Caroline Dormon has lived with these flowers all her life and knows them as intimate friends. That is why she is able to depict many characteristics that escape the casual observer. Two hundred and twenty are illustrated in water-color and delicate line drawings with living plants as models. Most of Miss Dormon's earlier work in Wild Flowers of Louisiana is incorporated herein and updated, plus additional material spanning the southeastern Atlantic Coast to central Texas. Required reading by flower show schools of National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc.