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Texas Mixed Border Homeowner Inspiration Garden
English style meets Texas climate in this newest addition in a series of four gardens that demonstrate the elegance and beauty of native Texas plants in a variety of landscape styles employing fine garden design. Download designPrinter Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Ageratina havanensis | Havana snakeroot Mistflower Shrubby boneset White mistflower White shrub mistflower | |
| Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho orchid tree Anacacho bauhinia Orchid tree Texas plume | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum | Chile pequin Bird pepper Turkey pepper Cayenne pepper | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Clematis drummondii | Drummond's clematis Old man’s beard Texas virgin’s bower Goat’s beard | |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country rain lily Prairie lily Rain lily | |
| Dichondra argentea | Silver Ponyfoot Silver ponysfoot | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Knockaway Sandpaper tree | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee bean Red cardinal | |
| Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's eryngo Eryngo | |
| Erigeron modestus | Plains fleabane Prairie fleabane | |
| Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Candelilla Wax plant | |
| Gaura lindheimeri | Lindheimer's beeblossom White gaura Butterfly gaura | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina jessamine Yellow jessamine Evening trumpetflower Poor man's rope | |
| Heterotheca canescens | Gray golden-aster Hoary false goldenaster | |
| Hechtia glomerata | Guapilla | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red yucca Coral yucca Red flowered false yucca Redflower false yucca Samandoque Yellow yucca | |
| Hibiscus martianus | Heartleaf rosemallow Tulipan del Monte Heartleaf Hibiscus | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Winterberry Deciduous yaupon | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon holly Cassina | |
| Jatropha dioica | Leatherstem Leather Stem Rubber Plant | |
| Lantana urticoides | Texas lantana Calico bush West Indian shrub-verbena | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple sage Texas ranger Texas barometer bush Texas silverleaf Texas sage | |
| Lindheimera texana | Texas yellowstar Texas star Lindheimer daisy Texas yellow star | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral honeysuckle Trumpet honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas lupine Buffalo clover Wolf-flower | |
| Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Roving sailor Snapdragon Vine Climbing snapdragon Little snapdragon vine | |
| Malpighia glabra | Acerola Barbados Cherry Manzanita Wild crapemyrtle | |
| Malus ioensis | Prairie crabapple Iowa crabapple | |
| Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf muhly Hair-awn muhly Hairy-awn muhly Hair grass Pink muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's muhly Big muhly Lindheimer muhly | |
| Nassella tenuissima | Mexican Feathergrass Mexican Wiregrass Finestem needlegrass Ponytail grass Texas tussock | |
| Nolina texana | Texas sacahuista Texas beargrass Basket grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink evening primrose Showy evening primrose Mexican evening primrose Showy primrose Pink ladies Buttercups Pink buttercups | |
| Passiflora affinis | Bracted passionflower Passion flower | |
| Passiflora foetida var. gossypiifolia | Cottonleaf passionflower Corona de cristo | |
| Palafoxia hookeriana | Sand palafox Hooker palafoxia Sand palafoxia Hooker's palafoxia | |
| Pavonia lasiopetala | Rock rose Rose pavonia Rose mallow Pavonia | |
| Passiflora tenuiloba | Bird Wing Passionflower Birdwing passionflower Slender-lobe Passionflower Spread Lobe Passionflower | |
| Penstemon triflorus | Hill Country Penstemon Scarlet Penstemon Heller's beardtongue | |
| Phlox pilosa | Downy phlox Prairie phlox Fragrant phlox | |
| Plumbago scandens | Doctorbush Summer snow plumbago Mexican plumbago | |
| Ranunculus macranthus | Large buttercup | |
| Rudbeckia maxima | Giant coneflower Great coneflower Giant Brown-eyed Susan | |
| Salvia farinacea | Mealy blue sage Mealy sage Mealycup sage | |
| Salvia greggii | Autumn sage Cherry sage Gregg salvia | |
| Sabal minor | Dwarf palmetto Palmetto Bush palmetto | |
| Sophora secundiflora | Texas mountain laurel Mountain laurel Mescal bean Mescal bean sophora Frijolillo Frijolito | |
| Stemodia lanata | Woolly Stemodia Gray-woolly twintip | |
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