Special Collections
Hill Country Horticulture
Images and information on more than 430 species native to central Texas. Native plants provide an essential role in the environment including economic benefits from reduced energy costs, water and maintenance; ecological benefits including enhancing ecosystem stability and reducing chemical use; not to mention the beauty they provide.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Cooperia jonesii | Jones' Rainlily Jones' Rain Lily | |
| 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 | |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country Rain Lily Prairie Lily Rain Lily Flor De Mayo | |
| Coryphantha sulcata | Pineapple Cactus Nipple Cactus | |
| Colubrina texensis | Texas Hog Plum Texas Snakewood Texas Colubrina Hog Plum | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Cryptotaenia canadensis | Canadian Honewort Wild Chervil | |
| Croton capitatus var. lindheimeri | Woolly Croton Lindheimer's Hogwort Woolly Texas Goatweed Woolly Doveweed | |
| Croton fruticulosus | Bush Croton Encinilla Hierba Loca | |
| Crataegus greggiana | Gregg's Hawthorn Gregg Hawthorn | |
| Croton monanthogynus | Prairie Tea One-seed Croton Doveweed Dove Weed Prairie Goatweed | |
| Crataegus tracyi | Tracy's Hawthorn Tracy Hawthorn Mountain Hawthorn | |
| Crataegus viridis | Green Hawthorn Southern Hawthorn | |
| Cyperus articulatus | Jointed Flatsedge Chintul | |
| Cynanchum barbigerum | Bearded Swallow-wort Thicket Threadvine | |
| Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Tasajillo Christmas Cactus Pencil Cactus Christmas Cholla Desert Christmas Cactus | |
| Cyperus ochraceus | Pond Flatsedge Yellow Sedge | |
| Cyperus odoratus | Fragrant Flatsedge Fragrant Sedge | |
| Cyperus pseudovegetus | Marsh Flatsedge Marsh Flat Sedge | |
| Dalea aurea | Golden Dalea Golden Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea bicolor var. argyrea | Silver Prairie Clover Silver Dalea Silver Bush Dalea | |
| Dalea candida | White Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush | |
| Dalea multiflora | Roundhead Prairie Clover White Prairie Clover Round Headed Dalea Round Headed Clover | |
| Dalea purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover Violet Prairie Clover | |
| Dasylirion texanum | Texas Sotol Sotol | |
| Dasylirion wheeleri | Common Sotol Sotol Desert Spoon Desert Candle | |
| Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
| Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
| Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping Burhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword Burhead Creeping Water-plantain | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus Lace Hedgehog Purple Candle | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Horse Crippler Horse Crippler Cactus Devil's Head Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate | |
| Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked Spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon Tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
| Epipactis gigantea | Stream Orchid Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore | |
| Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouring-rush Horsetail | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal | |
| Eragrostis intermedia | Plains Lovegrass Plains Love Grass | |
| Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Eryngo Eryngo False Purple Thistle | |
| Erigeron modestus | Plains Fleabane Prairie Fleabane | |
| Erioneuron pilosum | Hairy Woollygrass Hairy Tridens | |
| Eriochloa sericea | Texas Cupgrass | |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple Lovegrass Purple Love Grass Purple Plains Lovegrass Tumblegrass Petticoat Climber | |
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