Mid March 2011 (David Boston)
Asiatic Honey Suckle, this one smells delicious and is very pretty and very
invasive.
Pink evening primrose
Straggler Daisy, Horse Herb
Dew Berry
Texas Winter grass
March 29th, Indian Paint Brush
Prairie Verbena
March 31, 2011 (David Boston)
Redbud: Eastern, Texas and Mexican around March 2nd
Mexican Plum March 5th
Evening Rain Lily March 8th
Drummonds Phlox, 3/8/11 this annual is interesting as the largest seed
sources are from European cultivars sent by Drummond to England from Texas
in 1835.
Wild Onion 3/10/11 2 varieties
Blue Eyed Grass 3/12/11
Bluebonnets 3/18/11
Spiderwort 3/20/11
The most aggressive species in the irrigated area is the Non Native "Rescue Grass" it was first imported from Argentina in the 1800's and widely planted after the severe drought in Texas in the 1950's now it is everywhere.
The following list of wildflowers was compiled by Gale Greenleaf (with a few additions by Lee Clippard).
May 2008 Inventory
Alamo vine
Angel’s trumpet (vine)
Baby blue eyes
Beebalm**
Blackfoot Daisy**
Bluebonnet
Blue-eyed grass
Boneset (mistflower)**
Buttercup
Butterflyweed (Asclepius tuberosa)**
Chickweed
Cornflower*
Damianita
Engleman’s daisy
Frog fruit
Gaillardia/Indian blanket
Greenthread
Gregg’s Mistflower**
Lantana (Texas)**
Larkspur (many colors)*
Later: pentstemon, wild petunia, sneezeweed
Mexican hats (just coming on)
Pennywort (in water)
Peppergrass
Pink evening primrose
Poppies*
Prairie verbena
Purple Coneflower**
Rain lily
Scarlet guara
Sensitive-briar
Silver-leaf nightshade
Small red flower may be an annual phlox*
Spearmint
Spiderwort
Texas dandelion
Texas vervain
Toad-flax
Tropical Milkweed**
Venus’ looking glass
Woolly Ironweed**
Wild onion and garlic (gone by)
Straggler daisy (horseherb)
* new this year
** in butterfly garden
2008 updates
Oxalis
Ruellia/Mexican Petunia
Umbrella Sedge
Sunflowers
Dandelions
Prickly Pear
Portulaca Grandiflora/Moss Rose
Elephant Ears
Banana Tree
Coral Honeysuckle
Japanese Honeysuckle
Horsemint
2000 Inventory
Alamo vine
Aster
Bee balm
Blue phacelia
Blue-eyed grass
Broomweed
Buttercup
Chickweed
Columbine
Dayflower
Dewberry
Dog’s ear
Engleman’s daisy
Fleabane
Frog-fruit
Gentian
Golden wave
Green milkweed
Guara
Hedge parsley
Loosestrife
Meadow flax
Mexican hat
Morning glory
Nightshade
Parralena
Pennywort
Poverty weed
Prairie verbena
Primrose
Purslane
Rock daisy
Roesmer’s spurge
Scarlet pea
Scarlet spiderling
Scurf-pea
Sensitive briar
Spearmint
Speedwell
Spiderwort
Straggler daisy
Sunflower
Tansy mustard
Texas thistle
Toad-flax
Turk’s cap
