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Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in East Texas. Visit our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses that sell native plants or seeds or provide professional landscape or consulting services in this state. Visit the Organizations Directory to locate native plant societies, conservation groups, governmental agencies, botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-related organizations in this state.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acer barbatum | Southern sugar maple Florida maple Caddo maple Rock maple | |
| Acer leucoderme | Chalk maple | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow Yarrow Milfoil Western yarrow | |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Aesculus pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge bluestem Broom-sedge | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walkingstick Devil’s walking-stick Prickly Ash Hercules club Angelica tree | |
| Asimina parviflora | Smallflower pawpaw Small-flower pawpaw Dwarf pawpaw | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Betula nigra | River birch Red birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam Blue beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Castilleja indivisa | Entireleaf indian paintbrush Texas paintbrush Indian paintbrush Scarlet paintbrush Entire-leaf indian-paintbrush | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Catalpa speciosa | Northern catalpa Catawba tree Cigar tree Indian bean | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea Redroot | |
| 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 | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White fringetree Fringe tree Grancy Graybeard | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple clematis Purple leatherflower Leatherflower Bluebill | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf dogwood Drummond's dogwood Rough-leaf dogwood | |
| Cooperia drummondii | Evening rain lily Evening star rain lily | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf coreopsis Lanceleaf tickseed Lance-leaved coreopsis Sand coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains coreopsis Golden tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley hawthorn | |
| Cyrilla racemiflora | Swamp titi Titi Leatherwood Swamp cyrilla Palo colorado | |
| Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping coneflower Clasping-leaf coneflower | |
| Echinacea pallida | Pale purple coneflower Pale coneflower | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern purple coneflower Purple coneflower | |
| Echinacea sanguinea | Sanguine purple coneflower | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee bean Red cardinal | |
| Euonymus americanus | American strawberry-bush Strawberry bush Brook euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting-heart Wahoo | |
| Eustoma exaltatum ssp. russellianum | Texas bluebells Texas bluebell Bluebell Showy prairie gentian Prairie gentian | |
| Eubotrys racemosa | Fetter-bush Leucothoe Swamp doghobble Sweet-bells Leucothe Sweetbells | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American beech | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina buckthorn Carolina false buckthorn Indian cherry | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash Red ash | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Firewheel Indian Blanket | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina jessamine Yellow jessamine Evening trumpetflower Poor man's rope | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Purple prairie verbena Prairie verbena Dacota vervain Dakota mock vervain Moradilla | |
| Gordonia lasianthus | Gordonia Loblolly bay | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel American witch hazel | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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