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.
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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.
2000 – Jul/Aug
- Vegetational Areas of North Central TX
- Of Passion-flowers & Cultivars
2000 – May/June
- Re-discovering the Cross Timbers
- A Moonlit Garden
2000 – Mar/Apr
- Yuccas, Detergent & Other Things
- Confessions of a Native Plant Lover
- Pretty Poison: Datura sp.
2000 – Jan/Feb
- Texas Native Trees Web-site
- Sumacs of Texas
- Brother Daniel Lynch Garden
1999 – Nov/Dec
- Retrospective: Native Plant Advocacy
- Sustaining Butterflies on the Range
- Alien Alert: Sapium sebiferum
- Phoradendron tomentosum
1999 – Sep/Oct
- Rare Plants of Lower Rio Grande Valley
- Propagating Native Grape Vines
- Mimosa wherryana, Avicennia germinans, Baccharis halimifolia
- Alien Alert: Arundo donax
1999 July/Aug
- Protected Habitat: Rio Grande Delta
- Helietta parvifolia, Amyris madrensis, Passiflora incarnata
- Alien Alert: Cenchrus ciliaris
1999 – May/June
- Plant Conservation: Hibiscus dasycalyx
- Marie Wesby Memorial
- Coreopsis nuecensoides, Drosera brevifolia
- Alien Alert: Salvinia molesta
1999 – Mar/Apr
- Searching for Sabal mexicana
- Taxodium distichum, Arundinaria gigantea
- Thamnosma sp., Sarracenia alata
1999 – Jan/Feb
- Environmental Restoration
- Ephedra antisyphilitica, Erigeron philadelphicus
- Landscape Use of Native Shrubs
- Seeds of Texas Seed Exchange
1998 – Nov/Dec
- Profile: Mary Motz Wills
- Menodora longiflora, Callicarpa americana
- Botanical Nomenclature
- Barton Warnock Memorial
- One Way Streets
- By the Light of the Moon
1998 – Sep/Oct
- Myths of Landscaping
- Letters in response: Hesperaloe parviflora
- Research: Oak Wilt & Wound Painting
- Taxodium mucronatum, Helianthus annuus
1998 – July/Aug
- Hesperaloe parviflora, Ziziphus obtusifolia, Gaillardia pulchella
- Oak Wilt & Wound Painting
- Research: Native Grapes at Texas Tech
- Palo Duro Canyon
1998 – May/June
- Teaching Tools for Local Chapters
- Landscaping & Color Theory
- Native Plants In Your Landscape
- Evaluation of Native TX Wildflowers
- The Llano Landscape
- Opuntia leptocaulis, Rhamnus caroliniana, Baptisia sphaerocarpa
1998 – Mar/Apr
- Development Sprawl
- Atriplex canescens, Verbesina virginica, Chilopsis linearis
- Native Plants for State Buildings
- Native Flowering Trees
- Research at Texas Tech U.
- Coreopsis tinctoria
1998 – Jan/Feb
- Living On a Gold Mine…
- Mulch w/ Leaves
- Landscaping w/ Natives
- Prosopis glandulosa, Nothoscordum bivalve
1997 – Nov/Dec
- Profile: Carroll Abbott
- Living On Earth
- Flora of Texas Project
1997 – Sep/Oct
- Lynn Lowrey Memorial
- What’s In a Successful Nursery?
- How Do You Measure Success?
- Euphorbia bicolor
1997 – Jul/Aug
- Yucca torreyi, Ipomoea trichocarpa
- Landscaping w/ Natives
- Water-wise Landscaping
- Group Activities: Spread the Word
- Ecological Restoration
- Greenbelts Along TX Highways?
1997 – May/June
- Brush Up on the Brush Country
- Texas In Bloom!
- Environmental Partnering
- The Hunt for Chisos Red Oak
- Lycium berlandieri, Ipomopsis rubra