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Native plants of Jones County

62 plant species are recorded as native to Texas in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Jones County by USDA PLANTS. 17 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Jones County, Texas

PLANTS records only 17 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Texas list is a useful second check.

Native species
62 Typical Texas county: 145 (median of 254 counties)
Garden-ready natives
17 Typical Texas county: 61
Share by type (all 62 native species)
Percent of the 62 native species in each growth type
Tree 5% (3)
Shrub 5% (3)
Wildflower (forb) 58% (36)
Grass or grass-like 31% (19)
Vine 2% (1)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (58%), followed by grasses and grass-like plants (31%).

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

Cold hardiness is estimated from each plant’s PLANTS minimum temperature. How we estimate it.

Garden-ready natives 17

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

Garden-ready native plants of Jones County, Texas
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American elm Ulmus americana Tree 120 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 2b
broom snakeweed Gutierrezia sarothrae Shrub 1.5 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
buffalograss Bouteloua dactyloides Grass or grass-like 6 in Sun Medium Zone 3b
curly-mesquite Hilaria belangeri Grass or grass-like 10 in Sun Low Zone 8b
dotted blazing star Liatris punctata Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Medium Zone 3a
fourwing saltbush Atriplex canescens Shrub 4 ft Sun Medium Zone 3a
golden tickseed Coreopsis tinctoria Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 12b
Goodding's willow Salix gooddingii Tree 40 ft Sun High Zone 5a
honey mesquite Prosopis glandulosa Tree 50 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
little barley Hordeum pusillum Grass or grass-like 1.2 ft Sun Medium Zone 10b
purple threeawn Aristida purpurea Grass or grass-like 1.4 ft Sun Low Zone 4a
purpletop tridens Tridens flavus Grass or grass-like 2.5 ft Sun Low Zone 5a
sand dropseed Sporobolus cryptandrus Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun Low Zone 3b
sideoats grama Bouteloua curtipendula Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 3a
skunkbush sumac Rhus trilobata Shrub 4 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 2a
tobosagrass Pleuraphis mutica Grass or grass-like 2.3 ft Sun Low Zone 7b
vine mesquite Panicum obtusum Grass or grass-like 2 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 5a

Other native species recorded here 45

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 buckwheat Eriogonum annuum
  • annual marsh elder Iva annua
  • camphorweed Heterotheca subaxillaris
  • Carolina canarygrass Phalaris caroliniana
  • coastal sandbur Cenchrus spinifex
  • crowpoison Nothoscordum bivalve
  • Cuman ragweed Ambrosia psilostachya
  • curvepod fumewort Corydalis curvisiliqua
  • Dakota mock vervain Glandularia bipinnatifida
  • desert biscuitroot Lomatium foeniculaceum
  • diamond-flowers Stenaria nigricans
  • Engelmann's daisy Engelmannia peristenia
  • feather fingergrass Chloris virgata
  • flatspine stickseed Lappula occidentalis
  • Hopi tea greenthread Thelesperma megapotamicum
  • Louisiana vetch Vicia ludoviciana
  • matted sandmat Chamaesyce serpens
  • mucronate sprangletop Leptochloa panicea
  • narrowleaf stoneseed Lithospermum incisum
  • neckweed Veronica peregrina
  • Nuttall's sensitive-briar Mimosa nuttallii
  • pinkladies Oenothera speciosa
  • prairie broomweed Amphiachyris dracunculoides
  • prairie cupgrass Eriochloa contracta
  • prairie sunflower Helianthus petiolaris
  • prairie tea Croton monanthogynus
  • purple sandgrass Triplasis purpurea
  • scarlet spiderling Boerhavia coccinea
  • showy evening primrose Oenothera grandis
  • silky prairie clover Dalea villosa
  • silverleaf nightshade Solanum elaeagnifolium
  • snow on the mountain Euphorbia marginata
  • southern annual saltmarsh aster Symphyotrichum divaricatum
  • Spanish gold Grindelia papposa
  • spotted beebalm Monarda punctata
  • Texas signalgrass Urochloa texana
  • Texas vervain Verbena halei
  • tumble windmill grass Chloris verticillata
  • tumblegrass Schedonnardus paniculatus
  • warty spurge Euphorbia spathulata
  • western tansymustard Descurainia pinnata
  • winged lythrum Lythrum alatum
  • winged pigweed Cycloloma atriplicifolium
  • witchgrass Panicum capillare
  • woolly tidestromia Tidestromia lanuginosa

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, Jones County and Texas
MeasureJones CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 62 145 1,683
Garden-ready natives 17 61 656
Tree 3 — 164
Shrub 3 — 90
Wildflower (forb) 36 — 877
Grass or grass-like 19 — 431
Vine 1 — 83
Fern 0 — 38

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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
Jones County (county FIPS 48253), Texas. 62 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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