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Explore the variety of native and adapted plants for your corner of Texas — whether you’re looking for color, shade, a home for wildlife or just never want to mow again.

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Coastal Live Oak
A majestic tree, one of the largest east of the Rockies.
Texas Red Oak
Under optimal conditions, a fast-growing and very large tree.
Monterrey Oak
A fast-growing southwestern oak considered resistant to oak wilt.
Escarpment Live Oak
The most durable and adaptable oak for south-central Texas.
Lacey Oak
An extremely drought-tolerant (but slow growing) small oak.
Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa)
Bur Oak
A large-growing oak with fist-sized acorns. Well-adapted to clay soils.
Chinquapin Oak
Adaptable to any site except very heavy clay soils.
Anaqua
The Sandpaper Tree: a South Texas specialty.
Ballmoss leaves.
Ball Moss
Ball moss lives in tree branches and feasts on morning dew: not a parasite, but an epiphyte.
Texas Milkweed
Great milkweed for a shady pollinator garden.
Arizona Cypress
A West Texas evergreen, and a fast-growing anchor for the watersaver landscape.
Pearl Milkweed Vine
An easily overlooked vine that rewards the curious with a unique flower.
Madrone

One of the loveliest Texas native trees, with peeling bark revealing muscular red trunks.

Scarlet sage leaves and flowers.
Scarlet Sage
A tough native salvia for the shade garden.
Magnolia
A beautiful native tree, well-suited to deep coastal and riparian soils. Not recommended for thin hill country soils.
Horseherb
A native, low-maintenance turfgrass substitute.
Coma
Like a little live oak with thorns, and big fragrance in bloom.