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Native Plants & Grasses
Below is a list of native plants and grasses as defined by the City of South Padre Island and the Keep South Padre Island Beautiful Committee.
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Beach Bean, Sword Bean
Bitter Panic Grass
Butterfly Pea Vine
Christmas Berry
Common Sunflower
Coral Bean
Dalea
Flaveria
Flax
Golden Wave
Ground Cherry
Gulf Croton
Hierba del Soldado
Hoary Milkpea.
Island Daisy Corpus Christi Fleabane
Mexican Hat
Partridge Pea
Pink Evening Primrose
Powder Puff
Scarlet Pea
Silverleaf Nightshade
Snoutbean
Spring Ladies Tresses
Square Bud Primrose
Texas Vervain
Tiny Tim
Tornillo
White Topped Umbrella Grass
Wild Cowpea
Wild Petunia
Wooly Stemodia
Yellow Sophora
Native Plants and Grasses
List of the native plants and grasses as defined by the City of South Padre Island and the Parks and Keep South Padre Island Beautiful Committee.
Beach Bean, Sword Bean, Bitter Panic Grass, Butterfly Pea Vine, Christmas Berry, Common Sunflower, Coral Bean, Dalea, Flaveria, Flax, Golden Wave, Ground Cherry, Gulf Croton, Hierba del Soldado, Hoary Milk pea, Island Daisy, Corpus Christi Fleabane, Mexican Hat, Partridge Pea, Pink Evening Primrose, Powder Puff, Scarlet Pea, Silverleaf Nightshade, Snoutbean, Spring Ladies Tresses, Square Bud Primrose, Texas Vervain, Tiny Tim, Tornillo, White Topped Umbrella Grass, Wild Cowpea, Wild Petunia, Wooly Stemodia, Yellow Sophora
Common Name | Botanical Name |
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Noxious plants | |
alligator weed | Alternanthera philoxeroides |
balloon vine | Cardiospermum halicacabum |
Brazilian Peppertree | Schinus terebinthifolius |
broomrape | Orobanche ramosa |
camelthorn | Alhagi camelorum |
Chinese tallow tree | Triadica sebifera |
Eurasian watermilfoil | Myriophyllum spicatum |
giant duckweed | Spirodela oligorrhiza |
giant reed | Arundo donax |
hedge bindweed | Calystegia sepium |
hydrilla | Hydrilla verticillata |
switchgrass | Rottboellia cochinchinensis |
Japanese dodder | Cuscuta japonica |
kudzu | Pueraria montana var. lobata |
lagarosiphon | Lagarosiphon major |
paperbark | Melaleuca quinquenervia |
purple loosestrife | Lythrum salicaria |
rooted water hyacinth | Eichhornia azurea |
salt cedar | Tamarix spp. |
Salvinia | Salvinia spp. |
serrated tussock | Nassella trichotoma |
torpedo grass | Panicum repens |
tropical soda apple | Solanum viarum |
water spinach | Ipomoea aquatica |
water hyacinth | Eichhornia crassipes |
water lettuce | Pistia stratiotes |
Invasive plants | |
chinaberry | Melia azedarach |
Chinese tallow tree | Triadica sebifera |
Japanese climbing fern | Lygodium japonicum |
kudzu | Pueraria montana var. lobata |
salt cedar | Tamarix spp. |
tropical soda apple | Solanum viarum |
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