To test your skill at identifying Texas’ wildflowers, try the Wildflower Quiz at: http://www.wildflower.org/coll...

11 out of 12 for Central
11 out of 12 for High Plains
11 out of 12 for West
12 out of 12 for East
12 out of 12 for West

Okay, now you're showing off, Jay!!!! I only did the beginner's wildflowers, but got 12 out of 12. Quit while I was ahead!

The advanced quize wasn't that difficult. They show a picture of a yucca and give you choice like a coreopsis, a grass, a salvia and an aster. If they wanted to make is difficult they should show a picture of a yucca and give you choices like, Yucca glauca, Yucca louisianensis, Yucca rupicola and Yucca thompsoniana. Then I would have had trouble.

That was fun...I got 12/12 for beginners !

I'll have to go back and take the rest of the tests. I'm fairly sure I won't get a perfect score.

I started taking other states and went back to do the regions, and I think I broke it.

Fun while it lasted though!

I did the advanced
Central 12-12
East 11-12
High plains 11-12
North Central 12-12
South 11-12
West 11-12

Good for you, Josephine!

Multiple choice strategy from school days. If you don't know the answer right away, just eliminate the ones it can't be, then most of the time you can figure out which is more likely. I enjoyed the quiz!

Yes, glad the quiz wasn't trying to trick you!

I think that test it is more like a teaching tool than a test but very nice.

I still remember when I took two plant field courses at the university years ago. Every week there'd be quizzes. Usually he'd put out specimens of the plants the class had ID's the week ago on forays and field trips, and then we'd have to write out answers on each one. Like common name, family or botanical name, sometimes botanical details like what kind of leaves or leaf arrangement, for instance. Points off for spelling! We really studied! But still, I enjoyed those classes more than my other classes!

I had a class on native plants last semester and absolutely loved it. Went to McKinney Falls, Hamilton Pool, and even had John Ahrnes give us a grand tour of Westcave Preserve.


BTW Josephine, thank you so much for talking with me. I did get an A in my paper.

That is great Carey, I think Texas native plants are wonderful

That sounds like fun! I've been to McKinney Falls a few times. We don't get around to going to parks and such very much these days. But I'm going to the Native San Antonio event at the Land Heritage Institute land on the southside of S.A. on March 16...God willing and the creek don't rise!

Have fun Linda, you always find the neatest plants

11 out of 12

Good for you, Sherill!

Hey Linda, start a new thread and tell us what you found at the plant event!!!! I found a few things here at Barton Springs Nursery.