Plants
The Pollinator Cantina has a selection of native plants on display. Come for a visit to see which plants would work well in your garden.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center has a lot of information about native Texas plants.
A list of Rio Grande Valley native plants that provide food for butterflies was compiled by Mike Quinn. Download the list of Rio Grande Valley native plants.
List of plants found in the pollinator garden
- Adelia vaseyi (Vasey's wild lime)
- Frog fruit
- Fiddle wood
- Blue creeping sage
- White plumbago
- Texas Baby bonnet
- Carlowrightia
- Runyon’s water willow
- Snake herb
- Tube tongue
- Texas lantana
- Scorpion’s tail
- Scarlet sage
- Spring mistflower
- Crucita
- White mistflower
- Golden rod
- Low croton
- Bettany leaf mistflower
- Texas kidneywood
- Sweet gaura
- Heart leaf hibiscus
- Turk’s cap
- Trixis inula
- Wolly pyramid bush
- White brush
- Hairy wedelia
- Velvet lantana
- Skeleton leaf
- Prairie milkweed
- Tropical milkweed
- Common sunflower
- Coyotillo
- Texas sage