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Native plants of Runnels County

50 plant species are recorded as native to Texas in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Runnels County by USDA PLANTS. 16 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Runnels County, Texas

PLANTS records only 16 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Texas list is a useful second check.

Native species
50 Typical Texas county: 145 (median of 254 counties)
Garden-ready natives
16 Typical Texas county: 61
Share by type (all 50 native species)
Percent of the 50 native species in each growth type
Tree 4% (2)
Shrub 8% (4)
Wildflower (forb) 66% (33)
Grass or grass-like 20% (10)
Vine 2% (1)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (66%), followed by grasses and grass-like plants (20%).

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 16

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

Garden-ready native plants of Runnels County, Texas
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
Canada wildrye Elymus canadensis Grass or grass-like 3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 3a
Canadian horseweed Conyza canadensis Wildflower (forb) 5 ft Sun Medium Zone 12b
common buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis Tree 15 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 4a
false daisy Eclipta prostrata Wildflower (forb) 3.2 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 10b
honey mesquite Prosopis glandulosa Tree 50 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
Illinois bundleflower Desmanthus illinoensis Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 5b
Indian blanket Gaillardia pulchella Wildflower (forb) 2 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
saltgrass Distichlis spicata Grass or grass-like 1.1 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
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
squirreltail Elymus elymoides Grass or grass-like 1.5 ft Sun Low Zone 3a
Torrey's rush Juncus torreyi Grass or grass-like 3.1 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
turkey tangle fogfruit Phyla nodiflora Wildflower (forb) 2 in Sun–part shade Low Zone 5b
vine mesquite Panicum obtusum Grass or grass-like 2 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 5a

Other native species recorded here 34

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 phlox Phlox drummondii
  • bastard toadflax Comandra umbellata
  • Carolina canarygrass Phalaris caroliniana
  • Carolina larkspur Delphinium carolinianum
  • creeping primrose-willow Ludwigia repens
  • curvepod fumewort Corydalis curvisiliqua
  • Dakota mock vervain Glandularia bipinnatifida
  • diamond-flowers Stenaria nigricans
  • Engelmann's daisy Engelmannia peristenia
  • fiveangled dodder Cuscuta pentagona
  • fourpoint evening primrose Oenothera rhombipetala
  • Hopi tea greenthread Thelesperma megapotamicum
  • Nuttall's sensitive-briar Mimosa nuttallii
  • prairie broomweed Amphiachyris dracunculoides
  • prairie sandmat Chamaesyce missurica
  • prairie spiderwort Tradescantia occidentalis
  • prairie sunflower Helianthus petiolaris
  • prairie tea Croton monanthogynus
  • prostrate sandmat Chamaesyce prostrata
  • sand sagebrush Artemisia filifolia
  • silverleaf nightshade Solanum elaeagnifolium
  • Spanish gold Grindelia papposa
  • spinystar Escobaria vivipara
  • spotted beebalm Monarda punctata
  • stretchberry Forestiera pubescens
  • Texas vervain Verbena halei
  • tumble windmill grass Chloris verticillata
  • tumblegrass Schedonnardus paniculatus
  • warty spurge Euphorbia spathulata
  • wedgeleaf draba Draba cuneifolia
  • western horsenettle Solanum dimidiatum
  • winged pigweed Cycloloma atriplicifolium
  • Wright's plantain Plantago wrightiana

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, Runnels County and Texas
MeasureRunnels CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 50 145 1,683
Garden-ready natives 16 61 656
Tree 2 — 164
Shrub 4 — 90
Wildflower (forb) 33 — 877
Grass or grass-like 10 — 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
Runnels County (county FIPS 48399), Texas. 50 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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