WILD COMPANION: WHEEL IDENTIFIES TEXAS WILDFLOWERS
COLLEGE STATION – There’s more to Texas wildflowers than just roadside beauty: Native Americans made tea from a Texas wildflower, plains coreopsis, to strengthen their blood. When the bluebonnet was chosen to be the Texas state flower, the runners-up were the prickly pear cactus and the open cotton boll. Gayfeather is also called snakeroot because…