Big Thicket Legacy

In Big Thicket Legacy, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory ashes.

History

Loughmiller, Campbell

Loughmiller, Lynn

Americas

Univ of Texas Pr

For two decades and counting, Texans have relied on Texas Wildflowers to identify the common and rare flowers we see along the roadsides and in the pastures, fields, and forests of our state. Compiled by naturalists Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller, with the technical assistance of Lynn Sherrod, Texas Wildflowers is an authoritative field guide with a personal touch in the many notes the Loughmillers included about the plants they described and photographed. This new edition of Texas Wildflowers retains the charm of the Loughmillers' book while emphasizing 61 additional species and bringing the plant taxonomy and nomenclature up to date. Like its predecessor, it includes all the features you need to identify the wildflowers of Texas: <ul>
<li> 381 full-color, close-up photos that show every wildflower in the book, including over 200 photos that are new to this edition.</li> <li> 370 species accounts that include the plant's scientific and common names, a description of its appearance, and its range, habitat, and blooming season.</li> <li> Descriptions of 73 wildflower families, from Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae.</li> <li> Indexes to help you identify flowers by their Latin name and common name.</li> <li> A guide to taxonomic updates in this edition.</li> <li> A map, glossary, illustrated glossary, and bibliography for further reading.</li> </ul>
Lady Bird Johnson, author of the first edition's foreword, says of this new edition of Texas Wildflowers, "How delighted I am the University of Texas Press and the Wildflower Center are preserving Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller's legacy by revising and updating this beautiful and invaluable book about Texas wildflowers! Not only does it contain a wealth of knowledge, it also awakens our awareness of the splendor of nature and joyous lift of spirit it brings."

Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide (Texas Natural History Guides™)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

University of Texas Press

Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide

Identifies hundreds of the most common wild flowers found in Texas and describes the characteristics and range of each plant

Sherrod, Lynn

Loughmiler, Campbell

With more than 175,000 copies sold, Texas Wildflowers has established itself as the go-to guide for identifying the state’s roadside flowers. This new edition has been completely reorganized by flower colors (and within each color section, by flowering season) to make it even easier to identify the flowers you see as you travel through Texas. Every wildflower is illustrated with a beautiful full-color photograph—over 250 of which are new to this edition. All of the descriptive identifying information is presented in a consistent format—common and botanical names, plant and leaves, flowers and fruit, flowering season, habitat and range, and notes.
What hasn’t changed is the book’s sturdy binding, which will hold up through years of active use, and its wealth of information, which has been thoroughly updated by the expert staff of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center:
<ul>
<li>300 species descriptions, including engaging comments about the plants’ natural histories, landscape uses, edible or medicinal properties, and folklore </li>
<li>A map of Texas’s vegetational areas </li>
<li>Glossaries that define and illustrate botanical terms </li>
<li>A bibliography of books for learning more about wildflowers </li>
<li>Indexes to common and botanical plant names, as well as plant families, that distinguish between native and non-native species</li>
</ul>
As Lady Bird Johnson observed in the foreword, Texas Wildflowers “makes me want to reach for my sunhat, put on my walking shoes, take this knowledge-filled book, and fare forth to seek and discover!”

Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide (Texas Natural History Guides)

Loughmiller, Campell

Marcus, Joe

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