Category: Art
For more than a century the wild flowers of Texas have been a source of study and pleasure to scientists and flower lovers. The state can boast of a varied and interesting flora which has attracted numerous plant collectors since the first specimens were collected in the Texas...
Copper Mallow (_Sphæralcea pedatifida_) is often confused with the following mallow, but may be distinguished by its thin leaves clothed with a few star-shaped hairs, the 3 line...
6. Part 6Wild Dill. Prairie Parsley (_Pleiotaenia nuttallii_) is a conspicuous plant on prairies throughout the state and ranges to Michigan and Alabama. The flowers bloom in April and M...
3. Part 3Texas Leather Flower. Scarlet Clematis (_Clematis texensis_) has maroon or scarlet bell-shaped flowers about 1 in. long. It is a climbing vine found along streams in Central Tex...
9. Part 9Prairie Blazing Star. Button Snakeroot (_Laciniaria punctata_) is sometimes called liatris from the scientific group to which these plants are sometimes referred. A similar prai...
7. Part 7Purple Phacelia (_Phacelia patuliflora_) is a low, spreading annual growing on sandy prairies in the southern part of the state. “Patuliflora” means “spreading flower” and refer...
4. Part 4Several shrubs of the senna family are popular in Texas gardens, among them the bird-of-paradise (_Poinciana gilliesii_). It is a South American plant with showy yellow flowers...
2. Part 2Prairie Onion (_Allium nuttallii_) has short flower stalks 4-6 inches high growing from a very small bulb which has a brown, finely-woven outer coat. The flowers are nearly half...
8. Part 8Scarlet Paint-Brush (_Castilleja indivisa_) is also called Indian paint-brush, painted-cup, entire-leaved paint brush, and Indian pink. One of the most inspiring landscape displ...
10. Part 10Texas Coreopsis (_Coreopsis nuecensis_) was first described from plants found on the lower part of the Nueces River. It is quite widespread on the southern coastal prairie from...
1. Part 1For more than a century the wild flowers of Texas have been a source of study and pleasure to scientists and flower lovers. The state can boast of a varied and interesting flora...
11. Part 11RED AND ORANGE-RED Buckeye, 68-W Poppy mallow, 72-Pb Copper mallow, 70-Ps Red star-mallow, 70-P Cross-vine, 138-Wp Coral bean, 58-W Leather flower, 29-W Standing cypress, 104-Wo...
12. Part 12S Sabbatia, 98 Sagebrush, 185 Sagittaria, 2 Salvia, 126-127 Salviastrum, 127, xv Samolus, 93 Sampson’s root, 175 Sand-bells, 111 Sand-bur, 51 Sand verbena, 19 Sarracenia, 39, xv...