Common Wildflowers of Wilson County, Texas

Texas thistle: round, purple—flower like a ball.  Cirsium texanum

Firewheel / Indian Blanket: round, like a wheel, red, yellow, orange: Gaillardia pulchella

Phlox: small, usually purple, five-pointed flower: Phlox drummondii

Primrose: usually light pink; large, thin petals, not a buttercup: Oenothera speciosa

Wine cup: dark red, cup-shaped flower: Callirhoë digitata

Bull nettle: small, waxy white flowers, hurts! (bad woman): Cnidoscolus texanus

Wild onion: from white to purple, many small flowers together: Allium mobilense

Texas false dandelion: yellow, opens only in the daytime: Pyrrhopappus multicaulis

Squaw-weed / groundsel / ragwort: small, yellow flowers: hayfever! Senecio ampullaceus

Indian paintbrush: white and pink: Castilleja indivisa

Verbena: many small purple flowers together: Verbena canadensis

Toadflax: tall, thin stem with small, light-purple flowers: Linaria texana

White prickly poppy: large, thin white petals: stickers!: Argemona albiflora

Larkspur: white to pale purple flowers with a spur: poison!: Delphinium virescens

Bluebonnet: Mistakenly thought to rob soil of nutrients, hence “wolf”:  Lupinus texensis

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