Native Plants
Image Gallery
Cox, Paul
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| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth Maple Big-toothed Maple Uvalde Bigtooth Maple Southwestern Bigtooth Maple Canyon Maple Sabinal Maple Western Sugar Maple |  |
| Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco |  |
| Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple |  |
| Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple |  |
| Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant |  |
| Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant |  |
| Aesculus pavia var. flavescens | Texas Yellow Buckeye Yellow Woolly Buckeye Pale Buckeye Plateau Yellow Buckeye |  |
| Ageratina havanensis | Shrubby Boneset White Mistflower White Shrub Mistflower Havana Snakeroot |  |
| Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia |  |
| Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder Hazel Alder Brookside Alder Tag Alder Common Alder Black Alder |  |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo |  |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo |  |
| Ariocarpus fissuratus | Chautle Livingrock Living Rock Cactus Texas Living Rock |  |
| Ariocarpus fissuratus | Chautle Livingrock Living Rock Cactus Texas Living Rock |  |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash |  |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl |  |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl |  |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl |  |
| Astragalus canadensis | Canadian Milkvetch Canada Milkvetch Milk Vetch |  |
| Astragalus mollissimus | Woolly Locoweed Purple Locoweed Woolly Loco Woolly Milkvetch Wooly Loco Wooly Locoweed |  |
| Baccharis halimifolia | Groundseltree Sea-myrtle Consumptionweed Eastern Baccharis Groundsel Groundsel Bush Salt Marsh-elder Salt Bush Florida Groundsel Bush |  |
| Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho Orchid Tree Anacacho Bauhinia Orchid Tree Texas Plume |  |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed |  |
| Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch |  |
| Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch |  |
| Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch |  |
| Bouteloua eriopoda | Black Grama |  |
| Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry |  |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood |  |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood |  |
| Carnegiea gigantea | Saguaro Giant Saguaro |  |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan |  |
| Callirhoe scabriuscula | Texas Poppymallow Texas Poppy Mallow |  |
| Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean |  |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot |  |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas Redbud |  |
| Ceanothus fendleri | Fendler's Ceanothus Fendler Ceanothus |  |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm |  |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush |  |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre |  |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita |  |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita |  |
| Chromolaena odorata | Blue Mistflower Fragrant Mistflower Blue Boneset Fragrant Boneset Jack In The Bush Crucita Siam Weed Common Flossflower Christmas Bush Devilweed |  |
| Chrysothamnus pulchellus | Southwestern Rabbitbrush Rubber Rabbit Brush |  |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard |  |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard |  |
| Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard |  |
| Cordia boissieri | Mexican Olive Texas Wild Olive Anacahuita Anacahuite |  |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray Dogwood |  |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley Hawthorn Parsleyleaf Hawthorn |  |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley Hawthorn Parsleyleaf Hawthorn |  |
| Crataegus opaca | Mayhaw Western Mayhaw May Hawthorn Riverflat Hawthorn Applehaw May Haw |  |
| Crataegus spathulata | Littlehip Hawthorn Pasture Hawthorn Smallfruit Hawthorn |  |
| Crataegus texana | Texas Hawthorn |  |
| Crataegus texana | Texas Hawthorn |  |
| Crataegus uniflora | Dwarf Hawthorn One-flowered Hawthorn |  |
| Cyrilla racemiflora | Titi Swamp Titi Black Titi White Titi Red Titi Leatherwood Swamp Cyrilla American Cyrilla Burnwood Bark Palo Colorado |  |
| Dalea candida var. candida | White Prairie Clover White Prairie-clover |  |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush |  |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush |  |
| Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto |  |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower |  |
| Echinocereus viridiflorus var. davisii | Davis' Hedgehog Cactus |  |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate |  |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal |  |
| Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree |  |
| Forestiera reticulata | Netleaf Swampprivet Net-leaf Forestiera |  |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash |  |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash |  |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash |  |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood |  |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood |  |
| Garrya wrightii | Wright's Silktassel |  |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree |  |
| Guaiacum angustifolium | Texas Lignum-vitae Soapbush Guayacan |  |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch |  |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch |  |
| Hibiscus martianus | Heartleaf Rosemallow Tulipan Del Monte Heartleaf Hibiscus |  |
| Ilex opaca | American Holly White Holly Prickly Holly Evergreen Holly Christmas Holly Yule Holly |  |
| Ipomopsis aggregata | Scarlet Gilia Scarlet Standing-cypress Skyrocket Skunkflower |  |
| Isocoma drummondii | Drummond's Goldenbush |  |
| Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis |  |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball Leadtree Littleleaf Leadtree Little Leucaena Lemonball Wahoo Tree |  |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball Leadtree Littleleaf Leadtree Little Leucaena Lemonball Wahoo Tree |  |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar |  |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar |  |
| Lonicera albiflora | Western White Honeysuckle White Shrub Honeysuckle White Bush Honeysuckle White Limestone Honeysuckle Texas Honeysuckle White Honeysuckle |  |
| Malpighia glabra | Barbados Cherry Wild Crapemyrtle Acerola Manzanita |  |
| Malpighia glabra | Barbados Cherry Wild Crapemyrtle Acerola Manzanita |  |
| Malpighia glabra | Barbados Cherry Wild Crapemyrtle Acerola Manzanita |  |
| Magnolia grandiflora | Southern Magnolia Evergreen Magnolia Loblolly Magnolia Great Laurel Magnolia Big Laurel Bull Bay |  |
| Manfreda maculosa | False Aloe Spice Lily Spice-lily |  |
| Marsilea macropoda | Bigfoot Water-clover Water-clover Clover-fern Largefoot Pepperwort |  |
| 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 |  |
| Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa |  |
| Muhlenbergia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Muhly Lindheimer Muhly Big Muhly Blue Muhly |  |
| Nolina texana | Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass |  |
| Onosmodium helleri | Heller's Marbleseed Marble-seed |  |
| Opuntia engelmannii | Cactus Apple Prickly Pear |  |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |