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Dallas, TX · Zone 8b · 281 frost-free days
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Peak bloom and nesting. Leave it alone: water only first-year plants, and let seed heads form.
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🌿102 plants are native to TXBlackland Prairie · 0 can be planted today
🐛67 are host plantsButterflies and moths can only raise caterpillars on specific plants — these are the ones that matter locally
❄️First frost in about 99 daysAround November 28. Aim to finish fall planting three to four weeks before it.

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🔥Heat wave — up to 111°FHold off on planting until it breaks. Established natives will look wilted by afternoon and recover overnight — that is normal and not a watering cue. Anything planted within the last year does need water.
🏜️No meaningful rain in the 5-day forecastEstablished natives can ride this out. Anything planted in the last twelve months cannot — give those a slow soak once this week.

What to plant right now

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Nothing should go in the ground today

That is the right answer, not an empty list. Natives are planted while they are dormant, in fall and winter, when the rain does the watering. Anything set out now would spend its first summer fighting to stay alive.

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  • 📦Order seed now, while the good species are still in stock — nurseries sell out before the fall window opens.
  • 📏Mark out where each plant will go, so planting day is digging and nothing else.
  • ✂️Stop cutting things back. Seed heads feed birds through winter and hollow stems are where native bees nest.

Opening in the next six weeks

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🤍BloodrootSanguinaria canadensisA white poppy that opens for a few days in March, wrapped in a leaf like a hand around a candle. All parts are toxic.In 1 day · Sow seedNative to your stateFull details
💙Texas BluebonnetLupinus texensisA winter annual, not a spring one. Sow it in March and you have already missed the window by six months.In 15 days · Sow seedNative hereFull details
🌳Southern Live OakQuercus virginianaEvergreen, hurricane-proof, spreading twice as wide as it is tall, and the ecological backbone of the coastal Southeast.In 15 days · Plant (fall)Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🌸Purple ConeflowerEchinacea purpureaThe plant that converts people to natives. Blooms for three months and feeds goldfinches all winter.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereFull details
🌼Black-eyed SusanRudbeckia hirtaNative to all but a handful of states, blooms itself to death, and reseeds so freely you never notice.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHost plantFull details
🧡Butterfly WeedAsclepias tuberosaA monarch host plant with no milky sap and no aggression. The best-behaved milkweed there is.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHost plantFull details
🌺Swamp MilkweedAsclepias incarnataThe milkweed for wet ground and rain gardens — and, despite the name, it is perfectly happy in an ordinary bed.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHost plantFull details
💜Wild BergamotMonarda fistulosaNative to nearly every state. Ragged lavender crowns that hum with bees, and it smells like oregano when brushed.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHost plantEdibleFull details
💐Aromatic AsterSymphyotrichum oblongifoliumA tidy, drought-proof dome that turns solid blue in October. Everything New England aster is, without the flopping.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHost plantFull details
💛Showy GoldenrodSolidago speciosaGoldenrod does not cause hay fever — ragweed does. This one is a clump-former that stays where you put it.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🪄Prairie Blazing StarLiatris pycnostachyaPurple bottlebrush spikes that open from the top down — the opposite of nearly every other flower.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHost plantFull details
💙Blue Wild IndigoBaptisia australisA shrub-sized perennial that lives for decades, fixes its own nitrogen and never needs dividing.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🤍Foxglove BeardtonguePenstemon digitalisWhite bells on wine-red stems in June, holding the gap between spring bulbs and summer prairie.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native to your stateHost plantFull details
💛Golden AlexandersZizia aureaOne of the first natives to bloom, and the plant that feeds black swallowtail caterpillars before dill exists.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🤍Rattlesnake MasterEryngium yuccifoliumYucca-like blue-green blades and golf-ball flower heads. It looks nothing like anything else in a garden.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHost plantFull details
💜Purple Prairie CloverDalea purpureaThimble-shaped flower heads ringed with a moving band of orange stamens. Fixes nitrogen and thrives on gravel.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHost plantFull details
❤️Cardinal FlowerLobelia cardinalisThe reddest flower in North America, and shaped so only a hummingbird can reach the nectar.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHummingbirdsFull details
💙Great Blue LobeliaLobelia siphiliticaCardinal flower for bumblebees — same wet ground, same season, deep blue instead of red.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHummingbirdsFull details
🌸Joe-Pye WeedEutrochium purpureumA shrub-scale perennial topped with dusty-mauve domes that swallowtails cover in August.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🌻Compass PlantSilphium laciniatumDeeply cut leaves that orient north-south to dodge the noon sun, over a taproot that can reach fifteen feet.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHost plantFull details
💙Ohio SpiderwortTradescantia ohiensisThree-petalled blue flowers that open at dawn and dissolve by afternoon, replaced fresh the next morning for weeks.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereEdibleFull details
🎩Mexican HatRatibida columniferaA tall central cone with drooping petals like a sombrero. Blooms the first year from seed and tolerates real drought.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereFull details
🍷WinecupCallirhoe involucrataChalice-shaped magenta flowers on trailing stems, over a taproot that shrugs off drought completely.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native hereHost plantFull details
🏮Wild ColumbineAquilegia canadensisNodding red-and-yellow lanterns on wiry stems, open exactly when the first hummingbirds arrive north.In 29 days · Plant (fall)Native to your stateHost plantFull details

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102 plants native to TX

🫐American ElderberrySambucus canadensisDinner-plate cream flowers in June, black fruit in August, and it grows like a weed in the wet corner nobody uses.Native hereHost plantEdibleFull details
💐Aromatic AsterSymphyotrichum oblongifoliumA tidy, drought-proof dome that turns solid blue in October. Everything New England aster is, without the flopping.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌲Bald CypressTaxodium distichumA deciduous conifer that grows in standing water or in a dry parking lot island, turns copper in November, and lives a thousand years.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌾Big BluestemAndropogon gerardiiThe grass that made the tallgrass prairie. Six feet tall by August, with seed heads split into three fingers like a turkey's foot.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌼Black-eyed SusanRudbeckia hirtaNative to all but a handful of states, blooms itself to death, and reseeds so freely you never notice.Native hereHost plantFull details
🧡Butterfly WeedAsclepias tuberosaA monarch host plant with no milky sap and no aggression. The best-behaved milkweed there is.Native hereHost plantFull details
⚪ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalisPerfect white pincushion flowers over standing water, and the single best nectar shrub for a wet spot in North America.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌻Compass PlantSilphium laciniatumDeeply cut leaves that orient north-south to dodge the noon sun, over a taproot that can reach fifteen feet.Native hereHost plantFull details
🍂Fragrant SumacRhus aromaticaA three-leaflet groundcover shrub that holds a raw bank together, flames orange-scarlet in fall, and never asks for water.Native hereHost plantEdibleFull details
🤍FrogfruitPhyla nodifloraA flat mat covered in tiny white matchstick flowers from spring to frost, and a host plant for three butterflies at once.Native hereHost plantFull details
🦋Green MilkweedAsclepias viridisThe commonest milkweed in Texas pastures, and the plant that carries the first monarch generation north each spring.Native hereHost plantFull details
🔥Indian BlanketGaillardia pulchellaRed-and-gold pinwheels that carpet Southern roadsides in June and ask absolutely nothing of you.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌾IndiangrassSorghastrum nutansBronze-gold plumes flecked with yellow stamens, held stiffly above blue-grey foliage. The best autumn colour of any grass.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌾Little BluestemSchizachyrium scopariumBlue-green in summer, copper-orange from October to April. The single most useful structural plant in a native garden.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌻Maximilian SunflowerHelianthus maximilianiEight feet of gold in October, and it spreads by rhizome. Plant it where a colony is what you actually want.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌾Northern Sea OatsChasmanthium latifoliumFlattened oat-like seed heads dangling on thread-fine stems, and one of the very few grasses that thrives in real shade.Native hereHost plantFull details
💛Partridge PeaChamaecrista fasciculataA nitrogen-fixing annual whose leaves fold shut when touched, with nectar glands that feed ants and wasps outside the flower.Native hereHost plantFull details
🪄Prairie Blazing StarLiatris pycnostachyaPurple bottlebrush spikes that open from the top down — the opposite of nearly every other flower.Native hereHost plantFull details
💜Purple PassionflowerPassiflora incarnataThe most improbable flower native to North America, an edible egg-sized fruit, and a host plant for two fritillaries. It runs.Native hereHost plantEdibleFull details
💜Purple Prairie CloverDalea purpureaThimble-shaped flower heads ringed with a moving band of orange stamens. Fixes nitrogen and thrives on gravel.Native hereHost plantFull details
🤍Rattlesnake MasterEryngium yuccifoliumYucca-like blue-green blades and golf-ball flower heads. It looks nothing like anything else in a garden.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌾Sideoats GramaBouteloua curtipendulaOat-like seed spikelets dangle from one side of an arching stem, hung with tiny orange-red anthers in early summer.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌺Swamp MilkweedAsclepias incarnataThe milkweed for wet ground and rain gardens — and, despite the name, it is perfectly happy in an ordinary bed.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌾SwitchgrassPanicum virgatumA vertical column of foliage topped by a pink haze of seed so fine it looks like mist. The most forgiving native grass there is.Native hereHost plantFull details
🌺Turk's CapMalvaviscus arboreus var. drummondiiA hibiscus that never opens its petals, built to fit a hummingbird bill, and it flowers in dry shade.Native hereHost plantEdibleFull details
🤍White Wild IndigoBaptisia albaCharcoal-black stems carrying white pea spikes above blue-green foliage, on a plant that will outlive the person who planted it.Native hereHost plantFull details
