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Trees – Wetter Areas

Ash (Green)
Black Gum
Cypress (Bald)*
Cypress (Pond)*
Elm (American)
Elm (Cedar)
Elm (Winged)
Hackberry* (Celtis laevigata)
Leatherwood
Maple (Red)*
Mayhaw Hawthorn*
Parsley Hawthorn*
Possumhaw Holly*
Roughleaf Dogwood
Swamp Chestnut Oak*
Sweet Bay Magnolia* (2 species)
Sweet Gum*
Sycamore (American)*
Water Hickory
Water Locust
Water Tupelo
Water Oak*
Willow Oak

Shrubs

American Beautyberry*
American Elderberry
Arrowood Virburnum
Barbados Cherry
Chokeberry
Common Buttonbush*
Coralbean
Coralberry
Hibiscus, Texas Star
Indigobush  Amorpha
Joe Pye Weed
Possumhaw Holly
Possumhaw Virburnum
Virginia Sweetspire
Rusty Blackhaw Virburnum*
Southern Wax-Myrtle*
Spicebush
Strawberry Bush
Swamp Pivet
Sweet Pepper Bush
Texas Palmetto (dwarf)*
Turk’s Cap
Walter's Viburnum
Witch Hazel
Yaupon Holly*

Vines

Alabama Supple Jack*
Blackberry*
Cat Greenbriar*
Coral Honeysuckle
Cross Vine
Greenbriar*
Muscadine Grape*
Passionflower Vine*
Peppervine*
Snapdragon Vine

Aquatic Plants

Arrowhead (multiple species)
Duckweed
Lizards Tail
Pickerel
Thalia

Grasses, Sedges, Rushes

Blue Grama
Broomsedge
Brownseed Paspalum
Bushy Bluestem
Buffalograss
Bulrush (multiple species)
Eastern Gamma
Florida Paspalum
Gulf Muhly
Indiangrass
Inland Sea Oats
Little Bluestem
Maidencane
Splitbeard Bluestem
Switchgrass
Plains Bristlegrass
Prairie Wildrye
Purple top
Sedges (multiple species)
Sideoats Gramma
Sugarcane Plumegrass
Texas Cupgrass
Texas Wintergrass

 

* currently in one or more Pine Brook parks

 

Trees - Less Wet

Black Cherry
Black Walnut
Burr Oak*
Carolina Buckthorn*
Cherry Laurel
Chickasaw Plum*
Chinquapin Oak
Compton Oak*
Crabapple (Texas)
Crabapple (Wild)
Eastern Red Cedar
Farkleberry
Fringe Tree
Hornbeam
Laurel Oak
Mexican Plum*
Nuttal Oak
Overcup Oak
Paw Paw (Common)
Pecan (Carya Illinoienis)
Persimmon (Black)
Persimmon (Common)*
Persimmon (Texas)
Red Bay
Red Bud (Eastern)*
Red Bud (Texas)*
Red Mulberry*
River Birch*
Sassafras
Senna
Shagbark Hickory
Sumac
White Oak* 

Wild Flowers – Wetter Areas

Canna
Crinum (Americana)
Louisiana Iris
Blue Waterleaf
Maximilian Sunflower
Obedient Plant
Saltmarsh White Mallow
Spider Lily
Swamp Rose Mallow
Tall Aster

Wild Flowers – Prairie/ Fringe Areas

Antelope Horn
Asclepias
Aster
Black-Eyed Susan
Blue Curls
Blue Eyed Grass
Blue Mistflower
Butterfly Pea
Cardinal Flower
Clammy Weed
Coneflower (Bog)
Coneflower (Clasping)
Coneflower (Giant)
Coneflower (Prairie)
Coneflower (Purple)
Cutleaf Daisy
Drummond Phlox
Frogfruit
Frostweed
Gaura (Butterfly)
Gaura (Limestone)
Gayfeather (Blazing Star)
Goldenrod (Giant)
Goldenrod (Prairie)
Greenthread
Gulf Coast Penstemon
Illinois Bundleflower
Indian Blanket
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Lantana (Texas)
Lemon Mint
Lupine
Mealy Blue Sage
Mexican Hat
Milkweed (Green)
Milkweed (Mexican)
Milkweed (Whorled)
Pigeonberry
Pincushion Daisy
Prairie Larkspur
Prairie Parsley
Prairie Verbena
Purple Nightshade
Purple Prairie Clover
Rain Lily
Rattlesnake Master
Round Headed Clover
Sage (Mealy Blue)
Sage (Pitcher)
Sage (Scarlet)
Scarlet Muskflower
Scrambled Eggs
Senna (Two-Leaved)
Senna (Velvetleaf)
Snailseed
Spiderwort
Spotted Bee Balm
Standing Cypress
Standing Winecup
Turks Cap
Violet (Lanceleaf)
Violet (Walter's)*
Western Ironweed
White Milkwort
Widow's Tears
Wild Blue Hyacinth
Wild Bergamo

 

 


Additional Information on Texas Trees & Plants:
Texas Plant Information Database

Native Trees of Texas

Gardening with Natives and Wildlife Habitat

 

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