Native Plants
Harry T. Cliffe Collection
Harry T. Cliffe of San Antonio documented plant species in Bexar County by spearheading development of the Bexar Regional Herbarium that bears his name (also available on this site), then turned to photographing them. This collection of images focuses on the blossoms of native plants of Texas. The majority of the photographs were taken in south and central Texas. The Native Plant Society of Texas’ San Antonio Chapter provided support to scan the Cliffe collection. Mr. Cliffe is a longtime member of that organization.
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Abutilon abutiloides | Shrubby Indian Mallow | |
Abronia ameliae | Amelia's Sand-verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abronia angustifolia | Purple Sand Verbena Narrow-leaf Sand-verbena | |
Abutilon parvulum | Dwarf Indian Mallow | |
Abutilon wrightii | Wright's Indian Mallow | |
Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
Acalypha monostachya | Round Copperleaf | |
Acleisanthes obtusa | Berlandier's Trumpets Vine Four O'Clock | |
Acalypha ostryifolia | Pineland Threeseed Mercury Hop-hornbeam Copperleaf | |
Acalypha phleoides | Shrubby Copperleaf Three-seeded Mercury | |
Acourtia runcinata | Featherleaf Desertpeony Peonia | |
Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red Buckeye Southern Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Ageratina altissima var. altissima | White Snakeroot | |
Agave americana | American Century Plant Century Plant | |
Ageratina havanensis | Shrubby Boneset White Mistflower White Shrub Mistflower Havana Snakeroot | |
Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla Tula Ixtle Maguey Lechuguilla Shindagger | |
Agalinis oligophylla | Ridgestem False Foxglove | |
Agalinis purpurea | Purple False Foxglove Purple Gerardia Gerardia | |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
Allium coryi | Yellowflower Onion Yellow-flowered Onion | |
Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
Allium elmendorfii | Elmendorf's Onion | |
Allium geyeri var. tenerum | Bulbil Onion | |
Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
Allowissadula holosericea | Velvet-leaf Mallow Chisos Mountain False Indianmallow | |
Allionia incarnata | Trailing Windmills Trailing Four O'Clock Pink Windmills Trailing Allionia | |
Alisma subcordatum | American Water Plantain | |
Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
Amsonia ciliata | Fringed Bluestar Bluestar Texas Bluestar | |
Ammannia coccinea | Valley Redstem Scarlet Tooth-cup | |
Amphiachyris dracunculoides | Prairie Broomweed Broomweed | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
Amaranthus retroflexus | Redroot Amaranth | |
Amaranthus scleropoides | Bonebract Amaranth | |
Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
Amoreuxia wrightii | Wright's Yellowshow Yellow-show | |
Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
Antennaria parlinii ssp. fallax | Parlin's Pussytoes | |
Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii | Flame Acanthus Hummingbird Bush Wright's Desert Honeysuckle Wright Acanthus Mexican Flame Wright's Mexican Flame | |
Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading Dogbane Bitterroot Flytrap Dogbane | |
Aphanostephus pilosus | Hairy Dozedaisy | |
Aphanostephus ramosissimus var. ramosissimus | Plains Dozedaisy | |
Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy Daisy Arkansas Lazy Daisy Arkansas Doze-daisy | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Aquilegia chrysantha var. chaplinei | Chaplin's Yellow Columbine Chaplin's Golden Columbine Chaplin's Columbine Chapline Columbine Guadalupe Mountain Columbine | |
Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's Golden Columbine Yellow Columbine Hinckley Columbine Capote Columbine | |
Argemone aenea | Golden Pricklypoppy Golden Prickly Poppy | |
Argemone albiflora ssp. texana | Texas Bluestem Pricklypoppy Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
Argemone aurantiaca | Texas Pricklypoppy Texas Prickly Poppy | |
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |