These are some of the flowers that are found in Indian Creek. They are labelled and linked to the best of our knowledge, but we are not botanists, so please look on this as a starting point for research.
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Family | common name | Latin name | other common names, links, and notes |
Amaryllis family | rain lily | Cooperia pedunculata | |
Wildflower Center rain lily | |||
Aster family | damianita | Chrysactinia mexicana | low mounded plant w/ yellow flowers |
Wildflower Center damianita | |||
Aster family | Indian blanket | Gaillardia pulchella | firewheel |
USDA gaillardia | |||
Aster family | musk thistle | Carduus nutans | nodding thistle |
USDA nodding thistle | |||
Aster family | pincushion daisy | Gaillardia suavis | fragrant gaillardia, perfume balls |
USDA gaillardia suavis | |||
Pincushion daisy is found only in Texas, Okla., & Kansas | |||
Aster family | prairie fleabane | Erigeron modestus | plains fleabane |
TAMU prairie fleabane | |||
Aster family | white rock lettuce | Pinoropappus roseus | white dandelion |
Wildflower Center white rock lettuce | |||
Aster family | zexmenia | Wedelia acapulcensis v. hispida | Texas creeping ox-eye, hairy wedelia |
Wildflower Center zexmenia | |||
Borage family | puccoon | Lithospermum incisum | fringed puccoon, narrowleaf stoneseed |
USDA puccoon | |||
Buttercup family | two-flowered anemone | Anemone edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau thimbleweed |
Wildflower Center anemone | |||
two-flowered anemone is found only on the Edwards Plateau! | |||
Gentian family | mountain pink | Centaurium calycosum | rock centaury, quinine weed |
TAMU mountain pink | |||
Legume family | bluebonnet | Lupinus texensis | |
Wildflower Center bluebonnet | |||
ICR bluebonnet | |||
Mallow family | sida | Sida abutifolia | spreading sida |
TAMU sida | |||
Milkweed family | antelope horns | Asclepias asperula | |
Wildflower Center antelope horns | |||
ICR antelope horns | |||
Mint family | annual pennyroyal | Hedeomia acinoides | |
Wildflower Center pennyroyal | |||
Mint family | Drummond’s skullcap | Scutellaria drummondii | |
Wildflower Center skullcap | |||
Mint family | mealy sage | Salvia farinacea | |
Wildflower Center mealy sage | |||
Morning-Glory family | Lindheimer’s morning glory | Ipomoea lindheimeri | |
Wildflower Center Lindheimer’s | |||
Morning-Glory family | Texas bindweed | Convolvulus equitans | |
Wildflower Center Tx bindweed | |||
Mustard family | whitlow grass | Draba Cuneifolia | |
WIldflower Center whitlow grass | |||
ICR whitlow grass | |||
Nightshade family | false nightshade | Chamaeseracha sordida | hairy five eyes |
TAMU false nightshade | |||
Phlox family | blue gilia | Gilia rigidula v. rigidula | |
Wildflower Center gilia rigidula | |||
Phlox family | standing cypress | Ipomopsis rubra | |
Wildflower Center standing cypress | |||
Verbena family | prairie verbena | Glandularia bipinnatifida |
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Wildflower Center prairie verbena | |||
ICR prairie verbena | |||