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The purpose of the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) is to promote the conservation, research and utilization of the native plants and plant habitats of Texas, through education, outreach and example.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acacia farnesiana | Huisache Sweet acacia Mealy wattle | |
| Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth maple Big-toothed maple Canyon maple | |
| Acacia rigidula | Blackbrush acacia Blackbrush Catclaw Chaparro prieto Gavia | |
| Acacia roemeriana | Roundflower catclaw Round-flower catclaw Roemer acacia Catclaw Roemer’s acacia Catclaw acacia | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern maidenhair fern Common maidenhair fern Maidenhair fern Venus hair fern | |
| Aesculus glabra var. arguta | Ohio buckeye White buckeye Texas buckeye | |
| Aesculus pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Aesculus pavia var. flavescens | Texas yellow buckeye Yellow woolly buckeye Pale buckeye Plateau yellow buckeye | |
| Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet buckeye Red buckeye Southern buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Agave americana | American century plant Century plant | |
| Agave havardiana | Havard's century plant Havard agave | |
| Ageratina havanensis | Havana snakeroot Mistflower Shrubby boneset White mistflower White shrub mistflower | |
| Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla | |
| Allium canadense var. canadense | Canada onion Meadow garlic Wild onion | |
| Allium drummondii | Drummond's onion Wild Garlic Drummond wild onion | |
| Ampelopsis arborea | Peppervine | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii | Flame acanthus Hummingbird bush Wright's desert honeysuckle Wright acanthus Mexican flame Wright's Mexican flame | |
| Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's golden columbine Yellow columbine Hinckley columbine Capote columbine | |
| Aquilegia longissima | Longspur columbine Longspur yellow columbine | |
| Aristolochia coryi | Cory's dutchman's pipe | |
| Aristolochia erecta | Swanflower | |
| Aristolochia reticulata | Texas dutchman's pipe | |
| Aristolochia tomentosa | Woolly dutchman's pipe Common dutchmanspipe | |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas madrone Madrone Naked indian Manzanita | |
| Asclepias asperula | Spider milkweed Antelope horns Green-flowered milkweed Spider antelope-horns | |
| Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes milkweed Hierba de Zizotes Longhorn milkweed Side-cluster milkweed Primrose milkweed Lindheimer's milkweed | |
| Astrolepis sinuata | Wavy scaly cloakfern | |
| Asclepias texana | Texas milkweed White milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Asclepias viridiflora | Green milkweed Green comet milkweed Green antelopehorn milkweed | |
| Asclepias viridis | Green antelopehorn Green milkweed | |
| Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho orchid tree Anacacho bauhinia Orchid tree Texas plume | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo grass | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| Bouvardia ternifolia | Scarlet bouvardia Firecracker bush Trompetilla Clavillo | |
| Buddleja marrubiifolia | Woolly butterflybush Butterfly bush Woolly Butterfly-bush | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile pequin Chile petin Bird pepper Turkey pepper Cayenne pepper | |
| Calylophus berlandieri | Berlandier's sundrops Square-bud primrose Sundrops | |
| Carex blanda | Eastern woodland sedge Creek sedge Common wood sedge | |
| Canna glauca | Water Canna Louisiana Canna Maraca amarilla | |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Carex perdentata | Meadow Sedge Sand sedge | |
| Carex planostachys | Cedar sedge | |
| Carex retroflexa | Reflexed sedge | |
| Carex texensis | Texas sedge | |
| Calyptocarpus vialis | Straggler daisy Horseherb Hierba del caballo Lawnflower | |
| Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican redbud | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas redbud | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| 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 | |
| Clematis ligusticifolia | Western white clematis Virgin's bower Pepper vine Hierba de chivo | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple clematis Purple leatherflower Leatherflower Bluebill | |
| Clematis texensis | Scarlet clematis Scarlet leatherflower Texas clematis | |
| Cordia boissieri | Mexican olive Anacahuita Texas wild olive Anacahuite | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf dogwood Drummond's dogwood Rough-leaf dogwood | |
| Condalia ericoides | Javelin bush | |
| Conoclinium greggii | Gregg's mistflower Palmleaf thoroughwort Palm-leaf mistflower Palm-leaf thoroughwort Purple palmleaf mistflower Purple palmleaf eupatorium | |
| Condalia hookeri | Bluewood condalia Brasil Brazilwood Brazilian bluewood | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf coreopsis Lanceleaf tickseed Lance-leaved coreopsis Sand coreopsis | |
| Cotinus obovatus | American smoke tree Smoke tree Texas smoke tree Chittamwood | |
| Colubrina texensis | Hog-plum Texan hogplum Texas colubrina Texas snakewood | |
| Croton fruticulosus | Bush croton Encinilla Hierba Loca | |
| Croton texensis | Texas croton Doveweed | |
| Cylindropuntia imbricata | Tree cholla Walking stick cholla Cholla | |
| Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Christmas cactus Christmas cholla Desert Christmas cactus Pencil cactus Tasajillo | |
| Dalea formosa | Feather dalea Featherplume | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black dalea Black prairie clover | |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg dalea Gregg's prairie clover Trailing indigo bush Indigo bush | |
| Dasylirion leiophyllum | Green sotol Sotol Desert candle | |
| Dasylirion texanum | Texas sotol Sotol | |
| Dasylirion wheeleri | Common sotol Sotol Desert Spoon Desert candle | |
| Dalea wrightii | Wright's prairie clover | |
| Datura wrightii | Sacred thorn-apple Jimsonweed Thorn apple Datura Angel Trumpet Sacred datura | |
| Dichondra argentea | Silver Ponyfoot Silver ponysfoot | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas persimmon Mexican persimmon Black persimmon Chapote Chapote prieto | |
| Dryopteris ludoviciana | Southern woodfern Florida shieldfern | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake herb Polkadots Narrowleaf dyschoriste | |
| Ebenopsis ebano | Texas ebony Ebano | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern purple coneflower Purple coneflower | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Cactus Lace hedgehog cactus Órgano-pequeño de colores Purple candle | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Knockaway Sandpaper tree | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye Canadian wildrye Prairie wildrye Nodding wildrye | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
| Ephedra torreyana | Torrey joint-fir Torrey's jointfir | |
| Ephedra torreyana var. powelliorum | Torrey's Jointfir | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Canuela Horsetail Scouring rush Scouringrush horsetail | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee bean Red cardinal | |
| Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Candelilla Wax plant | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas kidneywood Kidneywood Bee-Brush Vara dulce | |
| Forestiera angustifolia | Narrow-leaf forestiera Tanglewood desert olive panalero Texas swampprivet | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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