Native plants · Texas

Native plants of Jim Hogg County

57 plant species are recorded as native to Texas in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Jim Hogg County by USDA PLANTS. 22 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

Jim Hogg County, Texas

PLANTS records only 22 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Texas list is a useful second check.

Native species: 57 Typical Texas county: 145 (median of 254 counties)
Garden-ready natives: 22 Typical Texas county: 61
Share by type (all 57 native species): Percent of the 57 native species in each growth type

Tree 4% (2)
Shrub 2% (1)
Wildflower (forb) 61% (35)
Grass or grass-like 32% (18)
Vine 2% (1)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (61%), followed by grasses and grass-like plants (32%).

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 9b (2023 map).

The native plant list

Garden-ready natives 22

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

Garden-ready native plants of Jim Hogg County, Texas
Plant	Type	Height	Light	Water use	Hardy to
Arizona cottontop Digitaria californica	Grass or grass-like	4 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 6a
brownseed paspalum Paspalum plicatulum	Grass or grass-like	3.3 ft	Sun–part shade	Low	Zone 8a
buffalograss Bouteloua dactyloides	Grass or grass-like	6 in	Sun	Medium	Zone 3b
dotted blazing star Liatris punctata	Wildflower (forb)	2 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 3a
eastern gamagrass Tripsacum dactyloides	Grass or grass-like	5 ft	Sun	High	Zone 5a
featherplume Dalea formosa	Shrub	3 ft	Sun	Low	Zone 6a
golden crownbeard Verbesina encelioides	Wildflower (forb)	2 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 5a
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
mescal bean Sophora secundiflora	Tree	15 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 8a
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
southern waternymph Najas guadalupensis	Wildflower (forb)	1 ft	Sun	High	Zone 3b
tanglehead Heteropogon contortus	Grass or grass-like	8 in	Sun	Low	Zone 8a
tapertip flatsedge Cyperus acuminatus	Grass or grass-like	1.3 ft	Sun–part shade	High	Zone 3b
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

Other native species recorded here 35

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.

bristly flatsedge Cyperus hystricinus
camphorweed Heterotheca subaxillaris
carelessweed Amaranthus palmeri
clammy groundcherry Physalis heterophylla
coastal sandbur Cenchrus spinifex
Dakota mock vervain Glandularia bipinnatifida
hogwort Croton capitatus
lacy tansyaster Machaeranthera pinnatifida
Leavenworth's sedge Carex leavenworthii
Louisiana vetch Vicia ludoviciana
Madagascar dropseed Sporobolus pyramidatus
meadow garlic Allium canadense
narrowleaf stoneseed Lithospermum incisum
Pennsylvania everlasting Gamochaeta pensylvanica
Pennsylvania pellitory Parietaria pensylvanica
pink thoroughwort Fleischmannia incarnata
pitseed goosefoot Chenopodium berlandieri
poorjoe Diodia teres
prairie tea Croton monanthogynus
red lovegrass Eragrostis secundiflora
ribseed sandmat Chamaesyce glyptosperma
sandhill amaranth Amaranthus arenicola
silverleaf nightshade Solanum elaeagnifolium
slender snakecotton Froelichia gracilis
smallflower fumewort Corydalis micrantha
spiral ditchgrass Ruppia cirrhosa
Texas vervain Verbena halei
thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
tropical flatsedge Cyperus surinamensis
tumblegrass Schedonnardus paniculatus
Virginia pepperweed Lepidium virginicum
western tansymustard Descurainia pinnata
whitemouth dayflower Commelina erecta
whorled marshpennywort Hydrocotyle verticillata
woolly tidestromia Tidestromia lanuginosa

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.

cayenne pepperCapsicum annuum

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, Jim Hogg County and Texas
Measure	Jim Hogg County	Typical county	Statewide
Native species	57	145	1,683
Garden-ready natives	22	61	656
Tree	2	—	164
Shrub	1	—	90
Wildflower (forb)	35	—	877
Grass or grass-like	18	—	431
Vine	1	—	83
Fern	0	—	38

Neighboring counties

Counties that share a ZIP code with Jim Hogg County.

Duval County, TX 24 garden-ready
Zapata County, TX 30 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: Jim Hogg County (county FIPS 48247), Texas. 57 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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