Native Plant Directory

Central Texas native plants rated for Austin conditions. Filter by your yard's sun, water needs, and wildlife goals.

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Goldenball Leadtree

Leucaena retusa

Deciduous, slender shrub or small tree with many showy balls of golden-yellow flowers throughout spring and summer. Little-leaf leadtree or goldenball leadtree is a small, multi-trunked tree or large shrub,12-15 ft. tall, which can reach 25 ft. Airy, light-green foliage occurs on

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Indian Blanket

Gaillardia pulchella

Firewheel or Indian Blanket is a popular annual growing 1-2+ ft. tall. The hairy stem is usually much-branched and becomes woody at the base late in the season. Branched stems, mostly leafy near the base, have showy flower heads with rays red at base, tipped with yellow, each wit

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Mexican Buckeye

Ungnadia speciosa

Mexican-buckeye, an 8-12 ft., deciduous tree, can reach 30 ft. in height. It is often multi-trunked with with light gray to brown bark, smooth on young branches, becoming fissured with age. Leaves up to 12 inches long, with a central axis supporting 2 to 6 paired leaflets and a t

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Texas Mountain Laurel

Sophora secundiflora

Showy flowers with strong grape bubble gum fragrance; poisonous red seeds; occasional caterpillar problems.

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Texas Redbud

Cercis canadensis var. texensis

This Cercis canadensis variety is a large shrub or small tree, 10-20 ft. in height, differing from the more easterly Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis var. canadensis) in having smaller, more glossy, and usually hairier leaves with wavy edges, more of a tendency to have red seedp

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Winecup

Callirhoe involucrata

Purple Poppy Mallow’s stems sprawl along the ground up to 3 feet, forming a thick mat up to 1 foot tall. Rounded, hairy leaves are deeply lobed and cleft. The chalice-shaped, 1 1/2-2 1/2 in. wide flowers have a white spot at the base of their five, maroon petals. Flowers, which a

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