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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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American Beautyberry
A star in the fall, with clusters of brilliant purple berries.
Anaqua
The Sandpaper Tree: a South Texas specialty.
Asiatic Jasmine
Evergreen, adaptable, and a classic alternative for grass in shade.
Asparagus fern leaves and flowers.
Asparagus Fern
A faux fern, bright green and drought-tolerant.
Aucuba
Ideal for deep soil and shade, if you have enough moisture.
Aztec Grass
An eye-catching lily turf that lights up the shade.
Baby Blue Eyes
An easy-to-grow early spring wildflower, native to shade.
Ballmoss leaves.
Ball Moss
Ball moss lives in tree branches and feasts on morning dew: not a parasite, but an epiphyte.
Basket grass leaves.
Basket Grass
An evergreen wiregrass well-adapted to Hill Country ledges.
Bay Laurel
An evergreen shrub with a classic xeric pedigree and loads of flavor.
Bearded Iris
A old-fashioned garden favorite for the perennial border.
Betony
A native of New Mexico: soft, fuzzy leaves and bright red blooms.
Bluewood Condalia
Can't miss the emerald green leaves. Spiny branchlets provide cover for wildlife.
Carpet Bugleweed
An eye-catching shade groundcover, with flowering purple foliage.
Cast-iron plant.
Cast-Iron Plant
Aspidistra's tough, leathery leaves lend tropical lushness to deep dark shade.
Cedar Sage
Cute, scalloped leaves and bright red blooms that stand out in the shade.
Columbine 'Texas Gold'
The showiest of Texas' native columbines is big, naturally, with spurs to boot.
Common Boxwood
Always there, always green: boxwood is a classic for low hedges and topiary.
Common Elderberry
A big native shrub suitable for the perennial border, if soils are deep enough.
Coralberry
No need to irrigate this Texas native that attracts and feeds wildlife.
Palmetto leaf.
Dwarf Palmetto
A small trunkless palm native to southeast Texas and Hill Country seeps.
English Ivy
A shade-tolerant groundcover for bright moist shade.
Eve's Necklace
The deciduous cousin of Texas mountain-laurel requires minimal care.
Firespike
A glossy-leaved tropical that works best in shade.
Forsythia Sage
A big perennial sage with long wands of yellow flowers.
Fragrant sumac leaves.
Fragrant Sumac
A nice wildlife plant that's also known as 'Skunkbush'.
Frogfruit
Attracts butterflies, spreads rapidly, and requires very little maintenance.
Ghost Plant
A great plant for the starter gardener, ghost plant is one of the easiest succulents to grow.
Gregg's woolly honeysuckle purple flowers with yellow horseherb, unwatered, in autumn 2023 after drought
Gregg's Honeysuckle

A tough native groundcover for sun or part shade.

Hackberry
A fast source of easy shade and a terrific tree for wildlife, who plant it on every fenceline.
Heartleaf skullcap showing greyish-green leaves
Heartleaf Skullcap
A heart-leaved skullcap that grows like a groundcover in dappled shade around large trees.
Hoja Santa
The root beer plant!
Holly fern leaves.
Holly Fern
For dry or moist shade, with unique holly-like foliage.
Hop tree leaves.
Hop Tree
Use hop tree to brew up butterflies for the native garden.
Horseherb
A native, low-maintenance turfgrass substitute.
Indian Hawthorn
A large evergreen shrub that can tolerate shade.