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Texas Discovery Gardens is one of the oldest botanical institutions in Texas. Built in 1936 as the Hall of Horticulture for Texas' Centennial Exposition in Fair Park - Dallas, the 7.5-acre campus includes the first public conservatory in the Southwestern United States. The mission of Texas Discovery Gardens is to have a positive impact on the future of Texas by teaching people effective ways to restore, conserve and preserve nature in the urban environment through the use of native and adapted plants that illustrate the interrelationship of Butterflies, Bugs and Botany.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Abronia fragrans | Fragrant verbena Sand verbena Snowball Snowball sand verbena Sweet sand-verbena | |
| Acacia angustissima | Prairie acacia Fern acacia Prairie wattle Whiteball acacia | |
| Acer barbatum | Southern sugar maple Florida maple Caddo maple Rock maple | |
| Acacia berlandieri | Guajillo Berlandier acacia Thornless Catclaw Mimosa Catclaw Round-flowered Catclaw Huajillla Matoral | |
| Acacia constricta | Whitethorn acacia White-thorn acacia Mescat acacia Mescat wattle Whitethorn Vara Prieta Chaparro Prieto | |
| Acacia greggii | Catclaw acacia Gregg acacia Long-flower catclaw Una de gato | |
| Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth maple Big-toothed maple Canyon maple | |
| Acacia greggii var. wrightii | Catclaw acacia Catclaw Wright acacia | |
| Acer leucoderme | Chalk maple | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow Yarrow Milfoil Western yarrow | |
| Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet buckeye Red buckeye Southern buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Agave americana | American century plant Century plant | |
| Agastache foeniculum | Blue giant hyssop Blue giant-hyssop Fragrant giant hyssop Lavender hyssop Anise hyssop | |
| Ageratina havanensis | Havana snakeroot Mistflower Shrubby boneset White mistflower White shrub mistflower | |
| Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common bee-brush Beebrush Privet lippia | |
| Aloysia macrostachya | Rio Grande beebrush Woolly Bee-brush | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Anisacanthus thurberi | Chuparosa Desert honeysuckle Thurber's desert honeysuckle | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Artemisia dracunculus | Tarragon | |
| Artemisia ludoviciana | Louisiana artemisia Louisiana sage White sage Prairie sage Silver sage White sagebrush Louisiana wormwood Silver wormwood Louisiana sagewort Gray sagewort Cudweed sagewort Mugwort wormwood | |
| Aristolochia tomentosa | Woolly dutchman's pipe Common dutchmanspipe | |
| Artemisia vulgaris | Common wormwood Mugwort | |
| Asclepias syriaca | Common milkweed | |
| Asclepias texana | Texas milkweed White milkweed | |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common paw paw Indian banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Asclepias viridis | Green antelopehorn Green milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing saltbush Fourwing saltbush Wingscale | |
| Atriplex confertifolia | Shadscale Spiny saltbush Shadscale saltbush Hop sage | |
| Betula nigra | River birch Red birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| Bouchea linifolia | Flaxleaf bouchea Groovestem bouchea | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile pequin Chile petin Bird pepper Turkey pepper Cayenne pepper | |
| Calocedrus decurrens | Incense cedar Incense-cedar | |
| Calliandra eriophylla | Pink fairyduster Fairyduster Mesquitilla Mock mesquite | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Calyptocarpus vialis | Straggler daisy Horseherb Hierba del caballo Lawnflower | |
| Centaurea americana | American star-thistle Basket-Flower Star thistle Shaving brush American basket-flower | |
| Cercocarpus montanus var. argenteus | Silver mountain mahogany Mountain mahogany True mountain mahogany Silverleaf mountain mahogany | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common hackberry Nettle tree | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Celastrus scandens | American bittersweet | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert willow Flowering willow Willow-leaved catalpa Trumpet flower | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White fringetree Fringe tree Grancy Graybeard | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple clematis Purple leatherflower Leatherflower Bluebill | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf coreopsis Lanceleaf tickseed Lance-leaved coreopsis Sand coreopsis | |
| Cotinus obovatus | American smoke tree Smoke tree Texas smoke tree Chittamwood | |
| Coryphantha sulcata | Nipple Cactus Pineapple cactus | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains coreopsis Golden tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Croton alabamensis | Alabama croton | |
| Crinum americanum | Crinum lily Seven sisters Swamp lily Southern swamp lily String lily | |
| Crataegus greggiana | Gregg's hawthorn | |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley hawthorn | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black dalea Black prairie clover | |
| Datura wrightii | Sacred thorn-apple Jimsonweed Thorn apple Datura Angel Trumpet Sacred datura | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas persimmon Mexican persimmon Black persimmon Chapote Chapote prieto | |
| Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal woodfern Marginal fern Marginal shieldfern | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake herb Polkadots Narrowleaf dyschoriste | |
| Echinacea paradoxa | Yellow coneflower Yellow echinacea | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern purple coneflower Purple coneflower | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Chisos Hedgehog Devil’s head Horse crippler | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Knockaway Sandpaper tree | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Canuela Horsetail Scouring rush Scouringrush horsetail | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas kidneywood Kidneywood Bee-Brush Vara dulce | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache plume Ponil | |
| Forestiera angustifolia | Narrow-leaf forestiera Tanglewood desert olive panalero Texas swampprivet | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Stretchberry Elbow bush Spring herald | |
| Forestiera reticulata | Net-leaf forestiera Netleaf swampprivet | |
| Fraxinus cuspidata | Fragrant ash Flowering ash | |
| Fraxinus texensis | Texas ash | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis | Lanceleaf blanketflower Winkler gaillardia | |
| Gaillardia aristata | Common gaillardia Great blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed susan | |
| Gaura lindheimeri | Lindheimer's beeblossom White gaura Butterfly gaura | |
| Gaura longiflora | Longflower beeblossom | |
| Gaillardia suavis | Perfumeballs Pincushion daisy Fragrant gaillardia Rayless gaillardia | |
| Hamelia patens | Scarletbush Firebush | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel American witch hazel | |
| Helenium amarum | Yellow Sneezeweed Bitterweed Yellow bitterweed Yellowdicks Slender-leaved sneezeweed Fine-leaved sneezweed Yellow dog-fennel | |
| Helianthus annuus | Common sunflower | |
| Hesperaloe funifera | New Mexico false yucca Giant hesperaloe Samandoce | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red yucca Coral yucca Red flowered false yucca Redflower false yucca Samandoque Yellow yucca | |
| Heuchera sanguinea | Coralbells New Mexican coralbells Arizona coralbells | |
| Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet rose-mallow Scarlet rosemallow Texas star hibiscus Wild red mallow | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimsoneyed rosemallow Crimson-eyed rose-mallow Marshmallow hibiscus | |
| Hyptis emoryi | Desert lavender | |
| Hypericum frondosum | Cedarglade St. Johnswort Golden St. Johnswort | |
| Hydrangea quercifolia | Oakleaf hydrangea Oak-leaf hydrangea | |
| Hypericum sphaerocarpum | Roundseed St. Johnswort | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon holly Cassina | |
| Ipomopsis rubra | Standing cypress Texas plume Red Texas star Red gilia | |
| Itea virginica | Virginia sweetspire Tassel-white | |
| Juniperus deppeana | Alligator juniper Checkerbark juniper Tacate Tlascal | |
| Juniperus flaccida | Weeping juniper Drooping juniper Tascate | |
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