Special Collections
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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| Silphium perfoliatum | Cup Plant Indian Cup | |
| Sophora secundiflora | Texas Mountain Laurel Mountain Laurel Mescal Bean Mescal Bean Sophora Frijolillo Frijolito | |
| Sphaeralcea ambigua | Desert Globemallow Apricot Globe-mallow Desert Mallow Globe Mallow Apricot Mallow | |
| Sphaeralcea angustifolia | Narrowleaf Globemallow Copper Globemallow Copper Mallow | |
| Stachys coccinea | Scarlet Betony Texas Betony Scarlet Hedgenettle Scarlet Hedge-nettle | |
| Symphoricarpos orbiculatus | Coralberry Indian Currant Buckbrush | |
| Taxodium ascendens | Pond Cypress | |
| Taxodium distichum | Bald Cypress Baldcypress Common Bald Cypress Southern Bald Cypress Deciduous Cypress Southern Cypress Swamp Cypress Red Cypress White Cypress Yellow Cypress Gulf Cypress Tidewater Red Cypress | |
| Taxodium mucronatum | Montezuma Bald Cypress Montezuma Cypress Mexican Cypress Ahuehuete Sabino | |
| Thalia dealbata | Powdery Alligator-flag Powdery Thalia Water Canna | |
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