Wildscape and Xeriscape Plants

Dry Shade

Phlox paniculata
(white or pink)
Tropical Sage –
Salvia coccinea
(red or pink)
Shrimp Plant –
Justicia tomentosa
(orange red)
Shrimp Plant –
Justicia brandegeana
(fawn color)
Mexican Petunia –
Ruellia malacosperma
(violet)
Dwarf ‘Katy’ Petunia —
Ruellia brittoniana
(violet)
Evergreen Sumac
Viburnums
Burford Holly
Yaupon Holly
Turks Cap –
malvaviscus drummondii
(red)
Rock Rose –
Pavonia lasiopetala
(pink)
Royal Sage –
Salvia regla
(red)
Canyon Sage –
Salvia lycioides
(bushy blue)
Columbine –
(yellow or yellow-red)
Eupoatorium
havanense
(white)
Beargrass –
Nolina sp.
Chile peguin
Pentas
Texas betony –
Stachys coccinea

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Moist Shade

Firespike
(red)
Red Buckeye
(red)
Phlox
(white or pink)
Spice Bush
(need male and female)
Penta
(red, white, pink)
Crinums
Spider Lilies –
Hymenocallis sp.
Inland Sea Oats

 

Ornamental Trees and Shrubs

Texas or Mexican Redbud
(pink flowers, partial shade)
Mexican Plum
(fragrant white flowers, partial shade)
Mt. Laurel
(fragrant purple flowers, sun or partial shade)
Mexican Buckeye
(pink flowers, sun or partial shade)
Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum
(white flowers, sun or partial shade)
Yellow Bells
(yellow flowers, sun or partial shade)
Possumhaw
(female has red berries, sun)
Beautyberry
(purple or white berries, partial shade)
Firebush
(red flowers, sun or semi-shade)
Carolina Buckthorn
(sun or partial shade)

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Dry Rocky — Sun

Gayfeather
(purple)
Mullein
(yellow)

Sedum sp.

Blackfoot Daisy
(white)
Bird of Paradise — Caesalpinea gilliesii (yellow)
Desert Willow
(pink or purple)
Monterrey Sage — Leucophyllum langmaniae
Jerusalem Sage — Phlomis fruticosa
(yellow)
Salvia lycioides
(violet blue)
Salvia ballotaeflora
(pale blue)
Salvia farinacea
(blue or white)
Hybrid Oregano — Oreganum hybridinum
Rosemary
(upright or trailing — lavender)
Cotton lavender — Santolina chamaecyparissus
Tatalencho — Gymnosperma glutinosum
Red Yucca — Hesperaloe parviflora
(pink)
Sotol — Dasylirion spp.
Maximilian Sunflower
(yellow)
Penstemon havardii
(red)

More Dry Rocky — Sun

Goldenrod
(yellow)
Purple Aster
(purple)
Dahlberger Daisy
(yellow)
Lazy Daisy
(white)
Bride of Barbados —
C. pulcherrima
(yellow)
Cenizo
purple)
Lavendar —
Lavandula latifolia
Salvia greggii —
(red, pink or blue)
Salvia chamaedryoides
(violet blue)
Salvia regla
(scarlet)
Scutellaria sp. Germander —
Tercrium sp.
Curry Plant —
Helichrysum angustifolium
Wormwood —
Artemisia spp.
Rock Rose —
Pavonia lasiopetala
(pink)
Beargrass — Nolina
(white)
Zexmenia —
Wedelia hispida
(yellow)
Penstemon bacharrifolius
(red)
Asphodel —
Asphodelus fistulosus
(white)

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Additional Perennials (P) and Annuals (A) for the Flower Garden

Mexican Bush Sage —
Salvia leucantha
(lavendar) (P)
Coneflower —
(purple/pink or white) (P)
Mexican Milkweed —
(red/yellow)
Blackeyed Susan ‘Goldstrum’ —
yellow) (P)
Lantana (P)
Coreopsis —
(yellow) (P)
Butterfly Bush —
Buddleia davidii (P)
Mexican Sunflower
(orange) (A)
Sunflowers (A)
Fennel, Dill, Parsley
(host plant for Black Swallowtail larvae)
Cosmos
(pink, white, orange, yellow) (A)
Gomphrena
(white, lavender, red, purple) (A)
Zinnia (multi-colored (A)

Petunia (A)

Pansy (A)
Snapdragons (A)
Larkspur (A)
Standing Cypress (Biennial)
Spider Flower — Cleome hasslerana (pink, white) (A)
(Spider Flower attracts butterflies, hawkmoths and hummingbirds)

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Moonlight Garden

(Usually white or yellow flowers, fragrant, opening in the evening which attracts Hawkmoths and Hummingbird Moths)

Silver Dalea
White Butterfly Bush —
Buddleia asiatica
White Salvia
farinacea
Spider Lilies —
Hymenocallis sp.
Butterfly Ginger —
coronarium
Columbine
Artemisias
Gray Santolina
Silver Germander
Trailing Stemodia
Crinums
Missouri Primrose —
Oenothera sp
Tuberoses
Four O’Clocks
Moonflower
Ceniza
Jerusalem Sage
Lamb’s Ear

 

Vines

Coral Honeysuckle
Passionflower
Virginia Creeper
Elderberry
Trumpet Creeper

 For more information on this topic:

  • The Bexar County Master Gardener Hotline Speak to one of our volunteer Master Gardeners on duty, 210-631-0400 or E-mail at info@bexarmg.org
  • David Rodriguez – County Horticulture Agent-Bexar County, 210-631-0400 or E-mail dhrodriguez@ag.tamu.edu

NOTE: Fireflies need rotting wood or moist, rich earth to lay their eggs. Larvae overwinter and then eat slugs, snails, earthworms and softbodied insects.

 

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