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scientific name	common name(s)	image gallery
Ageratina havanensis	Shrubby Boneset White Mistflower White Shrub Mistflower Havana Snakeroot	43 images
Amorpha fruticosa	Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo	22 images
Amblyolepis setigera	Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy	20 images
Andropogon gerardii	Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot	51 images
Andropogon glomeratus	Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem	51 images
Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii	Flame Acanthus Hummingbird Bush Wright's Desert Honeysuckle Wright Acanthus Mexican Flame Wright's Mexican Flame	36 images
Aquilegia canadensis	Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine	143 images
Asclepias asperula	Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns	65 images
Asclepias tuberosa	Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed	142 images
Asclepias viridiflora	Green Comet Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Green Milkweed Wand Milkweed	34 images
Asclepias viridis	Green Milkweed Spider Milkweed	62 images
Bauhinia lunarioides	Anacacho Orchid Tree Anacacho Bauhinia Orchid Tree Texas Plume	31 images
Bouteloua curtipendula	Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita	25 images
Bouteloua dactyloides	Buffalograss Buffalo Grass	38 images
Bouteloua hirsuta	Hairy Grama	20 images
Bouteloua hirsuta var. pectinata	Tall Grama Hairy Grama
Callicarpa americana	American Beautyberry French Mulberry	139 images
Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum	Chile Pequin Chile Tepin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper	7 images
Calylophus berlandieri ssp. pinifolius	Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops Square-bud Day-primrose	30 images
Carya illinoinensis	Pecan	20 images
Castilleja indivisa	Texas Indian Paintbrush Entireleaf Indian Paintbrush Texas Paintbrush Indian Paintbrush Scarlet Paintbrush	133 images
Callirhoe involucrata	Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow	50 images
Callirhoe pedata	Palmleaf Poppymallow Standing Winecup Finger Poppymallow Palmleaf Poppy Mallow	22 images
Campsis radicans	Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring	63 images
Catalpa speciosa	Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean	7 images
Centaurea americana	American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower	153 images
Cercis canadensis var. mexicana	Mexican Redbud	9 images
Cercis canadensis var. texensis	Texas Redbud	20 images
Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata	Partridge Pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower	41 images
Chilopsis linearis	Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre	67 images
Chrysactinia mexicana	Damianita	60 images
Clematis pitcheri	Purple Leatherflower Purple Clematis Leatherflower Bluebill Bellflower Clematis Pitcher's Clematis	42 images
Clematis texensis	Scarlet Clematis Scarlet Leatherflower Texas Clematis	60 images
Conoclinium coelestinum	Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset	50 images
Cooperia drummondii	Evening Rain Lily Evening Star Rain Lily	30 images
Coreopsis lanceolata	Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis	51 images
Cotinus obovatus	American Smoke Tree Texas Smoke Tree Wild Smoke Tree Smoke Tree Smokebush Chittamwood	34 images
Cooperia pedunculata	Hill Country Rain Lily Prairie Lily Rain Lily Flor De Mayo	44 images
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria	Golden Tickseed Golden-wave	8 images
Dalea frutescens	Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover	68 images
Dasylirion texanum	Texas Sotol Sotol	23 images
Delphinium carolinianum	Prairie Larkspur Carolina Larkspur Blue Larkspur	34 images
Diospyros texana	Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto	75 images
Dracopis amplexicaulis	Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower	42 images
Echinacea angustifolia	Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower	34 images
Echinacea purpurea	Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower	124 images
Engelmannia peristenia	Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy	69 images
Erythrina herbacea	Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal	45 images
Eryngium leavenworthii	Leavenworth's Eryngo Eryngo False Purple Thistle	44 images
Eysenhardtia texana	Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce	28 images
Fraxinus albicans	Texas Ash Mountain Ash	7 images
Frangula caroliniana	Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood	57 images
Gaillardia pulchella	Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo	245 images
Gaillardia suavis	Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs	21 images
Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida	Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Mock Vervain Dakota Vervain	41 images
