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.
1993 – Nov/Dec
- Creating a Border…Texas Style
- Site Protection During Construction
1993 – Sep/Oct
- Bear Grass & the Yucca Moth
- Southline Equipment Company’s Native Garden
1993 – Jul/Aug
- Micropropagation of Native Plants
- Arbutus xalapensis (Texas Madrone)
- The Healing Power of Nature
1993 – May/June
- The Rolling Plains in Flower
- Coastal Region’s Plant Lists
- Palo Duro Floral Loop
1993 – Mar/Apr
- The Role of the Botanical Garden
- Landscaping for the Highway
1993 – Jan/Feb
- Annual Meeting News
- Texas Bamboo
1992 – Nov/Dec
- Planning an Environmentally Appropriate Landscape
- Celestial Symbols in Botanical Books
- Tips: Fall Landscape Maintenance
- Webworms & Wasps
1992 – Sep/Oct
- Leave It to Sumac for State’s Fall Color
- Successful Seed Collecting Tips for Natives
- Viewpoint: Biodiversity & Endangered Species Act
1992 – July/Aug
- What’s In a Name: Plant Taxonomy
- Caution: Oak Wilt Micro Injections
- Wildflowers In Your Landscape
1992 – May/June
- A Tale of Two Cypresses: Bald & Montezuma Cypress
- Long Term Rest Does Not Help Plant Diversity
- Nematodes
- Propagation Notes: Bald Cypress/Mesquite
1992 – Mar/Apr
- Spring Wildflowers
- Earthworms
- Propagation Notes: Dwarf Palmetto/Mexican Palm
1992 – Jan/Feb
- Amy Shelton McNutt Memorial
- Toward a Healthy Soil
- Propagation Notes: Pecan Tree/Wax Myrtle
1991 – Nov/Dec
- On the Trail of the Silky Camellia
- “Fallout” Habitat for Neotropical Migratory Birds
- Aquatic Plants: Helpful Hints
- Propagation Notes: Native Grasses
1991 – Sep/Oct
- Prairie Management: Key to Survival
- Hummingbird Habitat
- Buffalo Grass & Blue Grama: Lawn Alternatives
- Propagation Notes: Quercus macrocarpa
1991 – Jul/Aug
- Wounds, Pruning & Oak Wilt Control
- Native Plants to Assist in Eradication of Hemp Broomrape
- Mounting Plant Specimens
- Propagation Notes: Common Persimmon/Mexican Persimmon
1991 – May/June
- Mulching
- The Strawberry Bush, A Native of Merit
- Lupinus sp.: History of State Flower Designation
- Propagation Notes: Podophyllum peltatum
1991 – Mar/Apr
- Tenth Anniversary
- Wildflowers on the Cotton Belt Railroad
- Collecting Botanical Specimens
- Propagation Notes: Witch Hazel/Purple Coneflower
1991 – Jan/Feb
- Mix It Up When Landscaping!
- Ecology, Horticulture, & Native Plant Landscaping
- Propagation Notes: Tagetes sp.
1990 – Nov/Dec
- Qué Es Mas Macho?
- Wild Collecting Endangered Natives
- Propagation Notes: Eustoma grandiflorum
- Endangered Species & Austin, Texas
1990 – Sep/Oct
- Guayule–Texas Rubber Plant
- Save a Wild Texas Native