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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 |
| 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 | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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