American Basket Flower
The American basket flower is a 1 1/2-5 ft. annual with a stout, leafy, much-branched stem and lavender-pink, filamentous flower heads with cream-colored centers.
Texas Wildflower Species
Apache Plume
Apache Plume is one of our showiest native western shrubs. The plant blooms with single white flowers that set fluffy pink seed heads.
Autumn Sage
Autumn sage is a soft, mounding shrub normally 2-3 ft. tall, with small, mintily aromatic green leaves that are evergreen in warmer climates.
Baby Blue Eyes
Baby Blue Eyes is a small, trailing annual, 6 in. tall and 1 ft. wide, Menzies baby-blue-eyes is well-known for its bright-blue, five-petaled, bowl-shaped flowers with white centers.
Bicolor Fanmustard
The Bicolor Fanmustard is a grayish, hairy plant with clumps of leafy branched stems and racemes of white or lavender flowers.
Big Bend Bluebonnet
The Big Bend Bluebonnet grows taller than most bluebonnets. The flowers of this annual are very deep blue with a lemon blotch.
Bigfruit Evening-primrose
The Bigfruit Evening Primrose can be trailing or upright, usually growing 8-10 in. high. Its large, 3-4 in. wide, yellow flowers are showy.
Bitterweed
Bitterweed or Four-nerve Daisy is a low, upright, silvery perennial to1 ft.. The solitary flower heads occur at the end of silky, leafless stalks.
Blackfoot Daisy
Blackfoot Daisy is a low, bushy, mounded perennial, 6-12 in. tall and twice as wide. Its leaves are narrow and have 1 in. wide, white, daisy-like flowers.
Brown-Eyed Susan
The Brown-Eyed Susan is a cheerful, widespread wildflower. Its bright-yellow, 2-3 in. wide, daisy-like flowers with dark centers are its claim to fame.
Brown-Spined Prickly Pear
This brown-spined prickly pear cactus forms dense thickets 8 ft. across and up to 8 ft. tall. Common to abundant in abandoned pastures and old fields on stony soil
Brushland Shrubverbena
The Brushland Shrubverbena is a member of the verbena family, which includes about 75 genera and 3,000 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees.
Butterweed
Butterweed s a somewhat weedy perennial which is valued for its ability to thrive in moist shady locations and produce a long and profuse spring bloom.
Buttonbush
Buttonbush is a handsome ornamental suited to wet soils and is also a honey plant. Ducks and other water birds and shorebirds consume the seeds.
Cedar Sage
Cedar Sage is a red-flowered, hirsute, perennial salvia that grows from 1 to 2 feet tall, with rounded, scalloped leaves.
Celestial Lily
The sky-blue flowers open in the late morning and curl up before 3 in the afternoon, even on overcast days.
Chihuahuan Flax
A slender, erect plant with yellow-orange, bowl-shaped flowers, each with a maroon center. This species is common in parts of the Chihuahuan Desert.
Chisos Pricklypoppy
The Chisos pricklypoppy is a wonderful flower with paper-like white blooms and a very thorny demeanor. It blooms during the spring months.
Chocolate Flower
The Chocolate Flower smells like chocolate! On warm days it will fill the air with the fragrance of chocolate.
Claret Cup Cactus
One of the most attractive hedgehog cacti is the claret cup, which grows in clumps as much as 3–4 feet across but usually smaller.
Creosote Bush
Creosote-bush is a 3-5 ft., evergreen shrub which can reach 10 ft. and has numerous flexible stems usually arising from the base at an angle.
Desert Marigold
Desert marigold is a 12-18 in., mound-shaped biennial. Its daisy-like flowers form impressive mounds of nearly solid yellow.
Desert Rosemallow
Desert Rosemallow is a handsome ornamental, grown for its showy flowers. It’s large, yellow, cup-shaped flowers, sometimes tinged with red or purple at the base.
Eastern Purple Coneflower
The Eastern Purple Coneflower is a perennial with smooth, 2-5 ft. stems and long-lasting, lavender flowers. The leaves become small at the top.
Eastern Red Columbine
The Eastern Red Columbine has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers equipped with distinctly backward-pointing tubes, similar to the garden Columbines.
Engelmann’s Prickly Pear Cactus
This is perhaps the most abundant prickly pear in West Texas, and one of the most attractive. It produces masses of yellow to orange flowers,
Eryngo
Leavenworth’s eryngo is a prickly, 20-40 in. annual with a leafy stem, broadly branched in the upper portion. Almost the entire plant has some shade of purple.
False Dayflower
The False Dayflower is an erect annual native to central Texas with flowers made up of two large lavender-blue petals and one small white petal.
Feather Dalea
One of many shrubby species of Dalea, this Feather Dalea, with its dark bark, contorted branches, and small leaves–is an excellent candidate for bonsai.
Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf
The Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf is a low, tufted, dark green, prickly plant with 1 small, deep yellow flower head on each of several leafless stalks above the foliage.
