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KISD Landscaping List

*indicates native to Central Common Scientific Name Description Name LARGE TREES Big-tooth Acer 20-50 feet tall; full sun; needs very little water; maple* grandidentatum golden to red fall color Bur oak* Quercus 60-80 feet tall, 50 feet spread; sun/part shade; needs macrocarpa deep, rich soil; very large leaves and acorns Chinkapin oak* Quercus up to 50 feet tall; sun/part shade; prefers deep soil; muehlenbergii yellow to brown fall color Lacey oak Quercus laceyi (Q. up to 20 feet tall; part shade; slow growth rate; glaucoides) interesting blue-green leaf color Monterrey oak Quercus up to 50 feet tall; sun/part shade; deciduous to (Mexican white polymorpha evergreen; prefers well-drained soil; bronze leaf oak) color Pecan* Carya illinoenensis up to 90 feet tall; full sun; needs deep, rich soil; edible nuts Plateau live Quercus fusiformis up to 30 feet tall; sun/part shade; evergreen; oak* (Q. virginiana) susceptible to oak wilt Shumard oak Quercus shumardii up to 50 feet tall; sun/part shade; prefers moist, deep soil; red to yellow fall color Texas red oak* Quercus buckleyi up to 50 feet tall; sun/part shade; red to yellow fall foliage Texas white Fraxinus texensis 40-50 feet tall; sun/part shade; fast growing; yellow ash* (NOT (NOT F. velutinus) to fall color ash or Fan Tex ash) SMALL TREES Blanco Pyrus ioensis var. up to 12 feet tall; full sun; pink in spring, crabapple texana ( interesting ioensis var. texana) Carolina Rhamnus up to 15 feet tall; sun/shade; large glossy leaves; buckthorn* caroliniana small purple fruit (Frangula caroliniana) Desert willow Chilopsis linearis up to 15 feet tall; sun/shade; showy pink flowers; avoid overwatering

Common Scientific Name Description Name Eve's necklace* Styphnolobium up to 20 feet tall; part shade; beautiful pink affine (Sophora clusters, fruit black bead-like pods; needs well- affinis) drained soil Little walnut* Juglans up to 20 feet tall; part shade; yellow-green foliage microcarpa Mexican plum* Prunus mexicana up to 20 feet tall; sun/part shade; white, fragrant flowers in early spring; flaky bark Rusty Viburnum 10-20 feet tall; sun/part shade; large white flowers blackhaw rufidulum in spring, red fall color viburnum* Smoketree Cotinus obovatus 12-20 feet tall; sun/part shade; flowers and fruit look like smoke; orange fall color Texas Diospyrus texana 10-15 feet tall; sun/part shade; semi-evergreen; persimmon* multi-trunked; interesting peeling bark Texas redbud* Cercis canadensis 20-30 feet tall; sun/part shade; pink flowers early var. texensis spring TALL -brush Aloysia gratissima up to 10 feet tall; sun/part shade; small white, vanilla-scented flowers in spikes; can be pruned into hedge Cenizo Leucophyllum 2-6 feet tall, 4-6 feet wide; sun/part shade; silvery frutescens gray with bright pink-lavender flowers; several months of flowering; good hedge or screen Deciduous Ilex decidua 12-20 feet tall; sun/part shade; striking red berries holly* on female plants persist into winter Dwarf wax Myrica pusilla 8-12 feet tall; sun/part shade; evergreen; golden myrtle yellow flowers; small blue Evergreen Rhus virens 4-12 feet tall, 6-8 feet wide; full sun; thick evergreen sumac* foliage, may bronze after a freeze; red berries in late fall; do not overwater Golden-ball Leucaena retusa up to 12 feet tall; sun/part shade; yellow puff lead tree flowers in spring, summer and fall; do not overwater Mexican Ungnadia speciosa 12-20 feet tall, 12-20 feet wide; sun/part shade; pink buckeye* flowers in early spring; yellow fall color Silktassel Garrya ovata var. 3-12 feet tall; full sun; evergreen, silvery-gray leaves lindheimeri (G. lindheimeri) Texas Eysenhardtia 3-12 feet tall; full sun; multi-branched open shrub; kidneywood* texana white, fragrant flowers Texas mock Philadelphus up to 12 feet tall; sun/part shade; white flowers late orange texensis spring and early summer

