Plant Lists
The Austin and Williamson County chapters of NPSOT are creating a reference
of plant lists and databases for areas
in and around central Texas, and also expanding the reference to areas
throughout Texas.
By creating a reference for
area plant lists, we can help native plant education,
advocacy, and conservation efforts. We can also make offline
lists
more widely available by posting them online with the author's
permission.
If you have a plant list you would like to submit, or know of
existing plant lists that would be candidates to add to this
page, please email the chapter
webmaster. We
recommend plant lists include common name, genus, species, and
native/non-native status of the species.
Thanks! [Version 3.5, last updated Tue Feb 27 12:00:14 CST 2007]
Updates
- 2007-02-29 (v3.5): Updated Indiangrass Preserve Plant List from Scott Lenharth
- 2007-01-17 (v3.4): Added Oak Springs Plant List
- 2006-12-14 (v3.3): Updated Indiangrass Preserve Plant List from Scott Lenharth
- 2006-11-19 (v3.2): Added Waller Creek Plant List
- 2006-06-30 (v3.1): Updated Purola Plant List from Bob Harms
- 2006-06-24 (v3.0): Added Barton Creek Habitat Preserve NPSOT List
- 2006-06-22 (v2.9): Added Tridens Prairie Plant List
Table of Contents
- Plant Lists for Central Texas Locations
- Plant Lists for Specific Purposes
- Plant Lists for Other Areas of Texas
- Plant Lists for Larger Areas and Statewide Lists
- Other References
Plant Lists for Central Texas Locations
- Travis
County Flora
- Credits: Bill Carr (The Nature Conservancy)
- See the Travis
County Flora page for more information.
- Waller Creek Plant List (Word Version)
- Credits: Bob and Sirpa Harms, Steve Schwartzman, Michael Weiss, and Jessica Wilson
- For areas near Franklin Blvd and Koening Lane
- Oak Springs Plant List (Excel Version)
- Credits: Matt Turner, Bob and Sirpa Harms, and Jason Spangler
- For Oak Springs Park (undeveloped and recently purchased by the City of Austin) near the intersection of Oak Springs and Airport Blvd.
- Plants of
Brodie Wild
- See the Brodie Wild
page for more information.
- Indiangrass Preserve Plant List (Excel version)
- Credits: Scott Lenharth based on the Purola Plant List by Dr. Robert and Sirpa Harms
- See the Indiangrass Preserve page for more information.
- Purola Plant List
- Credits: Dr. Robert and Sirpa Harms
- Purola is Bob and Sirpa's 50 acre private property near Dripping Springs in the Edwards Plateau
- Native Wildflowers of Lake Georgetown
- Credits: Carey D. Weber, Fort Worth District, US Army Corps Of Engineers
- Granger Lake Plant List
- Credits: Carey D. Weber, Fort Worth District, US Army Corps Of Engineers
- NPAT Prairie Plant Lists
- Includes Tanglewood Prairie (Lee Co.), Simpson Prairie, (McLennan Co.), Riesel Prairie, Lehmann Prairie, Nelson L. Wieting Prairie, Drews Prairie (Falls Co.)
- Credits (varies per list): NPAT
members, Bill Carr (The Nature
Conservancy)
- Fort
Hood Plant Species List 2005-10
- Credits: L.L. Sanchez, Department of the Army, DPW, Environmental Division, Natural Resources Management Branch, Fort Hood, TX
- Plants
of Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge 2005-06
- See the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge and Friends pages for more information.
- Thanks to Chuck Sexton
- Bright Leaf Nature Preserve Plant List 1995-11 and 2003-12
- Credits: Bill Carr (The Nature Conservancy), 2003 additions by R. Barker, N. Woolley, and others.
- For more information, see the Friends of Bright Leaf, Austin Community Foundation, and Bright Leaf SNA pages.
- Shield Ranch Plant List 2005-11
- Credits: Bill Carr (The Nature
Conservancy), Terri
Siegenthaler (Shield Ranch), Bob
and Sirpa
Harms (NPSOT Austin),
and Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower
Center
staff.
- Shield Ranch is a private working ranch with conservation
easements held by the Nature Conservancy and the City of Austin.
- Barton Creek Habitat Preserve
- An Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Barton Creek Habitat Preserve Part 1 and Part 2 by Bill Carr (Updated 1997/12)
- Barton Creek Habitat Preserve Flora by NPSOT Austin (updated 2000/3/19)
- See The Nature Conservancy's Barton
Creek Habitat Preserve page for more information about the preserve.
- Vascular Plants of Love Creek Preserve
- See The Nature Conservancy's Love
Creek Preserve page for more information about the preserve.
- Plants of Balcones Canyonlands Preserve
- See the Travis
County Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan and Species
pages for more information.
- Rare Plant Survey and General Plant Inventory of Various Travis County Parks
- Includes: Arkansas
Bend, Bob
Wentz, Cypress
Creek, Dink
Pearson, Fritz
Hughes, Hamilton
Pool, Hippie
Hollow, Mansfield
Dam, Mary
Quinlan, Pace Bend,
Sandy
Creek, Selma
Hughes, Tom Hughes,
Wild
Basin Wilderness Preserve, and Windmill
Run
- Lady Bird Johnson
Wildflower Center Species List
- See the Wildflower Center
page for more information about the center.
