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<br />Texas Parks & Wildlife <br />Annotated County Lists of Rare Species <br />HAYS COUNTY, cont'd <br /> <br />Last Revision: 1/12/99 <br />Page 3 of.3 <br /> <br />*** REPTILES *** <br />Cagle's Map Turtle (Graptemys caglel) - endemic; Gllildalupe River System; short stretches <br />of shallow water with swift to moderate flow and gravel or cobble bottom, connected <br />by deeper pools with a slower flow rate and a silt or mud bottom; gravel bar riffles and <br />transition areas between riffles and pools especia.lly important in providing insect prey <br />items; nest on gently sloping sand banks within ca. 30 feet of water's edge <br />Keeled Earless Lizard (Holbrookia propinqua) - coastal dunes, barrier islands, and other <br />sandy areas; eats insects and likely other small invertebrates; eggs laid underground <br />March-September (most May-August) <br />Spot-tailed Earless Lizard (Holbrookia lacerata) - central & southern Texas and Adjacent <br />Mexico; oak-juniper woodlands & mesquite-prickly pear associations; eggs laid <br />underground; eats small invertebrates <br />Texas Garter Snake (Thamnopllls sirtalis annectens) - wet or moist microhabitats are <br />conducive to the species occurrence, but is not necessarily restricted to them; <br />hibernates underground orin or under surface GOver; breeds March-August <br />Texas Homed Lizard (Phrynosoma comutum) - open, arid and semi-arid regions with <br />sparse vegemtion, including grass, cactus, scattered brush or scrubby trees; soil may vary <br />in texture from sandy to rocky; burrows into soil, enters rodent burrows, or hides under <br />rock when inactive; breeds March-September <br /> <br />***VASCULAR PLANTS *** <br />Hill country wild-mercury (Argythamnia aphoroides) - shallow to moderately deep clays <br />and clay loams over limestone, in grasslands associated with plateau live oak <br />woodlands, mostly on rolling uplands; flowering April-May; fruit persisting until <br />midsummer <br />Warnock's coral root (Hexalectris wamockii) -leaf litter and humus in oak-juniper <br />woodlands in mountain canyons in the Trans Pecos but at lower elevations to the <br />east, often on narrow terraces along creekbeds <br />Canyon mock-orange (Philadelphus emestiJ) - solution-pitted outcrops of Cretaceous <br />limestone on caprock along mesic canyons, usually in shade of nll..<<ed evergreen- <br />deciduous canyon woodland; flowering April-May, fruit maturing in September <br />Texas wild-rice (Zizania texana) - perennial, emergent, aquatic grass known only from the <br />upper 2.5 km of the San Marcos River in Hays County <br /> <br />Federal <br />Status <br /> <br />State <br />Status <br /> <br />Cl <br /> <br />T <br /> <br />LE <br /> <br />E <br /> <br />LE,LT - Federally Listed Endangered/Threatened <br />PE,PT - Federally Proposed Endangered/Threatened <br />E/SA,T /SA - Federally Endangered/Threatened by Similarity of Appearance <br />C1 - Federal Candidate, Category 1; information supports proposing to list as endangered/threatened <br />DL,PDL - Federally Delisted/Proposed Delisted <br />E,T - Smte Endangered/Threatened <br />"blank" - fulre, but with no regulatory listing status <br /> <br />Species appearing on these lists do not aU share the same probability of occurrence. Some species are <br />1igrants or wintering residents onl~ or may be historic or considered extirpated. <br /> <br />A-22 <br />