OUR Catalogs make great plant ID books: If you’re out on the ranch or hiking your favorite Texas State Park - there's no faster way to quickly ID plants than to pull out one of these seed catalogs from your backpack. I’ve had many a rancher’s wife tell me her husband keeps our catalogs by his bed where he reads through ‘em at night. I know of one distinguished rangeland ecology professor who teaches his class using stories found in each issue such as “What is a Native?”