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
Compact Prairie Clover 26
Dalea compacta
Hall's Dalea 27
Dalea hallii
purple prairie clover 28
Dalea purpurea
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
white milkwort 35
Polygala alba
Chinese Photinia 36
Photinia serratifolia
Red Tip Photinia 37
Photinia × fraseri
Indian Hawthorn 38
Rhaphiolepis indica
Chickasaw plum 39
Prunus angustifolia
Carolina laurelcherry 40
Prunus caroliniana
Cherry laurel 41
Prunus laurocerasus
Mexican Plum 42
Prunus mexicana
Peach 43
Prunus persica
Creek plum 44
Prunus rivularis
southern dewberry 4
Rubus trivialis
Bridal-wreath 45
Spiraea prunifolia
Black Hawthorn 46
Crataegus douglasii
Reverchon's hawthorn 29
Crataegus reverchonii
green hawthorn 47
Crataegus viridis
Indian strawberry 48
Potentilla indica
sulphur cinquefoil 49
Potentilla recta
White prairie rose 50
Rosa foliolosa
multiflora rose 51
Rosa multiflora
Taiwan Firethorn 52
Pyracantha koidzumii
white avens 53
Geum canadense
Callery pear 54
Pyrus calleryana
Common Pear 55
Pyrus communis
Loquat 56
Eriobotrya japonica
Prairie Burnet 57
Poteridium annuum
New Jersey tea 58
Ceanothus americanus
inland ceanothus 59
Ceanothus herbaceus
white mulberry 60
Morus alba
red mulberry 61
Morus rubra
Osage-orange 62
Maclura pomifera
Pennsylvania pellitory 63
Parietaria pensylvanica
American elm 64
Ulmus americana
Cedar Elm
Ulmus crassifolia
Chinese elm 65
Ulmus parvifolia
sugarberry 29
Celtis laevigata
scarlet pimpernel 66
Anagallis arvensis
seaside brookweed 58
Samolus parviflorus
Gum bumelia
Sideroxylon lanuginosum
standing cypress 48
Ipomopsis rubra
prairie phlox 67
Phlox pilosa
Texas Persimmon 21
Diospyros texana
American persimmon 68
Diospyros virginiana
roughleaf dogwood 69
Cornus drummondii
Stick-Leaf 70
Mentzelia oligosperma
clasping milkweed 71
Asclepias amplexicaulis
antelope horns 72
Asclepias asperula
Antelopehorns 73
Asclepias asperula capricornu
tropical milkweed 74
Asclepias curassavica
slim milkweed
Asclepias linearis
Zizotes milkweed 16
Asclepias oenotheroides
slimleaf milkweed 75
Asclepias stenophylla
butterfly milkweed 76
Asclepias tuberosa
whorled milkweed 77
Asclepias verticillata
green comet milkweed 16
Asclepias viridiflora
green antelopehorns 78
Asclepias viridis
Star Milkvine 79
Matelea biflora
Fringed Bluestar
Amsonia ciliata
Texas Slimpod 80
Amsonia ciliata texana

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