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Tree Talk & Winter Walk
Our annual Tree Talk Winter Walk is a perfect time to explore the beauty and benefits of native trees and shrubs. Choose from over 70 species of native trees and shrubs. Note: availability of species subject to change.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth maple Big-toothed maple Canyon maple | |
| Acer leucoderme | Chalk maple | |
| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| Aesculus pavia var. flavescens | Texas yellow buckeye Yellow woolly buckeye Pale buckeye Plateau yellow buckeye | |
| Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet buckeye Red buckeye Southern buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii | Flame acanthus Hummingbird bush Wright's desert honeysuckle Wright acanthus Mexican flame Wright's Mexican flame | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walkingstick Devil’s walking-stick Prickly Ash Hercules club Angelica tree | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican redbud | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert willow Flowering willow Willow-leaved catalpa Trumpet flower | |
| Chromolaena odorata | Jack in the bush Fragrant boneset Fragrant mistflower Crucita Blue mistflower | |
| Citharexylum berlandieri | Berlandier's fiddlewood Berlandier fiddlewood Fiddlewood | |
| Cordia boissieri | Mexican olive Anacahuita Texas wild olive Anacahuite | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf dogwood Drummond's dogwood Rough-leaf dogwood | |
| Cotinus obovatus | American smoke tree Smoke tree Texas smoke tree Chittamwood | |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley hawthorn | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas persimmon Mexican persimmon Black persimmon Chapote Chapote prieto | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common persimmon Eastern persimmon | |
| Ebenopsis ebano | Texas ebony Ebano | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Knockaway Sandpaper tree | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee bean Red cardinal | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas kidneywood Kidneywood Bee-Brush Vara dulce | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache plume Ponil | |
| Forestiera angustifolia | Narrow-leaf forestiera Tanglewood desert olive panalero Texas swampprivet | |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina buckthorn Carolina false buckthorn Indian cherry | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash Red ash | |
| Garrya ovata ssp. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's silktassel Lindheimer Silk Tassel Lindheimer's Garrya | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey locust Common Honey-locust Honey-locust Thornless common honey-locust Honey shucks | |
| Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky coffeetree Stump tree | |
| Hesperocyparis arizonica | Arizona cypress | |
| Heimia salicifolia | Shrubby yellowcrest | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Winterberry Deciduous yaupon | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon holly Cassina | |
| Juglans microcarpa | Little walnut Nogalito Texas walnut Texas black walnut River walnut | |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball leadtree Littleleaf leadtree | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern spicebush Spicebush | |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American sweetgum | |
| Lycium berlandieri | Berlandier's wolfberry Wolfberry | |
| Malpighia glabra | Acerola Barbados Cherry Manzanita Wild crapemyrtle | |
| Malus ioensis var. texana | Texas crabapple Blanco Crabapple | |
| Maclura pomifera | Osage orange Bois d’ arc Bodark Horse apple Hedge apple | |
| Morella cerifera | Wax myrtle Southern bayberry Candleberry | |
| Morus rubra | Red mulberry Moral | |
| Parkinsonia aculeata | Retama Paloverde Mexican Palo Verde Jerusalem thorn Lluvia de Oro | |
| Philadelphus ernestii | Canyon mock orange Canyon Mock-Orange Mock-orange | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American sycamore Buttonwood Plane-tree Sycamore | |
| Prunus caroliniana | Cherry laurel Carolina cherry laurel Laurel cherry Carolina laurel cherry | |
| Prunus mexicana | Mexican plum Bigtree plum | |
| Prunus serotina | Black cherry Rum cherry | |
| Prunus serotina var. eximia | Escarpment black cherry Edwards Plateau black cherry | |
| Ptelea trifoliata | Wafer ash Common hoptree Hop tree | |
| Quercus buckleyi | Texas red oak Buckley oak Spanish oak Spotted Oak Rock Oak | |
| Quercus emoryi | Emory oak Black Oak Bellota Roble Negro Holly Oak Apache Oak Desert Live Oak Western Black Oak | |
| Quercus fusiformis | Escarpment live oak Plateau live oak Texas live oak Scrub live oak Hill country live oak Plateau oak | |
| Quercus macrocarpa | Bur oak Burr oak Savannah oak Overcup oak Prairie oak Mossy-cup oak Mossy-overcup oak Blue oak | |
| Quercus marilandica | Blackjack oak Barren oak Black oak Jack oak | |
| Quercus polymorpha | Mexican White Oak Monterrey Oak Netleaf white oak | |
| Rhus aromatica | Fragrant sumac Aromatic sumac Lemon sumac Polecat bush | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth sumac | |
| Rhus virens | Evergreen sumac Tobacco sumac | |
| Robinia pseudoacacia | Black locust Honey locust | |
| Salvia greggii | Autumn sage Cherry sage Gregg salvia | |
| Sabal mexicana | Mexican palm Palma Di Micharos Rio Grande palmetto Texas palm Texas palmetto | |
| Sabal minor | Dwarf palmetto Palmetto Bush palmetto | |
| Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii | Western soapberry Soapberry | |
| Senna wislizeni | Canyon senna Shrubby senna Dwarf senna | |
| Sophora secundiflora | Texas mountain laurel Mountain laurel Mescal bean Mescal bean sophora Frijolillo Frijolito | |
| Styphnolobium affine | Eve’s necklace Eve's necklacepod Texas sophora | |
| Symphoricarpos orbiculatus | Coralberry Indian currant Buckbrush | |
| Taxodium distichum | Bald cypress Baldcypress Common bald cypress Southern bald cypress Deciduous cypress | |
| Taxodium mucronatum | Montezuma bald cypress Montezuma cypress Mexican cypress Ahuehuete Sabino | |
| Ulmus americana | American elm White elm | |
| Ungnadia speciosa | Mexican buckeye | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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