Berlandiera lyrata
A plant of roadsides and grassland, also often cultivated. The heads are chocolate-scented. Only the ray florets produce achenes, and these fall with a phyllary, receptacular bracts, and sterile disk florets attached.
Plant habit near Alamosa Creek, upstream of Monticello Box, 26 Aug 2006.
A pseudanthium at the Dripping Springs visitor's center, 4/23/06.
An immature pseudanthium showing the distinctive phyllaries, 4/23/06.
A young rosette at the Dripping Springs visitor's center, 4/23/06.
A pseudanthium with a blister beetle on it, near Alamosa Creek, 26 Aug 2006.
Plant habit at the Dripping Springs visitor's center, 4/23/06.