Why can’t I find my wildflower?  Why did my search give no results?

This web site is just an introduction to the wildflowers of Texas.  It includes only 185 species, and it doesn’t even include all of the common ones—there are over 6000 different species and varieties of  flowering plants in Texas!  So, it is likely that your flower is one we didn’t include.  Sorry!

There are other places you can look, of which a few are mentioned here.  The Lady Bird Johnson National Wildflower Center  (now part of the University of Texas at Austin) has a Native Plants Database at:
http://wildflower.org/plants/
and lots of images of these species at:
http://wildflower.org/gallery/
The Plant Resources Center has a database of specimen data for the Texas specimens deposited there.  This database is available on-line at:
http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/databases.html

There are several excellent wildflower guides for Texas, some covering all the state and some covering specific parts.  A couple of recent ones that cover the entire state are:

Texas Wildflowers, A Field Guide (Revised Edition),  by Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller (updated by Damon Waitt), published in 2006 by the University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.

Wildflowers of Texas (Revised Edition), by Geyata Ajilvsgi, published in 2002 by Shearer Publishing, Fredericksburg, Texas.