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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 |
| Erodium texanum | Texas Stork's Bill Stork's Bill Pine Needle Fillaree | |
| Eriogonum wrightii | Wright's Buckwheat Bastard-sage Wild Buckwheat Perennial Buckwheat Shrubby Buckwheat Shrubby Bastard-sage | |
| Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana | Mexican Gold Poppy California Poppy | |
| Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Candelilla Wax Plant | |
| Eucnide bartonioides | Yellow Rocknettle Rocknettle Yellow Stingbush | |
| Euphorbia bicolor | Snow On The Prairie Snow-on-the-prairie | |
| Eustoma exaltatum | Catchfly Prairie Gentian Bluebell Gentian Western Blue Gentian Blue Marsh Lily Small Bluebell Catchfly Gentian Seaside Gentian | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil | |
| Ferocactus hamatacanthus | Turk's Head Turk's Head Cactus Texas Barrel Cactus Giant Fishhook Cactus | |
| Ferocactus wislizeni | Candy Barrel Candy Barrel Cactus Fishhook Barrel Cactus Southwestern Barrel Cactus | |
| Fouquieria splendens | Ocotillo Devil's Walking Stick Candlewood | |
| Froelichia gracilis | Slender Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Winkler Gaillardia | |
| Gaillardia multiceps | Onion Blanketflower Gyp Indian Blanket | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina Jessamine Yellow Jessamine Evening Trumpetflower Poor Man's Rope | |
| Giliastrum acerosum | Bluebowls Prickleleaf Gilia | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Moradilla Alfombrilla | |
| Grusonia grahamii | Graham's Pricklypear Graham Dog Cactus Graham's Club Cholla | |
| Grindelia papposa | Spanish Gold Clasping-leaved Haplopappus Saw-leaf Daisy | |
| Guaiacum angustifolium | Texas Lignum-vitae Soapbush Guayacan | |
| Gutierrezia microcephala | Threadleaf Snakeweed Threadleaf Broomweed Smallhead Snakeweed Littlehead Snakeweed | |
| Gymnosperma glutinosum | Gumhead Tatalencho | |
| Halesia diptera | Two-wing Silverbell Two-winged Silverbell Silverbell American Snowdrop Tree Snowdrop Tree Snowbell Cowlicks | |
| Helenium amarum var. badium | Brown Bitterweed Basin Sneezeweed | |
| Helianthus annuus | Common Sunflower Annual Sunflower | |
| Helenium drummondii | Fringed Sneezeweed | |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian Sunflower Max Sunflower | |
| Helianthus mollis | Ashy Sunflower Downy Sunflower | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red Yucca Coral Yucca Red-flowered False Yucca Redflower False Yucca Yellow Yucca Hummingbird Yucca Samandoque | |
| Hibiscus denudatus | Paleface Rock Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf Rosemallow Halberdleaf Hibiscus Scarlet Rose Mallow Halberd-leaved Hibiscus Halberd-leaved Rose-mallow | |
| Hibiscus lasiocarpos | Woolly Rose-mallow Woolly Mallow Rose-mallow False Cotton | |
| Houstonia pusilla | Tiny Bluets Small Bluets Star Violet | |
| Hymenopappus artemisiifolius | Oldplainsman Woolly-white Old Plainsman | |
| Hydrocotyle bonariensis | Largeleaf Pennywort Salt Pennywort | |
| Hymenocallis liriosme | Texas Spiderlily Spring Spiderlily Spiderlily Louisiana Spiderlily Western Marsh Spiderlily | |
| Hydrolea ovata | Blue Waterleaf Ovate False Fiddleleaf Hairy Hydrolea | |
| Ibervillea lindheimeri | Balsam Gourd Lindheimer's Globeberry Globe Berry Snake-apple Balsam-apple | |
| Ipomoea cordatotriloba var. cordatotriloba | Tievine Sharp-pod Morning Glory Purple Bindweed Tie Vine | |
| Ipomoea cristulata | Transpecos Morning-glory Scarlet Creeper Trans-Pecos Morning Glory | |
| Ipomopsis longiflora | Flaxflowered Ipomopsis Pale Trumpets Paleflower Gilia White-flower Skyrocket White-flowered Gilia | |
| Ipomopsis rubra | Standing Cypress Texas Plume Red Texas Star Red Gilia | |
| Ipomoea sagittata | Saltmarsh Morning-glory Salt-marsh Morning Glory | |
| Iris giganticaerulea | Giant Blue Iris Blue Flag | |
| Jatropha dioica var. graminea | Leatherstem Bloodroot Sangre De Drago | |
| Kallstroemia grandiflora | Arizona Poppy Desert Poppy Orange Caltrop Summer Poppy | |
| Krameria grayi | White Ratany Crimson Beak Chacati Cosahui | |
| Krameria lanceolata | Trailing Krameria Ratany Crameria Prairie Sandbur Trailing Ratany | |
| Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis | |
| Lantana urticoides | Texas Lantana Calico Bush | |
| Lesquerella fendleri | Fendler's Bladderpod Popweed | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
