REFERENCE BOOKS ON TEXAS FLOWERS
Reading edition
For more detailed descriptions, description of other plants, flower uses, and flower legends and history, the following books will prove helpful:
Bailey, L. H., The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture.
Benson, L. and Darrow, R. A., A Manual of Southwestern Desert Trees and Shrubs.
Britton, N. L. and Brown, H. A., An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions.
Cory, V. L. and Parks, H. B., Catalogue of the Flora of Texas.
Coulter, John M., Cop. Botany of Western Texas (U. S. Nat. Herb. Contr., 1892, out of print).
Dorman, Caroline E., Wild Flowers of Louisiana.
Fassett, N. C., A Manual of Aquatic Plants.
Geiser, S. W., Naturalists of the Frontier. Southwest Press, Dallas.
Jaeger, E. C., Desert Wild Flowers.
Kearney, T. H. and Peebles, R. H., Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona.
Parks, H. B., Valuable Plants Native to Texas.
Preston, R. J., Rocky Mountain Trees.
Quillan, Ellen Schulz, Texas Wild Flowers.
Ranson, Nancy R., Texas Wild Flower Legends.
Reeves, R. G., and Bain, D. C., Flora of South-Central Texas.
Rydberg, P. A., Flora of the Prairies and Plains of Central N. A. (out of print).
Silveus, W. A., Texas Grasses.
Slater, Elsie M., A Hundred Flowers of the Mexican Border at El Paso.
Small, John K., Flora of the Southeastern United States, out of print; Manual of the Southeastern Flora.
Standley, P. C., Trees and Shrubs of Mexico (U. S. Nat Herb. Contr., 19—, out of print).
Stemen, T. B. and Myers, W. S., Oklahoma Flora.
Wooton, E. O. and Standley, P. C., Flora of New Mexico (U. S. Nat. Herb. Contr. Vol. 19, out of print).
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PLANT PARTS
COROLLA LOBES SEPARATE
STIGMA
STAMEN
PETAL
SEPAL
FLOWER-STALK (PEDUNCLE)
COROLLA LOBES UNITED
COROLLA LOBE
STAMEN
ANTHER (POLLEN-SAC)
FILAMENT
SEPAL
PISTIL
STIGMA
STYLE
OVARY
CALYX-TUBE
SEED
STIGMA
STAMEN
SEPAL
CALYX-TUBE
CAPSULE
BELL-SHAPE
CALYX-TUBE
TUBULAR
FUNNEL FORM
COMPOSITE FLOWER HEADS
INVOLUCRE
STIGMA
STYLE
STAMEN TUBE
DISK COROLLA
RAY COROLLA
DISK
FRUIT
BRACT (FLORAL LEAF)
FLORAL LEAF (BRACT)
LEAF BLADE
MIDRIB
LEAF-STALK (PETIOLE)
IRREGULAR LOBES
FRUIT OF COMPOSITE (ACHENE)
BRISTLES (PAPPUS)
SEED
SIMPLE LEAVES
LINEAR
LANCE-SHAPE
OBLONG
LANCE-OBLONG
OVATE
COMPOUND LEAVES
ONCE-DIVIDED
PALMATE or DIGITATE
SHARPLY TOOTHED
LEAFLETS
LEAF-STALK (PETIOLE)
STEM
PINNATE
TWICE-DIVIDED
LEAFLET
LEAF-STALK
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