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Central Texas

October 12, 2026

Central Texas on the regions map

Before · After

Added

  • Central Texas is on the map — 67 native plants for Austin, San Antonio and Dallas–Fort Worth, picked for heat, drought, limestone and black clay, and every one marked for whether deer eat it.
  • Wildlife: three Texas animals join the catalog — the American snout, the phaon crescent and the black-chinned hummingbird, each linked to the native plants that raise or feed it.
  • Invasives: chinaberry, Johnsongrass, bastard cabbage, glossy privet and nandina, with how to tell each one and how to clear it without chemicals.
  • Native swaps: Chinese pistache gets a native stand-in — Texas red oak or flameleaf sumac for the same red autumn.
  • Two books for Central Texas gardeners join further reading, both on the Native Plant Society of Texas's own list: the Wasowskis' Native Texas Plants and George Oxford Miller's Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas.