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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 |
| Quercus buckleyi | Texas Red Oak Buckley Oak Texas Oak Spanish Oak Spotted Oak Rock Oak | |
| Quercus fusiformis | Escarpment Live Oak Plateau Live Oak Hill Country Live Oak Texas Live Oak Scrub Live Oak Plateau Oak Encino Molino Tesmoli | |
| Quercus sinuata var. breviloba | White Shin Oak Bigelow Oak Scaly-bark Oak Limestone Durand Oak Shortlobe Oak Bastard Oak | |
| Quercus stellata | Post Oak Iron Oak Cross Oak | |
| Quercus virginiana | Southern Live Oak Virginia Live Oak Coastal Live Oak Live Oak Encino | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
| Rhus aromatica | Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Lemon Sumac Polecat Bush | |
| Rhus lanceolata | Prairie Flameleaf Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Prairie Sumac Lance-leaf Sumac Lance-leaved Sumac Texas Sumac Tree Sumac Limestone Sumac Prairie Shining Sumac | |
| Rhynchosida physocalyx | Bladderpod Sida Buffpetal Beaked Sida | |
| Rhus virens | Evergreen Sumac Tobacco Sumac Lambrisco Lentrisco | |
| Rivina humilis | Pigeonberry Rouge Plant Baby-peppers Bloodberry | |
| Ruellia drummondiana | Drummond's Ruellia Drummond's Wild Petunia | |
| Rumex hastatulus | Heartwing Sorrel Heart-wing Sorrel | |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
| Ruellia humilis | Prairie Petunia Fringeleaf Wild Petunia Hairy Ruellia Low Wild Petunia Low Ruellia Fringeleaf Ruellia Fringe-leaf Wild Petunia | |
| Ruellia metziae | White Ruellia Metz's Wild Petunia Metz Wild Petunia Wild White Petunia | |
| Ruellia nudiflora | Violet Ruellia Common Wild Petunia Violet Wild Petunia Wild Petunia Hierba De La Calentura | |
| Rubus trivialis | Southern Dewberry Dewberry | |
| Salvia coccinea | Scarlet Sage Tropical Sage Blood Sage Red Sage Indian Fire | |
| Salix nigra | Black Willow Gulf Black Willow Swamp Willow Sauz | |
| Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis | Common Elderberry Black Elder Mexican Elderberry Common Elder Elderberry Tapiro Sauco | |
| Salvia roemeriana | Cedar Sage | |
| Sapindus saponaria | Wingleaf Soapberry Soapberry Wild China Tree | |
| Schedonnardus paniculatus | Tumblegrass Tumble Grass | |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul | |
| Senna lindheimeriana | Lindheimer's Senna Velvet Leaf Senna Velvetleaf Senna Velvet-leaf Wild Sensitive-plant Puppy-dog Ears | |
| Sedum nuttallianum | Yellow Stonecrop | |
| Setaria scheelei | Southwestern Bristlegrass Scheele's Bristlegrass Scheele's Foxtail Grass Foxtail Grass | |
| Senegalia wrightii | Wright Acacia Wright's Acacia Catclaw Acacia Catclaw | |
| Sisyrinchium langloisii | Roadside Blue-eyed Grass Dotted Blue-eyed Grass Southern Blue-eyed Grass | |
| Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. lanuginosum | Gum Bully Gum Elastic Chittamwood Gum Bumelia | |
| Sida rhombifolia | Cuban Jute Axocatzin | |
| Smilax bona-nox | Sawbriar Saw Greenbriar Catbriar Barbed Wire Vine Bullbriar Stretchberry Vine | |
| Solidago altissima | Tall Goldenrod Late Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Canada Goldenrod | |
| Solanum dimidiatum | Western Horsenettle Western Horse-nettle | |
| Solanum elaeagnifolium | Silverleaf Nightshade Silver-leaf Nightshade White Horse Nettle Trompillo Tomato Weed Bull Nettle | |
| Solidago radula | Western Rough Goldenrod | |
| Solanum rostratum | Buffalo Bur Buffalo Bur Nightshade Buffalobur Nightshade | |
| Solanum triquetrum | Texas Nightshade Hierba Mora | |
| Sporobolus compositus var. compositus | Composite Dropseed Tall Dropseed | |
| Sporobolus cryptandrus | Sand Dropseed | |
| Sporobolus vaginiflorus | Poverty Dropseed | |
| Styphnolobium affine | Eve's Necklace Eve's Necklacepod Texas Sophora Pink Sophora Necklace Tree | |
| Stenaria nigricans var. nigricans | Diamondflowers Narrowleaf Bluets Baby's Breath Bluets Fine-leaf Bluets | |
| Styrax platanifolius | Sycamore-leaf Snowbell | |
| Symphyotrichum drummondii var. texanum | Drummond's Aster Texas Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum subulatum | Eastern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Baby's Breath Aster Annual Aster Blackland Aster Hierba Del Marrano | |
| 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 | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa var. scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tetragonotheca texana | Squarebud Daisy Nerve-ray Square-bud Daisy | |
| Thelesperma filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Greenthread | |
| Thelypteris kunthii | Wood Fern River Fern Southern Shield Fern Kunth's Maiden Fern Normal Shield Fern | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta var. pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Dogweed Dyssodia | |
| Tillandsia recurvata | Small Ball Moss Ball Moss | |
| Tillandsia usneoides | Spanish Moss | |
| Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy Poison Ivy | |
| Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
| Triodanis coloradoensis | Colorado Venus' Looking-glass Western Venus' Looking Glass | |
| Tridens flavus | Purpletop Tridens Redtop Tridens Tall Redtop Tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall Redtop | |
| Tradescantia gigantea | Giant Spiderwort | |
| Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
| Tragia ramosa | Branched Noseburn | |
| Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
| Ulmus americana | American Elm White Elm Soft Elm Water Elm Common Elm | |
| Ulmus crassifolia | Cedar Elm Fall Elm Basket Elm Scrub Elm Lime Elm Texas Elm Southern Rock Elm Olmo | |
| Ungnadia speciosa | Mexican Buckeye Monilla | |
| Urochloa ciliatissima | Fringed Signalgrass | |
| Urochloa texana | Texas Signalgrass | |
| Vachellia farnesiana | Huisache Texas Huisache Sweet Acacia Perfume Acacia Mealy Acacia Mealy Wattle Cassie | |
| Verbesina encelioides | Cowpen Daisy Golden Crownbeard Butter Daisy | |
| Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
| Verbesina virginica | Frostweed White Crownbeard Iceplant Iceweed Virginia Crownbeard Indian Tobacco Richweed Squawweed | |
| Viguiera dentata | Plateau Goldeneye Sunflower Goldeneye Toothleaf Goldeneye Chimalacate Golden-eye | |
| Viola missouriensis | Missouri Violet | |
| Vitis mustangensis | Mustang Grape | |
| Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry | |
| Vulpia octoflora | Sixweeks Fescue Common Sixweeks Grass | |
| Xanthisma texanum | Texas Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Star of Texas Texas Sleepy-daisy Texas Sleepydaisy | |
| Yucca rupicola | Twistleaf Yucca Twisted-leaf Yucca Texas Yucca Spanish Dagger | |
| Zanthoxylum hirsutum | Texas Hercules' Club Texas Prickly Ash Limetone Prickly Ash Toothache Tree Tickle-tongue Tingle-tongue | |
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