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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Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass Silver Beard Grass | |
Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas Grama | |
Bouteloua trifida | Red Grama | |
Buddleja marrubiifolia | Woolly Butterflybush Butterfly Bush Woolly Butterfly-bush | |
Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
Capsicum annuum | Chile Tepin Chile Pequin Chiltepin Chile Petin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
Calylophus berlandieri ssp. pinifolius | Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops Square-bud Day-primrose | |
Carex blanda | Eastern Woodland Sedge Creek Sedge Common Wood Sedge | |
Carex cherokeensis | Cherokee Sedge | |
Calliandra eriophylla | Pink Fairyduster Fairyduster Mesquitilla Mock Mesquite | |
Canna glauca | Water Canna Louisiana Canna Maraca Amarilla | |
Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's Sundrops Western Primrose | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Callirhoe involucrata var. lineariloba | White Poppymallow Winecup Poppy Mallow White Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Callirhoe leiocarpa | Tall Poppymallow Annual Winecup Tall Poppy-mallow Tall Poppy Mallow | |
Callirhoe pedata | Palmleaf Poppymallow Standing Winecup Finger Poppymallow Palmleaf Poppy Mallow | |
Castilleja purpurea | Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush Purple Paintbrush Lemon Paintbrush Purple Painted Cup | |
Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
Carex texensis | Texas Sedge | |
Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
Centaurium beyrichii | Mountain Pink Meadow Pink Catchfly Quinineweed | |
Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican Redbud | |
Ceanothus herbaceus | Prairie Redroot Smaller Redroot Small Redroot Inland Ceanothus Fuzzy Ceanothus Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf Hackberry Netleaf Sugar Hackberry Western Hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Centaurium texense | Lady Bird's Centaury Texas Centaury | |
Chamaesaracha coniodes | Gray Five Eyes False Nightshade Ground Saracha Prostrate Ground-cherry | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge Pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
Chaerophyllum tainturieri var. tainturieri | Hairyfruit Chervil Hairy-fruit Chervil Wild Chervil Chervil | |
Chloris verticillata | Tumble Windmill Grass Windmillgrass | |
Citharexylum berlandieri | Berlandier's Fiddlewood Berlandier Fiddlewood Fiddlewood | |
Cissus trifoliata | Cow-itch Vine Cow Itch Vine Sorrelvine Grape Ivy Possum Grape Arizona Grape Ivy | |
Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
Clematis pitcheri | Purple Leatherflower Purple Clematis Leatherflower Bluebill Bellflower Clematis Pitcher's Clematis | |
Clematis texensis | Scarlet Clematis Scarlet Leatherflower Texas Clematis | |
Cocculus carolinus | Carolina Snailseed Carolina Coralbead Carolina Moonseed Red Berried Moonseed Carolina Red Berried Moonseed | |
Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort Scrambled Eggs Golden Smoke Curvepod | |
Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
Cooperia drummondii | Evening Rain Lily Evening Star Rain Lily | |
Convolvulus equitans | Texas Bindweed Bindweed | |
Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
Conoclinium greggii | Gregg's Mistflower Palmleaf Thoroughwort Palm-leaf Mistflower Palm-leaf Thoroughwort Purple Palmleaf Mistflower Purple Palmleaf Eupatorium | |
Condalia hookeri | Bluewood Condalia Brasil Brasilwood Bluewood Logwood Purple Haw Capul Negro | |
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