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Wednesday - November 27, 2013
From: Corpus Christi, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Plant Identification
Title: Plants of Texas Coastal Bend beaches
Answered by: Nan Hampton
QUESTION:
What plants are native to the Texas Coastal Bend beaches?ANSWER:
There are three good online resources that I found:
- Stephen F. Austin State University has an online Texas Gulf Coast Vascular Plant Gallery.
- Another online source from Gulf Coast Turtle & Tortoise Society is Beneficial Native Aquatic Plants of Texas.
- Plants of the South Texas Sand Sheet by William R. Carr focuses on Kleberg, Kendy and Willacy counties on the coast and extends into Brooks, Jim Hogg, Starr and Hildalgo counties further inland.
There are several paper books in print:
- Alfred Richardson. Wlldflowers and Other Plants of Texas Beaches and Islands. 2002. University of Texas Press.
- Roy L. Lehman. Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend. 2009. Gulf Coast Books. Texas A&M.
- Roy L. Lehman. Marine Plants of the Texas Coast. 2013. Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
- Stephen L. Hatch. Grasses of the Texas Gulf Prairies and Marshes. 1999. Texas A&M Press.
These last two may be out of print but there are sources for used copies of them:
- Fred B. Jones. Flora of the Texas Coastal Bend. 1982. Mission Press.
- Fred B. Jones. Flowering plants and ferns of the Texas Coastal Bend Counties. 1961. Welder Wildlife Foundation.
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