Just when it looked like the author would go home empty -handed, he hit a familiar vein, the ol’ Texas two-step.

Only seven native populations remain in Texas, all in the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. The federal government has proposed endangered species protection for the big red sage, a flowering ...

(THE TEXAS TRIBUNE) - The big red sage, a rare Texas wildflower native to the Edwards Plateau, was proposed for endangered species protections Friday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.