Special Collections
Wildflower Center Plant Taxa List
The following Texas native plant taxa have been documented as occurring on the grounds of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Lantana urticoides | Texas Lantana Calico Bush | |
| Lantana velutina | Velvet Shrubverbena Velvet Lantana | |
| Lesquerella argyraea | Silver Bladderpod | |
| Lesquerella densiflora | Denseflower Bladderpod Low Bladderpod | |
| Leptochloa dubia | Green Sprangletop | |
| Lesquerella fendleri | Fendler's Bladderpod Popweed | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass | |
| Leucaena pulverulenta | Great Leadtree Mexican Leadtree Great Leucaena Tepeguaje | |
| Lesquerella recurvata | Gaslight Bladderpod Slender Bladderpod | |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball Leadtree Littleleaf Leadtree Little Leucaena Lemonball Wahoo Tree | |
| Lespedeza texana | Texas Lespedeza Texas Bush-clover | |
| Lenophyllum texanum | Coastal Stonecrop | |
| Limnodea arkansana | Ozark Grass Ozarkgrass | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
| Linum berlandieri var. berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax Yellow Flax Stiff-stem Flax | |
| Lindera benzoin var. pubescens | Northern Spicebush Hairy Common Spicebush | |
| Lippia graveolens | Mexican Oregano Redbrush Lippia | |
| Linum hudsonioides | Texas Flax Yellow Flax Hudson Flax | |
| Lithospermum incisum | Fringed Puccoon Golden Puccoon Narrowleaf Puccoon Narrow-leaved Puccoon Puccoon Narrowleaf Gromwell Fringed Gromwell Narrowleaf Stoneseed | |
| Linum lewisii | Wild Blue Flax Prairie Flax Lewis Flax Lewis's Flax | |
| Liatris punctata var. mucronata | Texas Gayfeather Texas Blazing Star Texas Liatris Cusp Liatris Cusp Blazing Star Cusp Gayfeather Narrow-leaf Blazing Star Narrow-leaf Gayfeather Purples | |
| Linum rigidum | Stiffstem Flax Large-flower Yellow Flax Yellow Flax | |
| Lindheimera texana | Texas Yellowstar Texas Star Texas Yellow-star Lindheimer Daisy | |
| Lonicera albiflora | Western White Honeysuckle White Shrub Honeysuckle White Bush Honeysuckle White Limestone Honeysuckle Texas Honeysuckle White Honeysuckle | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral Honeysuckle Trumpet Honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis ssp. octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia peploides | Floating Primrose-willow Water-primrose Creeping Water-primrose | |
| Ludwigia repens | Creeping Primrose-willow Floating Primrose-willow Water Primrose | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas Bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas Lupine Buffalo Clover Wolf Flower | |
| Lythrum alatum | Winged Lythrum | |
| Lycium berlandieri | Berlandier's Wolfberry Wolfberry | |
| Lycium carolinianum | Carolina Wolfberry Carolina Desert-thorn Creeping Wolfberry Christmas Berry | |
| Lythrum californicum | California Loosestrife | |
| Lycium carolinianum var. quadrifidum | Carolina Wolfberry Creeping Wolfberry Carolina Desert-thorn | |
| Lygodesmia texana | Texas Skeleton Plant Texas Skeleton Weed Skeleton-plant Purple Dandelion Flowering Straw | |
| Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving Sailor Climbing Snapdragon Little Snapdragon Vine | |
| Malvaviscus arboreus | Turkscap Wax Mallow Bleeding Hearts Mexican Apple Manzanita | |
| Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii | Turk's Cap Drummond's Turk's Cap Drummond Turk's Cap Wax Mallow Drummond's Wax Mallow Drummond Wax Mallow Red Mallow Texas Mallow Mexican Apple Sleeping Hibiscus Bleeding Hearts Manzanita | |
| Malvastrum aurantiacum | Wright's False Mallow | |
| Matelea biflora | Star Milkvine Purple Milkweed Vine | |
| Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's-buttons Puffballs White Barbara's-buttons Barbara's Buttons | |
| Marshallia caespitosa var. caespitosa | Barbara's Buttons Puffballs | |
| Matelea edwardsensis | Plateau Milkvine Plateau Milkweed Vine | |
