We all love our Native Texas Garden for getting ideas of the many native Texas plants that are great for our area.
(Thanks to Olivia Blanchard – Native Texas Garden chair)
This is Olivia Blanchard in the green VCMGA shirt during one of our recent plant sales featuring Native Texas Plants. Helping with the sale is also Janet McCrea, one our biggest supporters of Texas Native Plants with Barbara Schmidt.
In this area children can follow the Rainbow Circle and find the plants that are Yellow and Green.
Children can also find the letters of the alphabet with animal name plants from G-L.
An extensive plant list is coming so that you too can choose Native Texas Plants for your landscape or enjoy seeing them and identifying them at VEG.
There is also a sign to help you learn more about TEXAS State flower, bird, reptile, fruit, tree, etc. Do you know what the STATE FLOWER is? You can find it all over VEG especially when its bloom season starts.
Plants Found in the Native Area at Victoria Educational Gardens
CLICK HERE for pdf of Native Texas Area database
Native Area Plants at Victoria Educational Gardens
By Olivia Blanchard
Autumn Sage – Salvia greggii
Blackeye Susan – Rudbeckia hirta
Cedar Sage – Salvia roemeriana
Cenizo – Leucophyllum frutescens
Chilipequin – Capsicum annuum
Confederate Jasmine – Trachelospermum jasminoides (native to eastern asia)
Coral Honeysuckle – Lonicera sempervirens
Crag Lily Lila De Los Llanos – Echeandia chandleri
Engelmann’s Daisy – Engelmannia pinnatifida (or peristenia)
Engelmann’s Salvia – Salvia engelmannii
Esperanza – Tecoma stans
Flame Acanthus – Anisacanthus quadrifidus
Four-nerve Daisy – Tetraneuris scaposa
Gaura (Whirling Butterflies) – Oenothera lindheimeri
Little Bluestem – Schizachyrium scoparium
Manfreda (Texas Tuberose) – Manfreda maculosa
Mexican Bush Honeysuckle – Justicia spicigera (Not a Texas NATIVE- native to Bahamas, Belize, Central America
Mexican Firebush – Hamelia patens
Mexican Hat – Ratibida columnifera
Mexican Heather – Cuphea hyssopifolia (Native of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala)
Midnight Salvia – Salvia guaranitica (Native to Brazil, Paraguay, Uraguay)
Mistflower – Ageratina wrightii (Eupatorium –former name)
Native Clematis – Clematis crispa
Orchid Tree – Bauhinia lunarioides
Pigeonberry – Rivina humilis
Possumhaw Holly – Ilex decidua
Red Yucca – Hesperaloe parviflora
Rock Rose – Pavonia lasiopetala
Sandpaper Verbena – Verbena rigida (native of South America)
Seaside Goldenrod –Solidago sempervirens
Skull Cap – Scutellaria suffrutescens (native to Mexico)
Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye – Viguiera stenoloba
Sideoats Grama – Bouteloua curtipendula
Texas Mountain Laurel – Dermatophyllum secundiflorum (Sophora previously)
Texas Persimmon – Diospyros texana
Texas Primrose – Calylophus drummondianus
Texas Primrose – Calylophus berlandeiri (Square-bud Primrose/see above)
Texas Wedelia – Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida
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