Category: Art

Texas Flowers in Natural Colors

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...

Chapters

5. Part 5

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 6

Wild 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 3

Texas 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 9

Prairie 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 7

Purple 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 4

Several 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 2

Prairie 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 8

Scarlet 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 10

Texas 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 1

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...

11. Part 11

RED 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...

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S 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...