This velvety rootbeer-colored, moist-looking, rubbery-textured, somewhat cup-shaped edible fungus grows on trees and downed logs

This worldwide wetland grass can grow up to 20 feet (6 meters) tall and can cover a quarter of a square mile or more in one stand!

This large-leaved biennial wildflower has thistle-like flowers and an edible and medicinal taproot

The brilliant blue, white, or pink of these flowers are actually 5 to 25 colored sepals rather than petals. They appear to float upon a mist of thread-like bracts above feathery, pinnately divided leaves.

If you are in central to southern Texas or Mexico, take a closer look at what you THINK is a typical tufted titmouse — and you might be surprised to see this close relative with a black crest and white forehead.

This black and yellow bird from Southeast Asia is related to chickadees and titmice