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This plant sale boasts the largest selection of native plants in Central Texas with some 300 species and 23,000 plants from which to choose.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acacia farnesiana | Huisache Sweet acacia Mealy wattle | |
| Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth maple Big-toothed maple Canyon maple | |
| Acacia greggii var. wrightii | Catclaw acacia Catclaw Wright acacia | |
| Acer leucoderme | Chalk maple | |
| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| Acleisanthes obtusa | Berlandier's trumpets Vine four o'clock | |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Acanthocereus tetragonus | Triangle Cactus Barbed-wire Cactus Chaco | |
| Aesculus glabra var. arguta | Ohio buckeye White buckeye Texas buckeye | |
| Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet buckeye Red buckeye Southern buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Agave havardiana | Havard's century plant Havard agave | |
| Ageratina havanensis | Havana snakeroot Mistflower Shrubby boneset White mistflower White shrub mistflower | |
| Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Anisacanthus linearis | Big Bend Anisacanthus Narrowleaf Desert Honeysuckle Dwarf Anisacanthus Chisos Anisacanthus | |
| Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii | Flame acanthus Hummingbird bush Wright's desert honeysuckle Wright acanthus Mexican flame Wright's Mexican flame | |
| Apios americana | Groundnut Wild potato Indian potato | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's golden columbine Yellow columbine Hinckley columbine Capote columbine | |
| Artemisia ludoviciana | Louisiana artemisia Louisiana sage White sage Prairie sage Silver sage White sagebrush Louisiana wormwood Silver wormwood Louisiana sagewort Gray sagewort Cudweed sagewort Mugwort wormwood | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walkingstick Devil’s walking-stick Prickly Ash Hercules club Angelica tree | |
| Baptisia australis | Blue wild indigo Wild blue indigo Blue false indigo | |
| Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho orchid tree Anacacho bauhinia Orchid tree Texas plume | |
| Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate daisy Chocolate flower Lyreleaf greeneyes Green-Eyed lyre leaf | |
| Bidens laevis | Smooth beggartick Smooth bidens Smooth bur marigold Larger bur marigold | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile pequin Chile petin Bird pepper Turkey pepper Cayenne pepper | |
| Calylophus berlandieri | Berlandier's sundrops Square-bud primrose Sundrops | |
| Carex cherokeensis | Cherokee sedge | |
| Canna flaccida | Bandanna of the Everglades Golden canna | |
| Canna glauca | Water Canna Louisiana Canna Maraca amarilla | |
| Castilleja indivisa | Entireleaf indian paintbrush Texas paintbrush Indian paintbrush Scarlet paintbrush Entire-leaf indian-paintbrush | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Carex perdentata | Meadow Sedge Sand sedge | |
| Carex texensis | Texas sedge | |
| Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican redbud | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas redbud | |
| Celosia nitida | West Indian cock's comb | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Cephalanthus salicifolius | Mexican Buttonbush | |
| 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 | |
| Chromolaena odorata | Jack in the bush Fragrant boneset Fragrant mistflower Crucita Blue mistflower | |
| Citharexylum berlandieri | Berlandier's fiddlewood Berlandier fiddlewood Fiddlewood | |
| 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 | |
| Conoclinium betonicifolium | Betonyleaf thoroughwort Betony-leaf mistflower | |
| Cordia boissieri | Mexican olive Anacahuita Texas wild olive Anacahuite | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf dogwood Drummond's dogwood Rough-leaf dogwood | |
| Cooperia drummondii | Evening rain lily Evening star rain lily | |
| Conoclinium greggii | Gregg's mistflower Palmleaf thoroughwort Palm-leaf mistflower Palm-leaf thoroughwort Purple palmleaf mistflower Purple palmleaf eupatorium | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf coreopsis Lanceleaf tickseed Lance-leaved coreopsis Sand coreopsis | |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country rain lily Prairie lily Rain lily | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains coreopsis Golden tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley hawthorn | |
| Crataegus viridis | Green hawthorn Southern thorn | |
| Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata | Cane cactus Cholla Teddy-bear cholla Tree cholla Walkingstick cholla | |
| Cylindropuntia kleiniae | Candle cholla | |
| Dasylirion leiophyllum | Green sotol Sotol Desert candle | |
| Dasylirion texanum | Texas sotol Sotol | |
| Datura wrightii | Sacred thorn-apple Jimsonweed Thorn apple Datura Angel Trumpet Sacred datura | |
| Dichondra argentea | Silver Ponyfoot Silver ponysfoot | |
| Dicliptera brachiata | Branched Dicliptera Branched foldwing | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas persimmon Mexican persimmon Black persimmon Chapote Chapote prieto | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common persimmon Eastern persimmon | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake herb Polkadots Narrowleaf dyschoriste | |
| Ebenopsis ebano | Texas ebony Ebano | |
| Echinocereus enneacanthus | Pitaya Strawberry cactus | |
| Echinocereus pentalophus | Ladyfinger cactus Alicoche Dog Tail | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern purple coneflower Purple coneflower | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Cactus Lace hedgehog cactus Órgano-pequeño de colores Purple candle | |
| Echinacea sanguinea | Sanguine purple coneflower | |
| Echinocereus stramineus | Strawberry hedgehog cactus | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Chisos Hedgehog Devil’s head Horse crippler | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Knockaway Sandpaper tree | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Epithelantha micromeris | Pingpong ball cactus Button Cactus | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Canuela Horsetail Scouring rush Scouringrush horsetail | |
| Erigeron modestus | Plains fleabane Prairie fleabane | |
| Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana | Mexican gold poppy California poppy | |
| Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Candelilla Wax plant | |
| Euphorbia cyathophora | Wild Poinsettia Poinsettia Fire on the Mountain | |
| Eustoma exaltatum ssp. russellianum | Texas bluebells Texas bluebell Bluebell Showy prairie gentian Prairie gentian | |
| Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus | Trumpetweed Queen of the meadow Hollow Joe-pye weed Joe-pye weed | |
| Eupatorium mohrii | Mohr's thoroughwort | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas kidneywood Kidneywood Bee-Brush Vara dulce | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache plume Ponil | |
| Ferocactus hamatacanthus var. sinuatus | Turk's-head Cactus | |
| Ferocactus wislizeni | Candy barrelcactus Candy barrel cactus Fishhook barrel cactus Southwestern barrel cactus | |
| Forestiera angustifolia | Narrow-leaf forestiera Tanglewood desert olive panalero Texas swampprivet | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina buckthorn Carolina false buckthorn Indian cherry | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash Red ash | |
| Fraxinus texensis | Texas ash | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Virginia strawberry Wild strawberry | |
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