40
Annotations: SCFRB