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Our Top Plant Picks for Central Texas
(updated 05/21/10)

Aquatics/Semi-Aquatics

• Cardinal Flower
• Lizard's-Tail

Grasses

• Bamboo Muhly*
• Big Bluestem
• Buffalo Grass
• Bushy Bluestem
• Cut-Rice Grass
• Eastern Gama Grass
• Indian Grass
• Inland Sea Oats
• Little Bluestem
• Mexican Feather Grass
• Muhlenbergia (8 species)
• Nimbewill cult. "Rio Blanco"
• Prairie Cord Grass
• Side Oats Grama
• Switch Grass

Groundcovers/Ferns

• Clover Fern
• Lindheimer Shield Fern
• Missouri Violet
• Snake Herb
• Trailing Silver Sage*
• Wooly Stemodia

Orchids

• Chatterbox Orchid

Shrubs

• Agarita
• Aromatic Sumac "Grow Low"
• American Beautyberry
• Boneset (sp.)
• Bush Germander*
• Button-Bush
• Carolina Buckthorn
• Cenizo cult. "Industry Standard"
• Chile piquin / Bird Pepper
• Coral Bean
• Coral-Berry
• Creek Plum
• Dwarf Barbados Cherry
• Dwarf Palmetto
• Elbow Bush
• Esperanza/Yellow Bells
• Evergreen Sumac
• Flameleaf Sumac
• Fragrant Mimosa
• Hummingbird Bush
• Kidneywood
• Lindheimer Silk-Tassel
• Mexican Bauhinia
• Mexican Caesalpinia
• Mexican Oregano
• Mountain Laurel
• Oak-Leaf Hydrangea
• Pigeon Berry
• Red Buckeye
• Rock Rose
• Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum
• Shrub Lantana*
• Swamp Bay
• Texas Buckeye
• Texas Lantana
• Texas Pistache
• Turk's Cap
• Yellow Senna

Succulents/Palmitos

• Blackland Yucca
• Buckley's Yucca
• Devil's Shoestring
• Red Yucca
• Amole Plant
• Texas Sotol (sp.)
• Twist Leaf Yucca

Trees

• American Basswood
• American Sycamore
• Anacacho Orchid Tree
• Anacua / Sandpaper Tree
• Arizona Cypress*
• Bald Cypress
• Bigtooth Maple
• Black Cherry
• Blanco Crabapple
• Bur Oak
• Cedar Elm
• Chinquapin Oak
• Eve's Necklace
• Golden-Ball Lead Tree
• Italian Stone Pine*
• Junipers (3 species)
• Lacey Oak
• Little Leaf Linden*
• Mexican Buckeye
• Mexican Olive
• Mexican Plum
• Mexican Redbud cult. "Sanderson"
• Mexican White Oak / Monterrey Oak
• Montpelier Maple
*
• Montezuma Cypress
• Nogalito - Little Leaf Walnut
• Native Pecan
• Pawpaw
• Possumhaw
• Plateau Walnut
• Remote Pinon Pine
• Retama (Paloverde)
• Red Maple
• Roughleaf Dogwood
• Soapberry
• Southern Sugar Maple
• Texas Ash
• Texas Persimmon
• Texas Redbud
• Yaupon Holly

Vines

• Coral Honeysuckle
• Coral / Queen's Wreath Vine
• Cross-Vine
• Passiflora
• Scarlet Leatherflower
• Snapdragon Vine
• Texas Wisteria
• Virginia Creeper
• White-Veined Dutchman's Pipe*

Wildflowers/Perennials

• Blue-Eyed Grass
• Cardinal Flower
• Cedar Sage
• Clasping Coneflower
• Damianita
• Eastern Columbine
• Gulf / Brazos Penstemon
• Heart-leaf Hibiscus
• Hinckley Columbine
• Lindheimer's Crown Beard
• Mexican Bush Sage*
• Mealy Blue Sage
• Obedient Plant
• Prairie Foxglove
• Purple Coneflower
• Rosin-weed (Silphium sp.)
• Salvia Penstemonoides
• Salvia "Rasberry Royale"*
• Scarlet Penstemon
• Texas / Scarlet Betony
• Texas Bluebells
• Texas Canna
• Tickseed
• Wooly Ironweed

* adapted non-native