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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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Abronia fragrans | Fragrant Sand-verbena Snowball Sand Verbena Sweet Sand-verbena Prairie Snowball Sand Verbena Heart's Delight | |
| Acaciella angustissima | Prairie Acacia Fern Acacia Whiteball Acacia Prairie Wattle White-ball Acacia | |
| Acer floridanum | Southern Sugar Maple Florida Maple Caddo Maple Rock Maple | |
| Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth Maple Big-toothed Maple Uvalde Bigtooth Maple Southwestern Bigtooth Maple Canyon Maple Sabinal Maple Western Sugar Maple | |
| Acer leucoderme | Chalk Maple Whitebark Maple | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
| Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red Buckeye Southern Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
| Agave americana | American Century Plant Century Plant | |
| Agastache foeniculum | Blue Giant Hyssop Blue Giant-hyssop Fragrant Giant Hyssop Lavender Hyssop Anise Hyssop | |
| Ageratina havanensis | Shrubby Boneset White Mistflower White Shrub Mistflower Havana Snakeroot | |
| Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
| Aloysia macrostachya | Rio Grande Beebrush Woolly Bee-brush | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
| Anisacanthus thurberi | Thurber's Desert Honeysuckle Chuparosa Desert Honeysuckle | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
| Artemisia dracunculus | Tarragon | |
| Artemisia ludoviciana | Louisiana Artemisia Louisiana Sage White Sage Prairie Sage Silver Sage White Sagebrush Louisiana Wormwood Silver Wormwood Louisiana Sagewort Gray Sagewort Cudweed Sagewort Mugwort Wormwood | |
| Aristolochia tomentosa | Woolly Dutchman's Pipe Common Dutchman's Pipe | |
| Asclepias syriaca | Common Milkweed | |
| Asclepias texana | Texas Milkweed White Milkweed | |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Asclepias viridis | Green Milkweed Spider Milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
| Atriplex confertifolia | Shadscale Spiny Saltbush Shadscale Saltbush Hop Sage | |
| Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| Bouchea linifolia | Groovestem Bouchea Flaxleaf Bouchea | |
| Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile Tepin Chile Pequin Chiltepin Chile Petin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
| Calocedrus decurrens | Incense Cedar Incense-cedar | |
| Calliandra eriophylla | Pink Fairyduster Fairyduster Mesquitilla Mock Mesquite | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
| Calyptocarpus vialis | Horseherb Straggler Daisy Hierba Del Caballo Lawnflower | |
| Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
| Cercocarpus montanus var. argenteus | Silver Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany True Mountain Mahogany Mountain Mahogany | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
| Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple Leatherflower Purple Clematis Leatherflower Bluebill Bellflower Clematis Pitcher's Clematis | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
| Cotinus obovatus | American Smoke Tree Texas Smoke Tree Wild Smoke Tree Smoke Tree Smokebush Chittamwood | |
| Coryphantha sulcata | Pineapple Cactus Nipple Cactus | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Croton alabamensis | Alabama Croton | |
| Crinum americanum | American Crinum Lily Seven Sisters Swamp Lily Southern Swamp Lily String Lily Crinum Lily | |
| Crataegus greggiana | Gregg's Hawthorn Gregg Hawthorn | |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley Hawthorn Parsleyleaf Hawthorn | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover | |
| Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
| Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal Woodfern Marginal Fern Marginal Shieldfern | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
| Echinacea paradoxa | Yellow Coneflower Yellow Echinacea | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Horse Crippler Horse Crippler Cactus Devil's Head Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil | |
| Forestiera angustifolia | Narrow-leaf Forestiera Tanglewood Desert Olive Texas Swamp-privet Panalero Elbow Bush | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
| Forestiera reticulata | Netleaf Swampprivet Net-leaf Forestiera | |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash | |
| Fraxinus cuspidata | Fragrant Ash Flowering Ash | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Winkler Gaillardia | |
| Gaillardia aristata | Common Gaillardia Great Blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed Susan | |
| Gaillardia suavis | Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs | |
| Hamelia patens | Scarletbush Firebush Hummingbird Bush Scarlet Bush Redhead | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
| Helenium amarum | Yellow Sneezeweed Bitterweed Yellow Bitterweed Yellowdicks Slender-leaved Sneezeweed Fine-leaved Sneezweed Yellow Dog-fennel | |
| Helianthus annuus | Common Sunflower Annual Sunflower | |
| Hesperaloe funifera | Giant Hesperaloe New Mexico False Yucca Samandoce | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red Yucca Coral Yucca Red-flowered False Yucca Redflower False Yucca Yellow Yucca Hummingbird Yucca Samandoque | |
| Heuchera sanguinea | Coralbells New Mexican Coralbells Arizona Coralbells | |
| Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet Rosemallow Crimson Rosemallow Wild Red Mallow Texas Star Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
| Hyptis emoryi | Desert Lavender | |
| Hypericum frondosum | Cedarglade St. John's-wort Golden St. John's-wort | |
| Hydrangea quercifolia | Oakleaf Hydrangea Oak-leaf Hydrangea | |
| Hypericum sphaerocarpum | Roundseed St. John's-wort | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon Holly Cassina | |
| Ipomopsis rubra | Standing Cypress Texas Plume Red Texas Star Red Gilia | |
| Itea virginica | Virginia Sweetspire Tassel-white Virginia Willow | |
| Juniperus deppeana | Alligator Juniper Checkerbark Juniper Western Juniper Oakbark Cedar Thickbark Cedar Mountain Cedar Tascate Tacate Tlascal | |
| Juniperus flaccida | Weeping Juniper Drooping Juniper Mexican Weeping Juniper Mexican Drooping Juniper Weeping Cedar Drooping Cedar Tascate | |
| Juglans microcarpa | Little Walnut Texas Walnut Texas Black Walnut River Walnut Nogalito Nogalillo Namboca | |
| Juniperus scopulorum | Rocky Mountain Juniper Rocky Mountain Red Cedar Mountain Red Cedar Colorado Red Cedar Western Red Cedar River Juniper Western Juniper Cedro Rojo | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball Leadtree Littleleaf Leadtree Little Leucaena Lemonball Wahoo Tree | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
| Liatris spicata | Dense Blazing Star Dense Gayfeather Dense Liatris Marsh Blazing Star Marsh Gayfeather Marsh Liatris | |
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