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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 |
| Erodium texanum | Texas Stork's Bill Stork's Bill Pine Needle Fillaree | |
| Euphorbia heterophylla | Mexican Fireplant Wild Poinsettia | |
| Evolvulus sericeus | Silver Dwarf Morning-glory White Evolvulus | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash | |
| Galium aparine | Stickywilly Catchweed Bedstraw Cleavers Common Bedstraw Sticky Weed Goose Grass | |
| Garrya ovata ssp. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Silktassel Lindheimer Silktassel Lindheimer's Garrya Lindheimer Garrya Mexican Silktassel Mexican Garrya Eggleaf Silktassel Eggleaf Garrya | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Galactia texana | Texas Milkpea | |
| Geranium texanum | Texas Geranium | |
| Giliastrum incisum | Splitleaf Gilia Split-leaf Gilia Cut-leaf Gilia | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Mock Vervain Dakota Vervain | |
| Helenium amarum | Yellow Sneezeweed Bitterweed Yellow Bitterweed Yellowdicks Slender-leaved Sneezeweed Fine-leaved Sneezweed Yellow Dog-fennel | |
| Helianthus annuus | Common Sunflower Annual Sunflower | |
| Hedeoma drummondii | Drummond's False Pennyroyal Limoncillo Mock Pennyroyal | |
| Heterotheca subaxillaris | Camphorweed Camphor Weed | |
| Heliotropium tenellum | Pasture Heliotrope White Heliotrope | |
| Houstonia pusilla | Tiny Bluets Small Bluets Star Violet | |
| Hymenopappus scabiosaeus | Carolina Woollywhite Woolly-white Old Plainsman | |
| Hydrocotyle umbellata | Manyflower Marsh-pennywort Many-flowered Marsh-pennywort Marsh Pennywort Water Pennywort Money Plant | |
| Ibervillea lindheimeri | Balsam Gourd Lindheimer's Globeberry Globe Berry Snake-apple Balsam-apple | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Meadow Holly Prairie Holly Swamp Holly Welk Holly Deciduous Yaupon Bearberry Winterberry | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon Holly Cassina | |
| Indigofera miniata | Scarlet Pea Coastal Indigo Texas Indigo Western Indigo | |
| Ipomoea cordatotriloba var. cordatotriloba | Tievine Sharp-pod Morning Glory Purple Bindweed Tie Vine | |
| Iva annua | Annual Marshelder Marshelder Sumpweed Annual Marsh Elder Marsh Elder | |
| Juniperus ashei | Ashe Juniper Ashe's Juniper Mountain Cedar Rock Cedar Post Cedar Texas Cedar Brake Cedar Mexican Juniper Blueberry Juniper Ozark White Cedar Sabino Enebro | |
| Juglans major | Arizona Walnut Arizona Black Walnut River Walnut Mountain Walnut Nogal Silvestre | |
| Justicia pilosella | Hairy Tube-tongue Gregg's Tube-tongue False Honeysuckle | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin | |
| Kallstroemia parviflora | Warty Caltrop Small-flowered Carpetweed | |
| Krameria lanceolata | Trailing Krameria Ratany Crameria Prairie Sandbur Trailing Ratany | |
| Krigia occidentalis | Western Dwarfdandelion | |
| Lantana urticoides | Texas Lantana Calico Bush | |
| Leptochloa dubia | Green Sprangletop | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
| Lesquerella grandiflora | Bigflower Bladderpod | |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass | |
| Lepidium virginicum | Virginia Peppergrass Virginia Pepperweed Peppergrass Poor Man's Pepper | |
| Limnodea arkansana | Ozark Grass Ozarkgrass | |
| Linum imbricatum | Tufted Flax | |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
| Linum rupestre | Rock Flax | |
| Lindheimera texana | Texas Yellowstar Texas Star Texas Yellow-star Lindheimer Daisy | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral Honeysuckle Trumpet Honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas Bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas Lupine Buffalo Clover Wolf Flower | |
| Lygodesmia texana | Texas Skeleton Plant Texas Skeleton Weed Skeleton-plant Purple Dandelion Flowering Straw | |
| Malvaviscus arboreus | Turkscap Wax Mallow Bleeding Hearts Mexican Apple Manzanita | |
