Presents information for increasing the use of native plants and wildflowers in America's future landscaping.

Bluebonnets and lady's slippers, larkspurs and blazing stars, black-eyed Susans and Granny's nightcaps. From a lonely childhood in the Piney Woods of East Texas

"Lifesize illustrations and descriptive paragraphs on the origin and botanical classification of American wild flowers."--Amazon.com.

Offers information on growing and propagating over 1,000 different species of wildflower, and includes an encyclopedia of plants native to the United States and

This highly entertaining reference book presents the popular lore, social history, and practical uses of nearly seven hundred native flowers.