We tend a Texas Wildscape here at our Blanco home. Year around, we love to share our native plant gardens, where a huge diversity of flora and fauna thrive. Just check out my iNaturalist account (@sherylsr), and you’ll see! Currently (as of May 5, 2023), I’m up to 1,278 species documented primarily around our property! That includes 207 vascular plant species, mostly native but also a few pests that we’ve tried to eradicate.
One of my personal goals has expanded to include rescuing, preserving and promoting the native species that already grew on our property and in our neighborhood. That includes transplanting into our back yard, throwing collected seeds and/or germinating seeds. A couple of years ago, I was fortunate to collect seeds from a flowering plant that has since been cleared away to make way for new homes two streets away. I hope to germinate and grow them here. Right now, I’m going on “seed safaris” to collect from plants that grow along street easements. Last year, I was lucky to find seeds from an Illinois bundleflower that grew in a ditch.
All that to say that I decided it’d be helpful and interesting for me to compile two plant lists for our property, which demonstrates how beautiful and wonderful our true natives are. In the case of Blanco County native species, many of those natives, such as our trees, were purchased at plant sales or native plant nurseries.
I plan to keep adding to these lists.
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| Lazy daisies along Greenlawn Parkway |
Key:
E – Existing
P – Purchased
S – Seeds
T – Transplanted
EXISTING NATIVES ON OUR PROPERTY / IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Agarita E
Ashe juniper E
Antelope-horns E
Alamo vine T
Blue-eyed grass E, T
Carolina snailseed E
Eastern redbud E
Elbowbush E
Engelmann daisy E
Fragrant sumac E
Frogfruit E, T
Gray golden-aster E, T
Hill Country rain lily E, T
Indian blanket E
Indian mallow T
Indian paintbrush E
Lazy daisy S
Meadow garlic T
Mexican hat E
Narrowleaf four o’clock E
Old man’s beard E, P
Osage-orange E
Pearl milkweed vine E, T
Pink evening primrose E
Prairie verbena E
Purple milkweed vine E, T
Roadside gaura S
Scarlet pea E, T
Sensitive briar T
Southern dewberry E
Stiff greenthread E
Sugar hackberry E
Texas bush-clover T
Texas dandelion E
Texas lantana E
Texas live oak E
Texas mountain laurel E
Texas snoutbean T
Texas star E
Texas thistle E
Trailing ratany T
Twistleaf yucca E
Velvet bundleflower T
Wild four o’clock E
Wright’s skullcap E, T
Yellow passionflower T
Zizotes E, T
BLANCO COUNTY NATIVES
Birdwing passionflower T
Blue curls S
Carolina buckthorn P
Cedar sage P
Damianita P
Edwards Plateau crestrib morning-glory T, S
Eve’s necklace P (gift)
Evergreen sumac P
Fringed puccoon T
Foxglove penstemon P
Fragrant gaillardia P
Golden dalea P
Maximilian sunflower P
Mealy blue sage P
Mexican plum P
Narrowleaf globemallow T
Plateau goldeneye P
Possumhaw P
Purple leatherflower P
Roughleaf dogwood P
Rusty blackhaw viburnum P
Scarlet clematis P
Snapdragon vine P
Texas kidneywood P
Texas persimmon P
Texas skeleton plant P
Turk’s cap P
Virginia snakeroot T
Wafer ash P
Wedelia T
Western ironweed P
Winecup P, S
Woolly ironweed P
