Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide (Texas Natural History Guides)
Campbell Loughmiller, Lynn Loughmiller
Language: English
Pages: 185
ISBN: B01M1EVX4M
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
For two decades and counting, Texans have relied on Texas Wildflowers to identify the common and rare flowers we see along the roadsides and in the pastures, fields, and forests of our state. Compiled by naturalists Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller, with the technical assistance of Lynn Sherrod, Texas Wildflowers is an authoritative field guide with a personal touch in the many notes the Loughmillers included about the plants they described and photographed.
This new edition of Texas Wildflowers retains the charm of the Loughmillers' book while emphasizing 61 additional species and bringing the plant taxonomy and nomenclature up to date. Like its predecessor, it includes all the features you need to identify the wildflowers of Texas:
* 381 full-color, close-up photos that show every wildflower in the book, including over 200 photos that are new to this edition.
* 370 species accounts that include the plant's scientific and common names, a description of its appearance, and its range, habitat, and blooming season.
* Descriptions of 73 wildflower families, from Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae.
* Indexes to help you identify flowers by their Latin name and common name.
* A guide to taxonomic updates in this edition.
* A map, glossary, illustrated glossary, and bibliography for further reading.
Lady Bird Johnson, author of the first edition's foreword, says of this new edition of Texas Wildflowers, "How delighted I am the University of Texas Press and the Wildflower Center are preserving Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller's legacy by revising and updating this beautiful and invaluable book about Texas wildflowers! Not only does it contain a wealth of knowledge, it also awakens our awareness of the splendor of nature and joyous lift of spirit it brings."
species, E. tenuis, is very similar except that the leaves are narrower. These two species are often found growing together in East Texas, though E. philadelphicus is more abundant in the calcareous clay of North-central Texas and E. tenuis is more common in the sandy soils of East Texas. Gaillardia aestivalis Winkler Gaillardia Winkler gaillardia grows 1–2 feet tall. The flower heads have 6–10 white ray flowers and a yellow center. The ray flowers are tubular at the base but flare out at the
sharp teeth. The flower heads are at the end of long, leafless stems. They are 1–1½ inches across, with orange disk flowers and yellowish-orange ray flowers. Very frequent in disturbed soils throughout most of Texas. June–September. Annual. Verbesina nana Dwarf Crownbeard Dwarf crownbeard is so named because it rarely grows more than 6 inches tall. Its branches grow horizontally as a rule. Leaves are 2 inches long with sharp-toothed margins. The flower heads are 1½ inches across. The bright
nectar for bees, and the roots furnish a yellow dye used by early pioneers. The lustrous red fruit is a pea-sized berry that is used in making jelly and wine. It is also a choice food for many birds. Dry, stony soil over most of Texas except east and southeast portions. Blooms February-April; fruits mainly in June. Perennial. Podophyllum peltatum Mayapple, Mandrake The erect, 1-stemmed mayapple plant grows to 20 inches tall. It has only 2 leaves and 1 flower, which grows in the axil of the
in East Texas. May–June. Winter annual or biennial. Introduced. Verbascum thapsus Great Mullein, Common Mullein In its first year a great mullein produces a deep tap root and a rosette of leaves that are successively larger toward the ground. The following spring a stiffly erect flower stem arises from the crown, terminating in a wandlike raceme of crowded yellow or, rarely, white flowers. The plant grows 2–7 feet tall, is usually unbranched, and has feltlike, pubescent leaves and stems.
gratissima, 223 Amblyolepis setigera, 24 Amsonia ciliata, 17 Anagallis arvensis, 198 Androstephium caeruleum, 147 Anemone berlandieri, 199 Aphanostephus skirrhobasis, 24 Arbutus xalapensis, 99 Argemone albiflora, 182 Argemone chisosensis, 183 Argemone mexicana, 183 Arisaema dracontium, 18 Arisaema triphyllum ssp. quinatum, 19 Asclepias asperula, 20 Asclepias latifolia, 20 Asclepias tuberosa, 21 Astragalus giganteus, 106 Astragalus mollissimus, 106 Aureolaria grandiflora, 211