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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 ↓

honey locust ¹
Gleditsia triacanthos

Two-leaved Senna ²
Senna roemeriana

partridge pea ³
Chamaecrista fasciculata

Illinois bundleflower ⁴
Desmanthus illinoensis

Fourvalve Mimosa ⁵
Mimosa quadrivalvis

honey mesquite ⁶
Prosopis glandulosa

Persian silk tree ⁷
Albizia julibrissin

trailing fuzzy-bean ⁸
Strophostyles helvola

rabbitfoot clover ⁹
Trifolium arvense

hop trefoil ¹⁰
Trifolium campestre

Lesser hop trefoil ¹¹
Trifolium dubium

crimson clover ¹²
Trifolium incarnatum

white clover ¹³
Trifolium repens

Reversed clover ¹⁴
Trifolium resupinatum

arrowleaf clover ¹⁵
Trifolium vesiculosum

little bur-clover ¹⁶
Medicago minima

bur clover ¹⁷
Medicago polymorpha

white sweetclover ¹⁸
Melilotus albus

small melilot ¹⁹
Melilotus indicus

yellow sweetclover ¹⁸
Melilotus officinalis

Texas Bluebonnet ²⁰
Lupinus texensis

panicled ticktrefoil ²¹
Desmodium paniculatum

Tiny Pea
Lathyrus pusillus

Common Vetch ²²
Vicia sativa

Ground-plum ²³
Astragalus crassicarpus

Texas milkvetch
Astragalus reflexus

false indigo ²⁴
Amorpha fruticosa

Golden Prairie Clover ²⁵
Dalea aurea

Compact Prairie Clover ²⁶
Dalea compacta

Hall's Dalea ²⁷
Dalea hallii

purple prairie clover ²⁸
Dalea purpurea

Slender Prairie Clover ²⁷
Dalea tenuis

largebract Indian breadroot ²⁹
Pediomelum cuspidatum

Narrowleaf Indian breadroot ³⁰
Pediomelum linearifolium

Reverchon's scurf-pea ²⁷
Pediomelum reverchonii

bigpod sesbania ³¹
Sesbania herbacea

Bladder Pod ³²
Glottidium vesicarium

eastern redbud ³³
Cercis canadensis

Texas redbud ³⁴
Cercis canadensis texensis

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Benbrook Lake Plant Guide

honey locust 1 Gleditsia triacanthos

Two-leaved Senna 2 Senna roemeriana

partridge pea 3 Chamaecrista fasciculata

Illinois bundleflower 4 Desmanthus illinoensis

Fourvalve Mimosa 5 Mimosa quadrivalvis

honey mesquite 6 Prosopis glandulosa

Persian silk tree 7 Albizia julibrissin

trailing fuzzy-bean 8 Strophostyles helvola

rabbitfoot clover 9 Trifolium arvense

hop trefoil 10 Trifolium campestre

Lesser hop trefoil 11 Trifolium dubium

crimson clover 12 Trifolium incarnatum

white clover 13 Trifolium repens

Reversed clover 14 Trifolium resupinatum

arrowleaf clover 15 Trifolium vesiculosum

little bur-clover 16 Medicago minima

bur clover 17 Medicago polymorpha

white sweetclover 18 Melilotus albus

small melilot 19 Melilotus indicus

yellow sweetclover 18 Melilotus officinalis

Texas Bluebonnet 20 Lupinus texensis

panicled ticktrefoil 21 Desmodium paniculatum

Tiny Pea Lathyrus pusillus

Common Vetch 22 Vicia sativa

Ground-plum 23 Astragalus crassicarpus

Texas milkvetch Astragalus reflexus

false indigo 24 Amorpha fruticosa

Golden Prairie Clover 25 Dalea aurea

Compact Prairie Clover 26 Dalea compacta

Hall's Dalea 27 Dalea hallii

purple prairie clover 28 Dalea purpurea

Slender Prairie Clover 27 Dalea tenuis

largebract Indian breadroot 29 Pediomelum cuspidatum

Narrowleaf Indian breadroot 30 Pediomelum linearifolium

Reverchon's scurf-pea 27 Pediomelum reverchonii

bigpod sesbania 31 Sesbania herbacea

Bladder Pod 32 Glottidium vesicarium

eastern redbud 33 Cercis canadensis

Texas redbud 34 Cercis canadensis texensis