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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
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| Salvia regla | Mountain Sage Royal Sage | |
| Salvia roemeriana | Cedar Sage | |
| Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii | Western Soapberry Soapberry Wild China Tree Wild Chinaberry Indian Soap Plant Jaboncillo | |
| Salvia texana | Texas Sage Blue Sage | |
| Samolus valerandi ssp. parviflorus | Seaside Brookweed Water Pimpernel Thin-leaf Brookweed | |
| Schoenoplectus californicus | California Bulrush California Club-rush Giant Bulrush | |
| Scutellaria drummondii | Drummond's Skullcap | |
| Scutellaria ovata | Heartleaf Skullcap Heart-leaf Skullcap | |
| Scutellaria resinosa | Sticky Skullcap Shrubby Skullcap Resin-dot Skullcap Resinous Skullcap | |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul | |
| Schoenocaulon texanum | Texas Feathershank Green Lily Texas Sabadilla | |
| Scutellaria wrightii | Wright's Skullcap Bushy Skullcap Shrubby Skullcap | |
| Senna lindheimeriana | Lindheimer's Senna Velvet Leaf Senna Velvetleaf Senna Velvet-leaf Wild Sensitive-plant Puppy-dog Ears | |
| Senna roemeriana | Twoleaf Senna Two Leaved Senna | |
| Silphium albiflorum | White Rosinweed White-flowered Rosinweed Compass Plant | |
| Simsia calva | Awnless Bush Sunflower Bush Sunflower | |
| Sisyrinchium minus | Dwarf Blue-eyed-grass Pink-eyed-grass Pink Blue-eyed-grass | |
| Solanum elaeagnifolium | Silverleaf Nightshade Silver-leaf Nightshade White Horse Nettle Trompillo Tomato Weed Bull Nettle | |
| Solidago nemoralis | Gray Goldenrod Prairie Goldenrod Oldfield Goldenrod Grayleaf Goldenrod Gray-leaved Goldenrod Dyersweed Goldenrod Dwarf Goldenrod Field Goldenrod | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
| Solanum rostratum | Buffalo Bur Buffalo Bur Nightshade Buffalobur Nightshade | |
| Sophora secundiflora | Texas Mountain Laurel Mountain Laurel Mescal Bean Mescal Bean Sophora Frijolillo Frijolito | |
| Styphnolobium affine | Eve's Necklace Eve's Necklacepod Texas Sophora Pink Sophora Necklace Tree | |
| Stachys coccinea | Scarlet Betony Texas Betony Scarlet Hedgenettle Scarlet Hedge-nettle | |
| Stemodia lanata | Woolly Stemodia Gray-woolly Twintip | |
| Stillingia texana | Texas Queen's Delight Queen's Delight Texas Toothleaf | |
| Symphyotrichum ericoides var. ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster White Aster White Prairie Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic Aster Aromatic American Aster Fall Aster Wild Blue Aster Shale Aster | |
| Symphoricarpos orbiculatus | Coralberry Indian Currant Buckbrush | |
| 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 | |
| Taxodium mucronatum | Montezuma Bald Cypress Montezuma Cypress Mexican Cypress Ahuehuete Sabino | |
| Teucrium canadense | American Germander Canada Germander Canadian Germander Germander Hairy Germander Wood Sage | |
| Tephrosia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Hoarypea Hoary Pea Lindheimer Tephrosia | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tecoma stans | Yellow Bells Yellowbells Esperanza Yellow Trumpetbush Yellow Trumpetflower Trumpetbush Trumpetflower Yellow Elder Hardy Yellow Trumpet Yellow Trumpet Bush | |
| Thalia dealbata | Powdery Alligator-flag Powdery Thalia Water Canna | |
| Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Showy Navajo Tea 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 | |
| Thelesperma simplicifolium | Slender Greenthread Navajo Tea Cota | |
| Thamnosma texana | Texas Desert-rue Dutchman's Breeches Rue Of The Mountains Ruda Del Monte | |
| Tinantia anomala | False Dayflower Widows Tears | |
| Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy Poison Ivy | |
| Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
| Tradescantia edwardsiana | Plateau Spiderwort Edwards' Spiderwort | |
| Tridens flavus | Purpletop Tridens Redtop Tridens Tall Redtop Tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall Redtop | |
| Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
| Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
| Tradescantia subacaulis | Stemless Spiderwort | |
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