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Edible Native Texas Plants
Edible Native Texas Plants on display at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Warning: Before consuming any wild food, be absolutely certain of its proper identity! Many plants have look a like. When in doubt, do not eat it!Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Malpighia glabra | Acerola Barbados Cherry Manzanita Wild crapemyrtle | |
| Malus ioensis | Prairie crabapple Iowa crabapple | |
| Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate barberry | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon beebalm Horsemint Purple horsemint Lemon mint Plains horsemint Lemon horsemint | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink evening primrose Showy evening primrose Mexican evening primrose Showy primrose Pink ladies Buttercups Pink buttercups | |
| Opuntia ellisiana | Spineless prickly pear Tigertongue South Texas pricklypear | |
| Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri | Texas pricklypear Prickly Pear Texas Prickly Pear | |
| Oxalis drummondii | Drummond's woodsorrel Wood-sorrel | |
| Passiflora foetida | Corona de Cristo Scarlet-fruit passion flower Fetid passionflower | |
| Passiflora incarnata | Purple passionflower Purple passion vine Maypop Apricot vine | |
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