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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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 | |
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