💜Wild BergamotMonarda fistulosaNative to nearly every state. Ragged lavender crowns that hum with bees, and it smells like oregano when brushed.Native hereHost plantEdibleFull details
🍓Wild StrawberryFragaria virginianaA running groundcover with white spring flowers and small red berries that taste more like strawberry than any you can buy.Native hereHost plantEdibleFull details
🍷WinecupCallirhoe involucrataChalice-shaped magenta flowers on trailing stems, over a taproot that shrugs off drought completely.Native hereHost plantFull details
🧡ZexmeniaWedelia acapulcensis var. hispidaA woody-based perennial that flowers from May to frost on bare rock and asks for nothing in return.Native hereHost plantFull details
💙Blue FlaxLinum lewisiiSky-blue flowers that open at dawn and shed their petals by afternoon, replaced by new ones every morning for two months.Native hereFull details
❤️Cardinal FlowerLobelia cardinalisThe reddest flower in North America, and shaped so only a hummingbird can reach the nectar.Native hereHummingbirdsFull details
🤍Common YarrowAchillea millefoliumFlat white plates over ferny foliage, native across nearly the whole continent, and tough enough to grow in a driveway crack.Native hereFull details
💛Engelmann's DaisyEngelmannia peristeniaFlowers straight through drought on a taproot several feet deep. Deer eat it first, so cage it where they browse.Native hereFull details
💙Great Blue LobeliaLobelia siphiliticaCardinal flower for bumblebees — same wet ground, same season, deep blue instead of red.Native hereHummingbirdsFull details
💜Gulf Coast PenstemonPenstemon tenuisThe one penstemon that tolerates heavy wet clay, which is the opposite of nearly everything else in the genus.Native hereHummingbirdsFull details
🌿Lady FernAthyrium filix-feminaLacy, finely cut, bright green and native to almost every state. The most adaptable fern you can plant.Native hereFull details
🌾Lindheimer MuhlyMuhlenbergia lindheimeriA five-foot silver-blue fountain for limestone country. The best large ornamental grass native to Texas, and it asks for nothing.Native hereFull details
💙Mealy Blue SageSalvia farinaceaThe wild parent of the bedding salvias sold as annuals — taller, tougher, and it comes back every year.Native hereHummingbirdsFull details
🎩Mexican HatRatibida columniferaA tall central cone with drooping petals like a sombrero. Blooms the first year from seed and tolerates real drought.Native hereFull details
💙Ohio SpiderwortTradescantia ohiensisThree-petalled blue flowers that open at dawn and dissolve by afternoon, replaced fresh the next morning for weeks.Native hereEdibleFull details
🌸Purple ConeflowerEchinacea purpureaThe plant that converts people to natives. Blooms for three months and feeds goldfinches all winter.Native hereFull details
❤️Standing CypressIpomopsis rubraA 4-ft scarlet rocket built entirely for hummingbirds, and it dies after flowering, so it must be allowed to seed.Native hereHummingbirdsFull details
💙Texas BluebonnetLupinus texensisA winter annual, not a spring one. Sow it in March and you have already missed the window by six months.Native hereFull details
🟣American BeautyberryCallicarpa americanaNothing else in a fall garden is this colour. Tight magenta bracelets clamped around the stems, holding after the leaves drop.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
🟠American PersimmonDiospyros virginianaAlligator-hide bark, orange fruit after frost, and the most memorable lesson in patience any fruit tree will teach you.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
🪶Apache PlumeFallugia paradoxaWhite roses in the morning and drifts of pink feathered seed heads by afternoon, on eight inches of rain a year.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🌾Blue GramaBouteloua gracilisSeed heads held horizontally on vertical stems, curved like eyebrows or eyelashes. Nothing else in a garden does this.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
💙Blue Wild IndigoBaptisia australisA shrub-sized perennial that lives for decades, fixes its own nitrogen and never needs dividing.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🤍BonesetEupatorium perfoliatumPaired leaves fused so the stem seems to pierce them, under white clusters that draw more insect species than almost anything.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🌾BuffalograssBouteloua dactyloidesA true native turf for the dry plains — soft grey-green, four inches tall unmown, and it survives on rainfall alone.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🌳Bur OakQuercus macrocarpaFire-proof bark, enormous fringed acorns, and a 300-year lifespan. The toughest oak on the continent and a keystone species.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
💜CenizoLeucophyllum frutescensSilver foliage that erupts in purple flowers a few days after every summer rainstorm, and dies if you water it on schedule.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
