Explore Plants
Special Collections
Edible Native Texas Plants
Edible Native Texas Plants on display at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Warning: Before consuming any wild food, be absolutely certain of its proper identity! Many plants have look a like. When in doubt, do not eat it!Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Allium canadense | Meadow garlic Wild garlic Wild onion | |
| Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate daisy Chocolate flower Lyreleaf greeneyes Green-Eyed lyre leaf | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile pequin Chile petin Bird pepper Turkey pepper Cayenne pepper | |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas persimmon Mexican persimmon Black persimmon Chapote Chapote prieto | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common persimmon Eastern persimmon | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Knockaway Sandpaper tree | |
| Hedeoma drummondii | Drummond's false pennyroyal Limoncillo Mock Pennyroyal | |
| Juglans microcarpa | Little walnut Nogalito Texas walnut Texas black walnut River walnut | |
| Malvaviscus arboreus | Turkscap Wax mallow Bleeding hearts Mexican apple Manzanilla | |
| Malpighia glabra | Acerola Barbados Cherry Manzanita Wild crapemyrtle | |
| Malus ioensis | Prairie crabapple Iowa crabapple | |
| Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate barberry | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon beebalm Horsemint Purple horsemint Lemon mint Plains horsemint Lemon horsemint | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink evening primrose Showy evening primrose Mexican evening primrose Showy primrose Pink ladies Buttercups Pink buttercups | |
| Opuntia ellisiana | Spineless prickly pear Tigertongue South Texas pricklypear | |
| Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri | Texas pricklypear Prickly Pear Texas Prickly Pear | |
| Oxalis drummondii | Drummond's woodsorrel Wood-sorrel | |
| Passiflora foetida | Corona de Cristo Scarlet-fruit passion flower Fetid passionflower | |
| Passiflora incarnata | Purple passionflower Purple passion vine Maypop Apricot vine | |
| Passiflora lutea | Yellow passion vine Yellow passion-flower Yellow passionflower | |
| Prunus mexicana | Mexican plum Bigtree plum | |
| Tradescantia gigantea | Giant spiderwort | |
| Vitis cinerea var. helleri | Winter grape Heller's grape Gray-leaf grape Smooth-leaf grape Sweet grape Spanish grape | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
© 2013 Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
4801 La Crosse Avenue, Austin, Texas 78739 | 512.232.0100