Snake-Cotton

Member of Amaranth Family

Blooms: March - November

Snake-cotton grows up to 5 ft. tall and usually in large colonies. It grows in deep sandy soils in undisturbed areas and woodland areas all throughout Texas.

It's flowers have long white "wooly" looking hairs giving it a "cottony" appearance. They are a relative of the Princess Feather and Cock's Comb though they do not look similar. Yes, it's the season for allergies and hayfever. Plants of the Snake-Cotton are wind-pollinated and are a major cause of hay fever.

"I charge you in the presence of GOD and CHRIST JESUS , who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season ; reprove, reuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."

2 Timothy 4:1-5