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List of Texas species featured in Texas Wildflowers by Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller. 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. Get this book from Amazon.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Abronia ameliae | Amelia's sand verbena Heart’s delight Amelia's sand-verbena Sand verbena | |
| Acacia berlandieri | Guajillo Berlandier acacia Thornless Catclaw Mimosa Catclaw Round-flowered Catclaw Huajillla Matoral | |
| Acacia farnesiana | Huisache Sweet acacia Mealy wattle | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow Yarrow Milfoil Western yarrow | |
| Acacia rigidula | Blackbrush acacia Blackbrush Catclaw Chaparro prieto Gavia | |
| Acourtia wrightii | Brownfoot Pink perezia | |
| Aesculus pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla | |
| Agave parryi ssp. parryi | Century plant Mescal Parry's agave Rough agave | |
| Agalinis purpurea | Purple false foxglove Purple gerardia Gerardia | |
| Aletris aurea | Golden colicroot Colicroot Star grass Yellow colic root | |
| Allium canadense var. canadense | Canada onion Meadow garlic Wild onion | |
| Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow garlic Wild onion | |
| Alophia drummondii | Propeller flower Purple pleat-leaf Pinewoods lily Prairie iris Pleatleaf iris | |
| Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common bee-brush Beebrush Privet lippia | |
| Allionia incarnata | Trailing windmills Trailing four o'clock Pink windmills Trailing allionia | |
| Amsonia ciliata | Fringed bluestar Bluestar Blue funnel lily Texas bluestar | |
| Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache daisy Butterfly daisy Honey daisy | |
| Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal thimbleweed Ten-petaled anemone Wind-flower | |
| Androstephium caeruleum | Androstephium Blue funnel lily Blue Funnel-lily Fragrant lily Funnel-Flower | |
| Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy daisy Arkansas lazy daisy Arkansas dozedaisy | |
| Argemone albiflora | Bluestem pricklypoppy White pricklypoppy | |
| Argemone chisosensis | Chisos Mountain pricklypoppy | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Argemone mexicana | Mexican pricklypoppy Mexican prickly poppy Yellow pricklypoppy | |
| Arisaema triphyllum ssp. quinatum | Five-leaved Jack-in-the-pulpit Jack in the pulpit Indian turnip | |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas madrone Madrone Naked indian Manzanita | |
| Asclepias asperula | Spider milkweed Antelope horns Green-flowered milkweed Spider antelope-horns | |
| Astragalus giganteus | Giant milkvetch | |
| Asclepias latifolia | Broadleaf milkweed | |
| Astragalus mollissimus | Purple locoweed Woolly loco Woolly locoweed Woolly milkvetch Wooly loco Wooly locoweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Aureolaria grandiflora | False foxglove Largeflower yellow false foxglove | |
| Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract wild indigo Cream false indigo Plains wild indigo Cream wild indigo Large-bracted wild indigo | |
| Baileya multiradiata | Desert marigold Showy desert marigold Paper daisy Desert baileya | |
| Baptisia sphaerocarpa | Bush pea Green wild indigo Yellow wild indigo Yellow wisteria | |
| Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate daisy Chocolate flower Lyreleaf greeneyes Green-Eyed lyre leaf | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Boerhavia linearifolia | Narrowleaf spiderling | |
| Bouvardia ternifolia | Scarlet bouvardia Firecracker bush Trompetilla Clavillo | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Catalpa bignonioides | Southern catalpa Cigar tree Indian bean | |
| Callirhoe digitata | Finger poppy-mallow Poppy mallow Standing winecup Wine cup Winecup | |
| Castilleja indivisa | Entireleaf indian paintbrush Texas paintbrush Indian paintbrush Scarlet paintbrush Entire-leaf indian-paintbrush | |
| Castilleja integra | Wholeleaf Indian paintbrush Squawfeather | |
| Calochortus kennedyi | Desert mariposa lily Desert mariposa Red mariposa-lily Flame mariposa | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Calylophus serrulatus | Yellow sundrops Yellow evening primrose Plains evening primrose | |