Helianthus maximiliani	Maximilian Sunflower Max Sunflower	64 images
Hesperaloe parviflora	Red Yucca Coral Yucca Red-flowered False Yucca Redflower False Yucca Yellow Yucca Hummingbird Yucca Samandoque	90 images
Hilaria belangeri var. belangeri	Curly-mesquite	1 images
Hibiscus martianus	Heartleaf Rosemallow Tulipan Del Monte Heartleaf Hibiscus	47 images
Ibervillea lindheimeri	Balsam Gourd Lindheimer's Globeberry Globe Berry Snake-apple Balsam-apple	30 images
Ilex decidua	Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Meadow Holly Prairie Holly Swamp Holly Welk Holly Deciduous Yaupon Bearberry Winterberry	72 images
Ilex vomitoria	Yaupon Yaupon Holly Cassina	65 images
Ipomopsis rubra	Standing Cypress Texas Plume Red Texas Star Red Gilia	104 images
Juglans nigra	Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut	13 images
Juniperus virginiana	Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin	42 images
Lantana urticoides	Texas Lantana Calico Bush	84 images
Leucophyllum frutescens	Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf	88 images
Linum berlandieri var. berlandieri	Berlandier's Yellow Flax Yellow Flax Stiff-stem Flax	15 images
Linum hudsonioides	Texas Flax Yellow Flax Hudson Flax	16 images
Liatris pycnostachya	Prairie Blazing Star Prairie Gayfeather Prairie Liatris Kansas Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Kansas Liatris Cat-tail Blazing Star Cat-tail Gayfeather Cat-tail Liatris Hairy Button-snakeroot	109 images
Lonicera albiflora	Western White Honeysuckle White Shrub Honeysuckle White Bush Honeysuckle White Limestone Honeysuckle Texas Honeysuckle White Honeysuckle	29 images
Lobelia cardinalis	Cardinal Flower	102 images
Lonicera sempervirens	Coral Honeysuckle Trumpet Honeysuckle Woodbine	156 images
Lupinus texensis	Texas Bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas Lupine Buffalo Clover Wolf Flower	333 images
Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii	Turk's Cap Drummond's Turk's Cap Drummond Turk's Cap Wax Mallow Drummond's Wax Mallow Drummond Wax Mallow Red Mallow Texas Mallow Mexican Apple Sleeping Hibiscus Bleeding Hearts Manzanita	77 images
Magnolia grandiflora	Southern Magnolia Evergreen Magnolia Loblolly Magnolia Great Laurel Magnolia Big Laurel Bull Bay	34 images
Mahonia swaseyi	Texas Barberry Texas Oregon-grape	6 images
Machaeranthera tanacetifolia	Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster	57 images
Mahonia trifoliolata	Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo Mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate Barberry Wild Currant	121 images
Melampodium leucanthum	Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica	96 images
Melica nitens	Three-flower Melic Tall Melicgrass Threeflower Melicgrass Melicgrass	14 images
Mimosa borealis	Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa	51 images
Mirabilis latifolia	Broadleaf Four O'clock
Morella cerifera	Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub	50 images
Monarda citriodora	Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint	219 images
Monarda fistulosa	Wild Bergamot Beebalm	105 images
Muhlenbergia lindheimeri	Lindheimer's Muhly Lindheimer Muhly Big Muhly Blue Muhly	29 images
Muhlenbergia reverchonii	Seep Muhly	16 images
Nolina texana	Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass	58 images
Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. macrocarpa	Bigfruit Evening-primrose Fluttermill Missouri Evening Primrose	61 images
Oenothera speciosa	Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups	107 images
Parkinsonia aculeata	Retama Paloverde Mexican Paloverde Jerusalem Thorn Horsebean Lluvia De Oro	45 images
Palafoxia callosa	Small Palafox Small Palafoxia	16 images
Passiflora foetida var. gossypiifolia	Cottonleaf Passionflower Corona De Cristo	2 images
Parthenocissus heptaphylla	Sevenleaf Creeper Seven-leaf Creeper	9 images
Passiflora incarnata	Maypop Purple Passionflower Purple Passion Vine Apricot Vine	46 images
Pavonia lasiopetala	Rock Rose Rose Pavonia Rose Mallow Pavonia	72 images
Passiflora lutea	Yellow Passionflower Yellow Passion Vine Yellow Passion-flower	19 images
Parthenocissus quinquefolia	Virginia Creeper	47 images
Passiflora tenuiloba	Birdwing Passionflower Slender-lobe Passionflower Spread Lobe Passionflower Bird Wing Passionflower	29 images
Panicum virgatum	Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass	30 images
Penstemon baccharifolius	Rock Penstemon Rock Beardtongue Cut-leaf Penstemon Cut-leaf Beardtongue Baccharis-leaf Penstemon Baccharis-leaf Beardtongue	43 images
Penstemon cobaea	Prairie Penstemon Prairie Beardtongue Foxglove Penstemon Foxglove Beardtongue False Foxglove Large-flowered Penstemon Large-flowered Beardtongue Cobaea Penstemon Cobaea Beardtongue Wild Foxglove	77 images
Penstemon triflorus	Hill Country Penstemon Hill Country Beardtongue Scarlet Penstemon Scarlet Beardtongue Heller's Penstemon Heller's Beardtongue	38 images
