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Native Plants for Container Gardens in Central Texas
Native Plants for Container Gardens in Central Texas by Andrea DeLong-Amaya, Director of Horticulture, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. These plants are all native to the Central Texas region and are especially useful in container gardens. If you live outside of Central Texas, these may or may not be native to your area.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's golden columbine Yellow columbine Hinckley columbine Capote columbine | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Coastal Water-hyssop Herb-of-grace Water hyssop | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile pequin Chile petin Bird pepper Turkey pepper Cayenne pepper | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Callirhoe pedata | Finger Poppy-mallow Palmleaf poppymallow Standing Winecup | |
| Carex planostachys | Cedar sedge | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Cooperia drummondii | Evening rain lily Evening star rain lily | |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country rain lily Prairie lily Rain lily | |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg dalea Gregg's prairie clover Trailing indigo bush Indigo bush | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake herb Polkadots Narrowleaf dyschoriste | |
| Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping burrhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword "Giant Mother Plant" | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Canuela Horsetail Scouring rush Scouringrush horsetail | |
| Geum canadense | White avens | |
| Giliastrum rigidulum | Bluebowls Blue gilia | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Purple prairie verbena Prairie verbena Dacota vervain Dakota mock vervain Moradilla | |
| Heterotheca canescens | Gray golden-aster Hoary false goldenaster | |
| Hymenocallis liriosme | Spider Lily Spring Spider Lily Spring spiderlily | |
| Hydrocotyle umbellata | Manyflower marshpennywort Water-pennywort Money-plant | |
| Iris virginica | Virginia iris Great Blue Flag | |
| Justicia americana | American water-willow Water-willow | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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