Coastal Prairies Native Seed Project Priority Collection List Common Name Scientific name Plant functional group Regions Notes GRASSES Cool season, perennial, early common understory plant in rosette grass Dicanthelium spp. Coastal TX succsessional grass native grasslands

Warm season, perennial bunch more common in ETX and splitbeard bluestem Andropogon tenarius Coastal TX, ETX grass northern Coastal region

Warm season, short-lived purple threeawn Aristida purpurea Coastal TX, ETX perennial bunch grass

Warm season, annual, early gaping panicum Steinchisma hians Coastal TX moist sites succsessional grass

Warm season, perennial bunch Panamerican balsamscale Elionurus trapsacoides Coastal TX, ETX Sandy sites grass

Warm season, perennial bunch broomsedge bluestem Andropogon virginicus Coastal TX, ETX wet sites throughout the region grass

Warm season, short-lived longspike tridens Tridens strictus Coastal TX, ETX perennial bunch grass

Warm season, perennial bunch purpletop Tridens flavus Coastal TX, ETX grass

Warm season, perennial bunch silver bluestem Bothriochloa saccharoides Coastal TX, ETX grass

Warm season, perennial bunch Sandy sites througout the coastal Gulf muhly Muhlenbergia cappillaris Coastal TX, ETX grass region

Warm season, short-lived thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum Coastal TX, ETX Mostly found in shaded areas perennial bunch grass

Warm season, perennial bunch Common and sometimes brownseed paspalum Paspalum plicatulum Coastal TX, ETX grass dominant Warm season, perennial bunch Florida paspalum Paspalum floridanum Coastal TX, ETX grass

Warm season, perennial bunch gulfdunes paspalum Paspalum monostachyum Coastal TX, ETX grass

seashore paspalum Paspalum vaginatum Warm season, rhizamotous grass Coastal TX

Warm season, perennial bunch bushy bluestem Andropogon glomeratus Coastal TX, ETX wet sites throughout the region grass

Warm season, perennial bunch Large grass found in the northern sugarcane plumegrass Saccharum giganteum Coastal TX, ETX grass counties of the coastal region

Warm season, perennial bunch along bottoms and waterways Eastern gammagrass Tripsacum dactyloides Coastal TX, ETX grass throughout the region

Warm season, perennial bunch switchgrass Panicum virgatum Coastal TX, ETX grass

Warm season, perennial bunch yellow indiangrass Sorghastrum nutans Coastal TX, ETX grass

Warm season, perennial bunch crinkleawn Trachypogon secundus Coastal TX sandy sites grass, climax species

Warm season, perennial bunch big bluestem Andropogon geradii Coastal TX grass, climax species FORBS/SUBSHRUBS ASTERACEAE

Indian plantain Arnoglossum atriplicifolium Warm season, perennial Coastal TX

Warm season, perennial; swamp sunflower Helianthus angustifolius Coastal TX rhizomatous Warm season, perennial; Dog fennel Eupatorium compostifolium Coastal TX sandy sites; pollinator species rhizomatous

Warm season, annual/perennial; late boneset Eupatorium serotinum Coastal TX wet sites throughout the region rhizomatous

plains coreopsis Coreopsis tinctoria Annual Coastal TX

Sites closest to marine seaside goldenrod Solidago sempervirens Annual Coastal TX environments

prairie coneflower Ratibida columnifera Warm season, Perennial Coastal TX

black-eyed susan Rudbeckia hirta Annual/ short-perennial Coastal TX

only in certain areas along the maximilian sunflower Helianthus maximiliani Warm season; Perennial Coastal TX coast

mistflower Conoclinium spp. Perennial Coastal TX

blazing star Liatris acidota Perennial Coastal TX Mid and Lower Coast

blazing star Liatris pycnostachya Perennial Coastal TX Mid and Upper Coast

rosinweed Silphium sp. Perennial Coastal TX

ACANTHACAE wild petunia-Ruellia Ruellia humilis Perennial Coastal TX

APIACEAE dry upland prairie sites rattlesnake master Eryngium yuccifolium Perennial Coastal TX throughout the region

Hooker's eryngo Eryngium hookeri Annual Coastal TX wet sites throughout the region

ASCLEPIADACEAE

green milkweed Asclepia viridis Perennial Coastal TX

CYPERACEAE

white-top sedge Rhynchospora colorata Grass-like perennial Coastal TX wet areas; common in ditches

FABACEAE

yellow false indigo Baptisia spp. Perennial; sprawling Coastal TX a couple different species

yellow neptunia Neptunia lutea Perennial; shrub Coastal TX

sensitive briar Mimosa microphylla Perennial Coastal TX

LAMIACEAE

lemon beeblam Monarda citriodora Annual Coastal TX

VERBINACEAE

Texas vervain Verbena halei Perennial Coastal TX