Texas Discovery Gardens
Texas Discovery Gardens is one of the oldest botanical institutions in Texas. Built in 1936 as the Hall of Horticulture for Texas' Centennial Exposition in Fair Park - Dallas, the 7.5-acre campus includes the first public conservatory in the Southwestern United States. The mission of Texas Discovery Gardens is to have a positive impact on the future of Texas by teaching people effective ways to restore, conserve and preserve nature in the urban environment through the use of native and adapted plants that illustrate the interrelationship of Butterflies, Bugs and Botany.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
Aloysia macrostachya | Rio Grande Beebrush Woolly Bee-brush | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
Anisacanthus thurberi | Thurber's Desert Honeysuckle Chuparosa Desert Honeysuckle | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Artemisia dracunculus | Tarragon | |
Artemisia ludoviciana | Louisiana Artemisia Louisiana Sage White Sage Prairie Sage Silver Sage White Sagebrush Louisiana Wormwood Silver Wormwood Louisiana Sagewort Gray Sagewort Cudweed Sagewort Mugwort Wormwood | |
Aristolochia tomentosa | Woolly Dutchman's Pipe Common Dutchman's Pipe | |
Asclepias syriaca | Common Milkweed | |
Asclepias texana | Texas Milkweed White Milkweed | |
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