Thoroughly updated by the expert staff of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center:
- 300 species descriptions, including engaging comments about the plants’ natural histories, landscape uses, edible or medicinal properties, and folklore
- A map of Texas’s vegetational areas
- Glossaries that define and illustrate botanical terms
- A bibliography of books for learning more about wildflowers
- Indexes to common and botanical plant names, as well as plant families, that distinguish between native and non-native species
