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Native Plants for Container Gardens in Central Texas
Native Plants for Container Gardens in Central Texas by Andrea DeLong-Amaya, Director of Horticulture, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. These plants are all native to the Central Texas region and are especially useful in container gardens. If you live outside of Central Texas, these may or may not be native to your area.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's golden columbine Yellow columbine Hinckley columbine Capote columbine | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Coastal Water-hyssop Herb-of-grace Water hyssop | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile pequin Chile petin Bird pepper Turkey pepper Cayenne pepper | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Callirhoe pedata | Finger Poppy-mallow Palmleaf poppymallow Standing Winecup | |
| Carex planostachys | Cedar sedge | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Cooperia drummondii | Evening rain lily Evening star rain lily | |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country rain lily Prairie lily Rain lily | |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg dalea Gregg's prairie clover Trailing indigo bush Indigo bush | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake herb Polkadots Narrowleaf dyschoriste | |
| Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping burrhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword "Giant Mother Plant" | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Canuela Horsetail Scouring rush Scouringrush horsetail | |
| Geum canadense | White avens | |
| Giliastrum rigidulum | Bluebowls Blue gilia | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Purple prairie verbena Prairie verbena Dacota vervain Dakota mock vervain Moradilla | |
| Heterotheca canescens | Gray golden-aster Hoary false goldenaster | |
| Hymenocallis liriosme | Spider Lily Spring Spider Lily Spring spiderlily | |
| Hydrocotyle umbellata | Manyflower marshpennywort Water-pennywort Money-plant | |
| Iris virginica | Virginia iris Great Blue Flag Southern blueflag | |
| Justicia americana | American water-willow Water-willow | |
| Lindheimera texana | Texas yellowstar Texas star Lindheimer daisy Texas yellow star | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas lupine Buffalo clover Wolf-flower | |
| Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's-buttons Puffballs White Barbara’s-buttons | |
| Manfreda maculosa | False Aloe Spice lily Spice-Lily | |
| Marsilea macropoda | Bigfoot water clover Water clover Clover-fern | |
| Marsilea vestita | Hairy water clover Water clover | |
| Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock daisy Plains blackfoot | |
| Nemophila phacelioides | Baby blue-eyes Flannel breeches Large-flower baby-blue-eyes Largeflower baby blue eyes Texas baby blue eyes | |
| Nolina lindheimeriana | Devil's shoestring Devil’s-shoestring Ribbon grass | |
| Nolina texana | Texas sacahuista Texas beargrass Basket grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass | |
| Oenothera macrocarpa | Bigfruit evening-primrose Missouri evening-primrose Fluttermill Big-fruit evening-primrose Missouri Primrose | |
| Packera obovata | Golden groundsel Roundleaf groundsel Roundleaf ragwort Squawweed | |
| Penstemon baccharifolius | Rock penstemon Cut-Leaf Penstemon Baccharis-leaf beardtongue Beard Tongue | |
| Penstemon tenuis | Brazos Penstemon Gulf Coast Penstemon Sharpsepal beardtongue | |
| Phlox drummondii | Annual phlox Phlox Drummond phlox | |
| Phyla nodiflora | Texas frogfruit Turkey tangle fogfruit Frogfruit | |
| Phlox pilosa | Downy phlox Prairie phlox Fragrant phlox | |
| Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Weed | |
| Rivina humilis | Pigeonberry Rouge plant Baby peppers | |
| Salvia coccinea | Scarlet Sage Tropical Sage Blood sage | |
| Salvia greggii | Autumn sage Cherry sage Gregg salvia | |
| Salvia lyrata | Lyreleaf sage Cancer weed | |
| Salvia pentstemonoides | Big red sage Penstemon sage | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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