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In "Big Thicket Legacy," Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the
stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas.
Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when
interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first
settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild
boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to
church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory
ashes.
With more than 175,000 copies sold, Texas Wildflowers has
established itself as the go-to guide for identifying the state’s
roadside flowers. This new edition has been completely reorganized
by flower colors (and within each color section, by flowering
season) to make it even easier to identify the flowers you see as
you travel through Texas. Every wildflower is illustrated with a
beautiful full-color photograph—over 250 of which are new to this
edition. All of the descriptive identifying information is
presented in a consistent format—common and botanical names,
plant and leaves, flowers and fruit, flowering season, habitat and
range, and notes. What hasn’t changed is the book’s sturdy
binding, which will hold up through years of active use, and its
wealth of information, which has been 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 As Lady Bird
Johnson observed in the foreword, Texas Wildflowers “makes me
want to reach for my sunhat, put on my walking shoes, take this
knowledge-filled book, and fare forth to seek and discover!”
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