Bulldozers are coming. We need to identify those plants with potential for modern civilization and save them from extinction. Wildflowers are Native Plants . That is, plants that are native to a particular region. You name a flower, and it's probably a wildflower somewhere in the world, or at least it was hybridized from a plant that was a wildflower somewhere.
Orchids grow wild in the woods.
Roses can be found growing wild, and so can beautiful phlox, daisies, poppies, azaleas, rhodendrons, and a multitude of flowers in cultivation in gardens all over the world. On the other hand, many introduced non-native garden plants have escaped cultivation and can be found growing wild. You tell me. Many wildflowers bring beauty to the Texas Hill Country after the Bluebonnets fade. Here are Prairie paintbrush, primrose, green milkweed, yellow flax, blue sage, and white milkwort.