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Native Plant Society of Texas
The purpose of the Native Plant Society of Texas is to promote the conservation, research and utilization of the native plants and plant habitats of Texas, through education, outreach and example. The Native Plant Society of Texas was founded in 1980 and currently has over 1,800 members in 32 Chapters. Chapters provide activities such as Field trips, Plant rescues, Native plant sales, Restoration projects, and Highway plantings, NPSOT publishes a newsletter for it state members and hosts two annual conferences, one of which is traditionally held at the Wildflower Center.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 | |
| Agave americana | American century plant Century plant | |
| Ageratina havanensis | Havana snakeroot Mistflower Shrubby boneset White mistflower White shrub mistflower | |
| 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 | |
| Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho orchid tree Anacacho bauhinia Orchid tree Texas plume | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| 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 | |
| Carex blanda | Eastern woodland sedge Creek sedge Common wood sedge | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Carex perdentata | Meadow Sedge Sand sedge | |
| Calyptocarpus vialis | Straggler daisy Horseherb Hierba del caballo Lawnflower | |
| Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican redbud | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas redbud | |
| 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 | |
| Conoclinium greggii | Gregg's mistflower Palmleaf thoroughwort Palm-leaf mistflower Palm-leaf thoroughwort Purple palmleaf mistflower Purple palmleaf eupatorium | |
| Cotinus obovatus | American smoke tree Smoke tree Texas smoke tree Chittamwood | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black dalea Black 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 | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern purple coneflower Purple coneflower | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee bean Red cardinal | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas kidneywood Kidneywood Bee-Brush Vara dulce | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Stretchberry Elbow bush Spring herald | |
| Gaura lindheimeri | Lindheimer's beeblossom White gaura Butterfly gaura | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red yucca Coral yucca Red flowered false yucca Redflower false yucca Samandoque Yellow yucca | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Winterberry Deciduous yaupon | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon holly Cassina | |
| Juniperus ashei | Ashe juniper Ashe's juniper Mountain cedar Blueberry juniper | |
| Lantana urticoides | Texas lantana Calico bush West Indian shrub-verbena | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple sage Texas ranger Texas barometer bush Texas silverleaf Texas sage | |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball leadtree Littleleaf leadtree | |
| Liatris mucronata | Cusp gayfeather Gayfeather Blazing star Narrow-leaf gayfeather Texas gayfeather Cusp blazing star | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral honeysuckle Trumpet honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii | Turk's cap or Turkscap Drummond's turkscap Wax mallow Drummond wax-mallow Red mallow Texas mallow Mexican apple Manzanilla Sleeping hibiscus Bleeding hearts | |
| Malpighia glabra | Acerola Barbados Cherry Manzanita Wild crapemyrtle | |
| Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate barberry | |
| Merremia dissecta | Alamo Vine Noyau vine Correhuela de las Doce | |
| Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock daisy Plains blackfoot | |
| Mimosa borealis | Fragrant mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
| Morella cerifera | Wax myrtle Southern bayberry Candleberry | |
| Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf muhly Hair-awn muhly Hairy-awn muhly Hair grass Pink muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia dubia | Pine muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's muhly Big muhly Lindheimer muhly | |
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