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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

Grasses	Forbs	Shrubs
Arizona Cottontop	Awnless Bush Sunflower	Agarito
Big Bluestem	Bearded Dalea	Allthorn Goatbush
Big Sacaton	Blackfoot Daisy	Anaqua
Brownseed Paspalum	Bladderpods	Berlandier's Wolfberry
Buffalograss	Bristleleaf Dogweed	Blackbrush Acacia
Canada Wildrye	Brown-Eyed Susan	Brasil
Cane Bluestem	Bundleflower	Catclaw Acacia
Common Curly-Mesquite	Common Sunflower	Chittimwood
Crinkleawn	Cowpen Daisy	Coma
Eastern Gamagrass	Dayflowers	Common Buttonbush
Fall Witchgrass	Deer Pea Vetch	Coyotillo
False Rhodesgrass	Dwarf Dalea	Desert Yaupon
Green Sprangletop	Englemann Daisy	Elbowbush
Hairy Grama	Frostweed	Ephedra
Hall's Panicum	Golden Dalea	False Mesquite
Hooded Windmillgrass	Groundcherries	Four-Wing Saltbush
Knot Grass	Hooker's Plantain	Granjeno
Little Bluestem	Indian Blanket	Guajillo
Longspike Silver Bluestem	Lindheimer's Hoarypea	Guayacan
Multiflowered False Rhodesgrass	Low Menodora	Heart-Leaf Hibiscus
Philly Panicum	Low Prairie Clover	Hogplum
Pink Pappusgrass	Mexican Hat	Indigo
Plains Bristlegrass	Milkpea's	Knife-Leaf Condalia
Plains Lovegrass	Mistflower	Lime Prickly-Ash
Purple Threeawn	Orange Zexmenia	Littleleaf Sumac
Red Grama	Palmleaf Globemallow	Lotebush
Red Lovegrass	Paperflower	Mexican Olive
Rio Grande Bristlegrass	Partridge Pea	Peachbush
Rough Tridens	Pigeonberry	Shrubby Blue Sage
Sand Dropseed	Plains Lazy Daisy	Skunkbush Sumac
Seacoast Bluestem	Prairie Acacia	Spanish Dagger
Shortspike Windmillgrass	Prairie Clover	Sweet-Stem
Sideoats Grama	Pussyfoot Dalea	Tenaza
Silver Bluestem	Queen's Delight	Texas Ebony
Slender Grama	Ragweed	Texas Kidneywood
Slim Tridens	Redseed Plantain	Texas Lantana
Southwestern Bristlegrass	Rio Grande Clammyweed	Texas Mountain Laurel
Streambed Bristlegrass	Ruellia	Texas Persimmon
Switchgrass	Scarlet Pea	Tornillo
Tanglehead	Shaggy Portulaca	Twisted Acacia
Texasgrass	Turks Cap	Western Soapberry
Texas Grama	Wild Buckwheat	Wherry Mimosa
Texas Panicum	Wild Mercury	Yaupon
Thin Paspalum	Wild Petunia
Tobosagrass	Woolly Croton
Vine Mesquite	Woolly Globemallow
Whiplash Pappusgrass
Wright's Threeawn
Yellow Indiangrass

Common names given are those used in south Texas by landowners, scientist, and are regionally specific.

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