| Malpighia glabra | Barbados Cherry Wild Crapemyrtle Acerola Manzanita | |
| Magnolia grandiflora | Southern Magnolia Evergreen Magnolia Loblolly Magnolia Great Laurel Magnolia Big Laurel Bull Bay | |
| Mammillaria heyderi | Little Nipple Cactus Heyder Pincushion Cactus | |
| Mammillaria heyderi var. heyderi | Little Nipple Cactus | |
| Malus ioensis | Prairie Crabapple Iowa Crabapple Western Crabapple Prairie Crab Iowa Crab Western Crab | |
| Malus ioensis var. texana | Texas Crabapple Blanco Crabapple | |
| Manfreda maculosa | False Aloe Spice Lily Spice-lily | |
| Marsilea macropoda | Bigfoot Water-clover Water-clover Clover-fern Largefoot Pepperwort | |
| Maclura pomifera | Osage Orange Bois d' Arc Bodark Horse Apple Hedge Apple Bowwood Yellowwood Naranjo Chino Monkey Brains | |
| Mammillaria prolifera | Texas Nipple Cactus | |
| Mammillaria prolifera var. texana | Texas Nipple Cactus | |
| Matelea reticulata | Pearl Milkweed Vine Netted Milkvine Green Milkweed Vine Net Vein Milkvine | |
| Manfreda sileri | Siler's Tuberose | |
| Mahonia swaseyi | Texas Barberry Texas Oregon-grape | |
| Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster | |
| Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo Mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate Barberry Wild Currant | |
| Manfreda variegata | Mottled Tuberose Huaco Texas Tuberose | |
| Marsilea vestita | Hairy Water-clover Hairy Waterclover Hairy Water Clover Clover Fern | |
| Manfreda virginica | False Aloe Rattlesnake Master | |
| Merremia dissecta | Alamo Vine Noyau Vine Correhuela De Las Doce | |
| Menodora heterophylla | Low Menodora Redbud Twinpod | |
| Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica | |
| Menodora longiflora | Showy Menodora Twinpod | |
| Melica montezumae | Montezuma Melic Montezuma Melicgrass Montezuma Melic Grass | |
| Melica mutica | Twoflower Melicgrass Two-flower Melic Grass | |
| Melica nitens | Three-flower Melic Tall Melicgrass Threeflower Melicgrass Melicgrass | |
| Mentzelia oligosperma | Stick-leaf Chickenthief | |
| Melochia pyramidata | Pyramidflower Broom-wood Pyramid Flower | |
| Melochia tomentosa | Pyramid Bush Teabush Red Rope Velvety Melochia Kidney Bush Woolly Pyramidflower | |
| Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera | Catclaw Mimosa Cat's-claw Mimosa Wait-a-bit | |
| Mirabilis albida | White Four O'clock Dwarf Four O'clock | |
| Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
| Minuartia drummondii | Drummond's Stitchwort Sandwort | |
| Mimulus glabratus | Roundleaf Monkeyflower Yellow Monkeyflower | |
| Mirabilis linearis | Narrowleaf Four O'Clock | |
| Mirabilis nyctaginea | Heartleaf Four O'Clock | |
| Mimosa roemeriana | Roemer's Mimosa Sensitive Briar | |
| Mimosa strigillosa | Powderpuff Sunshine Mimosa Sensitive Plant | |
| Mimosa texana | Texas Mimosa Wherry Mimosa | |
| Modiola caroliniana | Carolina Bristlemallow Carolina Modiola | |
| Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Mortonia greggii | Gregg's Saddlebush Afinador | |
| Monarda lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Beebalm Lindheimer Beebalm | |
| Morus microphylla | Texas Mulberry Littleleaf Mulberry Mountain Mulberry Mexican Mulberry Dwarf Mulberry | |
| Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
| Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
| Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf Muhly Hair-awn Muhly Hairy-awn Muhly Hair Grass Pink Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia dubia | Pine Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia emersleyi | Bullgrass Bull Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia ×involuta | Canyon Muhly Edwards Plateau Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Muhly Lindheimer Muhly Big Muhly Blue Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia reverchonii | Seep Muhly | |
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