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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 |
| Abronia ameliae | Amelia's Sand-verbena Heart's Delight | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
| Acourtia wrightii | Brownfoot Pink Perezia | |
| Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
| Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla Tula Ixtle Maguey Lechuguilla Shindagger | |
| Agave parryi ssp. parryi | Parry's Agave Rough Agave Century Plant Mescal | |
| Agalinis purpurea | Purple False Foxglove Purple Gerardia Gerardia | |
| Aletris aurea | Golden Colicroot Colicroot Star Grass Yellow Colic Root | |
| Allium canadense var. canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion Canada 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 Texas Bluestar | |
| Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
| Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
| Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy Daisy Arkansas Lazy Daisy Arkansas Doze-daisy | |
| Argemone albiflora | Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
| Argemone chisosensis | Chisos Mountain Prickly Poppy Pink Prickly Poppy | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Argemone mexicana | Mexican Prickly Poppy Mexican Prickly Poppy Yellow Prickly Poppy | |
| Arisaema triphyllum ssp. quinatum | Five-leaved Jack-in-the-pulpit Jack In The Pulpit Indian Turnip | |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl | |
| Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
| Astragalus giganteus | Giant Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias latifolia | Broadleaf Milkweed | |
| Astragalus mollissimus | Woolly Locoweed Purple Locoweed Woolly Loco Woolly Milkvetch Wooly Loco Wooly Locoweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Aureolaria grandiflora | Largeflower Yellow False Foxglove 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 | Yellow Wild Indigo Green Wild Indigo Bush Pea 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 | Winecup Standing Winecup Poppy Mallow Wine Cup Finger Poppy-mallow | |
| Castilleja indivisa | Texas Indian Paintbrush Entireleaf Indian Paintbrush Texas Paintbrush Indian Paintbrush Scarlet 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 Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| 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 Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
| Centaurium calycosum | Arizona Centaury Shortflower Centaury Rosita Buckley Centaury | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge Pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
| Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle | |
| Clematis crispa | Swamp Leatherflower Curly Clematis Blue-jasmine Curlflower Curly Virgin's Bower Marsh Clematis | |
| Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple Leatherflower Purple Clematis Leatherflower Bluebill Bellflower Clematis Pitcher's Clematis | |
| Cnidoscolus texanus | Texas Bullnettle Bull Nettle Tread-softly Spurge Nettle | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
| Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort Scrambled Eggs Golden Smoke Curvepod | |
| Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
| Cosmos parviflorus | Southwestern Cosmos Southwest Cosmos | |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country Rain Lily Prairie Lily Rain Lily Flor De Mayo | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Corallorhiza wisteriana | Spring Coral-root Spring Coral Root Early Southern Coral-root Wister's Coral-root Yellow Coral-root Arousing Coral-root Spring Coralroot | |
| Crinum americanum | American Crinum Lily Seven Sisters Swamp Lily Southern Swamp Lily String Lily Crinum Lily | |
| Cryptantha palmeri | Palmer's Cryptantha | |
| Cucurbita foetidissima | Stinking Gourd Buffalo Gourd Missouri Gourd Stink Gourd Wild Gourd | |
| Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata | Tree Cholla Teddy-bear Cholla Cholla Cane Cactus Walkingstick Cholla | |
| Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Tasajillo Christmas Cactus Pencil Cactus Christmas Cholla Desert Christmas Cactus | |
| Cypripedium parviflorum | Yellow Lady's-slipper Orchid Lesser Yellow Lady's Slipper | |
| Dalea formosa | Featherplume Feather Dalea Indigobush | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush | |
| Dasylirion leiophyllum | Green Sotol Smooth-leaved Sotol Smooth-leaf Sotol Sotol Desert Candle | |
| Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
| Delphinium carolinianum | Prairie Larkspur Carolina Larkspur Blue Larkspur | |
| Desmodium psilophyllum | Simpleleaf Ticktrefoil Wright's Tickclover Beggar's Ticks Sticktights | |
| Drosera brevifolia | Dwarf Sundew Spatulate-leaved Sundew | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
| Echinocereus chisoensis | Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Mountain Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog Chisos Mountain Hedgehog | |
| Echinocereus dasyacanthus | Texas Rainbow Cactus Spiny Hedgehog Cactus Spiny Hedgehog Golden Rainbow Hedgehog Cactus Golden Rainbow Hedgehog Yellow Pitaya | |
| Echinocereus enneacanthus | Pitaya Strawberry Cactus Banana Cactus Cob Cactus Purple Pitaya Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus Prostrate Hedgehog Cactus | |
| Echeandia flavescens | Torrey's Craglily Crag Lily | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus Lace Hedgehog Purple Candle | |
| Echinocereus russanthus | Brownspine Hedgehog Cactus Rusty Hedgehog Cactus Brownspine Hedgehog Rusty Hedgehog | |
| Echinacea sanguinea | Sanguine Purple Coneflower | |
| Echinocereus stramineus | Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus Pitaya | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Horse Crippler Horse Crippler Cactus Devil's Head Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog | |
| Echinocereus triglochidiatus | Claret Cup Claret Cup Cactus Hedgehog Cactus Kingcup Cactus Mojave Mound Mohave Mound | |
| Echinocereus viridiflorus var. cylindricus | Green-flowered Hedgehog Cactus Green-flowered Hedgehog Nylon Hedgehog Cactus Nylon Hedgehog | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Eryngium heterophyllum | Wright's Eryngo Mexican Thistle | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal | |
| Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Eryngo Eryngo False Purple Thistle | |
| Erigeron philadelphicus | Philadelphia Fleabane Fleabane Daisy | |
| Erythronium rostratum | Yellow Troutlily Dog-tooth Violet Yellow Fawnlily Beaked Troutlily | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
