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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 |
| Calylophus hartwegii ssp. maccartii | Maccart's Sundrops |  |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow |  |
| Callirhoe leiocarpa | Tall Poppymallow Annual Winecup Tall Poppy-mallow Tall Poppy Mallow |  |
| Cardamine parviflora | Sand Bittercress |  |
| Callirhoe papaver | Woodland Poppymallow Woodland Poppy-mallow Woodland Poppy Mallow |  |
| Calibrachoa parviflora | Seaside Petunia |  |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring |  |
| Callirhoe scabriuscula | Texas Poppymallow Texas Poppy Mallow |  |
| Carlowrightia torreyana | Torrey's Wrightwort |  |
| Calyptocarpus vialis | Horseherb Straggler Daisy Hierba Del Caballo Lawnflower |  |
| 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 |  |
| Cevallia sinuata | Stinging Serpent Stinging Cevallia |  |
| Cenchrus spinifex | Grass Bur Coastal Sandbur Field Sandspur Southern Sandbur Spiny Burrgrass |  |
| Centaurium texense | Lady Bird's Centaury Texas Centaury |  |
| Chaetopappa bellidifolia | Whiteray Leastdaisy Dwarf White Aster Edwards Lazy Daisy |  |
| Chaetopappa bellioides | Manyflower Leastdaisy |  |
| Chamaesaracha coniodes | Gray Five Eyes False Nightshade Ground Saracha Prostrate Ground-cherry |  |
| Chamaesaracha coronopus | Greenleaf Five Eyes Green False Nightshade |  |
| Chaetopappa ericoides | Rose Heath Rose-heath |  |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant |  |
| Chamaesyce glyptosperma | Ribseed Sandmat Rib-seeded Sand Mat |  |
| Chamaecrista greggii | Gregg's Sensitive Pea |  |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre |  |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland Goldenaster Maryland Golden-aster |  |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita |  |
| Chamaesaracha pallida | Pale Five Eyes False Nightshade Averett Pale Five Eyes |  |
| Chamaesyce parryi | Parry's Sandmat |  |
| Chrysopsis pilosa | Soft Goldenaster Soft Golden-aster |  |
| Chamaesaracha sordida | Hairy Five Eyes False Nightshade |  |
| Chloracantha spinosa | Spiny Chloracantha Mexican Devil-weed |  |
| Chaerophyllum tainturieri | Hairyfruit Chervil Southern Chervil |  |
| Chaptalia texana | Texas Silverpuff Silverpuff Nodding Lettuce Silver Puff |  |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard |  |
| Chamaesaracha villosa | Transpecos Five Eyes Woolly False Nightshade |  |
| Cirsium horridulum | Bristle Thistle Yellow Thistle Horrid Thistle Purple Thistle Spiny Thistle Bull Thistle |  |
| Cirsium ochrocentrum | Yellowspine Thistle |  |
| Cirsium ochrocentrum | Yellowspine Thistle |  |
| Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle |  |
| Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle |  |
| Clematis crispa | Swamp Leatherflower Curly Clematis Blue-jasmine Curlflower Curly Virgin's Bower Marsh Clematis |  |
| Clitoria mariana | Atlantic Pigeonwings Butterfly Pea |  |
| Cnidoscolus texanus | Texas Bullnettle Bull Nettle Tread-softly Spurge Nettle |  |
| Corydalis aurea | Scrambled Eggs Golden Corydalis |  |
| Coreopsis basalis | Goldenmane Tickseed Golden-wave |  |
| Cordia boissieri | Mexican Olive Texas Wild Olive Anacahuita Anacahuite |  |
| Cocculus carolinus | Carolina Snailseed Carolina Coralbead Carolina Moonseed Red Berried Moonseed Carolina Red Berried Moonseed |  |
| Cocculus carolinus | Carolina Snailseed Carolina Coralbead Carolina Moonseed Red Berried Moonseed Carolina Red Berried Moonseed |  |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset |  |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset |  |
| Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort Scrambled Eggs Golden Smoke Curvepod |  |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood |  |
| Convolvulus equitans | Texas Bindweed Bindweed |  |
| Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower |  |
| Commelina erecta var. angustifolia | Whitemouth Dayflower Narrow-leaf Dayflower Widow's Tears |  |
| Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro |  |
| Coreopsis grandiflora | Largeflower Tickseed Large-flower Tickseed Common Coreopsis |  |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis |  |
| Coreopsis nuecensis | Crown Tickseed Crown Coreopsis |  |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country Rain Lily Prairie Lily Rain Lily Flor De Mayo |  |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country Rain Lily Prairie Lily Rain Lily Flor De Mayo |  |
| Cooperia smallii | Small's Rainlily Small's Rain Lily |  |
| Colubrina texensis | Texas Hog Plum Texas Snakewood Texas Colubrina Hog Plum |  |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis |  |
| Cooperia traubii | Traub's Rainlily Traub's Rain Lily |  |
| Crinum americanum | American Crinum Lily Seven Sisters Swamp Lily Southern Swamp Lily String Lily Crinum Lily |  |
| Croton capitatus | Hogwort Texas Goatweed |  |
| Croton capitatus | Hogwort Texas Goatweed |  |
| Croptilon divaricatum | Slender Scratchdaisy Scratch Daisy Granite Daisy |  |
| Crataegus spathulata | Littlehip Hawthorn Pasture Hawthorn Smallfruit Hawthorn |  |
| Cucurbita foetidissima | Stinking Gourd Buffalo Gourd Missouri Gourd Stink Gourd Wild Gourd |  |
| Cuscuta gronovii | Scaldweed Dodder |  |
| Cuscuta runyonii | Runyon's Dodder |  |
| Cylindropuntia imbricata var. argentea | Tree Cholla |  |
| 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 |  |
| Cyperus odoratus | Fragrant Flatsedge Fragrant Sedge |  |
| Dalea aurea | Golden Dalea Golden Prairie Clover |  |
| Dalea formosa | Featherplume Feather Dalea Indigobush |  |
| Dalea formosa | Featherplume Feather Dalea Indigobush |  |
| Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover |  |
| Dalea lasiathera | Purple Dalea |  |
| Dalea multiflora | Roundhead Prairie Clover White Prairie Clover Round Headed Dalea Round Headed Clover |  |
| Dalea nana | Dwarf Prairie Clover Dwarf Dalea |  |
| Dalea phleoides var. microphylla | Slimspike Prairie Clover |  |
| Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover |  |
| Dasylirion texanum | Texas Sotol Sotol |  |
| Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed |  |
| Delphinium carolinianum ssp. virescens | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur Plains Larkspur |  |
| Descurainia incana | Mountain Tansymustard |  |
| Desmodium nuttallii | Nuttall's Ticktrefoil |  |
| Descurainia pinnata | Western Tansymustard Tansy-mustard |  |
| Desmodium psilophyllum | Simpleleaf Ticktrefoil Wright's Tickclover Beggar's Ticks Sticktights |  |
| Dicliptera brachiata | Branched Foldwing Branched Dicliptera |  |
| Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto |  |
| Diodia virginiana | Virginia Buttonweed Buttonweed |  |
| Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata | Parasol Whitetop Flat-top Aster |  |
| Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |