Texas Honey Plants Part 8

College: cultivated; honey yield good; bees working busily on it during June. Old stalks die down in July and large lower leaves protect root stock during severe drouth and sprout out for bees to work on bloom in August. June, July.*

MORNING GLORY. Ipomoea Caroliniana Pursh.

Convolvulus family. Convolvulaceae.

Most common in cultivated fields. Honey yield light, pollen. June to November.*

NIGHT-SHADE. Solanum rostratum Dunal.

Night-shade family. Solanaceae.

"Plains throughout Texas." (Coulter). Hunter: waste lands, prairies and roadsides. Honey very little; some pollen. May, October.*

TRUMPET CREEPER. TRUMPET FLOWER. Campsis radicans (L) Seem.

Bigonia family. Bignoniaceae.

"Moist soil, extending from Atlantic and Gulf States into Texas and common in cultivation." (Coulter). Cultivated and along river bottoms: honey yield of little importance; external nectar glands; pollen from flowers. July to October.*

LARGE-FLOWERED VERBENA. Verbena urticaefolia L.

Vervain family. Verbenaceae.

"Waste or open grounds, extending from the Atlantic regions through Texas to tropical America." (Coulter). College Station: in waste open ground. April, August.*

BLUE VERVAIN. Verbena xutha Lehm.

Vervain family. Verbenaceae.

"Extending from Louisiana through Texas to Southern California and Mexico." (Coulter). College: in sandy soils, honey yield sparing and scattering throughout its season. April, August.*

SPATULATE-LEAFED FOG-FRUIT. Lippia nodiflora Michx.

Vervain family. Verbenaceae.

"Low ground extending from the Gulf States to Western Texas."

(Coulter). In moist places, rivers and creeks; honey yield very light and of little importance. July.*

WHITE BRUSH. Lippia ligustrina Britt.

Vervain family. Verbenaceae.

"Common on rocky slopes throughout Texas." (Coulter). "Foliage eaten by cattle, sheep and goats." (Harvard). All over Southwest Texas; honey yield very heavy of fine quality but very short duration, only a few days; blooms after each rain during season. May to November.*

LANTANA. Lantana Camara L.

Vervain family. Verbenaceae.

"Extending from the Gulf States through Southeastern Texas to tropical America." (Coulter). On light soils of Southwest Texas; unimportant; bees seldom on it. April, October.*

FRENCH MULBERRY. Callicarpa Americana L.

Vervain family. Verbenaceae.

"Rich or moist grounds, extending from Gulf States to Southern Texas." (Coulter). Brazos bottoms, College; rich soil in woods, abundant: honey yield only fair. May.*

ROEMER'S SAGE. Salvia Roemeriana Scheele.

Mint family. l.a.b.i.atae.

"In light fertile soils, Western Texas." (Coulter). Hunter: rich soils in forests. Unimportant as a honey plant; not abundant; deep corollas. May, June.*

BLUE SAGE. Salvia azurea Lam.

Mint family. l.a.b.i.atae.

"From Gulf States to extreme Western Texas." (Coulter). Hunter: dry soil and waste places; corolla deep and visited much more frequently by b.u.mble bees than honey bees. April, October.*

CATNIP. Nepeta cataria L.

Mint family. l.a.b.i.atae.

Cultivated on Apiary Experimental Plats, 1904; only a few plants grew and bloomed. A few bees visited it. Soon died. July.*

WILD BERGAMONT. Monarda fistulosa L.

Mint family. l.a.b.i.atae.

"Dry soil throughout Texas, etc." (Coulter). College: along banks of ravines. Honey yield good but plants not abundant. May, July.*

HORSE-MINT. Monarda clinopodioides Gray.

Mint family. l.a.b.i.atae.

"Eastern and Southern Texas." (Coulter). Prairies and waste land; honey yield abundant; one of the main yielders; honey compared to ba.s.s-wood in flavor. May, June.*

HORSE-MINT. Monarda punctata L. (See frontis-piece).

Mint family. l.a.b.i.atae.

"Sandy ground extending from the Atlantic regions to Southern and Western Texas." (Coulter). In open prairies and waste land; honey yield abundant; one of the main crop yielders; honey compared with ba.s.swood. May, July.* "A good yielder in Brazos bottoms. College Station, Texas, in 1907, June." (E. Scholl).

DRUMMOND'S SKULL-CAP. Scutellaria drummondii Benth.

Mint family. l.a.b.i.atae.

"Common throughout Texas in damp rich soil." (Coulter). "On prairies, Kansas to Texas." (Small). Hunter: waste places in fields and prairies. Honey yield abundant in spring; much visited by bees. April, May.*