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A green-leaved cenizo with lavender flowers.

Texas Sage is the ultimate South Texas shrub: it thrives in summer heat.

Extremely fragrant blooms, with moon-white foliage.

The wild South Texas shrub sage.

An invasive privet that forms monocultural stands, dominating native woodlands in Texas and the Southeastern U.S. Not recommended.

A dense hedging plant that tolerates compacted soil.

A decent screening shrub in deep soils, with hot-colored tropical blooms.

Works well as a tall evergreen screen.

A big evergreen shrub suitable for hedging.

Always there, always green: boxwood is a classic for low hedges and topiary.

A Methuselah among South Texas native shrubs, with evergreen leaves and an unmistakable craggy form.

One of the few thornless South Texas evergreens… but the berries are poisonous.

A Mediterranean small shrub with silvery leaves and lavender flowers.

Extremely drought tolerant tree with summer flowers that range in color from pink to purple.

Rangy, tough, and fragrant. Great for screening native edges. Unlike cenizo, it stays fairly dense in shade.

A semi-evergreen native with aromatic white foliage.

A tough shrub with so many butterflies it can be hard to see the flowers.

A poisonous wild nightshade with pale, trumpet-like flowers. It grows and reseeds easily.

Probably the most drought-tolerant shade tree for south-central Texas.