For everyone who studies or simply enjoys the impressive variety of 
wild plants that grow in the counties of Texas' coastal bend, here is 
an authoritative, user-friendly book that will make an excellent 
reference. With many years of teaching experience and field work 
behind them, the authors have provided well-organized, informative 
species accounts along with reliable identification keys for more than 
one thousand of the region's trees, shrubs, vines, and wildflowers.

    Organized by botanical class and then alphabetically by family, 
genus, and species, the plants are characterized by appearance, size, 
habit, occurrence, soil preference, flowering period if appropriate, and, 
in the case of non-native species, place of origin. The authors provide
common names if available and additional information for rare and 
endangered plants. The keys are formatted to help avoid error and 
confusion in scientific identification and are easy and logical enough 
to aid amateur naturalists in identifying local wildflowers.

    This volume expands and updates the classic botanical work by 
Fred B. Jones, Flora of the Texas Coastal Bend, published in 1975 by 
the Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation. Completely revised 
and reorganized, it now contains nearly 70 individual drawings and is 
accompanied by a handy CD with more than 750 color photographs. 

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The authors live in Corpus Christi, where they are colleagues at Texas 
A&M University–Corpus Christi. ROY L. LEHMAN is an associate 
professor of biology and director of the Laguna Madre Field Research 
Station. RUTH O'BRIEN is curator of the university's herbarium. 
TAMMY WHITE is an instructor, laboratory coordinator, and a 
seasoned botanical field collector. Together, they co-authored the 
guide, Plants of Webb County, Texas.


Number Seven: Gulf Coast Studies, sponsored by Texas A&M 
University–Corpus Christi


What people are saying about this book

"This is a book for serious plant people . . . it is a sturdy hardcover 
book that will last for years and be used often."—Homegrown, 
July/August 2005