Phacelia congesta	Caterpillars Blue Curls Fiddleneck	72 images
Phlox drummondii	Annual Phlox Drummond Phlox Pride-of-Texas Texas Pride	64 images
Physostegia pulchella	Showy False Dragonhead Beautiful False Dragon-head	14 images
Pistacia mexicana	Mexican Pistachio Texas Pistachio American Pistachio Copal Pistachio Wild Pistachio Lentisco Texas Pistache	9 images
Platanus occidentalis	American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree	24 images
Prosopis glandulosa	Honey Mesquite Glandular Mesquite Algarroba	30 images
Prunus mexicana	Mexican Plum Bigtree Plum Inch Plum	130 images
Quercus buckleyi	Texas Red Oak Buckley Oak Texas Oak Spanish Oak Spotted Oak Rock Oak	29 images
Quercus fusiformis	Escarpment Live Oak Plateau Live Oak Hill Country Live Oak Texas Live Oak Scrub Live Oak Plateau Oak Encino Molino Tesmoli	35 images
Quercus laceyi	Lacey Oak Texas Blue Oak Canyon Oak Smoky Oak Rock Oak	10 images
Quercus macrocarpa	Bur Oak Burr Oak Savanna Oak Overcup Oak Prairie Oak Mossy-cup Oak Mossy-overcup Oak Blue Oak	32 images
Quercus muehlenbergii	Chinkapin Oak Chinquapin Oak Chestnut Oak Yellow Chestnut Oak Rock Chestnut Oak Yellow Oak Rock Oak	28 images
Quercus shumardii	Shumard Oak Shumard's Oak Shumard Red Oak Southern Red Oak Swamp Red Oak Spotted Oak	18 images
Quercus vaseyana	Vasey Oak Sandpaper Oak Scrub Oak Shin Oak	3 images
Ratibida columnifera	Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower	190 images
Rhus aromatica	Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Lemon Sumac Polecat Bush	66 images
Rhus glabra	Smooth Sumac	49 images
Rhus lanceolata	Prairie Flameleaf Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Prairie Sumac Lance-leaf Sumac Lance-leaved Sumac Texas Sumac Tree Sumac Limestone Sumac Prairie Shining Sumac	32 images
Rhus virens	Evergreen Sumac Tobacco Sumac Lambrisco Lentrisco	108 images
Rudbeckia hirta	Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan	150 images
Salvia coccinea	Scarlet Sage Tropical Sage Blood Sage Red Sage Indian Fire	68 images
Salvia engelmannii	Engelmann's Sage Engelmann's Salvia	21 images
Salvia farinacea	Mealy Blue Sage Mealy Sage Mealycup Sage	84 images
Salvia greggii	Autumn Sage Cherry Sage Gregg Salvia	63 images
Salvia regla	Mountain Sage Royal Sage	19 images
Salvia roemeriana	Cedar Sage	33 images
Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii	Western Soapberry Soapberry Wild China Tree Wild Chinaberry Indian Soap Plant Jaboncillo	32 images
Schizachyrium scoparium	Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul	51 images
Senna lindheimeriana	Lindheimer's Senna Velvet Leaf Senna Velvetleaf Senna Velvet-leaf Wild Sensitive-plant Puppy-dog Ears	73 images
Senna roemeriana	Twoleaf Senna Two Leaved Senna	44 images
Solidago gigantea	Giant Goldenrod Smooth Goldenrod Tall Goldenrod Late Goldenrod Early Goldenrod	16 images
Solidago juliae	Julia's Goldenrod	29 images
Solidago nemoralis	Gray Goldenrod Prairie Goldenrod Oldfield Goldenrod Grayleaf Goldenrod Gray-leaved Goldenrod Dyersweed Goldenrod Dwarf Goldenrod Field Goldenrod	29 images
Sorghastrum nutans	Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass	57 images
Solidago petiolaris	Downy Ragged Goldenrod Downy Goldenrod	3 images
Solidago radula	Western Rough Goldenrod	4 images
Sophora secundiflora	Texas Mountain Laurel Mountain Laurel Mescal Bean Mescal Bean Sophora Frijolillo Frijolito	144 images
Sporobolus compositus var. compositus	Composite Dropseed Tall Dropseed
Styphnolobium affine	Eve's Necklace Eve's Necklacepod Texas Sophora Pink Sophora Necklace Tree	47 images
Taxodium distichum	Bald Cypress Baldcypress Common Bald Cypress Southern Bald Cypress Deciduous Cypress Southern Cypress Swamp Cypress Red Cypress White Cypress Yellow Cypress Gulf Cypress Tidewater Red Cypress	91 images
Tetraneuris scaposa var. scaposa	Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Bitterweed	59 images
Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium	Stiff Greenthread Showy Navajo Tea Greenthread	29 images
Tripsacum dactyloides	Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass	59 images
Tradescantia edwardsiana	Plateau Spiderwort Edwards' Spiderwort	4 images
Tradescantia gigantea	Giant Spiderwort	80 images
Tradescantia pedicellata	Edwards Plateau Spiderwort Granite Spiderwort	4 images
Ulmus crassifolia	Cedar Elm Fall Elm Basket Elm Scrub Elm Lime Elm Texas Elm Southern Rock Elm Olmo	100 images
Ungnadia speciosa	Mexican Buckeye Monilla	89 images
Vernonia baldwinii	Western Ironweed Baldwin's Ironweed Ironweed	47 images
Vernonia lindheimeri	Woolly Ironweed	36 images
Viburnum rufidulum	Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry	69 images
Yucca rupicola	Twistleaf Yucca Twisted-leaf Yucca Texas Yucca Spanish Dagger	27 images
Yucca thompsoniana	Thompson's Yucca Thompson Yucca Beaked Yucca Big Bend Yucca Soyate Palmita Trans-Pecos Yucca	15 images
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