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Wildflowers of Texas

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This book is simply AMAZING!! The photos are very beautiful and bring peace and joy to everyday life! I LOVED it! Thank you NetGalley for a digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

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I love a good field guide---I use them in my day-to-day life but also as in my day job as an environmental consultant. Finding a wildflower book for Texas that covers plants beyond the showier, popular ones covered in most field guides. It's was a wonderful to see a more diverse showing of plants throughout the whole state, too, which would help in needing to carry multiple books to identify your plant, particularly when on the edge of an ecoregion.
I will definitely be purchasing this book!

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When my oldest Daughter was a toddler, we stayed in Texas with my sister for a while. The state has so much beauty I would of loved to just stayed there forever. Just driving down the road while the wildflowers are in bloom would make anyone want to live there. There were so many colors, shapes, and sizes of the flowers, and so many fields just filled with stunning flowers.

This books takes an in depth look at each and every wildflower you will find in Texas. There is a picture of each flower and a short description of each one. It gives you the official name as well as all the other names each flower is known as. It describes the plant, how many flowers per plant or bunch on the plant, the flower size, the height of the plant, and the best parts of Texas to find the plant. There are several plants with diffrent variations and all of those are also picture.

Not all of these plants are only found in Texas. So I see in my yard and driving down the streets in my town in Florida, as well as other states I travel too. So even if you don't live in Texas this book would still be nice to have to show some of the wildflowers in your own state.

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Once, long ago, I married a fella who knew much about seed and native grasses. This combined with my love of bright, waving flowers has inspired me to spend uncountable hours in the flowerbeds around my house and uncountable dollars on books and magazines. While wisely not wholly focused on the High Plains (or Southern Shortgrass Prairie as Mr. Eason informs us), Wildflowers of Texas does give a fair education of wildflowers on the High Plains, something sorely lacking in my library. Packed with beautiful photography and dense with plant information, Wildflowers of Texas is useful to both professional and amateur gardeners alike.

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The glossary is very useful as is family descriptions
Very good preparation for the plant listings
Good consise description of Texas ecoregions
Pictures are good, more would be better.
Would like better descriptions of differences between similar species

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.Back in the early 1990's I was a graduate student in Austin, Texas and one of my greatest joys, given that I lived in an apartment and love gardens, was traveling around on Sundays looking at wildflowers. While my sinuses didn't think much of my plans, the fields, forested areas and prairies in Travis and surrounding county areas were simply unmatched for their diversity and beauty. From asters to wild orchids to Texas' famous bluebonnet, the rich wildflowers and their local appreciation, thanks in no small part to Lady Bird Johnson, gave me so much enjoyment. And so this glorious book, organized by color and within color groups by family, is a feast for the eyes and a great resource for the wildflower lover. Is that really Verbena? Are there truly wild white violets in Bastrop? How I would have loved to lug this 500+ page book around in my backpack! This book leaves me wanting to go back to the Hill Country, to further explore the unique ecological regions that comprise Travis county, one of the only counties in Texas with three distinct ecological environments.

A must-have for Texas plant lovers, and those in neighboring regions and climates.

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