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 | |
Ranunculus macranthus | Large Buttercup | |
Rhododendron canescens | Mountain Azalea Wild Azalea Honeysuckle Azalea Piedmont Azalea Sweet Azalea Hoary Azalea Southern Pinxterflower | |
Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
Rhexia lutea | Yellow Meadow Beauty | |
Rhexia virginica | Handsome-harry Virginia Meadow Beauty Meadow-beauty | |
Rhododendron viscosum | Swamp Azalea Clammy Azalea Cory Azalea Hammock Sweet Azalea | |
Rhus virens | Evergreen Sumac Tobacco Sumac Lambrisco Lentrisco | |
Rivina humilis | Pigeonberry Rouge Plant Baby-peppers Bloodberry | |
Robinia hispida | Bristly Locust Standing Sweet Pea | |
Robinia pseudoacacia | Black Locust | |
Rosa setigera | Climbing Prairie Rose Climbing Rose Prairie Rose | |
Ruellia caroliniensis | Carolina Wild Petunia | |
Rudbeckia grandiflora | Rough Coneflower Tall Coneflower Largeflower Coneflower | |
Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
Rumex hymenosepalus | Canaigre Dock Canaigre Desert Rhubarb | |
Ruellia nudiflora | Violet Ruellia Common Wild Petunia Violet Wild Petunia Wild Petunia Hierba De La Calentura | |
Sarracenia alata | Yellow Trumpets Yellow Pitcher Plant Yellow Trumpet Flycatcher Trumpet Pitcher Plant | |
Sabatia angularis | Rosepink Rose-pink | |
Sabatia campestris | Texas Star Rose Gentian Meadow Pink Prairie Rose-gentian Prairie Sabatia | |
Salvia coccinea | Scarlet Sage Tropical Sage Blood Sage Red Sage Indian Fire | |
Salvia farinacea | Mealy Blue Sage Mealy Sage Mealycup Sage | |
Salvia greggii | Autumn Sage Cherry Sage Gregg Salvia | |
Sagittaria lancifolia ssp. media | Bulltongue Arrowhead Scythe-fruit Arrowhead | |
Salvia lycioides | Canyon Sage | |
Salvia lyrata | Lyreleaf Sage Cancer Weed | |
Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis | Common Elderberry Black Elder Mexican Elderberry Common Elder Elderberry Tapiro Sauco | |
Salvia regla | Mountain Sage Royal Sage | |
Scutellaria drummondii | Drummond's Skullcap | |
Scutellaria integrifolia | Helmet-flower Rough Skullcap Common Large Skullcap Tall Skullcap | |
Schoenocrambe linearifolia | Slimleaf Plainsmustard Mountain Mustard Hesper Mustard | |
Senecio ampullaceus | Texas Ragwort Texas Groundsel Texas Butterweed | |
Senegalia berlandieri | Guajillo Berlandier Acacia Berlandier's Acacia Round-flowered Catclaw Roundflower Catclaw Mimosa Catclaw Thornless Catclaw Huajilla | |
Sesbania drummondii | Rattlebush Rattlebox Poisonbean | |
Senna lindheimeriana | Lindheimer's Senna Velvet Leaf Senna Velvetleaf Senna Velvet-leaf Wild Sensitive-plant Puppy-dog Ears | |
Senna roemeriana | Twoleaf Senna Two Leaved Senna | |
Silene laciniata | Cardinal Catchfly Southern Indian Pink Mexican Campion Catchfly | |
Sisyrinchium sagittiferum | Spearbract Blue-eyed Grass Blue-eyed Grass | |
Silene subciliata | Prairie-fire Pink Louisiana Catchfly Catchfly | |
Solanum elaeagnifolium | Silverleaf Nightshade Silver-leaf Nightshade White Horse Nettle Trompillo Tomato Weed Bull Nettle | |
Sophora secundiflora | Texas Mountain Laurel Mountain Laurel Mescal Bean Mescal Bean Sophora Frijolillo Frijolito | |
Sphaeralcea angustifolia | Narrowleaf Globemallow Copper Globemallow Copper Mallow | |
Spiranthes cernua | Nodding Ladies'-tresses Ladies'-tresses Nodding Lady's Tresses | |
Spigelia marilandica | Woodland Pinkroot Pinkroot Indian Pink | |
Stewartia malacodendron | Silky Camellia Virginia Stewartia Round-fruited Stewartia | |
Stenaria nigricans var. nigricans | Diamondflowers Narrowleaf Bluets Baby's Breath Bluets Fine-leaf Bluets | |
Streptanthus platycarpus | Broadpod Jewelflower Broadpod Twistflower | |
Symphyotrichum cordifolium | Broad-leaved Aster Common Blue Wood Aster Heartleaf Aster | |
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens | Spreading Aster Late Purple Aster Spread-leaf Aster Sky-drop Aster | |
Tetraneuris linearifolia | Fineleaf Fournerved Daisy Slender-leaf Hymenoxys Bitterweed | |
Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed | |
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