Hill Country Penstemon in full bloom, showing its clumping habit and spikes of brilliant magenta-red flowers. Photo: William L. Farr / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA
Dakota Mock Vervain blooming in the Badlands of South Dakota, showing its rounded cluster of pink-lavender flowers. Photo: National Park Service (Public Domain) Glandularia bipinnatifida,
Penstemon havardii, commonly called Big Bend Penstemon (also Big Bend Beardtongue, Havard Penstemon, or Havard’s Beardtongue), is a striking perennial wildflower restricted in the United
The airy, wand-like flower sprays of Lindheimer’s Beeblossom, in a garden planting. Photo: Javier Martin / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) Oenothera lindheimeri (long sold under
A dense stand of Greenthread in bloom, its threadlike foliage nearly hidden beneath masses of golden-yellow flowers. Photo: MtBotany / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Engelmann Daisy growing in a native grassland clump, its wiry stems topped with cheerful yellow flowerheads. Photo: sonnia hill / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Texas guayacan in bloom at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo County. Photo: sonnia hill, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Guaiacum angustifolium, commonly called Texas
Silver bluestem’s namesake silvery seed heads catching the light, photographed in Austin, Texas. Photo: smallcurio, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Bothriochloa laguroides, commonly called Silver
Seep muhly’s dense, rounded clumping habit, shown here in a botanical garden planting. Photo: Daderot, Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Muhlenbergia reverchonii, known as Seep Muhly, is
A dense, multi-stemmed redberry juniper growing on a rocky slope in the Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas. Photo: James St. John, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
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