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.
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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.
1997 – Mar/Apr
- Benny Simpson Memorial
- More Geologic Comments
- Natural Predator Control
- Sassafras albidum, Oenothera speciosa
- Ornamental Native Grasses
1997 – Jan/Feb
- Legumes of Rio Grande Plains
- Kidscapes at Houston Zoo
- Smilax smallii, Taraxacum officinale
- Ornamental Native Grasses
- How Plant Distribution Relates to Geology
- Conservation: Hibiscus dasycalyx
1996 – Nov/Dec
- Early Naturalists – Part II
- Creating Your Own Wildlife Habitat
- Thelesperma megapotamicum
- Focus: SFA Arboretum
- Spiranthes cernua
1996 – Sep/Oct
- The Chihuahuan Desert, Right?
- Demo Gardens on Property Controlled by Others
- Is Your Chapter Wilting?
- Community Partnerships for Native Plants
- Early Naturalists
- Centaurea americana
- Solidago canadensis var. scabra
1996 – July/Aug
- Native Plants of El Paso
- John Riddell, Naturalist
- Gilia rigidula
- Outdoor Classrooms
- Focus: Center for Plant Conservation
- A Desert Oasis
- Eustoma grandiflorum
1996 – May/June
- Viva El Paso!
- Ugly Shrubs Get No Respect
- Mary Jo Laughlin Memorial
- Amorpha fruticosa
- Container Production of Native Trees for Urban/Suburban Landscapes
- Growing Wild: State Pilot Program
- Phlox drummondii
1996 – Mar/Apr
- Strangers In a Strange Land
- Marsh Restoration In Galveston Bay
- Dalea formosa
- Native Plant Research at Baylor U.
- Role of Botanical Garden in Plant Conservation
- Callirhoe scabriuscula
1996 – Jan/Feb
- A Garden of Inspiration
- Forsellia: Herald of the Spring
- Beginnings of the Society
- Leucaena retusa
- Solutions to Wetland Mitigation/Preservation
- Native Plant Research at Universities
- Wildscape Demo Garden
1995 – Nov/Dec
- Native Plants for Suburbia
- Seedlings: A Tall Grass Meadow
1995 – Sep/Oct
- Waco – City w/ a Soul
- The Lynn Lowry Legacy
- Helianthus maximiliani, Manihot walkerae
1995 – Jul/Aug
- Growing Natives: New Plants, New Problems
- Imported Fire Ant Control
- NPSOT, City of Austin Median Beautification
1995 – May/June
- TxDOT Mowing Guidlelines
- The Buttonbush
1995 – Mar/Apr
- American Fringe Tree
- Mother Neff State Park
- Native Plums
1995 – Jan/Feb
- Native Ornamental Grasses
- Ground Rules for Building on Natural Land
- Gulf prairies & Marshes
- Hymenoxys scaposa
1994 – Nov/Dec
- Wildflowers of the Panhandle
- Native Flowering Herbs
- “Lost” Maples of the Hill Country
1994 – Sep/Oct
- Ferns are Naturally Different
- Reflections on Backyard Diversity
- Lobelia cardinalis
1994 – July/Aug
- Carroll Abbott Memorial
- Creating a Wildlife Habitat
- Anisacanthus wrightii
1994 – May/June
- Sedges for the Landscape
- Destination Corpus Christi
- Cyrilla racemiflora
1994 – Mar/Apr
- Spring West of the Pecos
- View From the Nursery: Interview w/ Terry Tate
1994 – Jan/Feb
- Lesson From My Garden – Jill Nokes
- Friedrich Wilderness Park