Native plants · Texas

Native plants of Coke County

36 plant species are recorded as native to Texas in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Coke County by USDA PLANTS. 10 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Coke County, Texas

PLANTS records only 10 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Texas list is a useful second check.

Native species: 36 Typical Texas county: 145 (median of 254 counties)
Garden-ready natives: 10 Typical Texas county: 61
Share by type (all 36 native species): Percent of the 36 native species in each growth type

Tree 8% (3)
Shrub 6% (2)
Wildflower (forb) 69% (25)
Grass or grass-like 6% (2)
Vine 6% (2)
Fern 6% (2)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (69%), followed by trees (8%).

Recorded native ranges can include long-established populations that spread from gardens; check your state’s native plant society list for local guidance. How native status is decided.

ZIP codes mainly in this county fall in USDA hardiness zone 8a (2023 map).

The native plant list

Garden-ready natives 10

Native species with PLANTS growing records (height, light, moisture, minimum temperature). “—” means PLANTS has no value.

Garden-ready native plants of Coke County, Texas
Plant	Type	Height	Light	Water use	Hardy to
broom snakeweed Gutierrezia sarothrae	Shrub	1.5 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 3b
Chickasaw plum Prunus angustifolia	Tree	12 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 4b
common maidenhair Adiantum capillus-veneris	Fern	1.7 ft	Shade-tolerant	High	Zone 4a
eastern redbud Cercis canadensis	Tree	30 ft	Shade-tolerant	Low	Zone 4b
giant goldenrod Solidago gigantea	Wildflower (forb)	8.2 ft	Sun–part shade	Medium	Zone 4a
golden crownbeard Verbesina encelioides	Wildflower (forb)	2 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 5a
Indian blanket Gaillardia pulchella	Wildflower (forb)	2 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 10b
post oak Quercus stellata	Tree	60 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 4a
purple threeawn Aristida purpurea	Grass or grass-like	1.4 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 4a
sideoats grama Bouteloua curtipendula	Grass or grass-like	3 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 3a

Other native species recorded here 26

PLANTS has no growing records for these, so light, moisture, height and zone filters cannot include them. Many are wild species seldom sold by nurseries.

American star-thistle Centaurea americana
annual buckwheat Eriogonum annuum
Canadian blacksnakeroot Sanicula canadensis
carelessweed Amaranthus palmeri
Dakota mock vervain Glandularia bipinnatifida
Engelmann's daisy Engelmannia peristenia
fiveangled dodder Cuscuta pentagona
flatspine stickseed Lappula occidentalis
hairy pinweed Lechea mucronata
Hopi tea greenthread Thelesperma megapotamicum
kiss me quick Portulaca pilosa
lateflowering thoroughwort Eupatorium serotinum
lemon beebalm Monarda citriodora
Louisiana vetch Vicia ludoviciana
ram's horn Proboscidea louisianica
redseed plantain Plantago rhodosperma
slender lipfern Cheilanthes feei
snow on the mountain Euphorbia marginata
snowball sand verbena Abronia fragrans
southern cattail Typha domingensis
spiked crested coralroot Hexalectris spicata
stretchberry Forestiera pubescens
Texas vervain Verbena halei
trailing fleabane Erigeron flagellaris
willowleaf aster Symphyotrichum praealtum
winged pigweed Cycloloma atriplicifolium

Compared with Texas

The typical county is the median of the 254 Texas counties with PLANTS county records; the statewide figure counts every species native anywhere in the state. More species is not better or worse: counties differ in size, habitat and how thoroughly they have been surveyed.

Native species counts, Coke County and Texas
Measure	Coke County	Typical county	Statewide
Native species	36	145	1,683
Garden-ready natives	10	61	656
Tree	3	—	164
Shrub	2	—	90
Wildflower (forb)	25	—	877
Grass or grass-like	2	—	431
Vine	2	—	83
Fern	2	—	38

Neighboring counties

Counties that share a ZIP code with Coke County.

Nolan County, TX 22 garden-ready
Runnels County, TX 16 garden-ready
Sterling County, TX 19 garden-ready
Tom Green County, TX 67 garden-ready

Source & data date

Source: USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: county distribution records, native status and plant characteristics. CC0 (public domain dedication, per the data.gov catalog record).; Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): native or introduced status by state. CC BY 3.0.; USGS US-RIIS (ver. 2.0): species listed as introduced are excluded. CC0.
Citation: USDA, NRCS. 2026. The PLANTS Database (https://plants.usda.gov, 11/04/2026). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA.; Govaerts R. (ed.) (2026). WCVP: World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data file dated 2026-06-04, http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/ (retrieved 2026-11-04). Paper: Govaerts R. et al. (2021) The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8, 215.
Data date: Retrieved from PLANTS on November 4, 2026; WCVP data file dated June 4, 2026.
Zones: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (2023) ZIP table: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed November 3, 2026. Plant zones on this site are our estimate, not the official map.
Scope: Coke County (county FIPS 48081), Texas. 36 native species from PLANTS county distribution records; garden-ready = species with a PLANTS characteristics record.
Method: A species is listed when it is recorded as native to the state in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in the county by USDA PLANTS. Species PLANTS labels both native and introduced are listed separately. Full method · All sources

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