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Native plants of Martin County

43 plant species are recorded as native to Texas in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Martin County by USDA PLANTS. 19 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Martin County, Texas

PLANTS records only 19 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Texas list is a useful second check.

Native species
43 Typical Texas county: 145 (median of 254 counties)
Garden-ready natives
19 Typical Texas county: 61
Share by type (all 43 native species)
Percent of the 43 native species in each growth type
Tree 14% (6)
Shrub 7% (3)
Wildflower (forb) 70% (30)
Grass or grass-like 7% (3)
Vine 2% (1)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (70%), followed by trees (14%).

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 8a to 8b (2023 map).

The native plant list

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

Garden-ready natives 19

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

Garden-ready native plants of Martin County, Texas
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
black willow Salix nigra Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 1b
Canada germander Teucrium canadense Wildflower (forb) 3.3 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 3a
featherplume Dalea formosa Shrub 3 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
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
honey mesquite Prosopis glandulosa Tree 50 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
littleleaf sumac Rhus microphylla Tree 10 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
lyreleaf greeneyes Berlandiera lyrata Wildflower (forb) 4 ft Sun Low Zone 5a
Pennsylvania smartweed Polygonum pensylvanicum Wildflower (forb) 3.9 ft Sun Medium Zone 10b
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
salt heliotrope Heliotropium curassavicum Wildflower (forb) 1.2 ft Sun Medium Zone 4b
sideoats grama Bouteloua curtipendula Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 3a
soapweed yucca Yucca glauca Shrub 1 ft Sun Low Zone 4b
sugarberry Celtis laevigata Tree 80 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
swamp smartweed Polygonum hydropiperoides Wildflower (forb) — Sun Medium Zone 10b
tanseyleaf tansyaster Machaeranthera tanacetifolia Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
whitethorn acacia Vachellia constricta Tree 9 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
woolly locoweed Astragalus mollissimus Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Low Zone 4b

Other native species recorded here 24

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
  • Carolina larkspur Delphinium carolinianum
  • cutleaf evening primrose Oenothera laciniata
  • Dakota mock vervain Glandularia bipinnatifida
  • diamond-flowers Stenaria nigricans
  • dwarf hackberry Celtis pumila
  • Engelmann's daisy Engelmannia peristenia
  • fiveangled dodder Cuscuta pentagona
  • heartleaf nettle Urtica chamaedryoides
  • Hopi tea greenthread Thelesperma megapotamicum
  • lacy tansyaster Machaeranthera pinnatifida
  • lemon beebalm Monarda citriodora
  • pale spikerush Eleocharis macrostachya
  • prairie sunflower Helianthus petiolaris
  • ram's horn Proboscidea louisianica
  • redseed plantain Plantago rhodosperma
  • sandhill amaranth Amaranthus arenicola
  • silverleaf nightshade Solanum elaeagnifolium
  • slender plantain Plantago heterophylla
  • spotted beebalm Monarda punctata
  • Texas vervain Verbena halei
  • upright burhead Echinodorus berteroi
  • Virginia groundcherry Physalis virginiana
  • warty spurge Euphorbia spathulata

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, Martin County and Texas
MeasureMartin CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 43 145 1,683
Garden-ready natives 19 61 656
Tree 6 — 164
Shrub 3 — 90
Wildflower (forb) 30 — 877
Grass or grass-like 3 — 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
Martin County (county FIPS 48317), Texas. 43 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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