Explore the variety of native and adapted plants for your corner of Texas — whether you’re looking for color, shade, a home for wildlife or just never want to mow again.
A signature Texas native: deer-proof and drought proof.
The Sandpaper Tree: a South Texas specialty.
The classic swamp cypress: plant it near water.
Ball moss lives in tree branches and feasts on morning dew: not a parasite, but an epiphyte.
The “Lost Maple” is a relic from cooler times in Texas.
The wild South Texas shrub sage.
Can’t miss the emerald green leaves. Spiny branchlets provide cover for wildlife.
A large-growing oak with fist-sized acorns. Well-adapted to clay soils.
A pretty understory native, best grown beneath large shade trees.
A tough native vine with heart-shaped leaves and bright red autumn berries.
A nicely-shaped shade tree, well-adapted to the challenges of local soil types.
A mid-sized Southern evergreen useful for screening in deep soils.
The native pepper is hot, spicy and ridiculously easy to grow.
Like a little live oak with thorns, and big fragrance in bloom.
A big native shrub suitable for the perennial border, if soils are deep enough.
A great native food source for the Gulf Fritillary Butterfly caterpillar.
A unique prickly pear: spiny pads look like a cow’s tongue after a mouthful of cactus.
One of the few thornless South Texas evergreens… but the berries are poisonous.
A mounding perennial with cheerful sky-blue flowers.
A large native bunchgrass suitable for poorly drained soil.
A spineless, hardy shrub for an instant native edge.
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