❤️Coral HoneysuckleLonicera sempervirensClusters of scarlet trumpets from April to frost, on a well-behaved native vine that hummingbirds arrive for and never leave.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🩷CoralberrySymphoricarpos orbiculatusA modest suckering shrub that solves dry shade, holds a bank together, and beads its stems with coral-purple fruit all winter.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🧡CrossvineBignonia capreolataSemi-evergreen vine that covers itself in orange-and-yellow trumpets in April, timed to the arrival of the first hummingbirds.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🌾DeergrassMuhlenbergia rigensA three-foot green dome bristling with narrow spikes like porcupine quills. The workhorse grass of California gardens.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
💗Desert WillowChilopsis linearisOrchid-like flowers all summer on a small tree that lives on desert rainfall. Not a willow at all — it is a catalpa relative.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🤍Downy ServiceberryAmelanchier arboreaWhite flowers before the forest leafs out, fruit in June that beats any blueberry, and orange fall colour. One small tree, four seasons.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
💗Eastern RedbudCercis canadensisMagenta flowers straight out of the bare trunk and branches in April, weeks before anything else in the woods.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
🧡Flame AcanthusAnisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightiiIt flowers hardest in the worst of August, when everything else has quit and hummingbirds are heading south.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🤍Foxglove BeardtonguePenstemon digitalisWhite bells on wine-red stems in June, holding the gap between spring bulbs and summer prairie.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
💛Golden AlexandersZizia aureaOne of the first natives to bloom, and the plant that feeds black swallowtail caterpillars before dill exists.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🌸Joe-Pye WeedEutrochium purpureumA shrub-scale perennial topped with dusty-mauve domes that swallowtails cover in August.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🤍New Jersey TeaCeanothus americanusA knee-high nitrogen-fixing shrub that flowers white in June and swarms with more kinds of insect than anything else its size.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
🌾Prairie DropseedSporobolus heterolepisA fine-textured emerald fountain that smells of coriander and warm popcorn in flower. The most refined native grass there is.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
💗Rocky Mountain Bee PlantCleome serrulataA 4-ft annual that beekeepers plant on purpose. Sow it once on disturbed ground and it looks after itself from then on.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
🪄Rough Blazing StarLiatris asperaButtons of rose-purple spaced along a wiry stem, blooming in September on dry sand where the other blazing stars fail.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🧡Scarlet GlobemallowSphaeralcea coccineaA grey-felted mat with apricot flowers that spreads by root on the driest, most alkaline ground on the plains.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
💛Showy GoldenrodSolidago speciosaGoldenrod does not cause hay fever — ragweed does. This one is a clump-former that stays where you put it.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🌸Showy MilkweedAsclepias speciosaThe main monarch host plant of the West. Grey velvet leaves and pink starburst flowers that smell of honey at dusk.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🌳Southern Live OakQuercus virginianaEvergreen, hurricane-proof, spreading twice as wide as it is tall, and the ecological backbone of the coastal Southeast.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
💛SpicebushLindera benzoinYellow haze in the bare March woods, butter-gold in October, and the only real host for the Spicebush Swallowtail.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
🌼Spotted BeebalmMonarda punctataTiers of cream bracts and spotted yellow flowers stacked up the stem, on a plant that thrives in pure sand.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🤍Virginia SweetspireItea virginicaDrooping white bottlebrushes in June and the most reliable scarlet fall colour of any native shrub, holding into December.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🌳White OakQuercus albaThe keystone tree of the eastern forest. It feeds more caterpillars, and therefore more birds, than any other plant you can grow.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
🏮Wild ColumbineAquilegia canadensisNodding red-and-yellow lanterns on wiry stems, open exactly when the first hummingbirds arrive north.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🦋Antelope Horns MilkweedAsclepias asperulaThe milkweed monarchs meet first coming north out of Mexico in March, and one of the very few that grows on caliche.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🤍Flowering DogwoodCornus floridaThe signature small tree of the eastern woods, and one that now needs its site chosen carefully to survive anthracnose.Native to your stateHost plantFull details
🫐Highbush BlueberryVaccinium corymbosumA native fruit crop that is also a top-ten wildlife shrub, if and only if you get the soil pH right.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
🥭PawpawAsimina trilobaThe largest edible fruit native to North America, tasting of mango and custard, and you have to grow it because it cannot be shipped.Native to your stateHost plantEdibleFull details
❤️Autumn SageSalvia greggiiFlowers from March to frost in every shade from white to magenta, and hummingbirds work it the entire time.Native to your stateHummingbirdsFull details
🤍Blackfoot DaisyMelampodium leucanthumA honey-scented white mound that flowers for eight months on raw caliche and drowns in an irrigated bed.Native to your stateFull details
🤍BloodrootSanguinaria canadensisA white poppy that opens for a few days in March, wrapped in a leaf like a hand around a candle. All parts are toxic.Native to your stateFull details
💙Blue-eyed GrassSisyrinchium angustifoliumNot a grass but a miniature iris — grassy fans that open dozens of small violet-blue stars with yellow eyes each morning.Native to your stateFull details
❤️Cedar SageSalvia roemerianaScarlet flowers in dry shade under live oak and juniper, where almost nothing else will bloom at all.Native to your stateHummingbirdsFull details
🍫Chocolate DaisyBerlandiera lyrataOpens at dawn smelling unmistakably of chocolate, closes by noon, and leaves a green pinwheel seed disc behind.Native to your stateFull details
🌿Christmas FernPolystichum acrostichoidesEvergreen, drought-tolerant and unkillable. The one fern that still looks like a plant in January, hence the name.Native to your stateFull details
🌿Cinnamon FernOsmundastrum cinnamomeumFour-foot vase of pale green fronds with a ring of upright cinnamon-coloured spore spikes standing in the middle each May.Native to your stateFull details
🌵Claret Cup CactusEchinocereus triglochidiatusA low mound of ribbed stems that erupts in waxy scarlet cups each April — a cactus pollinated by hummingbirds, not bees.Native to your stateHummingbirdsFull details
🕯️Culver's RootVeronicastrum virginicumWhorled leaves up a perfectly straight stem, topped by white candelabra spires. It never needs staking and never flops.Native to your stateFull details
💛DamianitaChrysactinia mexicanaA needle-leaved evergreen cushion that smells of resin and turns solid gold twice a year on pure rock.Native to your stateFull details
💜Desert Four O'ClockMirabilis multifloraA magenta mound that opens at dusk for hawkmoths and dies back each winter to a tuber the size of a football.Native to your stateHummingbirdsFull details
💛Desert MarigoldBaileya multiradiataWoolly white foliage under lemon daisies on wiry stalks, flowering almost year round on nearly no water.Native to your stateFull details
🌵Engelmann Prickly PearOpuntia engelmanniiFist-sized yellow flowers in May, magenta fruit in August, and a plant that has fed people here for thousands of years.Native to your stateEdibleFull details
🪴Jack-in-the-PulpitArisaema triphyllumA hooded green-and-maroon flower that traps fungus gnats, changes sex as it ages, and ends the year as a spike of scarlet berries.Native to your stateFull details
☂️MayapplePodophyllum peltatumColonies of green umbrellas that hide their flower underneath. Ripe fruit is edible; every other part is poisonous.Native to your stateEdibleFull details
🧅Nodding OnionAllium cernuumUmbels of pale pink bells hung from a stem that crooks over at the top, then straightens as the seed ripens.Native to your stateEdibleFull details
💗Obedient PlantPhysostegia virginianaPink snapdragon spires you can push sideways and they stay put. Below ground it is far less obedient — it runs hard.Native to your stateHummingbirdsFull details
🌸Pink Muhly GrassMuhlenbergia capillarisFor six weeks in October it produces a knee-high cloud of pink so fine it looks like coloured smoke rather than a plant.Native to your stateFull details
🎋Smooth Solomon's SealPolygonatum biflorumArching stems hung with pairs of green bells, turning clear butter-yellow in fall. The structural backbone of a shade bed.Native to your stateHummingbirdsFull details
💜Woodland PhloxPhlox divaricataA haze of fragrant pale blue at knee height in May, and unlike most woodland natives it stays evergreen through winter.Native to your stateHummingbirdsFull details

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GrowLocal is a free, offline-capable single-page guide to the plants that are genuinely native to your corner of the United States. Weather and climate data from Open-Meteo; wild sighting counts from iNaturalist; plant photos from Wikimedia Commons. Native ranges are given at state level and refined by ecoregion; frost dates and hardiness zones are 10-year statistical averages. Never dig plants from the wild.