Landscaping with native plants is becoming increasingly important as more people are looking for sustainability as well as low maintenance, wildlife friendly plants. The native flora is well adapted to the climate and soil and provides food and nesting sites for the local wildlife.
Native plants live for many generations without the need for additional water, fertilizer, or soil amendment. Many are showy, providing a natural and fun look to your backyard landscape.
Gardening with Southern native plants
Whether you’re adding native plants to cultivated perennials, shrubs, and trees, planting a wildlife garden or pollinator garden, or even a wildflower meadow, here are the southern gardens in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and the best of the best for native plants. and Mississippi.
Oklahoma native plants
- Amsonia hubrichti – Arkansas Blue Star
- Aquilegia canadensis – Eastern Columbine
- Asclepias tuberosa – butterfly weed
- Baptisia australis – false blue indigo
- Baptisia sphaerocarpa – yellow wild indigo
- Callirhoe involucrate – purple poppy flower
- Camassia scilloides – wild hyacinth
- Coreopsis palmata – Coreopsis meadow
- Echinacea pallida – yellow carnation
- Echinacea paradoxa – yellow carnation
- Echinacea purpurea – purple carnation
- Eryngium yuccifolium – lord of the rattlesnake
- Euphorbia satophora – fire on the mountain
- Eutrochium purpureum (syn. Eupatorium purpureum) – sweet barley grass
- Gaillardia pulchilla – Indian blanket
- Helianthus maximiliani – Maximilian sunflower
- Liatris pycnostachya – meadow burnt
- Rudbeckia subtomentosa – Sweet black-eyed Susan
- Salvia azurea – blue sage
- Spigelia marylandica – Indian rose
- Symphyotrichum novae-angliae – New England Easter Bunny
- Tradescantia bracteata – prairie spiderwort
Texas Native Plants
- Acacia Schaffnerie – Twisted acacia
- Agave Americana – century plant
- Andropogon Girardi var. Girardi – Big Blue Blue
- Cephalanthus occidentalis – common button shrub
- Chamaecrista fasciculata – pheasant pea
- Conoclinium spp. Fog flower
- Cordia boisery – Mexican olive
- Gaillardia pulchilla – Indian blanket
- Helianthus annuus – common sunflower
- Hibiscus Hibiscus – Hibiscus leaf heart
- Alex Vomit – Yaupon
- Lantana urticoides – Texas Lantana
- Lesquerella spp. Bladder horns
- Column ratipeda – Mexican cap
- Rudbeckia hirta – Brown-eyed Susan
- Roelia nodiflora – wild petunia
- Schizachyrium scoparium – small blue
- Sphaeralcea lindheimeri – Woolly globe malo
- Verbecina microptera – frost weed
- Yucca tricoliana – Spanish dagger
- Zanthoxylum fagara – lime prickly ash
Arkansas Native Plants
- Aesculus glabra – Ohio Buckeye
- Amorpha canisense – lead plant
- Andropogon gerardii – large blue color
- Asclepias tuberosa – butterfly weed
- Peinonia capriolata – Crossvine
- Callicarpa americana – American Beautyberry
- Castilleja coccinea – Indian paintbrush
- Cyanothus americanus – New Jersey tea
- Clematis Pitcheri – purple leathery flowers
- Coreopsis grandiflora – common core
- Cornus drummondii – jagged dogwood
- Echinacea pallida – pale purple carnation
- Echinacea paradoxa – yellow carnation
- Echinacea purpurea – purple carnation
- Eutrochium Fistula – Joe By Herbs
- Gaillardia pulchilla – Indian blanket
- Alex Sakiduwa – Posumhao
- Liatris punctata – bright dotted star
- Lonicera sempervirens – coral honeysuckle
- Passiflora incarnata – passion vine
- Penestemon grandiflorus – Penestemon large
- Ratibida pinnata – Grayhead coneflower
- Sambucus nigra ssp. candensis – common elderberry
- Viburnum rufidulum – Rusty Black Howe
Louisiana Native Plants
- Andropogon gerardii – large blue color
- Muhlenbergia capillaries – Gulf Coast Muhly Grass
- Panicum vergatum – Switchgrass
- Schizacherium – Little Bluestem
- Amsonia Tabernamontana – Eastern Bluestar
- Asclepias tuberosa – butterfly weed
- Baptisia sphaerocarpa – wild yellow indigo
- Chamaecrista fasciculata – pheasant pea
- Echinacea purpurea – purple carnation
- Eryngium yuccifolium – master rattlesnake
- Hibiscus Hibiscus – scarlet rosmello
- Liatris pycnostachya – Kansas Blazing Star
- Oligoneuron nitidum – bright golden
- Physiostegia Mediator – Head of a slender, lying dragon
- Rudbeckia grandiflora – Rough coniferous plant
- Salvia azurea – blue sage
- Symphyotichum lateriflorum – calico aster
Mississippi Native Plants
- Aeschylus Pavia – Red Buckeye
- Amsonia tabernamontana – eastern blue star
- Aquilegia canadensis – oriental red columbine
- Asclepias tuberosa – butterfly weed
- Acemina triloba – pawpa
- Peinonia capriolata – Crossvine
- Callicarpa americana – American beauty
- Calycanthus floridus – Caroline allspice
- Catalpa bignonioides – Southern Catalpa
- Coreopsis lanceolata – Lanceleaf coreopsis
- Dracopis amplexicaulis – tangle of conifers
- Echinacea pallida – yellow carnation
- Echinacea purpurea – purple carnation
- Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus – Joe by Weed
- Gaillardia pulchilla – Indian blanket
- Gelsemium sempervirens – Carolina Jessamine
- Glandularia canadensis – botanical rose
- Hibiscus Hibiscus – Texas star hibiscus
- Iris brevicaulis – zigzag iris
- Kosteletzkya virginica – Mellow seaside
- Liatris elegans – bright star
- Lindara Benzoin – Spicebush
- Lobelia cardinalis – cardinal flower
- Lonicera sempervirens – Trumpet honeysuckle
- Penstemon digitalis – smooth white-bearded tongue
- Phlox divaricata – Blue Woodland Phlox
- Polystechum acrostichides – Christmas fern
- Column ratipeda – Mexican cap
- Stokesia laevis – Stokes aster