Benbrook Lake Plant Guide

These are common native plants as well as landscape and invasive plants which are commonly found in the wild at Benbrook Lake, Tarrant County, Texas (including the cities of Fort Worth and Benbrook). Park areas included are Pecan Valley, Dutch Branch, Holiday , Longhorn, Bear Creek, Mustang ...more ↓

Cloth-of-gold
Physaria gracilis
annual bastard cabbage 1
Rapistrum rugosum
redwhisker clammyweed 2
Polanisia dodecandra
buffalo gourd 3
Cucurbita foetidissima
Virginia creeper 4
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
summer grape 5
Vitis aestivalis
graybark grape 6
Vitis cinerea
mustang grape 7
Vitis mustangensis
riverbank grape 8
Vitis riparia
muscadine 9
Vitis rotundifolia
frost grape 10
Vitis vulpina
heart leaf peppervine 11
Ampelopsis cordata
Western Umbrella-sedge 12
Fuirena simplex
little bluestem 13
Schizachyrium scoparium
Indiangrass 14
Sorghastrum nutans
Eastern Gamagrass 15
Tripsacum dactyloides
switchgrass 16
Panicum virgatum
big bluestem 17
Andropogon gerardii
Bushy Bluestem 18
Andropogon glomeratus
splitbeard bluestem 19
Andropogon ternarius
Texas bluegrass
Poa arachnifera
Canada wild rye 20
Elymus canadensis
Texas winter grass 21
Nassella leucotricha
Bermuda grass 22
Cynodon dactylon
Johnson grass 23
Sorghum halepense
Muhly Grass 24
Muhlenbergia capillaris
Seep Muhly 15
Muhlenbergia reverchonii
sprangletop 25
Leptochloa fusca
Dallis grass 26
Paspalum dilatatum
windmill grass 15
Chloris verticillata
rice cutgrass 27
Leersia oryzoides
sideoats grama 20
Bouteloua curtipendula
Buffalo Grass 15
Bouteloua dactyloides
Texas Grama 28
Bouteloua rigidiseta
Silver bluestem 29
Bothriochloa laguroides
King Ranch Bluestem
Bothriochloa ischaemum songarica
Texas cup grass 15
Eriochloa sericea
Hairy Erioneuron 15
Erioneuron pilosum
White Tridens 15
Tridens albescens
giant reed 30
Arundo donax
inland sea oats 31
Chasmanthium latifolium
Crested Coralroot Orchid 32
Hexalectris spicata
Spring Coralroot 34
Corallorhiza wisteriana
nodding ladies' tresses 35
Spiranthes cernua
Slender Ladies' Tresses 36
Spiranthes lacera
Great Plains Ladies' Tresses 37
Spiranthes magnicamporum
red yucca 38
Hesperaloe parviflora
Aloe Yucca 39
Yucca aloifolia
Arkansas Yucca 40
Yucca arkansana
common yucca 41
Yucca filamentosa
Spanish dagger 42
Yucca gloriosa
Glen Rose Yucca 24
Yucca necopina
Pale Yucca 15
Yucca pallida
Twisted-Leaf Yucca
Yucca rupicola
Atlantic camas 43
Camassia scilloides
common star-of-Bethlehem 44
Ornithogalum umbellatum
Funnel-Flower 45
Androstephium coeruleum
wild asparagus 46
Asparagus officinalis
Prairie Pleatleaf 47
Nemastylis geminiflora
Roadside Blue-eyed Grass 24
Sisyrinchium pruinosum
evening rainlily 48
Zephyranthes chlorosolen
Wild Garlic 49
Allium canadense
Drummond's Onion 50
Allium drummondii
crowpoison 51
Nothoscordum bivalve
Nuttall's Deathcamas 52
Toxicoscordion nuttallii
saw greenbrier 53
Smilax bona-nox
bristly greenbrier 49
Smilax tamnoides
Hydrilla 54
Hydrilla verticillata
Longleaf Pondweed 34
Potamogeton nodosus
False dayflower 55
Tinantia anomala
western spiderwort 56
Tradescantia occidentalis
bluejacket 57
Tradescantia ohiensis
climbing dayflower 58
Commelina diffusa
common water hyacinth 59
Eichhornia crassipes
Butler's quillwort 52
Isoetes butleri

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