Drought tolerant native and adapted landscape plants


Drought tolerant native and adapted landscape plants

Shade trees

  1. Arizona Cypress

  2. Cedar Elm

  3. Oaks; Bur, Chinquapin, Monterrey, Lacey, Texas Live-, and Red

Ornamental trees

  1. Anacacho Orchid

  2. Desert Willow

  3. Mexican Buckeye

  4. Mexican Plum

  5. Prairie Flameleaf Sumac

  6. Texas Mountain Laurel

  7. Texas Persimmon

  8. Texas Redbud

  9. Wafer Ash

Shrubs/yuccas/agaves

  1. Agaves; Whale’s Tongue, Blue agave, Blue Twistleaf, lophantha

  2. Dwarf Palmetto

  3. Elbow Bush

  4. Flame Acanthus

  5. Fragrant Mistflower

  6. Fragrant Sumac

  7. Pale-leaf Yucca

  8. Prickly Pear (transplant local native pads)

  9. Pride of Barbados

  10. Red Yucca

  11. Skeletonleaf Goldeneye

  12. Spanish Dagger Yucca

  13. Texas Green Sage/Cenizo

  14. Texas Kidneywood

  15. Yellowbells/Esperanza/Sangria Esperanza

Perennials

  1. Autumn Sage

  2. Brazos/Hill Country Penstemon

  3. Cedar Sage

  4. Fall Aster

  5. Flame Acanthus

  6. Four-Nerve Daisy

  7. Fragrant Mistflower

  8. Gregg’s Mistflower

  9. Lindheimer’s Senna

  10. Maximilian Sunflower

  11. Mealy Blue Sage

  12. Orange Zexmenia

  13. Rock Rose

  14. Texas Lantana (use only native species)

  15. Turks Cap

Ground covers

  1. Blackfoot Daisy

  2. Cedar Sedge

  3. Horseherb/Straggler Daisy

  4. Texas Frogfruit

  5. Woolly Stemodia

Ornamental/turf grasses

  1. Buffalo Grass

  2. Deer Muhly

  3. Webberville/Cedar Sedge

  4. Woodland/Texas Sedge

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