Xeriscape – Drought-Adaptive Horticulture

Passalong Plants in West Texas

ANNUALS
Blue morning glory
Larkspur
Standing cypress
Orache
Snow on the mountain
Bachelor buttons/corn flower
California poppy
Lady in red salvia
Gaillardia

BULBS
Crinum
Spring star flower
Canna
Pink oxalis
Garlic chives
Dividing onions
Daylily
Iris
Red-hot poker
Jerusalem artichoke

HERBS medicinal and culinary
(this list is incomplete -- both Anglo and Hispanic settlers used many plants for medicine…and many were grown in pots for easy use…these are species I have seen growing here in gardens) (some are listed elsewhere)
Chilipiquin
Rue -- stimulate menstruation
Yarrow -- fever, asthma
Rosemary
Sage
Oregano
Mint - several varieties
Horehound
Lavender
Chives/Garlic chives
Dill
Epazote - stomach gas
Thyme
Basil
Cilantro/coriander
Tree of heaven - ringworm
Aloe
Chinaberry - fruit pulp - lice
Brazilian Senna - laxative
Mountain Pink -- sedative
Willow -- aspirin
Purple nightshade -- asadero cheese
Bouncing bet - soap
Yucca - soap
Soapberry -- soap
Arrowhead - soup thickener
Tall grass -- diuretic
Tomatillo - salsa verde
Estafiate -- artemisia --settle stomach
Popotillo - ephedra -- tea
Gobernadora -- creosote bush -- tea for cancer and wounds

PERENNIALS
Turk's cap
Mexican petunia
Cast iron plant
Autumn joy sedum?-
Thrift
Short aster
Medium aster
New england aster
Red valerian
hollyhocks
Purple heart
Oxeye daisy
Autumn sage
Goldenrod - tall
Golden rod short
Bouncing bet
Pokeberry
Four o'clock
Pink and yellow lantana

VINES
Cardinal vine
Honeysuckle
Trumpet vine
Silkvine
Passionflower
English ivy
Balsam apple
Dewberry
Grapes
Coral wreath vine
Virginia creeper
Alamo vine ( a perennial white morning glory)(plant species unknown as of yet -- have seen references in books)

SHRUBS
Juniper
Cenizo
Lilac
Winter honeysuckle
Flame leaf sumac
Evergreen sumac
Seven sister's rose
Old blush rose
Rambler rose
Harrison's yellow rose
Mexican elder
Buffalo currant
Creek plum
Bird of paradise
Winter jasmine
Coralberry
Beautyberry
Brazilian senna
Pomegranate
Pyracantha by 1940

TREES
Jujube
Hackberry
Vitex
Tree of heaven
retama
Arbor vitae
Fruiting mulberry
Osage orange
Necklace bead
Chinaberry
Soapberry
American elm
Pinyon
Live oak
Black locust
Desert willow
Italian cypress
Fig
Salt cedar -- germania 1899
Crabapple- colorado city 1900
Texas persimmon - Abilene 1900
Fruit trees -- peach, nectarine, pear, apple, apricot, plum, even cherry
Siberian elm -- government giveaway 1930?
Poplar
Cottonwood

Miscellaneous plants
Tall grass
Water lilies
Papyrus sedge
Bermuda grass -- 1890

Houseplants
"Face" plant

DESERT PLANTS
Ocotillo
Cane cholla
Mother in law tongue prickly pear
Spineless prickly pear (nopalito)
Agave
Strawberry cactus
Cactus garden collections… many species