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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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| Verbena halei | Slender verbena Texas verbena Texas vervain | |
| Verbesina virginica | Frostweed White crownbeard Iceplant Iceweed Virginia crownbeard Indian tobacco Richweed Squawweed | |
| Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty blackhaw viburnum Rusty blackhaw Southern blackhaw Downy viburnum | |
| Wedelia texana | Zexmenia Orange zexmenia Wedelia Hairy wedelia Texas creeping-oxeye | |
| Wisteria frutescens | American wisteria Texas wisteria Kentucky wisteria | |
| Yucca baccata | Banana yucca Blue yucca Fleshy-fruited yucca Datil | |
| Yucca glauca | Soapweed yucca Narrowleaf yucca Plains yucca Beargrass | |
| Yucca rupicola | Twistleaf yucca Twisted-leaf yucca Texas yucca | |
| Zanthoxylum clava-herculis | Hercules' club | |
| Zinnia grandiflora | Rocky Mountain zinnia Little golden zinnia Yellow zinnia Plains zinnia Prairie zinnia | |
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