Hill Country Horticulture
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 | Pelotazo Indian Mallow Shrubby Indian Mallow | |
Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth Maple Big-toothed Maple Uvalde Bigtooth Maple Southwestern Bigtooth Maple Canyon Maple Sabinal Maple Western Sugar Maple | |
Achnatherum hymenoides | Indian Ricegrass Indian Millet Sandgrass | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
Acalypha radians | Cardinal's Feather Cardinal Feather | |
Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Agalinis edwardsiana | Plateau False Foxglove Plateau Agalinis Plateau Gerardia Plateau False-foxglove | |
Ageratina havanensis | Shrubby Boneset White Mistflower White Shrub Mistflower Havana Snakeroot | |
Agalinis heterophylla | Prairie Agalinis Prairie False-foxglove | |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
Allowissadula holosericea | Velvet-leaf Mallow Chisos Mountain False Indianmallow | |
Aloysia macrostachya | Rio Grande Beebrush Woolly Bee-brush | |
Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Annual Ragweed Short Ragweed | |
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 Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
Anemone edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Thimbleweed Two-flowered Anemone | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall 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 | Riddell's Dozedaisy Lazy Daisy | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Argemone albiflora | Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
Arenaria benthamii | Hilly Sandwort | |
Argyrochosma dealbata | Powdery False Cloak Fern Powdery Cloak Fern 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 Plantain Indian Plantain Prairie Plantain Prairie Indian Plantain | |
Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl | |
Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Asclepias viridis | Green Milkweed Spider Milkweed | |
Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho Orchid Tree Anacacho Bauhinia Orchid Tree Texas Plume | |
Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal 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 Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
Bouchetia erecta | Erect Bouchetia Painted-tongue Paintedtongue Painted Tongue | |
Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |