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Native plants of Dimmit County

77 plant species are recorded as native to Texas in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Dimmit County by USDA PLANTS. 29 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness. 1 more species is listed as both native and introduced and kept in a separate section.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Dimmit County, Texas

PLANTS records only 29 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Texas list is a useful second check.

Native species: 77 Typical Texas county: 145 (median of 254 counties)
Garden-ready natives: 29 Typical Texas county: 61
Share by type (all 77 native species): Percent of the 77 native species in each growth type

Tree 4% (3)
Shrub 3% (2)
Wildflower (forb) 65% (50)
Grass or grass-like 25% (19)
Vine 3% (2)
Fern 1% (1)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (65%), followed by grasses and grass-like plants (25%).

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 zones 9a to 9b (2023 map).

The native plant list

Garden-ready natives 29

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

Garden-ready native plants of Dimmit County, Texas
Plant	Type	Height	Light	Water use	Hardy to
alkali sacaton Sporobolus airoides	Grass or grass-like	3 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 3b
Arizona cottontop Digitaria californica	Grass or grass-like	4 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 6a
big sacaton Sporobolus wrightii	Grass or grass-like	5.5 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 6a
black willow Salix nigra	Tree	100 ft	Sun	High	Zone 1b
cane bluestem Bothriochloa barbinodis	Grass or grass-like	4 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 7b
catclaw acacia Senegalia greggii	Tree	20 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 6a
creosote bush Larrea tridentata	Shrub	10 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 5a
cucumberleaf sunflower Helianthus debilis	Wildflower (forb)	6 in	Sun	Medium	Zone 9b
featherplume Dalea formosa	Shrub	3 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 6a
fragrant flatsedge Cyperus odoratus	Grass or grass-like	2 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 11b
golden tickseed Coreopsis tinctoria	Wildflower (forb)	3 ft	Sun–part shade	High	Zone 12b
gulf cordgrass Spartina spartinae	Grass or grass-like	6.6 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 9a
hairy grama Bouteloua hirsuta	Grass or grass-like	6 in	Sun	Low	Zone 3b
honey mesquite Prosopis glandulosa	Tree	50 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 6a
Indian blanket Gaillardia pulchella	Wildflower (forb)	2 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 10b
lemonscent Pectis angustifolia	Wildflower (forb)	8 in	Sun	Low	Zone 5a
little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium	Grass or grass-like	3 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 3b
Nuttall's povertyweed Monolepis nuttalliana	Wildflower (forb)	10 in	Sun	Medium	Zone 12a
partridge pea Chamaecrista fasciculata	Wildflower (forb)	2.4 ft	Shade-tolerant	Medium	Zone 7a
plains lovegrass Eragrostis intermedia	Grass or grass-like	2.7 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 5a
purple poppymallow Callirhoe involucrata	Wildflower (forb)	1 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 3b
purple threeawn Aristida purpurea	Grass or grass-like	1.4 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 4a
sand dropseed Sporobolus cryptandrus	Grass or grass-like	3 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 3b
softstem bulrush Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani	Grass or grass-like	9 ft	Sun	High	Zone 3b
tanglehead Heteropogon contortus	Grass or grass-like	8 in	Sun	Low	Zone 8a
turkey tangle fogfruit Phyla nodiflora	Wildflower (forb)	2 in	Sun–part shade	Low	Zone 5b
upright prairie coneflower Ratibida columnifera	Wildflower (forb)	3.1 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 3a
valley redstem Ammannia coccinea	Wildflower (forb)	1.6 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 3b
wild tantan Desmanthus virgatus	Wildflower (forb)	2 ft	Shade-tolerant	Low	Zone 9a

Other native species recorded here 48

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.

annual phlox Phlox drummondii
blue mudplantain Heteranthera limosa
bristly scaleseed Spermolepis echinata
camphorweed Heterotheca subaxillaris
carelessweed Amaranthus palmeri
Carolina woollywhite Hymenopappus scabiosaeus
coastal sandbur Cenchrus spinifex
Cuman ragweed Ambrosia psilostachya
cutleaf evening primrose Oenothera laciniata
Dakota mock vervain Glandularia bipinnatifida
early wildrye Elymus macgregorii
fewleaf sunflower Helianthus occidentalis
fiveangled dodder Cuscuta pentagona
flatspine stickseed Lappula occidentalis
hairy waterclover Marsilea vestita
hogwort Croton capitatus
lacy tansyaster Machaeranthera pinnatifida
Louisiana broomrape Orobanche ludoviciana
Louisiana vetch Vicia ludoviciana
Madagascar dropseed Sporobolus pyramidatus
mucronate sprangletop Leptochloa panicea
pale dock Rumex altissimus
Pennsylvania everlasting Gamochaeta pensylvanica
pinkladies Oenothera speciosa
pitseed goosefoot Chenopodium berlandieri
prairie broomweed Amphiachyris dracunculoides
prairie sandmat Chamaesyce missurica
prostrate sandmat Chamaesyce prostrata
red lovegrass Eragrostis secundiflora
Red River scaleseed Spermolepis inermis
redseed plantain Plantago rhodosperma
redwhisker clammyweed Polanisia dodecandra
ribseed sandmat Chamaesyce glyptosperma
scarlet spiderling Boerhavia coccinea
showy evening primrose Oenothera grandis
sleepy silene Silene antirrhina
slender snakecotton Froelichia gracilis
smallflower fumewort Corydalis micrantha
spotted beebalm Monarda punctata
Texas bergia Bergia texana
Texas vervain Verbena halei
thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
Virginia winged rockcress Sibara virginica
warty spurge Euphorbia spathulata
western tansymustard Descurainia pinnata
whitemouth dayflower Commelina erecta
woolly tidestromia Tidestromia lanuginosa
Wright's plantain Plantago wrightiana

Also listed as native and introduced here 1

PLANTS labels these species both native and introduced in this state: some forms are native and others were brought in from elsewhere. Most gardeners should choose plants from the main list.

floating primrose-willowLudwigia peploides

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, Dimmit County and Texas
Measure	Dimmit County	Typical county	Statewide
Native species	77	145	1,683
Garden-ready natives	29	61	656
Tree	3	—	164
Shrub	2	—	90
Wildflower (forb)	50	—	877
Grass or grass-like	19	—	431
Vine	2	—	83
Fern	1	—	38

Neighboring counties

Counties that share a ZIP code with Dimmit County.

La Salle County, TX 60 garden-ready
Zavala County, TX 25 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: Dimmit County (county FIPS 48127), Texas. 77 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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