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Wildscape
and Xeriscape Plants
Click on a climate type below to look up selected plants
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Phlox
paniculata (white or pink)
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Tropical
Sage - Salvia coccinea (red or pink)
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Shrimp
Plant - Justicia tomentosa (orange red)
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Shrimp
Plant - Justicia brandegeana (fawn color)
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Mexican
Petunia - Ruellia malacosperma (violet)
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Dwarf
'Katy' Petunia -- Ruellia brittoniana (violet)
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Evergreen
Sumac
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Viburnums
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Burford
Holly
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Yaupon
Holly
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Turks
Cap - malvaviscus drummondii (red)
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Rock
Rose - Pavonia lasiopetala (pink)
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Royal
Sage - Salvia regla (red)
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Canyon
Sage - Salvia lycioides (bushy blue)
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Columbine
- (yellow or yellow-red)
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Eupoatorium
havanense (white)
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Beargrass
- Nolina sp.
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Chile
peguin
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Pentas
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Texas
betony - Stachys coccinea
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Firespike
(red)
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Red
Buckeye (red)
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Phlox
(white or pink)
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Spice
Bush (need male and female)
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Penta
(red, white, pink)
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Crinums
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Spider
Lilies - Hymenocallis sp.
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Inland
Sea Oats
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Texas
or Mexican Redbud (pink flowers, partial shade)
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Mexican
Plum (fragrant white flowers, partial shade)
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Mt.
Laurel (fragrant purple flowers, sun or partial shade)
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Mexican
Buckeye (pink flowers, sun or partial shade)
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Rusty
Blackhaw Viburnum (white flowers, sun or partial shade)
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Yellow
Bells (yellow flowers, sun or partial shade)
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Possumhaw
(female has red berries, sun)
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Beautyberry
(purple or white berries, partial shade)
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Firebush (red flowers, sun or semi-shade) |
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Carolina
Buckthorn (sun or partial shade)
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Gayfeather
(purple)
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Mullein
(yellow)
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Sedum sp. |
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Blackfoot
Daisy (white)
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Bird
of Paradise -- Caesalpinea gilliesii (yellow)
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Desert
Willow (pink or purple)
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Monterrey
Sage -- Leucophyllum langmaniae
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Jerusalem
Sage -- Phlomis fruticosa (yellow)
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Salvia
lycioides (violet blue)
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Salvia
ballotaeflora (pale blue)
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Salvia
farinacea (blue or white)
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Hybrid
Oregano -- Oreganum hybridinum
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Rosemary
(upright or trailing -- lavender)
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Cotton
lavender -- Santolina chamaecyparissus
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Tatalencho
-- Gymnosperma glutinosum
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Red
Yucca -- Hesperaloe parviflora (pink)
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Sotol
-- Dasylirion spp.
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Maximilian
Sunflower (yellow)
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Penstemon
havardii (red)
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More Dry Rocky -- Sun
| Goldenrod (yellow) |
Purple Aster (purple) |
Dahlberger Daisy (yellow) |
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Lazy Daisy (white) |
Bride of Barbados -- C. pulcherrima (yellow) | Cenizo (purple) |
| Lavendar -- Lavandula latifolia | Salvia greggii -- (red, pink or blue) | Salvia chamaedryoides (violet blue) |
| Salvia regla (scarlet) | Scutellaria sp. | Germander -- Tercrium sp. |
| Curry Plant -- Helichrysum angustifolium | Wormwood -- Artemisia spp. | Rock Rose -- Pavonia lasiopetala (pink) |
| Beargrass -- Nolina (white) | Zexmenia -- Wedelia hispida (yellow) | Penstemon bacharrifolius (red) |
Asphodel -- Asphodelus fistulosus (white) |
Additional Perennials (P) and Annuals (A) for the Flower Garden
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Mexican
Bush Sage -- Salvia leucantha (lavendar) (P)
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Coneflower
-- (purple/pink or white) (P)
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Mexican
Milkweed -- (red/yellow)
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Blackeyed
Susan 'Goldstrum' -- (yellow) (P)
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Lantana
(P)
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Coreopsis
-- (yellow) (P)
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Butterfly
Bush -- Buddleia davidii (P)
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Mexican
Sunflower (orange) (A)
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Sunflowers
(A)
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Fennel,
Dill, Parsley (host plant for Black Swallowtail larvae)
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Cosmos
(pink, white, orange, yellow) (A)
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Gomphrena
(white, lavender, red, purple) (A)
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Zinnia
(multi-colored (A)
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Petunia (A) |
Pansy
(A)
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Snapdragons
(A)
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Larkspur
(A)
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Standing
Cypress (Biennial)
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Spider
Flower -- Cleome hasslerana (pink, white) (A)
(Spider Flower attracts butterflies, hawkmoths and hummingbirds) |
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(Usually white or yellow flowers, fragrant, opening in the evening which attracts Hawkmoths and Hummingbird Moths)
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Silver
Dalea
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White
Butterfly Bush -- Buddleia asiatica
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White
Salvia farinacea
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Spider
Lilies -- Hymenocallis sp.
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Butterfly
Ginger -- Hedychium coronarium
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Columbine
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Artemisias
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Gray
Santolina
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Silver
Germander
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Trailing
Stemodia
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Crinums
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Missouri
Primrose -- Oenothera sp
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Tuberoses
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Four
O'Clocks
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Moonflower
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Ceniza
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Jerusalem
Sage
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Lamb's
Ear
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Coral
Honeysuckle
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Passionflower
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Virginia
Creeper
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Elderberry
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Trumpet
Creeper
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For
more information |
CALL
CALL |
The
Bexar County Master Gardener Hotline Speak to one of our volunteer Master Gardeners on duty, 210/467-6575, or E-mail at mg-bexar@tamu.edu David Rodriguez - County Horticulture Agent-Bexar County, 210/467-6575, or E-mail dhrodriguez@ag.tamu.edu |
NOTE: Fireflies need rotting wood or moist, rich earth to lay their eggs. Larvae overwinter and then eat slugs, snails, earthworms and softbodied insects.
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