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Wednesday - September 16, 2009
From: Austin, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Grasses or Grass-like, Herbs/Forbs, Shrubs, Vines
Title: Salt-tolerant plants in Central Texas
Answered by: Nan Hampton
QUESTION:
Do you have any suggestions for salt-tolerant plants in Central Texas? Thanks.ANSWER:
Here are several perennial native plants that are salt tolerant and are known to grow in Travis County, Texas.
HERBACEOUS PLANTS
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)
Artemisia ludoviciana (white sagebrush)
Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly milkweed)
Teucrium canadense (Canada germander)
ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
Tripsacum dactyloides (eastern gamagrass)
Tridens flavus (purpletop tridens)
SHRUBS/VINES
Lonicera sempervirens (trumpet honeysuckle)
Callicarpa americana (American beautyberry)
Erythrina herbacea (redcardinal)
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