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Texas Wildflowers
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 a major update in 2018 by editor Joe Marcus, Texas Wildflowers is an authoritative field guide with a personal touch. Get this book from our Store.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Opuntia humifusa | Low Prickly Pear Smooth Prickly Pear Devil's Tongue | |
| Opuntia macrocentra var. macrocentra | Purple Pricklypear Purple Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia phaeacantha | Tulip Prickly Pear Brownspine Prickly Pear Cactus Purple-fruited Prickly Pear Brown-spined Prickly Pear New Mexico Prickly Pear Desert Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia rufida | Blind Pricklypear Blind Prickly Pear | |
| Oxalis drummondii | Drummond's Wood-sorrel Large-leaf Wood-sorrel Drummond's Woodsorrel | |
| Oxalis stricta | Common Yellow Oxalis Yellow Wood-sorrel Upright Yellow Wood-sorrel Yellow Woodsorrel | |
| Oxalis violacea | Violet Woodsorrel Violet Wood-sorrel | |
| Parkinsonia aculeata | Retama Paloverde Mexican Paloverde Jerusalem Thorn Horsebean Lluvia De Oro | |
| Packera glabella | Butterweed Cress-leaf Groundsel Yellowtop | |
| Palafoxia hookeriana | Sand Palafox Showy Palafox Hooker Palafoxia Sand Palafoxia Hooker's Palafoxia | |
| Passiflora incarnata | Maypop Purple Passionflower Purple Passion Vine Apricot Vine | |
| Pavonia lasiopetala | Rock Rose Rose Pavonia Rose Mallow Pavonia | |
| Passiflora lutea | Yellow Passionflower Yellow Passion Vine Yellow Passion-flower | |
| Packera tampicana | Yellowtop Great Plains Ragwort Butterweed | |
| Pectis angustifolia | Limoncillo Lemonscent Crownseed Pectis Lemon-scented Pectis Lemonscent Pectis Lemonweed Chinchweed Fetid Marigold | |
| Penstemon barbatus | Scarlet Bugler Beard-lip Penstemon Beard-lip Beardtongue Red Penstemon Red Beardtongue Goldenbeard Penstemon Goldenbeard Beardtongue Saint Joseph's Staff Varita De San Jose | |
| Pericome caudata | Mountain Tail-leaf Tail-leaf Pericome | |
| Penstemon cobaea | Prairie Penstemon Prairie Beardtongue Foxglove Penstemon Foxglove Beardtongue False Foxglove Large-flowered Penstemon Large-flowered Beardtongue Cobaea Penstemon Cobaea Beardtongue Wild Foxglove | |
| Penstemon murrayanus | Scarlet Penstemon Scarlet Beardtongue Red Penstemon Red Beardtongue Cupleaf Penstemon Cupleaf Beardtongue | |
| Phytolacca americana | American Pokeweed Great Pokeweed Pokeweed Pokeberry Red Ink Plant Pigeonberry | |
| Phemeranthus aurantiacus | Orange Flameflower Flameflower Fameflower Talinum | |
| Phacelia congesta | Caterpillars Blue Curls Fiddleneck | |
| Physostegia digitalis | Finger False Dragonhead False Dragonhead | |
| Phlox drummondii | Annual Phlox Drummond Phlox Pride-of-Texas Texas Pride | |
| Physostegia intermedia | Spring Obedient Plant Marsh Obedient Plant Slender False Dragonhead Intermediate False Dragonhead | |
| Phlox roemeriana | Goldeneye Phlox Golden-eye Phlox | |
| Physostegia virginiana ssp. praemorsa | Obedient Plant Fall Obedient Plant Lionheart False Dragonhead | |
| Pinguicula pumila | Small Butterwort Bog Violet Dwarf Butterwort | |
| Pinaropappus roseus | White Rocklettuce White Dandelion Pink Dandelion White Rock Lettuce | |
| Platanthera ciliaris | Orange Fringed Orchid Yellow Fringed Orchid Orange Plume Bobwhite's-mocassin Owl's-head | |
| Platanthera nivea | Snowy Orchid Frog Spear Bog Torch White Frog Arrow White Rein Orchid | |
| Pluchea odorata var. odorata | Sweetscent Marsh Fleabane Southern Marsh Fleabane | |
| Polygala alba | White Milkwort | |
| Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Rush | |
| Polygala cruciata | Drumheads Candy Root Crossleaf Milkwort Cross-leaved Milkwort | |
| Polygala nana | Candyroot Bachelor's Buttons Bachelor's Button | |
| Polytaenia nuttallii | Nuttall's Prairie Parsley Prairie Parsley Wild Dill Prairie Parsnip | |
| Polygala obscura | Velvetseed Milkwort | |
| Pogonia ophioglossoides | Rose Pogonia Snake-mouth Orchid Beard Flower | |
| Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian Apple Wild Mandrake Pomme De Mai Podophylle Pelt | |
| Polygala polygama | Racemed Milkwort Pink Milkwort | |
| Polygonum punctatum | Dotted Smartweed | |
| Polygala ramosa | Low Pinebarren Milkwort Yellow Savanna Milkwort | |
| Polanisia uniglandulosa | Mexican Clammyweed Clammyweed | |
| Proboscidea louisianica ssp. louisianica | Ram's Horn Devil's Claw Unicorn Plant Ram's Horn | |
| Psilostrophe tagetina | Woolly Paperflower Paperflower | |
| Pyrrhopappus carolinianus | Carolina Desert-chicory Texas Dandelion False Dandelion | |
| Quincula lobata | Purple Groundcherry Chinese Lantern Purple Ground Cherry | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
| Ranunculus hispidus var. nitidus | Bristly Buttercup Buttercup | |
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