I have been gardening with Wildflowers and Texas native plants for 18 years and it has been a wonderful experience.
Learning about the less known plants and about wildlife has opened my eyes to a whole new way of appreciating nature.

Tell us about your experience and your adventures in the world of Nature.

Winecup, Callirhoe involucrata

Quite a few:

Blues - Spiderwort, American Bellflower, wild Blue Phlox, Downy Skullcap, Great Blue Lobelia, Camassias
Purples - New England Asters, Violets, Purple Coneflower (2 wilds), Dame's Rocket (pinkish purple), Turtlehead (pinkish)
Greens - Solomon's Seal, Snow on the Mountain, Ferns, Jack-in-the Pulpit, Rattlesnake Master
Yellows - Goldenrod, Maximilian's Sunflower, Black Eyed Susan
Reds - Ipomopsis, Leopard Lily, Blackberry Lily (orange), Campsis (orange)
Whites - wild Allium, Claytonia, Heath Aster

Trees - Paw Paw (brown flowers)

Time permitting, I'll dig up some photos.

I have just come across Callirhoe.
I ordered seeds for some called "bushii".
What is the difference between the different varieties?

Wow Jay!! It looks like you are as addicted to wildflowers as I am, such a wonderful addiction I must say!!

I have many of the wildflowers you have, since they are native to a very large area of north America, and that is a very lucky thing.

Here is hoping you will show us some pictures of your favorites, if you can possibly decide which ones they are?

Surely you love them all and have trouble choosing, just as i do.

Let us have fun sharing.

Hello Caroline, I am not familiar with Callirhoe bushii but I looked around and found this info
http://www.missouribotanicalga...

It seems the main difference is that the plant is more erect than Callirhoe involucrata and C, digitata these two are really trailing plants.

I hope it does well for you they are really beautiful.

I don't know if you can call what I have as a garden. More like a random collection of plants. But what I have acquired over the last couple of years has been almost exclusively native wildflowers.

Acacia farnesiana
Acmella repens
Amsonia tabernaemontana
Borrichia frutescens
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Chamaecrista fasciculata
Conoclinium coelestinum
Cornus drummondii
Crinum americanum
Desmanthus illinoensis
Elephantopus carolinianus
Erythrina herbacea
Hibiscus moscheutos ssp. moscheutos
Hibiscus moscheutos ssp. lasiocarpos
Hibiscus coccineus
Hibiscus laevis
Hydrolea ovata
Hymenocallis liriosme
Hypericum hypericoides ssp. hypericoides
Indigofera suffruticosa
Kosteletzkya pentacarpos
Lantana urticoides
Mimosa strigillosa
Opuntia engelmannii,
Opuntia humifusa
Opuntia fragilis
Passiflora incarnata
Polygonum hydropiperoides
Pontederia cordata
Ratibida columnifera
Rudbeckia hirta
Sagittaria lancifolia
Sagittaria latifolia
Sagittaria platyphylla
Silphium radula
Yucca louisianensis
Probably a few others I'm can't think of at the moment.

Oh My Goodness Jay!! it surely looks like you are addicted as well!!
Gardening with native plants and wildflowers is such a great hobby, there is always a special one that we don't have and the search goes on.

That is a very impressive list of Texas natives and I know that you really love them all, just as I do.


Which is your favorite of the ones you listed? If you can possibly pick a favorite?

I don't think I can name one favorite. I love all the Malvaceae, Turk's Cap, Salt Marsh-mallow, and Hibiscus. I'm actually trying to collect all the Texas Native Hibiscus.

I have to add to my list of plants

Chasmanthium latifolium
Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii
Unidentified Spiderworts

My favorite of all the wilds i grow Is New England Aster, a butterfly magnet. Pics to come...

Jmorth, I love the Asters as well, they are all so beautiful and put on such a show in the Fall.

I wish New England Aster was a Texas native, I would beg you for some in a heart beat.

But we do have a lovely aster here also, which is native to Illinois as well Purple Fall Aster.

http://wildflower.org/plants/r...

This guy is a show stopper for about three weeks in the Fall.

Horntoad, you say you love Hibiscus and are trying to enlarge your collection.

I didn't see you list Heartleaf Hibiscus; http://wildflower.org/plants/r...
This one is not winter hardy in North Central Texas, but it should be hardy for your area.

You didn't list, Neches River Rosemallow, this one should work well for you
http://www.wildearthguardians....

I can send you seeds of both if you like.

Thank you! I would love to get some of those.
The ones I don't have are:
Hibiscus grandiflorus
Hibiscus aculeatus
Hibiscus dasycalyx
Hibiscus martianus
Hibiscus striatus
Hibiscus coulteri
Hibiscus denudatus

I will gather some seeds and send them this Fall, I can't help you with the others, but will keep my eyes open

Amrican Bellflower

Violets

wild Blue Phlox

Spiderwort

Dame's Rocket

Blue Lobelia

Downy Skullcap

Turtlehead

1st installment, I call the above entry of blues and purples; to be followed by 2nd installment. I'll try to load some more wilds grown in garden in the next day or so...

All time favorite wild: N Eng Aster




w/ Goldenrod

Draws tons of Butterflies in September yearly

Purple Coneflower

Love those asters. They are some of my faves.

I grow what's pictured on my other thread and here's a few more:

Wild asters



Opuntia humifusa

Maximilian Sunflower -


Leopard Lily (Pardalium) -




Ipomopsis -

Camassia -

Ferns -

Rattlesnake Master -

Solomon's Seal -

wild Allium -

Jack in the Pulpit -




Claytonia -



White Heath Aster -

JMorth, you are amazing, I have to run right now, but I want to be able to respond to your posts and appreciate your plants.

I will be back later

@SongofJoy are you sure the is Opuntia humusifa? It doesn't look right to me. Here is some I photographed earlier this year.

It came from a friend in Virginia who ID'd it as O. humifusa. Maybe not but it looks like it when it blooms. I have read that the spines are sometimes lacking on O. humifusa var. humifusa.