Native Plant List
This species collection list was compiled by our Technical Committee following these criteria:
- Cover value
- Harvestability
- Soil type adaptability
- Successional category
- Species distribution in South Texas
- Wildlife and livestock forage value
Forbs
- Awnless Bush Sunflower
- Bearded Dalea
- Blackfoot Daisy
- Bristleleaf Dogweed
- Brown-Eyed Susan
- Bundleflower
- Common Sunflower
- Cowpen Daisy
- Dayflowers
- Deer Pea Vetch
- Engelmann Daisy
- Frostweed
- Golden Dalea
- Groundcherries
- Hooker's Plantain
- Indian Blanket
- Low Menodora
- Mexican Hat
- Milkpea's
- Mistflower
- Orange Zexmenia
- Palmleaf Globemallow
- Paperflower
- Partridge Pea
- Pigeonberry
- Plains Lazy Daisy
- Prairie Clover
- Queen's Delight
- Ragweed
- Redseed Plantain
- Rio Grande Clammyweed
- Ruellia
- Scarlet Pea
- Shaggy Portulaca
- Silver, Roughpod, Lindheimer Bladderpods
- Wild Buckwheat
- Wild Mercury
- Wild Petunia
- Woolly Croton
- Woolly Globemallow
Grasses
- Arizona Cottontop
- Big Bluestem
- Big Sacaton
- Brownseed Paspalum
- Buffalograss
- Canada Wildrye
- Cane Bluestem
- Common Curly Mesquite
- Crinkleawn
- Eastern Gamagrass
- Fall Witchgrass
- False Rhodesgrass
- Green Sprangletop
- Hairy Grama
- Hall's Panicum
- Hooded Windmillgrass
- Knotgrass
- Little Bluestem
- Multiflowered False Rhodesgrass
- Pink Pappusgrass
- Plains Bristlegrass
- Plains Lovegrass
- Purple Threeawn
- Red Grama
- Red Lovegrass
- Rio Grande Bristlegrass
- Rough Tridens
- Sand Dropseed
- Seacoast Bluestem
- Shortspike Windmillgrass
- Sideoats Grama
- Silver Bluestem
- Slender Grama
- Slim Tridens
- Southwestern Bristlegrass
- Switchgrass
- Tanglehead
- Texas Grama
- Texas Panicum
- Texasgrass
- Thin Paspalum
- Tobosagrass
- Vine Mesquite
- Whiplash Pappusgrass
- Wright's Threeawn
- Yellow Indiangrass
Shrubs
- Agarito
- Allthorn Goatbush
- Anaqua
- Berlandier's Wolfberry
- Blackbrush Acacia
- Brasil
- Catclaw Acacia
- Chittimwood
- Coma
- Common Buttonbush
- Coyotillo
- Desert Yaupon
- Elbowbush
- Ephedra
- False Mesquite
- Four-Wing Saltbush
- Granjeno
- Guajillo
- Guayacan
- Heart-Leaf Hibiscus
- Hogplum
- Indigo
- Knife-Leaf Condalia
- Lime Prickly-Ash
- Littleleaf Sumac
- Lotebush
- Mexican Olive
- Peachbush
- Prairie Acacia
- Shrubby Blue Sage
- Spanish Dagger
- Sweet-Stem
- Tenaza
- Texas Ebony
- Texas Kidneywood
- Texas Lantana
- Texas Mountain Laurel
- Texas Persimmon
- Tornillo
- Twisted Acacia
- Western Soapberry
- Wherry Mimosa
- Yaupon
