Texas Wild FlowersFacsimile reproductions of more than 100 botanical paintings of the wildflowers of Texas, as painted in watercolors by Eliza Griffin Johnston in the 1800's. These beautiful watercolor images of Texas wild flowers were created in the 1840s and 1850s by Eliza Griffin Johnston, bound into a book, and given to her husband, General Albert Sidney Johnston for his birthday. In 1862, during the Civil War, General Johnston was killed at the Battle of Shiloh.