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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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Agarita leaves.
Agarita

A signature Texas native: deer-proof and drought proof.

Aleppo Pine
A mid-sized pine with a moderate growth rate.
Anacacho orchid tree leaves and flowers.
Anacacho Orchid Tree
A tough ornamental tree or shrub, native to Southwest Texas and Mexico.
Anaqua
The Sandpaper Tree: a South Texas specialty.
Antelope Horn Milkweed
The go-to native milkweed for attracting monarch butterflies.
Arizona Cypress
A West Texas evergreen, and a fast-growing anchor for the watersaver landscape.
Artemisia 'Powis Castle'
Aromatic, feathery foliage adds a touch of silver to the shade garden.
Artichoke Agave
A petite, architectural agave.
Asparagus fern leaves and flowers.
Asparagus Fern
A faux fern, bright green and drought-tolerant.
Australian Senna
A fine-textured evergreen senna.
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.
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.
Bermuda Grass
A common drought-tolerant turf grass suited for full sun.
Betony
A native of New Mexico: soft, fuzzy leaves and bright red blooms.
Bicolor Iris
Strappy evergreen foliage with blooms in spring.
Big Bend Yucca
An elegant West Texas yucca, widely used in landscaping.
Blackfoot Daisy

A wild daisy for gravelly soils: see it dotting the Texas Hill Country all year long.

Blue Curls
A roadside native, unfurling intricate caterpillar flowers in spring.
Blue grama grass with seedheads.
Blue Grama

A small, foot-friendly native grass with decorative seedheads.

Blue Nolina
Thornless, big and blue, for dramatic xeric textures.
Blue Princess Verbena
A perennial superstar with a low profile and easygoing purple flowers.
Blue Shrub Sage
The wild South Texas shrub sage.
Blue Sotol
One of the most ornamental of all desert plants.
Texas bluebonnet flower.
Bluebonnet
The Texas state flower. Plant seeds in mid-autumn for spring blooms.
Bluewood Condalia
Can't miss the emerald green leaves. Spiny branchlets provide cover for wildlife.
Bottlebrush
Distinctive, red, bushy blooms on an evergreen shrub.
Brenthurst Sage
Pink amazement!
Buckley's Yucca
A native accent for any dry area.
Buffalo Grass

A native turfgrass for shortgrass meadows and lawns with low foot traffic.

Burford Holly
A tree-sized evergreen holly.
Burford holly leaves and berries.
Burford Holly (Dwarf)
Dwarf in name only. 'Burford' is a classic rounded shrub with red Christmas berries.
Bush Germander
A Mediterranean small shrub with silvery leaves and lavender flowers.