It is a 1948 Allis-Chalmers, Model WC, Serial #WC 170937...

I am going to get my tractor running again, hopefully by April 24, for the Hennessey, Oklahoma, Oldies Tractor Parade and Tractor Rodeo...My Dad purchased it so I would have a tractor to drive, when I was 14...I could plow acre an hour...With a two bottom plow...I never was any good at plowing the corners...

Go to my picture gallery to see beginning photo...

Latin name...Lippia nodiflora...Waterfall/ Oklahoma it's Phyla incisa...

Good nectar plant for many butterflies and bees...

such as:   Tropical Checkered Skipper ...

Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak...

Crescents...

Small Skippers...

Blues...

Metalmarks...

Common larval food for:     White Peacock Butterfly...

Phaon Crescent Butterfly...

Buckeye Butterfly...

We are always looking for beneficial plants, which will grow in shaded areas...it will also grow in full sun...

American Germander (Teucrium canadense)...also called wood sage...part of the mint family, Lamiaceae,is such a plant...

This native wildflower is a summer blooming,  perennial forb/herb with conspicuous cream to pink or purple flowers...It is adapted to medium to fine textured soils ( part of mine is sandy ) and prefers moist soils...Seed is round and brown...Where I hand-harvested seed, the plants were 1' to 3' tall...