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Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in West 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 |
| Acacia constricta | Whitethorn acacia White-thorn acacia Mescat acacia Mescat wattle Whitethorn Vara Prieta Chaparro Prieto | |
| Acacia farnesiana | Huisache Sweet acacia Mealy wattle | |
| Acacia greggii | Catclaw acacia Gregg acacia Long-flower catclaw Una de gato | |
| Acacia roemeriana | Roundflower catclaw Round-flower catclaw Roemer acacia Catclaw Roemer’s acacia Catclaw acacia | |
| Agave americana | American century plant Century plant | |
| Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla | |
| Agave parryi ssp. neomexicana | Parry's agave New Mexico agave | |
| Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant amorpha Prairie shoestring | |
| Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache daisy Butterfly daisy Honey daisy | |
| Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's golden columbine Yellow columbine Hinckley columbine Capote columbine | |
| Artemisia filifolia | Sand sagebrush Silver sagebrush Silvery wormwood Sand sage | |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas madrone Madrone Naked indian Manzanita | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing saltbush Fourwing saltbush Wingscale | |
| Baileya multiradiata | Desert marigold Showy desert marigold Paper daisy Desert baileya | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo grass | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| Bouteloua ramosa | Chino grama | |
| Bouvardia ternifolia | Scarlet bouvardia Firecracker bush Trompetilla Clavillo | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Centaurea americana | American star-thistle Basket-Flower Star thistle Shaving brush American basket-flower | |
| Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican redbud | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas redbud | |
| Ceanothus fendleri | Fendler ceanothus Fendler's ceanothus | |
| Ceanothus greggii | Desert ceanothus | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf hackberry Netleaf sugar hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Cercocarpus montanus | Alderleaf mountain mahogany Alder-leaf mountain-mahogany Mountain mahogany Silverleaf mountain mahogany | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert willow Flowering willow Willow-leaved catalpa Trumpet flower | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Cosmos parviflorus | Southwest cosmos Southwestern cosmos | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains coreopsis Golden tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata | Cane cactus Cholla Teddy-bear cholla Tree cholla Walkingstick cholla | |
| 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 wheeleri | Common sotol Sotol Desert Spoon Desert candle | |
| Echinocereus coccineus var. coccineus | Scarlet hedgehog cactus | |
| Echinocereus dasyacanthus | Spiny hedgehog cactus Texas rainbow cactus Golden rainbow hedgehog Yellow Pitaya | |
| Echinocereus enneacanthus | Pitaya Strawberry cactus | |
| Echinocereus pectinatus | Rainbow cactus | |
| Echinocereus stramineus | Strawberry hedgehog cactus | |
| Echinocereus triglochidiatus | Claret cup Hedgehog cactus Kingcup cactus Mojave mound | |
| Echinocereus viridiflorus | Green Pitaya Nylon hedgehog cactus | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Ephedra trifurca | Ephedra Mormon tea Longleaf jointfir Jointfir Longleaf teabush Tea weed Canutillo | |
| Ericameria laricifolia | Turpentine bush Larchleaf goldenweed Turpentine brush | |
| Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa | Chamisa Rabbitbrush Rubber rabbitbrush | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache plume Ponil | |
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