Native Plants
Dunatchik, David
Chief Park Interpreter, Big Thicket National Preserve.The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is committed to developing the premier resource for native plant images in North America through continued growth of the Plant Image Gallery. You can help us achieve our mission ...to increase the sustainable use and conservation of native wildflowers, plants, and landscapes... by becoming a contributor.
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Aletris aurea | Golden Colicroot Colicroot Star Grass Yellow Colic Root | |
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. tabernaemontana | Eastern Bluestar | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Asclepias viridiflora | Green Comet Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Green Milkweed Wand Milkweed | |
Baptisia sphaerocarpa | Yellow Wild Indigo Green Wild Indigo Bush Pea Yellow Wisteria | |
Berchemia scandens | Alabama Supplejack Alabama Supple-jack Rattan-vine | |
Carex glaucescens | Southern Waxy Sedge | |
Calopogon tuberosus var. tuberosus | Tuberous Grasspink Grass Pink Swamp Pink | |
Cenchrus spinifex | Grass Bur Coastal Sandbur Field Sandspur Southern Sandbur Spiny Burrgrass | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge Pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
Chaptalia tomentosa | Woolly Sunbonnets | |
Coreopsis linifolia | Texas Tickseed | |
Crataegus opaca | Mayhaw Western Mayhaw May Hawthorn Riverflat Hawthorn Applehaw May Haw | |
Cyrilla racemiflora | Titi Swamp Titi Black Titi White Titi Red Titi Leatherwood Swamp Cyrilla American Cyrilla Burnwood Bark Palo Colorado | |
Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping Burhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword Burhead Creeping Water-plantain | |
Echinacea sanguinea | Sanguine Purple Coneflower | |
Epithelantha bokei | Pingpong Ball Cactus | |
Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master Button Eryngo Button Snakeroot Beargrass Bear's Grass | |
Euonymus americanus | American Strawberry Bush Strawberry Bush Brook Euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting Heart Wahoo | |
Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood | |
Froelichia floridana | Plains Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
Gaillardia aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Winkler Gaillardia | |
Gentiana saponaria | Harvestbells Soapwort Gentian | |
Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina Jessamine Yellow Jessamine Evening Trumpetflower Poor Man's Rope | |
Hibiscus lasiocarpos | Woolly Rose-mallow Woolly Mallow Rose-mallow False Cotton | |
Hypericum cistifolium | Roundpod St. John's-wort | |
Hypericum hypericoides ssp. hypericoides | St. Andrew's-cross | |
Hymenocallis liriosme | Texas Spiderlily Spring Spiderlily Spiderlily Louisiana Spiderlily Western Marsh Spiderlily | |
Ilex opaca | American Holly White Holly Prickly Holly Evergreen Holly Christmas Holly Yule Holly | |
Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon Holly Cassina | |
Liatris acidota | Sharp Blazing Star Sharp Gayfeather Sharp Liatris | |
Ludwigia hirtella | Spindleroot | |
Lyonia mariana | Piedmont Staggerbush Staggerbush | |
Mayaca fluviatilis | Stream Bogmoss | |
Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay Magnolia Southern Sweetbay Swampbay Swamp Magnolia Sweet Magnolia Small Magnolia Laurel Magnolia White Bay White Laurel Swamp Laurel Beaver Tree | |
Mikania scandens | Climbing Hempvine Climbing Hempweed | |
Mimosa strigillosa | Powderpuff Sunshine Mimosa Sensitive Plant | |
Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
Nyssa sylvatica | Tupelo Blackgum Black Tupelo Sourgum Pepperidge Tupelo Gum Beetlebung | |
Obolaria virginica | Virginia Pennywort Pennywort | |
Oxalis priceae | Tufted Yellow Woodsorrel | |
Passiflora lutea | Yellow Passionflower Yellow Passion Vine Yellow Passion-flower | |
Phlox nivalis | Trailing Phlox | |
Philadelphus texensis | Texas Mock Orange | |
Pluchea foetida | Stinking Camphorweed | |
Platanthera nivea | Snowy Orchid Frog Spear Bog Torch White Frog Arrow White Rein Orchid | |
Poa arachnifera | Texas Bluegrass Texas Blue Grass | |
Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Rush | |
Polygala mariana | Maryland Milkwort | |
Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian Apple Wild Mandrake Pomme De Mai Podophylle Pelt | |
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |