Texas Dandelion

This native wildflower grows in well-drained soils with partial to full sun. Flowers open in the morning and remain open through midday. Produces feathery seed heads as expected from a […]

Suncatcher

Partial shade or partial sun. An herbaceous shrub-like perennial, evergreen in warm winters. Long leaves resemble loosestrife, with multiple reddish stems and bright buttercup-like flowers throughout the warm season.\n\nSuncatcher is […]

Standing Cypress

Partial shade. An upright, unbranched biennial with fernlike leaves and tall spires of red tube flowers in early summer during its second year of growth (the first year, it forms […]

Sideoats Grama

The state grass of Texas! Dappled shade, part shade, full sun; a warm season bluish-green bunchgrass, purplish in autumn with distinctive oat-like seedheads on one side of the stem. Well-adapted […]

Mountain Sage

Part shade. Nearly evergreen with thin leaves and red to orange blooms generally in early summer and again in autumn. A small shrub, it prefers rocky settings in its native […]

Japanese Quince

Sun/part shade; deciduous and thorny; blooms early spring in a variety of colors including pink, white, rosy, and red-orange. Very short blooming period; attracts hummingbirds.\n\nThe prolific early spring flowers produce […]

Purslane

Full sun; a low-growing summer annual with small fleshy leaves. The flowers last only a day, but are quickly replaced. Colors include pink, lavender, white, yellow, and orange.\n\nPurslane withstands high […]

Tropical Milkweed

Sun/part shade; an herbaceous perennial with yellow orange and red flowers spring through frost. It attracts monarch butterflies as well as many aphids and ladybugs. Monarchs use milkweeds exclusively for […]

Butterfly Milkweed

Mostly sun; benefits from light afternoon shade. A deciduous perennial growing to a mound 1-3 feet in height. The showy, orange-hooded flowers appear during summer. As its name suggests, butterfly […]

Pride of Barbados

Sun. Deciduous, with pinnate leaves and spectacular peacock flowers that eat up summer heat, attracting swarms of hummingbirds and butterflies. On its own it grows to shrub size.\n\nDrought hardy once […]