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Brackenridge Field Laboratory
Native plants of Brackenridge Field Laboratory. Last updated 2005.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Abutilon incanum | Pelotazo Indian Mallow Shrubby Indian Mallow | |
| Acaciella angustissima | Prairie Acacia Fern Acacia Whiteball Acacia Prairie Wattle White-ball Acacia | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
| Acalypha phleoides | Shrubby Copperleaf Three-seeded Mercury | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
| Ageratina havanensis | Shrubby Boneset White Mistflower White Shrub Mistflower Havana Snakeroot | |
| Agalinis heterophylla | Prairie Agalinis Prairie False-foxglove | |
| Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
| Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
| Allowissadula holosericea | Velvet-leaf Mallow Chisos Mountain False Indianmallow | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
| Amaranthus hybridus | Slim Amaranth | |
| Ambrosia psilostachya | Cuman Ragweed Western Ragweed Perennial Ragweed Common Ragweed | |
| Ambrosia trifida | Great Ragweed Giant Ragweed | |
| Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
| Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii | Flame Acanthus Hummingbird Bush Wright's Desert Honeysuckle Wright Acanthus Mexican Flame Wright's Mexican Flame | |
| Aphanostephus ramosissimus | Plains Dozedaisy Lazy Daisy | |
| Argemone albiflora | Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
| Aristolochia erecta | Swanflower | |
| 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 | |
| Aristida oligantha | Prairie Threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield Threeawn | |
| Arabis petiolaris | Brazos Rockcress Rock-cress Brazos Rock-cress | |
| Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
| Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
| Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho Orchid Tree Anacacho Bauhinia Orchid Tree Texas Plume | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Bernardia myricifolia | Mouse's Eye Mouse Ears | |
| Berchemia scandens | Alabama Supplejack Alabama Supple-jack Rattan-vine | |
| Bidens aristosa | Bearded Beggarticks Tickseed Sunflower | |
| Bidens laevis | Smooth Beggartick Smooth Bidens Smooth Bur Marigold Larger Bur Marigold | |
| Boerhavia coccinea | Scarlet Spiderling | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
| Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas Grama | |
| Brickellia cylindracea | Gravel-bar Brickellbush | |
| Bromus texensis | Texas Brome | |
| Buddleja racemosa | Wand Butterflybush Wand Butterfly-bush | |
| Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile Tepin Chile Pequin Chiltepin Chile Petin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
| Calylophus berlandieri | Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops | |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
| Carex microdonta | Littletooth Sedge | |
| Carex planostachys | Cedar Sedge | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Carex texensis | Texas Sedge | |
| Calyptocarpus vialis | Horseherb Straggler Daisy Hierba Del Caballo Lawnflower | |
| Centaurium calycosum | Buckley Centaury Rosita Shortflower Centaury | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf Hackberry Netleaf Sugar Hackberry Western Hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Cenchrus spinifex | Grass Bur Coastal Sandbur Field Sandspur Southern Sandbur Spiny Burrgrass | |
| Centrosema virginianum | Spurred Butterfly Pea Butterfly Pea | |
| Chenopodium album | Lambsquarters | |
| Chaetopappa bellidifolia | Whiteray Leastdaisy Dwarf White Aster Edwards Lazy Daisy | |
| Chamaesaracha coronopus | Greenleaf Five Eyes Green False Nightshade | |
| Chloris cucullata | Hooded Windmill Grass Hooded Windmillgrass | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chloris ×subdolichostachya | Shortspike Windmillgrass | |
| Chaerophyllum tainturieri | Hairyfruit Chervil Southern Chervil | |
| Chloris verticillata | Tumble Windmill Grass Windmillgrass | |
| Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle Purple Thistle | |
| Cissus trifoliata | Cow-itch Vine Cow Itch Vine Sorrelvine Grape Ivy Possum Grape Arizona Grape Ivy | |
| Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
| Clitoria mariana | Atlantic Pigeonwings Butterfly Pea | |
| Cnidoscolus texanus | Texas Bullnettle Bull Nettle Tread-softly Spurge Nettle | |
| Coreopsis basalis | Goldenmane Tickseed Golden-wave | |
| Cocculus carolinus | Carolina Snailseed Carolina Coralbead Carolina Moonseed Red Berried Moonseed Carolina Red Berried Moonseed | |
| Conyza canadensis | Horseweed Canadian Horseweed | |
| Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort Scrambled Eggs Golden Smoke Curvepod | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
| Cooperia drummondii | Evening Rain Lily Evening Star Rain Lily | |
| Convolvulus equitans | Texas Bindweed Bindweed | |
| Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
| Condalia hookeri | Bluewood Condalia Brasil Brasilwood Bluewood Logwood Purple Haw Capul Negro | |
| Colubrina texensis | Texas Hog Plum Texas Snakewood Texas Colubrina Hog Plum | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Croton fruticulosus | Bush Croton Encinilla Hierba Loca | |
| Croton lindheimerianus | Threeseed Croton | |
| Croton monanthogynus | Prairie Tea One-seed Croton Doveweed Dove Weed Prairie Goatweed | |
| Cucurbita foetidissima | Stinking Gourd Buffalo Gourd Missouri Gourd Stink Gourd Wild Gourd | |
| Cynanchum barbigerum | Bearded Swallow-wort Thicket Threadvine | |
| Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Tasajillo Christmas Cactus Pencil Cactus Christmas Cholla Desert Christmas Cactus | |
| Cynanchum racemosum var. unifarium | Talayote | |
| Daucus pusillus | American Wild Carrot Rattlesnake-weed Wild Carrot | |
| Delphinium carolinianum | Prairie Larkspur Carolina Larkspur Blue Larkspur | |
| Desmanthus velutinus | Velvet Bundleflower | |
| Dicliptera brachiata | Branched Foldwing Branched Dicliptera | |
| Dichondra carolinensis | Carolina Ponyfoot Ponyfoot | |
| Digitaria cognata | Carolina Crabgrass Fall Witchgrass | |
| Dichanthelium pedicellatum | Cedar Rosette Grass Corm-based Panicgrass | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus Lace Hedgehog Purple Candle | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
| Elymus virginicus | Virginia Wild Rye Virginia Wildrye | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy Lovegrass Gummy Love Grass | |
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