Latest Issues
Winter 2024 Member Magazine
From Pines to Petals: Exploring the Pineywoods | 2023 Society Award Recipients | No-Freeze Trees | Water-Wise Strategies | Conservation Champions | Power Plants for Pollinators | Using the Invasive Plant Database | Coming Soon: More Native Milkweed! | Native Gardens are For the Birds | Native Plants Thriving in Town Hall | Promoting Native Milkweeds | Engaging the Next Generation | Native Plant Student Art Showcased | If You Know What to Look For
Fall 2023 Member Magazine
Texas really IS like a whole ‘nother country. Its sheer size, variety of terrain, and biological diversity is staggering. The great Lone Star state contains barrier islands and coastal lowlands, large river floodplain forests, rolling plains and plateaus, forested hills, deserts, and a wide variety of aquatic habitats.
Summer 2023 Member Magazine
Our mission is to promote the conservation, research, and utilization of the native plants and plant habitats of Texas through education, outreach, and example.
Distribution
- Texas Native Plants is published quarterly and the digital version is distributed free to all Society members in current standing.
- The digital version is also available in our library below.
- Print versions are mailed at no cost to Society members in current standing who select to receive a print copy when they join/renew.
- Libraries, educational institutions and other organizations may qualify to receive the publication for a $5 annual fee.
- Contact the membership coordinator.
- Many of our chapters publish their own newsletters and websites.
- These have their own deadlines and guidelines. See list of chapters.
History
Since its founding the Society has provided a news periodical to its members. there have been a variety of names and formats. The Texas Wildfower Newsletter edited by Carroll Abbott served as the first newsletter. He advocated the formation of the Native Plant Society of Texas in his quarterly publication Texas Wildflower Newsletter. After the Society was created in 1980, a free subscription to Abbott’s newsletter was provided as a benefit to all members. His declining health eventually prompted Abbott to request that the Society start its own newsletter. Lean more about the Carroll Abbott story.
Beginning in 1983 our own official publication has documented the evolution of the native plant movement and the Native Plant Society of Texas. The publication has had several slightly different names and formats over the years. By 2005 it had evolved into a full-color glossy magazine.
Editorial Submissions
The Native Plant Society of Texas encourages submission of articles, photos, pertinent news or other interesting information for publication.
- Submit articles or written items as email attachments.
- Send photos as email attachments in JPG, RAW or TIFF format.
- Larger file size and best quality are preferable.
- Contact the Editor for more information.
We reserve the right to edit all submissions for accuracy, relevance, length, grammar or for other reason. In matters of style our print publication generally follows the Chicago Manual of Style.
Unless prior arrangements with the editor are made, submissions may also appear on our website and linked on our social media pages. We do not accept outside advertising in any of our publications.
Publications Library
Click below to view issues by year/editor. Or visit our online archive.
2003 – Nov/Dec
- Bitterweed
- Planting palm trees
2003 – Sept/Oct
- Passiflora incarnata
- Styrax texana
2003 – Jul/Aug
- Damiana, Sex and the Frittillary
- Buffalo grass lawns
2003 – May/June
- Sabal mexicana
- Wildflower watch: prickly poppy
2003 – Mar/Apr
- Silverbells and snowbells
- Book Review: Texas Rivers
2003 – Jan/Feb
- Spiderwort
- Winecups
- 2002 Symposium review
2002 – Nov/Dec
- Zizania texana, Tillandsia usneoides
- Seeking Ground Truth
- Defending Your Landscape: Weed Laws
2002 – Sep/Oct
- Conservation Easement: Gunsight Mountain Ranch
- Salvia azurea var. grandiflora
- Going Native In Parched Terrain
- Invasive Alien Plants
- Will We Let Guilt/Fashion Kill Biodiversity?
2002 – Jul/Aug
- Nympheae odorata
- Palm Trees, Saguaros & Hula Girls
- Pairing Native Soil w/ Native Plants
- Tallow Tree Effects On Migrating Birds
2002 – May/June
- Damiana, Sex & the Fritillary
- Monarda fistulosa
- Alien Watch: Sapium sebiferum
- How Do You Handle a Tough Invasive?
2002 – Mar/Apr
- Iris sp. & Family, Cocculus diversifolius
- Invasion of the Land Snatchers
- Wild Child: Kids & Plants
- Bambi? Or Biodiversity?
2002 – Jan/Feb
- Discovery: Two Liatris sp.
- Viola sp. & Family, Opuntia engelmannii
- Seeds
- Wild Child: Kids & Plants
2001 – Nov/Dec
- 2001 Symposium
- Hilaria belangeri, Cocculus carolinus
- Rare Plants
- Wild Child: Kids & Plants
- Cranberry Bitters On a Thorny Shrub
2001 – Sep/Oct
- Lobelia cardinalis, Quercus virginiana
- Dormancy
- Don’t Give Up On Oaks!
2001 – Jul/Aug
- Eupatorium rugosum
- Landscape Maintenance Tips
2001 – May/June
- Alophia drummondii, Sambucus canadensis
- Snakes In Our Midst
- Mother Nature/Restoration Partner
2001 – Mar/Apr
- An Outside Curriculum
- Oh Deer
- Chile pequin
2001 – Jan/Feb
- Landscape Restoration
- Plants You Can “Bank” On
- Dr. Geoffrey Stanford Memorial
- Spring Field Trip: East Texas
- Gelsemium sempervirens
2000 – Nov/Dec
- Perspective: Drought & Native Plant Communities
- Treasure of the Blackland Prairie
- Lawn Invaders
- Tribe Focus: Cacteae echinocactinae
2000 – Sep/Oct
- Of Brasil, Berries & Birds
- Juniperus ashei, Marsilea macropoda
- Collecting Native Seeds
- A Texas Native By Any Other Name