| Castilleja sessiliflora | Downy painted cup Downy paintbrush Great Plains paintbrush Great Plains indian-paintbrush | |
| Calopogon tuberosus | Tuberous grasspink Grass pink | |
| Centaurea americana | American star-thistle Basket-Flower Star thistle Shaving brush American basket-flower | |
| Centaurium calycosum | Arizona centaury Shortflower centaury Rosita Buckley centaury | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud Redbud | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert willow Flowering willow Willow-leaved catalpa Trumpet flower | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White fringetree Fringe tree Grancy Graybeard | |
| Cirsium texanum | Texas thistle | |
| Clematis crispa | Swamp leatherflower Curly clematis Blue jasmine Curlflower | |
| Clematis drummondii | Drummond's clematis Old man’s beard Texas virgin’s bower Goat’s beard | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple clematis Purple leatherflower Leatherflower Bluebill | |
| Cnidoscolus texanus | Texas bullnettle Bull nettle Tread-softly Spurge nettle | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Curvepod fumewort Golden Smoke Scrambled Eggs | |
| Commelina erecta | Whitemouth dayflower Widow's tears Day flower White-mouth dayflower | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf coreopsis Lanceleaf tickseed Lance-leaved coreopsis Sand coreopsis | |
| Cosmos parviflorus | Southwest cosmos Southwestern cosmos | |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country rain lily Prairie lily Rain lily | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains coreopsis Golden tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Corallorhiza wisteriana | Spring coralroot Early southern coral root Spring coral root Wister's coralroot Yellow coral root | |
| Crinum americanum | Crinum lily Seven sisters Swamp lily Southern swamp lily String lily | |
| Cryptantha palmeri | Palmer's cryptantha | |
| Cucurbita foetidissima | Stinking gourd Buffalo gourd Missouri gourd Stink gourd Wild gourd | |
| Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata | Cane cactus Cholla Teddy-bear cholla Tree cholla Walkingstick cholla | |
| Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Christmas cactus Christmas cholla Desert Christmas cactus Pencil cactus Tasajillo | |
| Cypripedium parviflorum | Lesser yellow lady's slipper Yellow lady’s-slipper orchid | |
| Dalea formosa | Feather dalea Featherplume | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black dalea Black prairie clover | |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg dalea Gregg's prairie clover Trailing indigo bush Indigo bush | |
| Dasylirion leiophyllum | Green sotol Sotol Desert candle | |
| Datura wrightii | Sacred thorn-apple Jimsonweed Thorn apple Datura Angel Trumpet Sacred datura | |
| Delphinium carolinianum | Carolina larkspur Blue larkspur Prairie larkspur Espuela del caballero | |
| Desmodium psilophyllum | Beggar’s ticks Simpleleaf ticktrefoil Sticktights Wright’s tickclover | |
| Drosera brevifolia | Dwarf sundew Spatulate-leaved sundew | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake herb Polkadots Narrowleaf dyschoriste | |
| Echinocereus chisoensis | Chisos hedgehog Chisos Mountain hedgehog cactus | |
| Echinocereus dasyacanthus | Spiny hedgehog cactus Texas rainbow cactus Golden rainbow hedgehog Yellow Pitaya | |
| Echinocereus enneacanthus | Pitaya Strawberry cactus | |
| Echeandia flavescens | Torrey's craglily Crag lily | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Cactus Lace hedgehog cactus Órgano-pequeño de colores Purple candle | |
| Echinocereus russanthus | Brownspine hedgehog cactus Rusty hedgehog cactus | |
| Echinacea sanguinea | Sanguine purple coneflower | |
| Echinocereus stramineus | Strawberry hedgehog cactus | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Chisos Hedgehog Devil’s head Horse crippler | |
| Echinocereus triglochidiatus | Claret cup Hedgehog cactus Kingcup cactus Mojave mound | |
| Echinocereus viridiflorus var. cylindricus | Green-flowered hedgehog Nylon hedgehog cactus | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Eryngium heterophyllum | Mexican thistle Wright's eryngo | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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