Special Collections
Austin Chapter NPSOT
The purpose of the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) is to promote the conservation, research and utilization of the native plants and plant habitats of Texas, through education, outreach and example.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth Maple Big-toothed Maple Uvalde Bigtooth Maple Southwestern Bigtooth Maple Canyon Maple Sabinal Maple Western Sugar Maple | |
Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
Aesculus glabra var. arguta | Ohio Buckeye White Buckeye Texas Buckeye | |
Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Aesculus pavia var. flavescens | Texas Yellow Buckeye Yellow Woolly Buckeye Pale Buckeye Plateau Yellow Buckeye | |
Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red Buckeye Southern Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Agave americana | American Century Plant Century Plant | |
Agave havardiana | Havard's Century Plant Havard Agave | |
Ageratina havanensis | Shrubby Boneset White Mistflower White Shrub Mistflower Havana Snakeroot | |
Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla Tula Ixtle Maguey Lechuguilla Shindagger | |
Allium canadense var. canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion Canada Onion | |
Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
Amsonia ciliata | Fringed Bluestar Bluestar Texas Bluestar | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
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 | |
Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's Golden Columbine Yellow Columbine Hinckley Columbine Capote Columbine | |
Aquilegia longissima | Longspur Columbine Longspur Yellow Columbine | |
Aristolochia coryi | Cory's Dutchman's-pipe Cory's Pipevine | |
Aristolochia erecta | Swanflower | |
Aristida purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Threeawn Red Threeawn | |
Aristolochia reticulata | Texas Dutchman's Pipe | |
Aristolochia tomentosa | Pipevine Woolly Dutchman's Pipe Common Dutchman's Pipe | |
Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl | |
Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
Astrolepis sinuata | Wavy Scaly Cloakfern | |
Asclepias speciosa | Showy Milkweed | |
Asclepias texana | Texas Milkweed White Milkweed | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
Asclepias viridiflora | Green Comet Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Green Milkweed Wand Milkweed | |
Asclepias viridis | Green Milkweed Spider Milkweed | |
Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho Orchid Tree Anacacho Bauhinia Orchid Tree Texas Plume | |
Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
Bouvardia ternifolia | Scarlet Bouvardia Firecracker Bush Trompetilla Clavillo | |
Buddleja marrubiifolia | Woolly Butterflybush Butterfly Bush Woolly 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 | |
Carex blanda | Eastern Woodland Sedge Creek Sedge Common Wood Sedge | |
Canna glauca | Water Canna Louisiana Canna Maraca Amarilla | |
Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Carex perdentata | Sand Sedge Meadow Sedge | |
Carex planostachys | Cedar Sedge | |
Carex retroflexa | Reflexed Sedge | |
Carex texensis | Texas Sedge | |
Calyptocarpus vialis | Horseherb Straggler Daisy Hierba Del Caballo Lawnflower | |
Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican Redbud | |
Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas Redbud | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
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 | |
Chromolaena odorata | Blue Mistflower Fragrant Mistflower Blue Boneset Fragrant Boneset Jack In The Bush Crucita Siam Weed Common Flossflower Christmas Bush Devilweed | |
Clematis ligusticifolia | Western White Clematis Virgin's Bower Pepper Vine Hierba De Chivo | |
Clematis pitcheri | Purple Leatherflower Purple Clematis Leatherflower Bluebill Bellflower Clematis Pitcher's Clematis | |
Clematis texensis | Scarlet Clematis Scarlet Leatherflower Texas Clematis | |
Cordia boissieri | Mexican Olive Texas Wild Olive Anacahuita Anacahuite | |
Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
Condalia ericoides | Javelina Bush | |
Conoclinium greggii | Gregg's Mistflower Palmleaf Thoroughwort Palm-leaf Mistflower Palm-leaf Thoroughwort Purple Palmleaf Mistflower Purple Palmleaf Eupatorium | |
Condalia hookeri | Bluewood Condalia Brasil Brasilwood Bluewood Logwood Purple Haw Capul Negro | |
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 | |
Colubrina texensis | Texas Hog Plum Texas Snakewood Texas Colubrina Hog Plum | |
Croton fruticulosus | Bush Croton Encinilla Hierba Loca | |
Croton texensis | Texas Croton Doveweed Texas Goatweed | |
Cylindropuntia imbricata | Tree Cholla Walking Stick Cholla Cholla | |
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Tasajillo Christmas Cactus Pencil Cactus Christmas Cholla Desert Christmas Cactus | |
Dalea compacta var. pubescens | Compact Prairie Clover Purple Prairie Clover | |
Dalea formosa | Featherplume Feather Dalea Indigobush | |
Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover | |
Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush | |
Dasylirion leiophyllum | Green Sotol Smooth-leaved Sotol Smooth-leaf Sotol Sotol Desert Candle | |
Dasylirion texanum | Texas Sotol Sotol | |
Dasylirion wheeleri | Common Sotol Sotol Desert Spoon Desert Candle | |
Dalea wrightii | Wright's Prairie Clover | |
Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
Dichondra argentea | Silver Ponysfoot Silver Ponyfoot | |
Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
Dryopteris ludoviciana | Southern Woodfern Florida Shieldfern | |
Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
Ebenopsis ebano | Texas Ebony Black-bead Ebony Ebony Ape's-earring Ebano | |
Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
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 | |
Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon Tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
Ephedra torreyana | Torrey's Jointfir Torrey Joint-fir | |
Ephedra torreyana var. powelliorum | Torrey's Jointfir | |
Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal | |
Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Candelilla Wax Plant | |
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