Native Plants for Container Gardens in Central Texas
Native Plants for Container Gardens in Central Texas by Andrea DeLong-Amaya, Director of Horticulture, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. These plants are all native to the Central Texas region and are especially useful in container gardens. If you live outside of Central Texas, these may or may not be native to your area.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's Golden Columbine Yellow Columbine Hinckley Columbine Capote Columbine | |
Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Capsicum annuum | Chile Tepin Chile Pequin Chiltepin Chile Petin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Callirhoe pedata | Palmleaf Poppymallow Standing Winecup Finger Poppymallow Palmleaf Poppy Mallow | |
Carex planostachys | Cedar Sedge | |
Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
Cooperia drummondii | Evening Rain Lily Evening Star Rain Lily | |
Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country Rain Lily Prairie Lily Rain Lily Flor De Mayo | |
Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush | |
Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping Burhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword Burhead Creeping Water-plantain | |
Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
Geum canadense | White Avens | |
Giliastrum rigidulum | Bluebowls Blue Gilia | |
Glandularia bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Moradilla Alfombrilla | |
Heterotheca canescens | Hoary False Goldenaster Gray Golden-aster | |
Hymenocallis liriosme | Texas Spiderlily Spring Spiderlily Spiderlily Louisiana Spiderlily Western Marsh Spiderlily | |
Hydrocotyle umbellata | Manyflower Marsh-pennywort Many-flowered Marsh-pennywort Marsh Pennywort Water Pennywort Money Plant | |
Iris virginica | Virginia Iris Great Blue Flag Southern Blue Flag | |
Justicia americana | American Water-willow Water-willow | |
Lindheimera texana | Texas Yellowstar Texas Star Texas Yellow-star Lindheimer Daisy | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
Lupinus texensis | Texas Bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas Lupine Buffalo Clover Wolf Flower | |
Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's-buttons Puffballs White Barbara's-buttons Barbara's Buttons | |
Manfreda maculosa | False Aloe Spice Lily Spice-lily | |
Marsilea macropoda | Bigfoot Water-clover Water-clover Clover-fern Largefoot Pepperwort | |
Marsilea vestita | Hairy Water-clover Hairy Waterclover Hairy Water Clover Clover Fern | |
Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica | |
Nemophila phacelioides | Texas Baby Blue Eyes Large-flower Baby-blue-eyes Baby Blue-eyes Flannel Breeches | |
Nolina lindheimeriana | Devil's Shoestring Devil's-shoestring Ribbon Grass | |
Nolina texana | Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass | |
Oenothera macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Missouri Evening-primrose Fluttermill Big-fruit Evening-primrose Missouri Primrose Bigfruit Evening Primrose | |
Packera obovata | Golden Groundsel Roundleaf Groundsel Roundleaf Ragwort | |
Penstemon baccharifolius | Rock Penstemon Rock Beardtongue Cut-leaf Penstemon Cut-leaf Beardtongue Baccharis-leaf Penstemon Baccharis-leaf Beardtongue | |
Penstemon tenuis | Brazos Penstemon Brazos Beardtongue Gulf Penstemon Gulf Beardtongue Gulf Coast Penstemon Gulf Coast Beardtongue Sharp-sepal Penstemon Sharp-sepal Beardtongue | |
Phlox drummondii | Annual Phlox Drummond Phlox Pride-of-Texas Texas Pride | |
Phyla nodiflora | Texas Frogfruit Turkey Tangle Fogfruit Frogfruit | |
Phlox pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Rush | |
Rivina humilis | Pigeonberry Rouge Plant Baby-peppers Bloodberry | |
Salvia coccinea | Scarlet Sage Tropical Sage Blood Sage Red Sage Indian Fire | |
Salvia greggii | Autumn Sage Cherry Sage Gregg Salvia | |
Salvia lyrata | Lyreleaf Sage Cancer Weed | |
Salvia pentstemonoides | Big Red Sage Penstemon Sage | |
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