REFERENCE BOOKS ON TEXAS FLOWERS
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).
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