Database of the Native Plants in Southeast Texas
Use the search tool at the top of the page to search for a plant by either its common name or scientific name.
Note: We plan to grow this new feature over the coming months. Other resources for native plants In our region are:
Grasses & Grass-like Plants
Arrowfeather Threeawn • Big Bluestem • Broomsedge Bluestem
Brownseed Paspalum • Bushy Bluestem • Chalky Bluestem
Eastern Gamagrass • Elliott's Bluestem • Florida Paspalum
Gulf Cordgrass • Gulf Muhly • Inland Sea Oats
Little Bluestem • Longleaf Woodoats
Longspike Tridens • Longtom • Narrowleaf Woodoats
Needlegrass • Pinewoods Fingergrass • Plains Lovegrass
Prairie Wedgescale • Purple Lovegrass • Purple Silkyscale
Purple Threeawn • Purpletop • Red Lovegrass
Sea Oats • Splitbeard Bluestem • Sugarcane Plumegrass
Switchgrass • Texas Grama • Velvet Panicgrass
Virginia Wildrye • Yellow Indiangrass • Cherokee Sedge
Leavenworth's Sedge • Whitetop Sedge
Forbs
Blue, Pink, and Purple Flowers
American Germander • Basketflower • Blue Mistflower
Blue Sage • Blue Waterleaf • Blue-eyed Grass
Bull Thistle • Carolina Ruellia • Common Selfheal
Compact Prairie Clover • Creeping Bluestar • Downy Lobelia
Drummond's Wild Onion • Fall Obedient Plant • Gulf Coast Penstemon
Gulf Vervain • Hairy Small-leaf Ticktrefoil • Heartleaf Skullcap
Hooker's Eryngo • Kansas Blazing Star • Lemon Beebalm
Lyreleaf Sage • Missouri Ironweed • Ohio Spiderwort
Pickerelweed • Powderpuff • Prairie Blazing Star
Prairie Gerardia • Prairie Nymph • Prairie Spiderwort
Purple Coneflower • Rosy Camphorweed • Rosy Palafox
Saltmarsh Mallow • Sharp Blazing Star • Spotted Beebalm
Spring Obedient Plant • Texas Bluebell • Winecup
Red, Orange, and Yellow Flowers
Ashy Sunflower • Beach Primrose • Black-eyed Susan
Camphor Daisy • Creeping Spotflower • Firewheel
Goldentop • Hairy Sunflower • Lanceleaf Blanketflower
Lanceleaf Coreopsis • Maximilian Sunflower • Mexican Hat
Partridge Pea • Plains Coreopsis • Prairie Parsley
Rough Coneflower • Roughstem Rosinweed • Scarlet Sage
Seaside Goldenrod • Silverleaf Sunflower • Slender Rosinweed
St. Andrew's Cross • Straggler Daisy • Swamp Marigold
Swamp Sunflower • Texas Coneflower • Tropical Puff
Yellow Bitterweed • Yellow Stargrass • Yellow Wild Indigo
White and Green Flowers
Aquatic Milkweed • Arrowhead • Clustered Bushmint
Coast Germander • Corpus Christi Fleabane • False Aloe
Frostweed • Green Milkweed • Ovateleaf Plantain
Partridgeberry • Pokeweed • Rattlesnake Master
Redwhisker Clammyweed • Slim Milkweed • Spider Lily
Texas Frogfruit • White Boneset • White Gaura
White Panicled Aster • White Prairie Clover
Whiteleaf Mountain Mint • Whorled Milkweed
Shrubs and Vines
American Beautyberry • Carolina Wolfberry • Common Buttonbush
Coralbean • Illinois Bundleflower • Purple Passionflower
Rattlebush • Texas Vervain • Tie Vine
Trailing Wild Bean • Turk's Cap • Vine Milkweed
Yellow Passionflower • Yellow Puff
Trees
Black Willow • Cedar Elm • Cherry Laurel
Hercules Club • Live Oak • Pecan
Red Mulberry • Sugarberry • Wax Myrtle
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