Wildflowers across Texas

From Amarillo to San Antonio, from El Paso to Houston, the Texas landscape lights up almost year-round with thousands of delicate, dazzling wildflowers. Whether you seek quantity or diversity, no state can boast more wildflowers than Texas, where more than 5,000 species thrive. WILDFLOWERS ACROSS TEXAS brings us Texas photographer Laurence Parent's most spectacular wildflower images: fields of bright, beloved Texas bluebonnets, lakes full of wild water lilies, and rare, isolated agave blossoms. The beauty of the Texas landscape is here in its full glory. This stunning book will be cherished by visitors to Texas, those who hail from the Lone Star State, and those who simply love the splendor of wildflowers. A delightful foreword by First Lady Laura Bush pays fond tribute to her native state and to the tantalizing allure of the flowers springing up along the roads and across the hills and plains of this great state.

From Amarillo to San Antonio, from El Paso to Houston, the Texas landscape lights up almost year-round with thousands of delicate, dazzling wildflowers. Whether you seek quantity or diversity, no state can boast more wildflowers than Texas, where more than 5,000 species thrive. WILDFLOWERS ACROSS TEXAS brings us Texas photographer Laurence Parent's most spectacular wildflower images: fields of bright, beloved Texas bluebonnets, lakes full of wild water lilies, and rare, isolated agave blossoms. The beauty of the Texas landscape is here in its full glory. This stunning book will be cherished by visitors to Texas, those who hail from the Lone Star State, and those who simply love the splendor of wildflowers. A delightful foreword by First Lady Laura Bush pays fond tribute to her native state and to the tantalizing allure of the flowers springing up along the roads and across the hills and plains of this great state.

LAURENCE PARENT is the author of thirty-seven books, including Big Bend National Park, Texas Coast, Texas Mountains (all co-authored by Joe Nick Patoski), and Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites. A full-time freelance photographer and writer specializing in landscape, travel, and nature subjects, Parent has published in Men's Journal, Outside, Backpacker, Sierra, Natural History, National Parks, Newsweek, Arizona Highways, Travel & Leisure, the New York Times, Texas Highways, Texas Monthly, Texas Parks & Wildlife, and New Mexico Magazine.

Parent teaches political science at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos.

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