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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.

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Antelope Horn Milkweed
The go-to native milkweed for attracting monarch butterflies.
Artichoke Agave
A petite, architectural agave.
Asparagus fern leaves and flowers.
Asparagus Fern
A faux fern, bright green and drought-tolerant.
Autumn Sage
A workhorse in the watersaver garden.
Bamboo Muhly
One of the most drought-tolerant big bunchgrasses, with playful, billowy foliage. Despite the name, no relation to bamboo.
Barbados Cherry berries
Barbados Cherry
A semi-evergreen native shrub; mockingbirds love the berries.
Basket grass leaves.
Basket Grass
An evergreen wiregrass well-adapted to Hill Country ledges.
Beaked yucca leaves.
Beaked Yucca
A branching form of the classic Big Bend yucca.
Bearded Iris
A old-fashioned garden favorite for the perennial border.
Devil's beargrass leaves.
Beargrass
A native blue wiregrass for Texas Hill Country limestone.
Belinda's Dream Rose
A fast-growing shrub rose with an alluring fragrance.
Bicolor Iris
Strappy evergreen foliage with blooms in spring.
Big Bend Yucca
An elegant West Texas yucca, widely used in landscaping.
Big Red Sage
A very rare native finding new life in hummingbird gardens.
Blackfoot Daisy
A wild daisy for gravelly soils: see it dotting the Texas Hill Country all year long.
Blue Nolina
Thornless, big and blue, for dramatic xeric textures.
Blue Shrub Sage
The wild South Texas shrub sage.
Blue Sotol
One of the most ornamental of all desert plants.
Brenthurst Sage
Pink amazement!
Buckley's Yucca
A native accent for any dry area.
Butterfly Iris
Lush foliage with orchid-like flowers.
Butterfly Milkweed
A showy, perennial native milkweed.
Caldwell pink rose.
Caldwell Pink Rose
An 1800s carnation rose rediscovered in Caldwell, Texas.
Caribbean Agave
An attractive agave with a compact form and smooth, tailored leaves.
Cecile Brunner rose.
Cecile Brunner Rose
The Sweetheart Rose.
Cedar Sage
Cute, scalloped leaves and bright red blooms that stand out in the shade.
Cenizo
Texas Sage is the ultimate South Texas shrub: it thrives in summer heat.
Century Agave
The classic southwestern agave: toothy, big, and blue.
Climbing Cecile Brunner rose.
Climbing Cecile Brunner Rose
A climbing version of the classic sweetheart rose.
Copper Canyon Daisy
Yellow daisies in autumn with airy foliage and a pungent scent.
Crape Myrtle
"One hundred days of red."
Crape Myrtle 'Basham's Party Pink'
A Texas-sized crape myrtle, with waterfalls of silvery-pink blossoms all summer long.
Crape Myrtle 'Natchez'
For fans of Texas madrone, a crape myrtle with striking red trunks.
Damianita leaves and flowers.
Damianita
Tiny, bright yellow blooms and fragrant evergreen foliage.
Esperanza
Big yellow bouquets all season long. One of the hardiest -- and loveliest -- West Texas native shrubs.
Firebush
A big perennial shrub that thrives in summer heat.