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 ↓

Grooved nipple cactus 5
Coryphantha sulcata
Tigertongue 6
Opuntia ellisiana
Texas prickly-pear 7
Opuntia engelmannii
Texas prickly pear 8
Opuntia engelmannii lindheimeri
cow's tongue pricklypear 9
Opuntia engelmannii linguiformis
Mission Prickly-pear 10
Opuntia ficus-indica
eastern prickly pear 11
Opuntia humifusa
twist spine prickly pear 13
Opuntia macrorhiza
bunny ears 14
Opuntia microdasys
brown-spined prickly-pear 15
Opuntia phaeacantha
tree cholla 16
Cylindropuntia imbricata
Christmas cholla 17
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis
Longleaf Buckwheat 18
Eriogonum longifolium
curled dock
Rumex crispus
Whitlow-wort 19
Paronychia virginica
sleepy catchfly 20
Silene antirrhina
American pokeweed 21
Phytolacca americana
Juda's Bush
Iresine rhizomatosa
rougeplant 22
Rivina humilis
Virginia spring beauty 23
Claytonia virginica

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