Common Scientific Name Description Name Texas Sophora 10-20 feet; sun/part shade; fragrant purple flowers; mountain secundiflora slow growing laurel* Texas pistache Pistacia texana 12-30 feet tall, 15-20 feet wide; full sun; evergreen; (NOT Chinese (NOT P. chinensis) leaves small and glossy pistache) Wafer-ash* Ptelea trifoliata 3-12 feet tall; sun/part shade; interesting fragrant (Hop tree) foliage and fruit Wax myrtle Myrica cerifera up to 15 feet tall; sun/part shade; evergreen; golden yellow flowers; small blue fruits Witch hazel Hamamelis up to 30 feet tall; part shade/full shade; golden virginiana yellow fall color; yellow flowers in late fall LOW SHRUBS Black dalea* Dalea frutescens 1-3 feet tall, 3-4 feet wide; full sun; small delicate leaves; purple flowers in summer and fall Butterfly bush Buddleja 4-6 feet tall, 4-6 feet wide; sun/part shade; semi- marrubiifolia evergreen; silvery-gray leaves; orange flowers summer and fall Chili pequin Capsicum annuum 2-3 feet tall; part-shade/full shade; small white flowers in summer and fall, small red berries Elbowbush* Forestiera up to 10 feet tall; sun/part shade/shade; open shrub, pubescens turns yellow in fall Flame acanthus Anisicanthus 3-4 feet tall; sun/part shade; flowers are orange or quadrifidus var. red from summer to fall; attract wrightii Gregg dalea Dalea greggii 1 foot tall, 2-4 feet wide; full sun; good ground cover; flowers summer and fall Gregg sage greggii up to 3 feet tall, up to 3 feet wide; full sun; evergreen; flowers range from pink to red to white, spring summer and fall; attracts hummingbirds Shrubby blue Salvia ballotiflora up to 6 feet tall; full sun; flowers spring, summer, sage and fall; fragrant (minty) leaves Shrubby Ageratina 3-5 feet tall, 3-5 feet wide; part shade; white flowers boneset* havanensis in late summer and fall (White (Eupatorium mistflower) havanense) Skeleton-leaf Viguiera stenoloba 2-4 feet tall; sun/part shade; prolific, daisy-like, Goldeneye yellow-orange flowers in summer and fall; needs good drainage

Common Scientific Name Description Name Skunkbush* Rhus trilobata (R. up to 3 feet tall, 3-5 feet wide; sun/part shade; red (Aromatic aromatica) berries in fall, red fall foliage sumac) Turk's cap* Malvaviscus 2-6 feet tall, 3-5 feet wide; part shade/shade; red arboreus var. flowers in summer and fall drummondii Yaupon holly* Ilex vomitoria 12-20 feet tall, 10-15 feet wide; sun/shade; evergreen; red berries on females; available in dwarf variety growing 2-4 feet tall and 2-4 feet wide Yellow bells stans 3-6 feet tall; sun/part shade; large, showy, yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; may die in harsh winters; do not overwater Zexmenia* Wedelia texana up to 3 feet tall; sun/part shade; showy yellow daisy- (Wedelia) like flowers from summer to frost; do not overwater VINES Not Permitted XEROPHYTES Red Hesperaloe 2-3 feet tall; full sun; red flowers on tall stalk; parviflora attracts hummingbirds PERENNIAL FLOWERS Aromatic Aster oblongifolius 2-3 feet tall, 2-3 feet wide; sun/part shade; purple aster* flowers in fall Big red sage Salvia 3-4 feet tall, 1-2 feet wide; sun/part shade; magenta penstemonoides flowers in summer and fall Blackfoot Melampodium up to 1 foot tall, 1-2 feet wide; full sun; white flowers daisy* leucanthum during spring, summer, and fall Bushy Scutellaria up to 1 foot tall, 1 foot wide; full sun; small purple skullcap* wrightii flowers in spring, summer and fall Butterflyweed tuberosa up to 2 feet tall; sun/part shade; clusters of yellow- orange flowers Canyon sage Salvia lycoides up to 3 feet tall; part shade; blue flowers spring and fall Cedar sage* Salvia roemariana 1-2 feet tall, 3 feet wide; part shade/full shade; evergreen; red flowers in spring Chocolate daisy Berlandiera lyrata 1-2 feet tall; sun/part shade; yellow daisy-like flowers in spring and fall, smell like chocolate Damianita Chrysactinia 1-2 feet tall, 1-2 feet wide; full sun; yellow flowers mexicana Engelmann Engelmannia up to 2 feet tall; full sun; yellow flowers in spring and daisy* pinnatifida (E. summer peristenia)

