Native range
Native plants of Texas
61 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 96 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 79 plants, 56 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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Recorded across Texas
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. 59 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Little Bluestem
- Sunflower
- Switchgrass
- Eastern Redbud
- Buttonbush
- Northern Sea Oats
- Annual Phlox
- Lavender Annual Phlox
- Peach Annual Phlox
- Purple Annual Phlox
- Red Annual Phlox
- White Annual Phlox
- Butterfly Weed
- Cardinal Flower
- American Beautyberry
- Flowering Dogwood
- Cherokee Sedge
- Honeylocust
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Trumpet Vine
- American Elderberry
- Royal Fern
- Bald Cypress
- Christmas Fern
- Cinnamon Fern
- Lady Fern
- Red Maple
- Fragrant Sumac
- Aromatic Aster
- Carolina Jessamine
- River Birch
- Virginia Sweetspire
- Apricot Lisianthus
- Blue Lisianthus
- Cream Lisianthus
- Gaura
- Lisianthus
- Picotee Lisianthus
- Pink Lisianthus
- Rose Lisianthus
- White Lisianthus
- Southern Magnolia
- Blue Indigo
- Carolina Rose
- Sweetbay Magnolia
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Hardy Hibiscus
- False Sunflower
- American Smoketree
- Boston Fern
- Summersweet
- Golden Columbine
- California Poppy
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Yellow California Poppy
- Blackhaw
- Douglas Fir
- Purple Coneflower
- Winterberry
Garden forms of Texas natives
96 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.
- Adams Elderberry
- 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 Trumpet
- Denver Daisy
- Early Sunrise
- Falling Waters
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Giant Sunflower
- Goldilocks
- Green Jewel
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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