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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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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