- Image Archive of Central Texas Plants
- A list and image archive of many Central Texas native plants
used for the BIO
406D
(Native Plants of Central Texas) course given at the University of Texas at Austin.
- St. Edwards Park
- Brackenridge Field Laboratory
- Lists used for the BIO
406D (Native
Plants of Central Texas) course given at the University
of Texas at Austin.
- Flora
of Brackenridge Field Laboratory
- See the Brackenridge
Field Laboratory page for more information about the laboratory.
- Flora of Stengl “Lost Pines” Biology Station
- See the Stengl
“Lost Pines” Biology Station page for more information about the
station.
Plant Lists for Specific Purposes
- Native Host Plants For Central Texas Butterflies
- Credits: Coby Dinges (Native Texas Butterfly Gardens) and Travis Audubon.
- Extraordinary Native Nectar Plants For Central Texas Butterflies
- Credits: Coby Dinges (Native Texas Butterfly Gardens) and Travis Audubon.
- Host Plants with Families Defined for Central Texas Butterflies
- Credits: ?
- City of Austin Grow Green Native and Adapted Landscape Plants
- Also available in downloadable/printable
form.
- See the Grow
Green pages for more information.
- Native Landscape Plants for the Navasota Valley
- From the Navasota Flora
page covering Milam, Roberston, Leon, Burleson, Brazos, Madison,
Washington, and Grimes Counties.
- Caterpillar Food Plants for the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas
- See the NABA-South Texas Butterfly Club page for more information.
- Suggested Plants for the Greater Houston Area
- Credits: Houston chapter of NPSOT
- Includes lists of shubs, trees, and drought-tolerant native plants, groundcovers, native plants to attrach hummingbirds, butterflies, and birds, groundcovers, and native plants forerosion control
- TPWD Annotated County Lists of Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species
- Lists of rare, threatened, and endangered wildlife and plants by county
Plant Lists for Other Areas of Texas
- NPAT Prairie Plant Lists
- Includes Peters Prairie (Collin Co.), Maddin Prairie Preserve (Mitchell Co.)
- Credits: NPAT
members
- Cross Mountain Park Plant List
- Credits: Fredericksburg NPSOT chapter
- Old Tunnel Wildlife Management Area
- Credits: Jason Singhurst (TPWD), Fredericksburg NPSOT chapter
- Plants of Clymer Meadow
- See The Nature Conservancy's Clymer
Meadow Preserve page for more information about the preserve.
- Tridens Prairie Plant List
- Credits: Dr. Dave Montgomery (Paris Junior College), Jim Eidson, Bill Carr (The Nature Conservancy), and others
- Tridens Prairie is a Silveanus Dropseed-Mead Sedge prairie in Lamar County near Paris, TX in the Blackland Prairie region of Texas, owned by the Nature Conservancy.
- Denton Area Plant List
- Credits: NPSOT
Trinity Forks (Denton) chapter
- Davis
Mountains Plant List
- Credits: Bill Carr (The Nature Conservancy)
- See The Nature Conservancy's Davis
Mountains Preserve page for more information.
- Roy
E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary Plant List
- See The Nature Conservancy's Roy
E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary page for more information.
- Chihuahua Woods Preserve Plant List
- See The Nature Conservancy's Chihuahua
Woods Preserve page for more information.
Plant Lists for Larger Areas and Statewide Lists
- Shinners and Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas
- A fully illustrated guide to a large portion of the diverse
plant life of Texas which covers all the native and naturalized
vascular
plants known to occur in North Central Texas, an area about the size of
Kentucky. This area includes most of Williamson County and small
parts of Travis County.
- Illustrated Flora of East Texas
- A completely illustrated taxonomic treatment of the
nearly
3,402 species of vascular plants occurring in the East Texas region.
This area includes half of Williamson County and Travis
County.
- Benny
Simpson's Native Texas Trees
- Benny Simpson's Native Texas Shrubs
- Native plant databases based on Benny Simpson's image library.
- Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network
- The NPIN contains native plant information for Texas and beyond.
- Flora of Texas Database
- A project of the The
Plant Resources Center of the University of Texas at Austin, which
includes the University of Texas (TEX) and Lundell (LL) Herbaria, the
objective of which is to capture information from data labels for every
Texas specimen of vascular plant in the TEX and LL collections.
The database of herbarium specimen data is searchable by many criteria,
including county.
- USDA NRCS PLANTS Database
- The PLANTS Database contains state level data for
Texas.
- Center for Plant Conservation National Collection of Endangered Plants
- Search for he country's most imperiled native plants by
scientific name, common name, plant family, state range, or CPC
participating institution.
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Texas Plant Information Database
- TPID contains extensive information about native plants that
have value for landscape restoration, especially erosion control and
wildlife use.
- Digital Flora of Texas Vascular Plant Image Library
- An image gallery of the vascular Texas plants.
- Texas Plant Tracking and Watch List
- See The Nature Conservancy's Texas
Conservation Data Center page for more information.
- An Annotated List of the G3/T3 and Rarer Plant Taxa of Texas
- See The Nature Conservancy's Texas Conservation Data Center page for more information.