Lady Bird Johnson once said, “I want Texas to look like Texas. … Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours.” Native plants, also called indigenous species, have evolved ...

As a member of the Texas Native Plant Society, I always enjoy reading their quarterly publication. On page 20 of their 2025 summer issue of Texas Native Plants, I found Martha Whitehouse’s article ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The Native Plant Society of Texas works to preserve and promote the plants that make up the region. The Northeast Texas Chapter celebrated their 30th anniversary at the ...

As a member of the Texas Native Plant Society, I always enjoy reading their quarterly publication. On page 20 of their 2025 – Summer issue of Texas Native Plants, I found Martha Whitehouse’s article ...

Native along the entire East Coast and west to Missouri and Texas, this slow-growing, pyramidical holly can reach 25-60 feet ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - There are some Texas native plants currently blooming that are helpful to pollinators. “When it’s really necessary, a food source for some of these insects and animals ...

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The nature many of us take for granted actually intertwines with everyone and everything and plays a vital role in sustaining life, New Urban Forests owner Marshall Woodruff said. “The really cool ...

Students and naturalists have been sneaking onto private land to extricate threatened native plants: “This is a war between us and the developers, and nobody’s calling uncle.” (Grist/Amelia K. Bates) ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with The Texas Tribune. One sunny morning in May, four high school students stood on a flower-dappled prairie in southern Dallas holding shovels.

One sunny morning in May, four high school students stood on a flower-dappled prairie in southern Dallas holding shovels. Before them swayed a Texas blazing star, a tall and spindly stalk that erupts ...