| Matelea reticulata | Pearl Milkweed Vine Netted Milkvine Green Milkweed Vine Net Vein Milkvine | |
| Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo Mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate Barberry Wild Currant | |
| Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica | |
| Melothria pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber Meloncito Speckled Gourd | |
| Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
| Mimosa strigillosa | Powderpuff Sunshine Mimosa Sensitive Plant | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
| Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
| Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
| Muhlenbergia ×involuta | Canyon Muhly Edwards Plateau Muhly | |
| Myriopteris alabamensis | Alabama Lipfern | |
| Nama hispidum | Sand Bells Bristly Nama Sand-bell | |
| Nassella leucotricha | Texas Wintergrass Texas Speargrass Wintergrass | |
| Nekemias arborea | Peppervine | |
| Nemophila phacelioides | Texas Baby Blue Eyes Large-flower Baby-blue-eyes Baby Blue-eyes Flannel Breeches | |
| Nicotiana repanda | Fiddleleaf Tobacco Fiddle-leaf Tobacco | |
| Nothoscordum bivalve | Crowpoison False Garlic Crow Poison | |
| Nolina lindheimeriana | Devil's Shoestring Devil's-shoestring Ribbon Grass | |
| Oenothera curtiflora | Velvetweed Velvetleaf Gaura Lizard-tail Gaura Willow Gaura | |
| Oenothera laciniata | Cutleaf Evening-primrose Cut-leaved Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups | |
| Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri | Texas Prickly Pear Lindheimer's Prickly Pear Lindheimer Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia macrorhiza | Bigroot Prickly Pear Twist-spine Prickly Pear Common Prickly Pear Plains Prickly Pear | |
| Oxalis dillenii | Slender Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Woodsorrel | |
| Parkinsonia aculeata | Retama Paloverde Mexican Paloverde Jerusalem Thorn Horsebean Lluvia De Oro | |
| Palafoxia callosa | Small Palafox Small Palafoxia | |
| Panicum hallii | Hall's Panicgrass Hall's Panic Grass | |
| Parthenocissus heptaphylla | Sevenleaf Creeper Seven-leaf Creeper | |
| Pavonia lasiopetala | Rock Rose Rose Pavonia Rose Mallow Pavonia | |
| Passiflora lutea | Yellow Passionflower Yellow Passion Vine Yellow Passion-flower | |
| Parietaria pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Pellitory Pennsylvania Cucumber Plant | |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia Creeper | |
| Pediomelum rhombifolium | Gulf Indian Breadroot Brown-flowered Psoralea Round-leaf Scurf-pea | |
| Phacelia congesta | Caterpillars Blue Curls Fiddleneck | |
| Phlox drummondii | Annual Phlox Drummond Phlox Pride-of-Texas Texas Pride | |
| Phyla nodiflora | Texas Frogfruit Turkey Tangle Fogfruit Frogfruit | |
| Phyllanthus polygonoides | Smartweed Leaf-flower Knotweed Leafflower | |
| Physalis pubescens | Husk Tomato Downy Ground-cherry Downy Groundcherry | |
| Phoradendron tomentosum | Christmas Mistletoe Mistletoe Injerto | |
| Pistacia mexicana | Mexican Pistachio Texas Pistachio American Pistachio Copal Pistachio Wild Pistachio Lentisco Texas Pistache | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
| Pluchea odorata var. odorata | Sweetscent Marsh Fleabane Southern Marsh Fleabane | |
| Plantago rhodosperma | Redseed Plantain Red-seeded Plantain | |
| Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
| Polanisia dodecandra | Redwhisker Clammyweed Clammyweed | |
| Prunus caroliniana | Carolina Cherry-laurel Cherry-laurel Laurel Cherry Carolina Laurel Cherry | |
| Prosopis glandulosa | Honey Mesquite Glandular Mesquite Algarroba | |
| Prunus mexicana | Mexican Plum Bigtree Plum Inch Plum | |
| Ptelea trifoliata | Wafer Ash Common Hoptree Hop Tree | |
| Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus | Smallflower Desert-chicory Texas Dandelion False Dandelion | |
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