The birds of Pine Brook Wetlands The Butterflies of Pine Brook Wetlands The Trees and Plants of Pine Brook Wetlands

 

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Trees - Wetter Areas

Ash (Green)
Black Gum*
Cypress (Bald)*
Cypress ( Montezuma)
Cypress (Pond)*
Elm (American)*
Elm (Cedar)*
Elm (Winged)*
Hackberry* (Celtis laevigata)
Leatherwood*
Maple (Red)*
Mayhaw Hawthorn*
Parsley Hawthorn*
Possumhaw Holly*
Roughleaf Dogwood*
Swamp Chestnut Oak*
Sweet Bay Magnolia* (2 species)
Sweet Gum*
Sycamore (American)*
Water Hickory
Water Locust
Water Tupelo
Water Oak*
Willow Oak*

Shrubs

American Beautyberry*
American Elderberry
Arrowwood Virburnum*
Barbados Cherry
Chokeberry
Common Buttonbush*
Coralbean
Coralberry*
Hibiscus, Texas Star
Indigobush  Amorpha
Joe Pye Weed
Possumhaw Holly*
Possumhaw Virburnum*
Virginia Sweetspire*
Rusty Blackhaw Virburnum*
Southern Wax-Myrtle*
Spicebush*
Strawberry Bush*
Swamp Privet*
Sweet Pepper Bush
Texas Palmetto (dwarf)*
Turk's Cap*
Walter's Viburnum*
Witch Hazel
Yaupon Holly*

Vines

Alabama Supple Jack*
Blackberry*
Cat Greenbriar*
Coral Honeysuckle
Cross Vine
Greenbriar*
Muscadine Grape*
Passionflower Vine*
Peppervine*
Snapdragon Vine

Aquatic Plants

Arrowhead (multiple species)
Duckweed
Lizards Tail
Pickerel
Thalia

Grasses, Sedges, Rushes

Blue Grama
Broomsedge
Brownseed Paspalum
Bushy Bluestem
Buffalograss
Bulrush (multiple species)
Eastern Gamma
Florida Paspalum
Gulf Muhly
Indiangrass
Inland Sea Oats
Little Bluestem
Maidencane
Splitbeard Bluestem
Switchgrass
Plains Bristlegrass
Prairie Wildrye
Purple top
Sedges (multiple species)
Sideoats Gramma
Sugarcane Plumegrass
Texas Cupgrass
Texas Wintergrass

 

* currently in one or more Pine Brook parks

 

Trees - Less Wet

Black Cherry*
Black Walnut
Burr Oak*
Carolina Buckthorn*
Cherry Laurel*
Chickasaw Plum*
Chinquapin Oak
Compton Oak*
Crabapple (Texas)
Crabapple (Wild)*
Eastern Red Cedar*
Farkleberry*
Fringe Tree
Hornbeam*
Laurel Oak*
Mexican Plum*
Nuttal Oak*
Overcup Oak*
Paw Paw (Common)*
Pecan (Carya Illinoienis)
Persimmon (Black)
Persimmon (Common)*
Persimmon (Texas)*
Red Bay*
Red Bud (Eastern)*
Red Bud (Texas)*
Red Mulberry*
River Birch*
Sassafras*
Senna*
Shagbark Hickory
Sumac*
White Oak* 

Wild Flowers - Wetter Areas

Canna
Crinum (Americana)
Louisiana Iris
Blue Waterleaf
Maximilian Sunflower
Obedient Plant
Saltmarsh White Mallow
Spider Lily
Swamp Rose Mallow
Tall Aster

Wild Flowers - Prairie/ Fringe Areas

Antelope Horn
Asclepias
Aster
Black-Eyed Susan
Blue Curls
Blue Eyed Grass
Blue Mistflower
Butterfly Pea
Cardinal Flower
Clammy Weed
Coneflower (Bog)
Coneflower (Clasping)
Coneflower (Giant)
Coneflower (Prairie)
Coneflower (Purple)
Cutleaf Daisy
Drummond Phlox
Frogfruit
Frostweed
Gaura (Butterfly)
Gaura (Limestone)
Gayfeather (Blazing Star)
Goldenrod (Giant)
Goldenrod (Prairie)
Greenthread
Gulf Coast Penstemon
Illinois Bundleflower
Indian Blanket
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Lantana (Texas)
Lemon Mint
Lupine
Mealy Blue Sage
Mexican Hat
Milkweed (Green)
Milkweed (Mexican)
Milkweed (Whorled)
Pigeonberry
Pincushion Daisy
Prairie Larkspur
Prairie Parsley
Prairie Verbena
Purple Nightshade
Purple Prairie Clover
Rain Lily
Rattlesnake Master
Round Headed Clover
Sage (Mealy Blue)
Sage (Pitcher)
Sage (Scarlet)
Scarlet Muskflower
Scrambled Eggs
Senna (Two-Leaved)
Senna (Velvetleaf)
Snailseed
Spiderwort
Spotted Bee Balm
Standing Cypress
Standing Winecup
Turk's Cap
Violet (Lanceleaf)
Violet (Walter's)*
Western Ironweed
White Milkwort
Widow's Tears
Wild Blue Hyacinth
Wild Bergamo

 

 


Additional Information on Texas Trees & Plants:
Texas Plant Information Database

Native Trees of Texas

Gardening with Natives and Wildlife Habitat

 

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