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Native plants of Wilbarger County

51 plant species are recorded as native to Texas in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Wilbarger 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

Wilbarger 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
51 Typical Texas county: 145 (median of 254 counties)
Garden-ready natives
19 Typical Texas county: 61
Share by type (all 51 native species)
Percent of the 51 native species in each growth type
Tree 4% (2)
Shrub 6% (3)
Wildflower (forb) 53% (27)
Grass or grass-like 29% (15)
Vine 8% (4)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (53%), followed by grasses and grass-like plants (29%).

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 7b to 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 19

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

Garden-ready native plants of Wilbarger County, Texas
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American elm Ulmus americana Tree 120 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 2b
black willow Salix nigra Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 1b
blue grama Bouteloua gracilis Grass or grass-like 1 ft Sun Medium Zone 3a
broom snakeweed Gutierrezia sarothrae Shrub 1.5 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
butterfly milkweed Asclepias tuberosa Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Low Zone 4a
composite dropseed Sporobolus compositus Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun Low Zone 3b
hairy grama Bouteloua hirsuta Grass or grass-like 6 in Sun Low Zone 3b
Illinois bundleflower Desmanthus illinoensis Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 5b
little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun Low Zone 3b
Nuttall's povertyweed Monolepis nuttalliana Wildflower (forb) 10 in Sun Medium Zone 12a
purple threeawn Aristida purpurea Grass or grass-like 1.4 ft Sun Low Zone 4a
sand bluestem Andropogon hallii Grass or grass-like 6.1 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
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
sweetscent Pluchea odorata Wildflower (forb) 4.9 ft Sun Medium Zone 6a
switchgrass Panicum virgatum Grass or grass-like 5 ft Sun Medium Zone 3a
vine mesquite Panicum obtusum Grass or grass-like 2 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 5a
woolly plantain Plantago patagonica Wildflower (forb) 6 in Sun Low Zone 12b

Other native species recorded here 32

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
  • aromatic aster Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
  • carelessweed Amaranthus palmeri
  • Carolina coralbead Cocculus carolinus
  • Cuman ragweed Ambrosia psilostachya
  • curlycup gumweed Grindelia squarrosa
  • cusp dodder Cuscuta cuspidata
  • feather fingergrass Chloris virgata
  • horned pondweed Zannichellia palustris
  • kiss me quick Portulaca pilosa
  • Louisiana vetch Vicia ludoviciana
  • mucronate sprangletop Leptochloa panicea
  • prairie cupgrass Eriochloa contracta
  • prairie sunflower Helianthus petiolaris
  • purple sandgrass Triplasis purpurea
  • ribseed sandmat Chamaesyce glyptosperma
  • sand sagebrush Artemisia filifolia
  • showy evening primrose Oenothera grandis
  • silverscale saltbush Atriplex argentea
  • sixangle spurge Euphorbia hexagona
  • slickseed fuzzybean Strophostyles leiosperma
  • snowball sand verbena Abronia fragrans
  • stiffstem flax Linum rigidum
  • Texas croton Croton texensis
  • Texas toadflax Nuttallanthus texanus
  • tumble windmill grass Chloris verticillata
  • Virginia plantain Plantago virginica
  • western horsenettle Solanum dimidiatum
  • whitemouth dayflower Commelina erecta
  • winged pigweed Cycloloma atriplicifolium
  • 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, Wilbarger County and Texas
MeasureWilbarger CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 51 145 1,683
Garden-ready natives 19 61 656
Tree 2 — 164
Shrub 3 — 90
Wildflower (forb) 27 — 877
Grass or grass-like 15 — 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
Wilbarger County (county FIPS 48487), Texas. 51 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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