Giant spiderwort
Named after John Tradescant (1608-1662) who served as gardener to Charles 1 of England. Tradescantia species will hybridize in just about any combination.
Gray Golden Aster
The Gray Golden Aster is a North American species of flowering plant. It has been found in Northern Mexico and in the Great Plains of the central US.
Gray’s Feverfew
Gray’s Feverfew is an annual plant that grows in the desert southwest. It produces tiny flowers accentuated by five tiny petals which form a pentagon.
Greenthread
Greenthread is a winter annual, and is often found growing in colonies. Its slender, branched stems, 10-30 in. tall, bear leaves divided into thread-like segments.
Gregg’s Mistflower
Gregg’s Mistflower is a spectacular addition to the late summer/fall border. This butterfly magnet will attract large numbers of Queens and Monarchs.
Havard’s Fiddleleaf
The Havard’s Fiddleleaf is one of the less common members of this genus, found only in four counties of west Texas (Presidio, Brewster, Terrell, Val Verde).
Heartleaf Hibiscus
The Heartleaf Hibiscus has spectacular flowers two and three inches across. It is a wonderful, small, drought-tolerant hibiscus from South Texas.
Hill Country Penstemon
The Hill Country Penstemon is 1 1/2-2 ft. tall. Its brilliant red flowers, 2 in. long, are among the most showy of the genus.
Indian Blanket
Indian blanket is a popular annual growing 1-2 ft. tall and showy flower heads with rays red at the base, tipped with yellow, each with 3 teeth at the end.
Jimsonweed
Jimsonweed is a branching forb that blooms large, white, fragrant, trumpet-like flowers from evening through the morning.
Longspur Columbine
The Longspur Columbine is native to moist canyons from southern Arizona, south into mountains of adjacent northern Mexico.
Maximilian Sunflower
A native prairie perennial, the Maximilian Sunflower is a desirable range plant. A heavy crop of seeds is produced, thus it is a valuable plant for wildlife.
Mealy Blue Sage
Mealy Blue Sage is a 2-3 ft. upright or sprawling perennial, that usually forms a mound as wide as the plant is tall and is named for the mealy-white appearance of the sepals.
Mexican Hat
The Mexican Hat has long leafless stalks bearing flower heads of 3-7 yellow or yellow and red-brown, drooping rays surrounding a long, red-brown central disk.
Mexican Primrose Willow
The Mexican Primrose Willow is a rather weedy perennial or subshrub of sunny areas with wet soils. Plants in full flower are colorful and showy.
New Mexico Bird’s-Foot Trefoil
An inconspicuous ground-hugging plant, the New Mexico Bird’s-Foot Trefoil is about 1 foot across and has masses of 1/2-inch bright yellow flowers.
Ocotillo
Ocotillo is a spiny shrub to 20 ft. with many long, whip-like, unbranched green stems growing from the base.
Old Plainsman
Old Plainsman is a biennial herb up to 150 cm (5 feet) tall. It produces 20-100 flower heads per stem, each head with 20-80 white disc flowers but no ray flowers.
Pink Evening Primrose
As the common name implies, most evening primrose species open their flowers in the evening, closing them again early each morning.
Prairie False-Foxglove
The Prairie False-Foxglove is an excellent plant for attracting butterflies found in prairies, plains, grasslands, open fields, rocky soils or in woodlands.
Prairie Fleabane
The Prairie Fleabane is a short-lived perennial with numerous white, aster-like flowers which nod under the weight of the unopened, pink flower buds.
Purple Horsemint
Purple Horsemint is an aromatic winter annual with tuft-like, lavender to pink, whorled flower heads. Each whorl is subtended by whitish or lavender, leaf-like bracts.
Rain Lily
in lilies pop up and bloom two or three days after good rains in the spring and early summer. They begin to open slowly about dusk and are fully opened the next morning.
Rainbow Cactus
The Rainbow Cactus is a low, cylindrical cactus girdled by bands of colorful spines with pink, rose, lavender, or yellow flowers.
Rock Rose
Rock Rose plants are found in shallow soil on limestone, in rocky places in woodlands, and at the edges of thickets. The flowers are showy, rose-colored.
Rusty Hedgehog Cactus
The Rusty Hedgehog Cactus is heavily covered with a mass of slender, interlocking, bristle-like spines radiating in all directions.
Sand Palafox
The Sand Palafox grows 16–40 inches tall, its leaves are 4 inches long and the flower heads have 8–12 rose-colored ray flowers,
Seashore Mallow
Seashore Mallow is found in marshes along the eastern seashore of the US. It has pink flowers with 5 petals surrounding a tube of fused stamens and style.
Silver Puff
The Silver Puff, is a North American species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Mexico, Texas, and New Mexico.
Soaptree Yucca
The Soaptree Yucca is a 5-20 ft., tree-like yucca with fine, arching, gray-green to blue-green leaves with white margins.