Common Scientific Name Description Name Fall obedient Physostegia 2-4 feet tall, 3 feet wide; part sun/shade; purple plant virginiana flowers in fall Fluttermill* Oenothera up to 1 foot tall; full sun; large yellow flowers open missouriensis early evening in spring and summer Frogfruit* Phyla nodiflora (P. less than 1 foot tall; sun/part shade; semi-evergreen; incisa) good groundcover; small white flower clusters through spring, summer and fall Gaura* Gaura lindheimeri 2-4 feet tall, 3 feet wide; sun/part shade; showy pink to white flowers spring and summer Gayfeather* Liatris mucronata 1-2 feet tall; full sun; purple flowers in the fall; do not overwater Giant blue Salvia azurea 3-6 feet tall; sun/part shade; delicate blue flowers in sage* fall Goldenrod* Solidago 2-5 feet tall; sun/part shade/shade; abundant yellow canadensis (S. flowers in the fall nemoralis) Heath aster* Aster ericoides 1-2 feet tall; full sun; numerous small white flowers (Symphyotrichum in the fall ericoides) Mealy sage* Salvia farinacea 1-3 feet tall, 1-2 feet wide; full sun; purple/blue flowers in spring, summer and fall Pink skullcap Scutellaria can spread up to 2 feet wide; shade; dark pink suffretescens flowers in spring, summer and fall Ponyfoot* Dichondra less than 1 foot tall; sun/part shade/shade; pony foot carolinensis shaped leaves; good ground cover; prefers moist soil Prairie Delphinium 1-2 foot tall; sun/part shade; white or blue flowers larkspur* carolinianum on tall stalks Prostrate Calyptocarpus less than 1 foot tall; sun/part shade; small yellow lawnflower* vialis flowers in spring, summer and fall; good ground cover; can be mowed Purple cone- Echinacea 1-2 feet tall; sun/part shade; large purple flowers in flower* angustifolia the spring and summer Rock Penstemon up to 2 feet tall; sun/part shade; large, red, tubular penstemon baccharifolius flowers in spring, summer and fall Scarlet Penstemon 1-2 feet tall, 1-2 feet wide; sun/part shade; pinkish- penstemon triflorus red flowers in spring and fall

Common Scientific Name Description Name Silver ponyfoot Dichondra up to 4 inches tall; sun/part shade; silver-gray argentea foliage has metallic appearance in sun; great groundcover for large, open, sunny sites Standing Ipomopsis rubra 2-4 foot tall; sun/part shade; biennial, first year of cypress* growth fernlike in appearance, less than 1 foot tall, second year becomes a stiff unbranched stalk with showy, red, tubular flowers in the spring and early summer Swordleaf Sisyrinchium less than 1 foot tall; sun/part shade; grass-like leaves blue-eyed chilense with showy blue-purple flowers at tip of stalks in grass* spring Texas betony Stachys coccinea 1-2 feet tall, 2-3 feet wide; shade; leaves gray-green; red flowers in spring, summer and fall Texas rock Pavonia 1-3 feet tall, up to 2-3 feet wide; sun/part shade; lasiopetala pink flowers during summer and fall Texas star Hibiscus coccineus up to 4 feet tall, up to 4 feet wide; full sun; orange hibiscus star-like flowers in the summer and fall Tropical sage* Salvia coccinea up to 3 feet tall, 1-2 feet wide; sun/shade; red flowers in spring, summer, and fall Wild fox-glove* Pentemon cobaea 1-2 feet tall; full sun; large white flowers in spring Winecup* Callirhoe less than 1 foot tall, 3 feet wide, mat-forming; involucrata sun/part shade; pink, purple or maroon cup-shaped flowers on stalk Woolly Vernonia 1-2 feet tall; full sun; lots of small purple flowers in ironweed* lindheimeri summer Woolly Stemodia lanata up to 1 foot tall; full sun; silvery-gray foliage with stemodia (S. tomentosa) lavender or white flowers through spring, summer, and fall ORNAMENTAL (TALL) GRASSES Not Permitted

Common Scientific Name Description Name TURF GRASSES Buffalograss* Buchloe full sun; needs little mowing; very little water dactyloides needed once established; does not respond to fertilizer; spreads by as well as runners; needs to be weeded once established Bermuda grass Cynodon dactylon sun/shade; grows short, needs mowing; needs 1 inch of water per week; will invade nearby beds Native sun turf Buchloe full sun; only available as , plant spring to grass mix dactyloides and summer; needs little mowing; does not respond to (buffalograss Bouteloua gracilis fertilizer and blue grama) Thunder turf Buchloe sun/part shade (up to 50%); only available as seed, grass mix dactyloides, plant spring to summer; needs little mowing; (buffalograss, Bouteloua gracilis, provides even textured, dense turf; cannot mow too blue grama, and Hilaria often, over watering and fertilizing increase weeds and curly belangeri mesquite)