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Images and information on more than 430 species native to central Texas. Native plants provide an essential role in the environment including economic benefits from reduced energy costs, water and maintenance; ecological benefits including enhancing ecosystem stability and reducing chemical use; not to mention the beauty they provide.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Abutilon incanum | Indian mallow Pelotazo Shrubby Indian mallow | |
| Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth maple Big-toothed maple Canyon maple | |
| Achnatherum hymenoides | Indian ricegrass Indian Millet Sandgrass | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow Yarrow Milfoil Western yarrow | |
| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| Acalypha radians | Cardinal's feather Cardinal feather | |
| Aesculus pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Agalinis edwardsiana | Plateau false foxglove Plateau agalinis Plateau gerardia Plateau false-foxglove | |
| Ageratina havanensis | Havana snakeroot Mistflower Shrubby boneset White mistflower White shrub mistflower | |
| Agalinis heterophylla | Prairie false foxglove Prairie agalinis Prairie false-foxglove | |
| Agave univittata | Maguey mezortillo Thorncrest century plant | |
| Allium canadense | Meadow garlic Wild garlic Wild onion | |
| Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common bee-brush Beebrush Privet lippia | |
| Allowissadula holosericea | Chisos Mountain false Indianmallow Chisos Mtn. False Indian-mallow Velvet-leaf Mallow | |
| Aloysia macrostachya | Rio Grande beebrush Woolly Bee-brush | |
| Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Annual ragweed Short ragweed | |
| Ampelopsis arborea | Peppervine | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Amyris madrensis | Mountain torchwood Shrub Amyris | |
| Amorpha roemeriana | Roemer's false indigo | |
| Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal thimbleweed Ten-petaled anemone Wind-flower | |
| Anemone edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau thimbleweed Two-flowered Anemone | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii | Flame acanthus Hummingbird bush Wright's desert honeysuckle Wright acanthus Mexican flame Wright's Mexican flame | |
| Aphanostephus riddellii | Lazy Daisy Riddell's dozedaisy | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Argemone albiflora | Bluestem pricklypoppy White pricklypoppy | |
| Arenaria benthamii | Hilly sandwort | |
| Argyrochosma dealbata | False Cloak Fern Powdery Cloak Fern Powdery false cloak fern | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Aristida oligantha | Prairie threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield threeawn | |
| Arabis petiolaris | Brazos rockcress Rock-cress Brazos rock-cress | |
| Arnoglossum plantagineum | Groovestem Indian plaintain Indian plantain Prairie plantain Prairie Indian plantain | |
| Aristida purpurea | Purple threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple three-awn Red threeawn | |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas madrone Madrone Naked indian Manzanita | |
| Asclepias asperula | Spider milkweed Antelope horns Green-flowered milkweed Spider antelope-horns | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes milkweed Hierba de Zizotes Longhorn milkweed Side-cluster milkweed Primrose milkweed Lindheimer's milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Asclepias viridis | Green antelopehorn Green milkweed | |
| Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho orchid tree Anacacho bauhinia Orchid tree Texas plume | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Coastal Water-hyssop Herb-of-grace Water hyssop | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Berlandiera betonicifolia | Texas greeneyes Broochflower | |
| Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate daisy Chocolate flower Lyreleaf greeneyes Green-Eyed lyre leaf | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bidens laevis | Smooth beggartick Smooth bidens Smooth bur marigold Larger bur marigold | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo grass | |
| Bouchetia erecta | Painted Tongue Paintedtongue | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy grama | |
| Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana | Silver Beard Grass Silver beardgrass Silver Bluestem | |
| Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas grama | |
| Bouteloua trifida | Red grama | |
| Buddleja marrubiifolia | Woolly butterflybush Butterfly bush Woolly Butterfly-bush | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile pequin Chile petin Bird pepper Turkey pepper Cayenne pepper | |
| Calylophus berlandieri ssp. pinifolius | Berlandier's sundrops Square-bud primrose Sundrops Square-bud day-primrose | |
| Carex blanda | Eastern woodland sedge Creek sedge Common wood sedge | |
| Carex cherokeensis | Cherokee sedge | |
| Calliandra eriophylla | Pink fairyduster Fairyduster Mesquitilla Mock mesquite | |
| Canna glauca | Water Canna Louisiana Canna Maraca amarilla | |
| Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's sundrops Western Primrose | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Callirhoe involucrata var. lineariloba | Poppy mallow Purple poppymallow White poppy mallow White winecup Winecup | |
| Callirhoe leiocarpa | Tall poppymallow Annual winecup Tall poppy-mallow | |
| Callirhoe pedata | Finger Poppy-mallow Palmleaf poppymallow Standing Winecup | |
| Castilleja purpurea | Prairie paintbrush Downy Indian paintbrush Purple paintbrush Lemon paintbrush Purple painted cup | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Carex texensis | Texas sedge | |
| Centaurea americana | American star-thistle Basket-Flower Star thistle Shaving brush American basket-flower | |
| Centaurium beyrichii | Mountain pink Meadow pink Catchfly Quinineweed | |
| Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican redbud | |
| Ceanothus herbaceus | Redroot Prairie redroot Jersey tea Inland Ceanothus Fuzzy Ceanothus | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar hackberry Hackberry Sugarberry Texas sugarberry Palo blanco | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf hackberry Netleaf sugar hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Centaurium texense | Lady Bird's centaury | |
| Chamaesaracha coniodes | False Nightshade Gray five eyes Ground Saracha Prostrate Ground-cherry | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert willow Flowering willow Willow-leaved catalpa Trumpet flower | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Chaptalia nutans | Heal and draw Lechuguilla Silverpuff | |
| Chaerophyllum tainturieri var. tainturieri | Hairyfruit chervil Hairy-fruit chervil Wild chervil Chervil | |
| Chloris verticillata | Tumble windmill grass Windmillgrass | |
| Citharexylum berlandieri | Berlandier's fiddlewood Berlandier fiddlewood Fiddlewood | |
| Cissus trifoliata | Cow-itch vine Sorrelvine Grape ivy Arizona grape ivy Possum grape | |
| Clematis drummondii | Drummond's clematis Old man’s beard Texas virgin’s bower Goat’s beard | |
| Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica swamp sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple clematis Purple leatherflower Leatherflower Bluebill | |
| Clematis texensis | Scarlet clematis Scarlet leatherflower Texas clematis | |
| Cocculus carolinus | Carolina snailseed Carolina coralbead Carolina moonseed Red berried moonseed Carolina red berried moonseed | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Curvepod fumewort Golden Smoke Scrambled Eggs | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf dogwood Drummond's dogwood Rough-leaf dogwood | |
| Cooperia drummondii | Evening rain lily Evening star rain lily | |
| Convolvulus equitans | Bindweed Texas bindweed | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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