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Native plants of Reagan County

60 plant species are recorded as native to Texas in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Reagan County by USDA PLANTS. 27 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Reagan County, Texas

PLANTS records only 27 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Texas list is a useful second check.

Native species
60 Typical Texas county: 145 (median of 254 counties)
Garden-ready natives
27 Typical Texas county: 61
Share by type (all 60 native species)
Percent of the 60 native species in each growth type
Tree 2% (1)
Shrub 10% (6)
Wildflower (forb) 55% (33)
Grass or grass-like 27% (16)
Vine 7% (4)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (55%), followed by grasses and grass-like plants (27%).

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 27

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

Garden-ready native plants of Reagan County, Texas
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American tarwort Flourensia cernua Shrub 3 ft Sun Low Zone 5a
black grama Bouteloua eriopoda Grass or grass-like 2 ft Sun Low Zone 5a
broom snakeweed Gutierrezia sarothrae Shrub 1.5 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
creosote bush Larrea tridentata Shrub 10 ft Sun Low Zone 5a
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
Indian blanket Gaillardia pulchella Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Medium Zone 10b
knotgrass Paspalum distichum Grass or grass-like 11 in Sun High Zone 6a
little barley Hordeum pusillum Grass or grass-like 1.2 ft Sun Medium Zone 10b
Malabar sprangletop Leptochloa fusca Grass or grass-like 3.3 ft Sun High Zone 3a
Missouri gourd Cucurbita foetidissima Vine 1 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
saltgrass Distichlis spicata Grass or grass-like 1.1 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
sand dropseed Sporobolus cryptandrus Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun Low Zone 3b
scarlet globemallow Sphaeralcea coccinea Wildflower (forb) 1.5 ft Sun Low Zone 5a
scratchgrass Muhlenbergia asperifolia Grass or grass-like 2 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5b
sideoats grama Bouteloua curtipendula Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 3a
softstem bulrush Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani Grass or grass-like 9 ft Sun High Zone 3b
spreading alkaliweed Cressa truxillensis Wildflower (forb) 10 in Sun Medium Zone 6a
tanseyleaf tansyaster Machaeranthera tanacetifolia Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
tobosagrass Pleuraphis mutica Grass or grass-like 2.3 ft Sun Low Zone 7b
Torrey's jointfir Ephedra torreyana Shrub 1 ft Sun Low Zone 4b
vine mesquite Panicum obtusum Grass or grass-like 2 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 5a
woolly locoweed Astragalus mollissimus Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Low Zone 4b

Other native species recorded here 33

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
  • bigseed alfalfa dodder Cuscuta indecora
  • blue mudplantain Heteranthera limosa
  • Canada spikesedge Eleocharis geniculata
  • carelessweed Amaranthus palmeri
  • Carolina woollywhite Hymenopappus scabiosaeus
  • Drummond's false pennyroyal Hedeoma drummondii
  • Engelmann's daisy Engelmannia peristenia
  • false buffalograss Munroa squarrosa
  • feather fingergrass Chloris virgata
  • fiveangled dodder Cuscuta pentagona
  • flatspine stickseed Lappula occidentalis
  • ivyleaf groundcherry Physalis hederifolia
  • lacy tansyaster Machaeranthera pinnatifida
  • lanceleaf sage Salvia reflexa
  • lemon beebalm Monarda citriodora
  • Louisiana vetch Vicia ludoviciana
  • matted sandmat Chamaesyce serpens
  • mealy goosefoot Chenopodium incanum
  • narrowleaf four o'clock Mirabilis linearis
  • narrowleaf stoneseed Lithospermum incisum
  • prairie tea Croton monanthogynus
  • prostrate sandmat Chamaesyce prostrata
  • Red River scaleseed Spermolepis inermis
  • scarlet beeblossom Oenothera suffrutescens
  • silverleaf nightshade Solanum elaeagnifolium
  • silverscale saltbush Atriplex argentea
  • Texas vervain Verbena halei
  • tumblegrass Schedonnardus paniculatus
  • velvetweed Oenothera curtiflora
  • warty spurge Euphorbia spathulata
  • wedgeleaf Phyla cuneifolia
  • white prairie aster Symphyotrichum falcatum

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, Reagan County and Texas
MeasureReagan CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 60 145 1,683
Garden-ready natives 27 61 656
Tree 1 — 164
Shrub 6 — 90
Wildflower (forb) 33 — 877
Grass or grass-like 16 — 431
Vine 4 — 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
Reagan County (county FIPS 48383), Texas. 60 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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