Special Collections
National Butterfly Center
The National Butterfly Center is dedicated to education, conservation and scientific research on wild butterflies. Its mission is "Growing Connections". The National Butterfly Center connects people to butterflies, which are intimately connected to native plants, which themselves are connected to the earth.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Plumbago scandens | Doctorbush Summer Snow Plumbago Mexican Plumbago | |
| Polanisia dodecandra | Redwhisker Clammyweed Clammyweed | |
| Portulaca pilosa | Kiss Me Quick Chisme | |
| Prosopis glandulosa | Honey Mesquite Glandular Mesquite Algarroba | |
| Quercus fusiformis | Escarpment Live Oak Plateau Live Oak Hill Country Live Oak Texas Live Oak Scrub Live Oak Plateau Oak Encino Molino Tesmoli | |
| Quercus lobata | Valley Oak | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
| Randia rhagocarpa | Crucillo | |
| Rivina humilis | Pigeonberry Rouge Plant Baby-peppers Bloodberry | |
| Ruellia nudiflora | Violet Ruellia Common Wild Petunia Violet Wild Petunia Wild Petunia Hierba De La Calentura | |
| Ruellia occidentalis | Western Wild Petunia | |
| Salvia ballotiflora | Shrubby Blue Sage Blue Shrub Sage Mejorana | |
| Salvia coccinea | Scarlet Sage Tropical Sage Blood Sage Red Sage Indian Fire | |
| Sabal mexicana | Texas Palm Texas Palmetto Mexican Palm Mexican Palmetto Rio Grande Palmetto Victoria Palmetto Palma De Micharos Apachite | |
| Salix nigra | Black Willow Gulf Black Willow Swamp Willow Sauz | |
| Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii | Western Soapberry Soapberry Wild China Tree Wild Chinaberry Indian Soap Plant Jaboncillo | |
| Senegalia berlandieri | Guajillo Berlandier Acacia Berlandier's Acacia Round-flowered Catclaw Roundflower Catclaw Mimosa Catclaw Thornless Catclaw Huajilla | |
| Serjania brachycarpa | Littlefruit Slipplejack Serjania | |
| Senegalia greggii | Gregg Acacia Gregg's Acacia Gregg Catclaw Acacia Gregg's Catclaw Acacia Gregg Catclaw Gregg's Catclaw Texas Catclaw Acacia Texas Catclaw Long-flowered Catclaw Acacia Longflower Catclaw Acacia Long-flowered Catclaw Longflower Catclaw Catclaw Acacia Catclaw Devil's Claw Uña De Gato | |
| Simsia calva | Awnless Bush Sunflower Bush Sunflower | |
| Solanum elaeagnifolium | Silverleaf Nightshade Silver-leaf Nightshade White Horse Nettle Trompillo Tomato Weed Bull Nettle | |
| Solanum erianthum | Potatotree Potato Tree | |
| Sophora secundiflora | Texas Mountain Laurel Mountain Laurel Mescal Bean Mescal Bean Sophora Frijolillo Frijolito | |
| Sophora tomentosa | Yellow Necklacepod Yellow Sophora Necklace Pod Tambalisa | |
| Tamaulipa azurea | Blue Boneset Blue Mistflower | |
| Tecoma stans | Yellow Bells Yellowbells Esperanza Yellow Trumpetbush Yellow Trumpetflower Trumpetbush Trumpetflower Yellow Elder Hardy Yellow Trumpet Yellow Trumpet Bush | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Five-needle Fetid Marigold | |
| Thamnosma texana | Texas Desert-rue Dutchman's Breeches Rue Of The Mountains Ruda Del Monte | |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
| Turnera diffusa | Damiana | |
| Vachellia farnesiana | Huisache Texas Huisache Sweet Acacia Perfume Acacia Mealy Acacia Mealy Wattle Cassie | |
| Vachellia rigidula | Blackbrush Acacia Blackbrush Chaparro Prieto Gavia | |
| Vachellia schaffneri | Schaffner's Wattle Twisted Acacia | |
| Verbesina encelioides | Cowpen Daisy Golden Crownbeard Butter Daisy | |
| Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
| Verbesina microptera | Texas Crownbeard | |
| Vicia ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
| Viguiera stenoloba | Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Resinbush | |
| Wissadula amplissima | Big Yellow Velvetleaf | |
| Wissadula periplocifolia | White Velvetleaf | |
| Zanthoxylum fagara | Lime Prickly Ash Colima | |
| Zinnia acerosa | Desert Zinnia Dwarf Zinnia Dwarf White Zinnia Shrubby Zinnia Southern Zinnia | |
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