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0. 111 pages.
0961710209
978-0-9617102-0-0

Wildflowers of the Llano Estacado

By Francis L. Rose and Russell W. Strandtmann

The Llano Estacado is a huge upland, 37,000 square miles in area, in northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico. The great mesa, once a vast short-grass prairie, is devoid of native trees save for the tiny shin oak. Much of it is now agricultural land, including the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world. Yet in the uncultivated locations that still exist, in the grazing lands, on roadsides, and around the playa lakes and buffalo wallows, a wide variety of wildflowers share the prairie soil with grasses.

Suitable for the expert and lay person alike, this book contains more than 120 beautiful color photographs with accompanying descriptions of the flowers of the Texas high plains. A key to the families, drawings of plant parts, a glossary, and a table of flowering schedules aid in the identification of the flowers.

Francis L. Rose, a Georgia native, and Russell W. Strandtmann, a Texan, were professors of biology at Texas Tech University.