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	Dot Lang's  WildFlower Notebook for east Wise County, Texas Flowers by Color
	Work in Progress! I am trying to verify id's and have found errors. Family pages will appear eventually so you may view  larger photos thru those pages. In bold, I'm pretty sure of ID. Pink to Red Flowers Click on Family name, species name, or thumbnails to view more photos and my plant notes.  Plant family in alphabetical order by Scientific family name.  Most are in the Dicot Class, Monocots noted in yellow with an * by their Family name.	Cells with this color are  Foreign imports: :

Scientific Family Name Common Family Name	Common Name Genus, species
Agavaceae Century Plant Family	# Red-Flowered yucca  Hesperaloe parviflora # cultivated native [added 2005, 2011]	.	.
Apiaceae Parsley Family	.	.	.
Asclepiadaceae Milkweed Family	Green Comet Milkweed Asclepia viridiflora	Twin Flower vine Matelea biflora	.
Asteraceae Aster Family	Purple Cone Flower Echinacea sanguinea	Blanket Flower Gaillardia pulchella	Ironweed Vernonia .......?
	Texas Thistle Cirsium texanum	Cirsium species	Cirsium species
	Palafoxia callosa Sparsely in the neighborhood.
Capparaceae Spider-Flower family	Polanisia dodecandra Clammy weed fall	Clammy weed with seed pods formed. found growing by lake, 2015 floods may have wiped out.
Convolvulaceae Morning Glory Family	Texas Bindweed Convolvulus equitans	Ipomoea cordatotriloba var. torreyana 7 Cotton Morning Glory found growing on neighboring road, Wise County
Dipsacaceae Teasel Family	Scabiosa atropurpurea pincushion, Sweet Scabiosa invasive
Fabaceae Bean Family	Sensitive Brier, Catclaw sub-family Mimosoideae Mimosa roemeriana 7	Narrow Leaf Indian Breadfruit Pediomelum linearifolium 7, 2	Redbud Cercis canadensis # Texas native ornamental
Gentianaceae Gentian Family	Meadow Pink Sabatia campestris 7 leaves clasping and not narrow. blooms early June. Survived 2015 lake flooding.	Centaurium floribundum However this may be Centaurium tenuifolium as it's stigma is split into two paddles at the top. C.t. is a European plant.  Appears to be a lot of mixed info about this plant & similar plants.  It is used medicinally. Noticed June 2016, above shale shelf, moist ground.  Sturdier plant than C.c. at right.  Both in same 10 square foot area.	Centaurium texense new name: Zeltnera texense noticed June 2016, next to shelf, moist ground.  Yikes! Wiped out mid-June by mower.
	Showing winged sepal base and bright pink color.  Varies from light pinks to bright pinks	Sabatia campestris growing in a field. June 2016.  Near the Cetauriums.
Geraniaceae Geranium Family	Carolina Geranium Geranium carolinianum found growing in neighboring field	Cranesbill, filaree Erodium cicutarium	Cranesbill, filaree Erodium cicutarium .
Krameriaceae Ratany Family	Crameria, Sandbur, Prairie Bur Krameria lanceolata 1,2,7	.	Seed is pea size with tough,  hard thorns and tough seed  to crack open. Flower is  orchid like, complex, small
		1/8 inch marks.  Seed is 1/4 inch in diameter plus spikes. Hard, woody seed pod.	4 to 5 pinkish sepals, 5 petals: 3 forming a dark red edged fan, 2 paler "cupping" the carpel which eventually becomes the seedpod with thorns.
Lamiaceae Mint Family	Lemon Mint, Horse Mint Monarda citriodora	Wild bergamot, Beebalm Monarda fistulosa found on Wise County road	.
*Liliaceae Lily Family	Drummond's Wild Onion Allium drummondii varies from white to light purple/pink	Drummond's Wild Onion Allium drummondii	.
Lythraceae	Lanceleaf Loosestrife,  Lythrum alatum  var. lanceolatum, 10 new find 2016 - 2 plants, both marked now.
Malvaceae Mallow Family	Wine-Cup Callirhoeë  pedata 7 perennial		.
Nyctaginaceae Four-O-Clock Family	Narrow Leaf Four O'Clock Mirabilis linearis	. Light, airy, tall plant	Mirabilis jalapa from Peru, also cultivated, dropped by birds? into pot. Sprouted fall 2018. Will try to see if I can keep it alive.
Onagraceae Evening Primrose Family	Showy evening primrose comes in pink. Oenothera speciosa	Gaura longiflora
Pedaliaceae Sesame Family	Devil's Claw, Ram's Horns Proboscidea louisianica summer, fall
Portulacaceae  Portulaca Purslane Family	Shaggy Portulaca, "Kiss me Quick" Portulaca pilosa Notes: 2 hour flowering time! in the late morning. These haven't been on this land since 2007.  Finally found a small patch, June 2017, lower field.  Hope it spreads. the ones I found are fairly glabrous (no hairs to speak of)	Prairie Flameflower, Sunbright Phemeranthus calycinum, 7 Talinum calycinum spring	Prairie Flameflower plant showing above ground perennial tuber on left side of photo. May have lost most of these in the last 2015 lake flood (and they had done so well early that spring with dozens of plants on the hard shell shelf). 2017 and they have made a good comeback.
	Claytonia virginica Spring Beauty  See "white/green" page for more photos
Ranunculaceae Crowfoot Family	Pheasant's-Eye Adonis annua	.	.
Rubiaceae Madder Family	Fine-Leaf Bluet, Prairie Bluet Stenaria nigricans (Lam.) 9 Hedyotis nigricans1, 7 Houstonia nigricans This might make a good border plant. It will clump if not crowded. perennial.	Field bladder Sherardia arvensis	Plants at left really have pink flowers
Tribe Cheloneae Scrophulariaceae Figwort Family Some now included under Plantaginaceae	Texas Paintbrush Castilleja indivisa	Downy Paintbrush Castilleja purpurea 2, 7 perennial	Wild Foxglove, Fairy Thimbles Penstemon cobaea 1,2,7 varies from white to dark pink, depending on individual plant. blooms April/May
	# Texas sage  Leucophyllum frutescens # Texas native ornamental (added to land pre-2005, not doing well xeric wise)	Agalinis heterophylla Prairie False Foxglove 2015 1.5 miles south of us. September/October	.

# Cells with this mark are native cultivares; (not found naturally in my fields)
* In the Monocot Class.
 

 As ID'd from:

¹ Wild Flowers of Texas book by Geyata Ajilvsgi, revised ed. 2003
²Lady Bird Johnson WildFlower Center website,
³Kansas State Wildflowers website.
⁴100 Texas Wildflowers by Dorothy Baird Mattiza for the Native Plant Society of Texas, 1993
⁵ Native Plant Society of Texas
⁶ Texas Wildflowers by Leo Meier & Jan Reid
⁷ Shiner & Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas by Diggs, Lipscomb & O'Kennon, 1999
⁸  Google searches used to help verify and find more info
⁹  USDA website Plant Database
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