| Lepidium montanum | Mountain Peppergrass Western Peppergrass Mountain Pepperweed Mountain Pepperwort Montana Pepperweed | |
| Liatris elegans | Pink-scale Blazing Star Pink-scale Gayfeather Pink-scale Liatris | |
| Lithospermum incisum | Fringed Puccoon Golden Puccoon Narrowleaf Puccoon Narrow-leaved Puccoon Puccoon Narrowleaf Gromwell Fringed Gromwell Narrowleaf Stoneseed | |
| Linum lewisii | Wild Blue Flax Prairie Flax Lewis Flax Lewis's Flax | |
| Lithospermum multiflorum | Manyflowered Stoneseed | |
| Linum rigidum | Stiffstem Flax Large-flower Yellow Flax Yellow Flax | |
| Lindheimera texana | Texas Yellowstar Texas Star Texas Yellow-star Lindheimer Daisy | |
| Lonicera albiflora | Western White Honeysuckle White Shrub Honeysuckle White Bush Honeysuckle White Limestone Honeysuckle Texas Honeysuckle White Honeysuckle | |
| Lobelia appendiculata | Pale Lobelia | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lotus plebeius | New Mexico Bird's-foot Trefoil Pine Deervetch Longbract Bird's-foot Trefoil | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral Honeysuckle Trumpet Honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Lupinus havardii | Big Bend Bluebonnet Big Bend Lupine Havard Bluebonnet Chisos Bluebonnet | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas Bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas Lupine Buffalo Clover Wolf Flower | |
| Lythrum californicum | California Loosestrife | |
| Lygodesmia texana | Texas Skeleton Plant Texas Skeleton Weed Skeleton-plant Purple Dandelion Flowering Straw | |
| Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii | Turk's Cap Drummond's Turk's Cap Drummond Turk's Cap Wax Mallow Drummond's Wax Mallow Drummond Wax Mallow Red Mallow Texas Mallow Mexican Apple Sleeping Hibiscus Bleeding Hearts Manzanita | |
| Magnolia ashei | Ashe's Magnolia Ashe Magnolia Deciduous Magnolia | |
| Machaeranthera gracilis | Slender Goldenweed Grass-leaf Tansy-aster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
| Magnolia grandiflora | Southern Magnolia Evergreen Magnolia Loblolly Magnolia Great Laurel Magnolia Big Laurel Bull Bay | |
| Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster | |
| Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo Mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate Barberry Wild Currant | |
| Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay Magnolia Southern Sweetbay Swampbay Swamp Magnolia Sweet Magnolia Small Magnolia Laurel Magnolia White Bay White Laurel Swamp Laurel Beaver Tree | |
| Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica | |
| Menodora longiflora | Showy Menodora Twinpod | |
| Mentzelia multiflora | Adonis Blazingstar Prairie Stickleaf Blazingstar | |
| Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
| Minuartia drummondii | Drummond's Stitchwort Sandwort | |
| Mimosa dysocarpa | Velvetpod Mimosa Velvet-pod Mimosa Gatuno | |
| Mirabilis longiflora | Sweet Four O'Clock Long-flowered Four O'Clock | |
| Mimosa microphylla | Littleleaf Sensitive Briar Little-leaf Mimosa Catclaw Sensitive Briar Smooth-leaf Sensitive Briar Pink Sensitive Briar Shame Vine | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
| Nama hispidum | Sand Bells Bristly Nama Sand-bell | |
| Neolloydia conoidea | Chihuahuan Beehive Cactus Chihuahuan Beehive Cone Cactus | |
| Nemophila phacelioides | Texas Baby Blue Eyes Large-flower Baby-blue-eyes Baby Blue-eyes Flannel Breeches | |
| Nothoscordum bivalve | Crowpoison False Garlic Crow Poison | |
| Nuttallanthus texanus | Texas Toadflax Texas Toad-flax Toadflax | |
| Nymphaea odorata | American White Water-lily Fragrant White Water-lily Fragrant Water-lily White Water-lily Sweet-scented White Water-lily Sweet-scented Water-lily Beaver Root | |
| Oenothera laciniata | Cutleaf Evening-primrose Cut-leaved Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera rhombipetala | Fourpoint Evening-primrose Four-point Evening Primrose Diamond Petal Primrose Greater Four-point Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups | |
| Oenothera suffrutescens | Scarlet Beeblossom Scarlet Gaura | |
| Oenothera suffulta | Kisses Wild Honeysuckle Beeblossom Roadside Gaura | |
| Opuntia engelmannii var. engelmannii | Cactus Apple Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri | Texas Prickly Pear Lindheimer's Prickly Pear Lindheimer Prickly Pear | |
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