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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 | |
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