National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: Texas (National Geographic Field Guide to Birds )
Contributor(s): Alderfer, Jonathan (Editor)

"National Geographic Field Guide to Birds provides affordable, portable, reliable region-specific information, perfect for the novice or experienced birder. In each guide, an introduction by an expert birder from the region offers guidance on where to look for key birds. An opening section gives pointers on how to look for key birds and what to focus on when you spot them. Each guide features approximately 150 birds, grouped by family. Two indexes: one alphabetical and one color-coded help readers identify a bird quickly.

Each entry has a vivid photograph showing the bird in its native habitat. On the facing page, there is a list of bulleted points of field identification clues as well as behavioral and habitat information, and the best local places to find the bird. Special field notes give additional i.d. or behavioral information and detailed maps show the range of each bird's habitat.

Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (Revised)
Contributor(s): Garrett, Howard (Author), Beck, C Malcolm (Author), Gage, Gwen E (Illustrator)

Now revised, this complete guide for identifying and organically controlling all of the most common Texas insects gives detailed instructions on how to identify, understand the life cycle of, and control or protect Texas insects, mites, snails, slugs, nematodes, and other critters. Full color.

Hummingbirds of Texas: With Their New Mexico and Arizona Ranges (Tam Nature Guides )
Contributor(s): Shackelford, Clifford Eugene (Author), Lindsay, Madge M (Author), Klym, C Mark (Author), Guzman, Clemente (Illustrator), Clemente, Rucker (Photographer), Rucker, Shirley (Photographer), Rucker, Sid (Photographer), Lasley, Greg W (Foreword by)

Written for a general audience, with spectacular images for birders and nature enthusiasts at every level, Hummingbirds of Texas reveals the enormous appeal of this tiniest and shiniest of birds. The book opens with a look at the many manifestations of the human attraction to these flying jewels.

Field GT Spiders & Scorpions of Texas (Gulf Publishing Field Guide Series )
Contributor(s): Jackman, J A (Author), Jackman, John A (Author)

Classified into more the 45 families, this guide describes the fascinating spiders and other arachnids of Texas.

Texas Snakes: A Field Guide (Texas Natural History Guides )
Contributor(s): Dixon, James Ray (Author), Werler, John E (Author), Levoy, Regina (Illustrator)

Texas Snakes: A Field Guide has all the resources you need to identify snakes in the wild and in your yard: 110 full-color, close-up photos that show every snake, as well as 39 detailed line drawings110 range mapsUp-to-date species accounts that describe each snake's appearance, look-alikes, size, and habitat A checklist of all Texas snakes and a key to the species Reliable information on poisonous snakes and preventing and treating snakebites Concise guides to snake conservation, classification, and identification

Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide (Revised) (Texas Natural History Guides )
Contributor(s): Loughmiller, Campbell (Author), Loughmiller, Lynn (Author)

For two decades and counting, Texans have relied on Texas Wildflowers to identify the common and rare flowers we see along the roadsides and in the pastures, fields, and forests of our state. Compiled by naturalists Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller, with the technical assistance of Lynn Sherrod, Texas Wildflowers is an authoritative field guide with a personal touch in the many notes the Loughmillers included about the plants they described and photographed. This new edition of Texas Wildflowers retains the charm of the Loughmillers' book while emphasizing 61 additional species and bringing the plant taxonomy and nomenclature up to date. Like its predecessor, it includes all the features you need to identify the wildflowers of Texas: - 381 full-color, close-up photos that show every wildflower in the book, including over 200 photos that are new to this edition. - 370 species accounts that include the plant's scientific and common names, a description of its appearance, and its range, habitat, and blooming season

Trees of Central Texas
Contributor(s): Vines, Robert A (Author)

A comprehensive and compact field guide, Trees of Central Texas introduces 186 species of tree life in Central Texas, an area roughly the region of the Edwards Plateau and bordered by the Balcones Escarpment on the south and east, the Pecos River on the west, and the Texas Plains and the Llano Uplift on the north. From the hardy oaks and rugged mesquites to the graceful willows, cottonwoods, and pecans, the tree life of Central Texas varies as much as the vast and changing land that hosts it. Full descriptions and superb illustrations of all the native and naturalized trees of the region as well as fascinating bits of history and lore make this an essential guide to the wealth of tree life in Central Texas.

How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest (Revised, Updated) - GreenLight
Contributor(s): Nokes, Jill (Author), Brown, Kathryn Miller (Illustrator)

Since its first publication in 1986, How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest has set the standard for both home and professional gardeners. Written when the native plant movement was just getting started, it helped convert a generation of gardeners to the practical and aesthetic values of using drought-tolerant plants in southwestern landscapes.

In this new edition, Jill Nokes has extensively rewritten every section to include the latest information on the production, cultivation, and landscape use of native plants. She has added over 75 new species and updated the propagation and care information for the original 350 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines. In addition to the individual plant descriptions, she also devotes whole chapters to gathering and storing seeds, seed germination, planting, vegetative propagation, and transplanting. With this wealth of clearly presented, easy-to-reference information, How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest will remain the last word on this subject.

A Field Guide to Common South Texas Shrubs (Learn about Texas )
Contributor(s): Taylor, Richard B (Author), Herrera Joe, G (Author), Rutledge, Jimmy (With), Herrera, Joe G (With)

The plants are grouped into thorned and thornless categories and alphabetized by family. Distinguishing characteristics have been italicized for easy reference. Similar species are also noted. In this guide, plants are not ranked by importance because their value to animals can differ from ranch to ranch, depending on the plant's availability and the ranch's location, soil type, and land management practices. In case a plant is not found in this guide or more information is desired, a list of additional references is included.

A Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers (Peterson Field Guides (Paperback) )
Contributor(s): Niehaus, Theodore F (Author), Peterson, Roger Tory (Editor), Savage, Virginia (Illustrator), Ripper, Charles L (Illustrator)

This guide, covering 1,505 species of wildflowers, groups flowers by color and plant characteristics for easy matching of pictures with specimens. With descriptions facing the more than 1,500 illustrations, all the information you need can be seen at a glance.

Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country (Paperback)
by Marshall Enquist (Author)

For south central texas this is the best wildflower field guide .high quality photos of the flower and foliage make it easy to use .contains most of flowering trees ,shrubs ,vines ,perennials and annuals that one is likely to come across.