Links to various wildflower pages:

• Native Plant Society of Texas
  • Austin Chapter .
  • State home page .
• National Wildflower Research Center .
• San Antonio Botanical Gardens .
• Texas A&M Wildflowers .

Its been a good year (winter/spring 96-97) for wild flowers so far in and around Austin!

These are outside the Nature Center in Zilker Park:

Wildflowers that have looeked very nice in and around Austin this year:

• Indian Blanket [AKA Firewheels, Gaillardia pulchella (Asteraceae)]
• Blanket Flower [Gaillardia aristata (Asteraceae)] (I'm not really sure which we have around here: Indian Blankets or Blanket Flowers)
• Wine Cup [Callirhoe involucrata (Malvaceae)]
• the ever famous Texas Bluebonnet [Lupinus texensis (Fabaceae)]
• Evening Primrose [the Aggies call this Showy Primrose, Oenothera speciosa (Onagraceae), but I think the Wildflower Center called them Pink Evening Primrose]
• Indian, or Texas, Paintbrush [Castilleja indivisa (Scrophulariaceae)]
• Mexican Hat [Ratibida columnaris (Asteraceae)]
• Cosmos [Cosmos bipinnatus (Asteraceae)]
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