Liatris mucronata (treated by USDA PLANTS as Liatris punctata var. mucronata), commonly called Cusp Blazing Star, Texas Gayfeather or Texas Liatris, is a tough, drought-proof
Blue curls flowering in East Texas, showing the coiled, fiddlehead-like flower clusters that give the plant its common name. Photo: Joey1daddy, via Wikimedia Commons (CC
A flowering woolly paintbrush clump, its felted silver-white foliage set off by vivid red-orange bract clusters. Photo: Stan Shebs (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia Commons Castilleja
A red prickly poppy flower opening amid its spiny, pale-veined foliage in a Texas field. Photo: homeredwardprice, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Argemone sanguinea,
The distinctive nodding, urn-shaped flower of purple leatherflower, its thick sepals curling back at the tips. Photo: Eric Hunt, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A prairie sand verbena plant covered in round, white flower clusters on a dry, gravelly New Mexico slope. Photo: JerryFriedman, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA
A fiveneedle pricklyleaf mound in bloom, its wiry gray-green foliage almost hidden under a flush of small yellow daisies. Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, via Wikimedia
A downy paintbrush clump on a rocky New Mexico slope, its pale pink and cream bracts rising above soft, grayish foliage. Photo: Patrick Alexander, via
Woolly Butterflybush’s marble-sized flower ball of bright orange blooms against felted silver foliage. Photo: Stan Shebs, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Buddleja marrubiifolia, commonly called
Trailing Indigo Bush’s silvery, silky flower head with contrasting purple and cream petals. Photo: Stan Shebs, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Dalea greggii, known as
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