Spiny Hedgehog Cactus
The Spiny Hedgehog cactus is oval at first, soon becoming cylindrical, and grows to 15 inches or so, with a 4-inch diameter.
Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus
Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus has purple-red flowers are 4–5 inches tall and 3–4 inches across. They are dark red at the base, fading to rose at the tips.
Sunflower Goldeneye
The Sunflower Goldeneye grows in colonies to be 3-6 ft tall. Its numerous yellow, 1 1/2 in., daisy-like flowers appear at the tips of long, slender, leafless stalks.
Swamp Rose-Mallow
The five pink petals of Swamp Rose-Mallow flowers each have a red to purple center, are 4-6 in. long, and surround many stamens.
Texas Bindweed
Texas Bindweed is found in sandy, loamy or rocky soils in the South Texas Plains and the Edwards Plateau area.
Texas Bluebonnet
These stems of the Texas Bluebonnet are topped by clusters of up to 50 fragrant, blue, pea-like flowers. The tip of the cluster is white.
Texas Gayfeather
The purple Texas Gafeather flowers are densely congested in a long spike on the upper part of the stem. The leaves are narrow and crowded.
Texas Paintbrush
One of the popular paintbrushes, this Texas Paintbrush grows 6-16 in. high. Its several unbranched stems form clumps topped by bright-red, paintbrush-like spikes.
Texas Star
Texas star plants have 1 to several flower heads in a cluster. Each flower head has 5 bright yellow ray flowers, each with 2 prominent veins and indented at the tip.
Texas Stork’s Bill
Texas storks-bill or fillaree is a low-growing plant. Its long-stalked, oval leaves, with three rounded lobes, form an initial rosette close to the ground.
Texas Thistle
The Texas thistle grows 2-5 feet tall, sparingly branched near the top. The leaves are 4-9 inches long and smaller on the upper third.
Thompson Yucca
Thompson’s yucca grows 6–12 feet high, treelike, with a trunk 5–8 inches in diameter. The trunk is usually unbranched.
Trailing Windmills
The orchid-colored trailing four-o’clock is a vine that grows along the ground; the plant can be 10 feet across.
Trans-pecos Senna
The Trans-Pecos Senna grows only in Big Bend National Park. The plant thrives in a desert habitat, and prefers gravelly soil.
Tree Cholla
Tree cholla grows tall and upright, sometimes bushy but usually treelike, Large, showy flowers open out wide and are reddish-purple in color.
Turkey Peas
Turkey Peas is a species of milkvetch. It is native to the southwestern and south-central United States and northern Mexico, where it can be found in many types of habitat
Western Evening Primrose
A somewhat upright and bushy plant with narrow leaves and soft yellow cup flowers that open in the evening and close the next afternoon shortly before new flowers open.
Western Horse-Nettle
The leaves, petioles and branched stems of western horse nettle have sharp spines. Its flowers are purple to violet (sometimes white) and grow at the tip in terminal clusters.
Western Wild Petunia
The Western Wild Petunia’s claim to fame is its lovely violet flower trumpets, a hummingbird favorite! This rare plant is perfect for dry, hot locations.
White Gaura
An upright to widely spreading, soft-hairy, 2-5 ft. perennial with delicate white flowers in elongated terminal and axillary clusters.
Whitethorn Acacia
The Whitethorn Acacia is a 9-15 ft., multi-trunked tree with small, yellow-orange balls of fragrant flowers and finely segmented, pinnate leaves which fall off during dry seasons.
Wild Carrot
Wild carrot blooms in flat clusters; when flowers pass, pedicels turn upward into a bird’s nest; when seeds ripe, spreads open again facilitating adhesion to passing animals.
Wild Onion
Wild onion grows 8–24 inches tall. It has 2 leaves, sometimes more, that are shorter than the flower stem. The flowers are in a round, compact cluster, 1–1 1/2 inches in diameter.
Wild Poinsettia
The dwarf poinsettia has green stems and alternate-lobed leaves, The terminal flowers are yellowish with 1-2 small glands or nectaries.
Woolly false nightshade
Wooly False Nightshade is a member of the nightshade family, known commonly as five eyes. They are native to the southwestern and western US and parts of Mexico.
Wright’s Trumpets
The species name of this plant is for Charles Wright, 1811-1885, world-wide botanical collector but mainly in Texas (1837-1952), Cuba and his native Connecticut.
Yellow Bells
Esperanza or Yellow bells is an irregularly shaped, deciduous shrub, normally 3-6 ft. tall in the US but more southerly varieties can reach 9 ft.
Yellow Rocknettle
Yellow rocknettle can be found in the rock ledges all along the Rio Grande, including those on the trail to the historical Hot Springs in Big Bend National Park
Yellow Waterlily
The Yellow Waterlily is an aquatic plant with bright yellow flowers and floating leaves. The lovely flowers are open from midday to late afternoon.