Native range
Native plants of Texas
174 wild species and 18 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Texas, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 103 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
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How this list is made
Derived from each plant's native-range record, checked against Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS with every decision on a ledger; Texas is read off the record's own range, and the order is how many of the state's counties record each plant, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 192 plants, 173 have been checked against outside sources (4 fully verified); the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
Range data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 4.0, adapted) and USDA PLANTS. How the native range is credited.
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How many of the state's 254 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Texas; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 165 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Sideoats Grama
- Little Bluestem
- Mexican Hat
- Purple Poppy Mallow
- Dotted Blazing Star
- Sunflower
- Buffalograss
- Switchgrass
- Blackfoot Daisy
- Indiangrass
- Eastern Redbud
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Buttonbush
- Northern Sea Oats
- Annual Phlox
- Lavender Annual Phlox
- Peach Annual Phlox
- Purple Annual Phlox
- Red Annual Phlox
- White Annual Phlox
- Blue Mistflower
- Butterfly Weed
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- Possumhaw Holly
- Cardinal Flower
- Purple Lovegrass
- Foxglove Penstemon
- Alkali Sacaton
- American Beautyberry
- Flowering Dogwood
- Whorled Milkweed
- Chocolate Flower
- Cherokee Sedge
- Yaupon Holly
- Coral Honeysuckle
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Rattlesnake Master
- Honeylocust
- Southern Wax Myrtle
- Blue Wood Sedge
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Red Buckeye
- Trumpet Vine
- American Elderberry
- Royal Fern
- Soft Rush
- Smooth Sumac
- Bald Cypress
- Pink Muhly Grass
- Texas Mountain Laurel
- Wild Bee Balm
- Tropical Sage
- Prairie Blazing Star
- Sensitive Fern
- Swamp Sunflower
- American Holly
- Common Persimmon
- Christmas Fern
- Desert Willow
- Cinnamon Fern
- Lady Fern
- Virginia Creeper
- Cenizo
- Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
- Black Gum
- Roundleaf Ragwort
- American Linden
- Red Maple
- Mayapple
- Possumhaw Viburnum
- Sweetgum
- Bur Oak
- Fragrant Sumac
- New Jersey Tea
- Aromatic Aster
- Seep Muhly
- Carolina Jessamine
- Purple Prairie Clover
- Willow Oak
- Crossvine
- Lindheimer's Muhly
- Live Oak
- River Birch
- Virginia Sweetspire
- White Fringetree
- White Oak
- Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany
- American Hornbeam
- Golden Alexanders
- Leadplant
- American Hophornbeam
- Southern Blue Flag
- Spicebush
- Texas Sedge
- Chinkapin Oak
- White-Tinged Sedge
- Swamp Milkweed
- Apache Plume
- Apricot Lisianthus
- Blue Lisianthus
- Cedar Sage
- Cream Lisianthus
- Gaura
- Lisianthus
- Picotee Lisianthus
- Pink Lisianthus
- Rose Lisianthus
- Swamp Azalea
- White Lisianthus
- Golden Currant
- Southern Magnolia
- Foxglove Beardtongue
- Autumn Sage
- Common Pawpaw
- Common Witch Hazel
- Blue Indigo
- Mapleleaf Viburnum
- Prairie Junegrass
- Carolina Rose
- Common Hackberry
- Common Sneezeweed
- Red Chokeberry
- Silver Maple
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- Sweetbay Magnolia
- Chokecherry
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Hardy Hibiscus
- False Sunflower
- Hollow Joe Pye Weed
- Pale Purple Coneflower
- Showy Milkweed
- American Smoketree
- Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod
- Boston Fern
- Deergrass
- Desert Four O'Clock
- Summersweet
- Indian Pink
- Mexican Feather Grass
- Nodding Onion
- Red Yucca
- Rubber Rabbitbrush
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Golden Columbine
- Brown-Eyed Susan
- California Poppy
- Eastern Bluestar
- False Solomon's Seal
- Parry's Agave
- Quaking Aspen
- Rosy Sedge
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Stiff Goldenrod
- Yellow California Poppy
- Brome-Like Sedge
- Great Blue Lobelia
- Kentucky Coffeetree
- Blackhaw
- Clustered Mountain Mint
- Creeping Oregon Grape
- Culver's Root
- Douglas Fir
- Purple Coneflower
- Winterberry
Garden forms of Texas natives
103 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Texas and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Amethyst Falls Wisteria
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Beauty
- Autumn Colors
- Autumn Gold Narrow-Leaved Sunflower
- Bayside Bonito Southern Wax Myrtle
- Belleza Dark Pink Gaura
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Berry Scape Aronia
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- Blue Moon Wisteria
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Bordeaux Dwarf Yaupon Holly
- Brandywine Viburnum
- California Poppy (Cream/White)
- California Poppy (Rose/Pink Mix)
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Brandy
- Chicklet Gold Tecoma
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Coconut Lime
- Crimson Comet Buttonbush
- Crimson Trumpet
- Dakota Burgundy Beardtongue
- Densa Inkberry
- Denver Daisy
- Dressed To Thrill Crossvine
- Early Sunrise
- Falling Waters
- Fireworks Goldenrod
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Giant Sunflower
- Goldilocks
- Green Jewel
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Henry Duelberg Mealy Blue Sage
- Henry's Garnet Sweetspire
- Hummingbird
- Indian Summer
- Ivory Castle
- Lavender Twist
- Lemon Queen
- Little Gem Magnolia
- Little Henry Sweetspire
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Magnus
- Major Wheeler
- Mammoth
- Mikado
- Moulin Rouge
- Northwind
- October Skies
- Oklahoma Redbud
- Peve Minaret
- Pink Double Delight
- Pink Spire
- PowWow Wild Berry
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Gleam
- QIS Orange
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Sprite
- Ring of Fire
- River Mist
- Rose Chiffon
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Ruby Spice
- Screaming Yellow
- Shamrock Inkberry Holly
- Shawnee Brave
- Shenandoah
- Sixteen Candles
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Soraya
- Strawberry Blonde
- Strawberry Fields
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Teddy Bear
- The Rising Sun
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Undaunted Muhly Grass
- Vanilla Spice
- Velvet Queen
- White Swan
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
Plant groups native to Texas
18 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Texas; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
Keep exploring
Growing natives in Texas
This list is the library's cut of Texas's flora, not a planting guide. For sources, plant sales and local advice, Texas has its own native plant society, the Native Plant Society of Texas, and its extension office, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service; both are linked below and neither is connected to BloomsEye.
Native to your own county
This page is the whole state. In the free garden planner, enter your ZIP and Garden Check lists these same plants for your location, marks the ones recorded growing wild in your county, and places any of them in your plan; its Browse tab answers for any of the 65 states, provinces and territories with no account.
Design your garden
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