CITY OF LEANDER PREFERRED PLANT LIST Shade Trees Mexican Plum Deciduous Shrubs Arizona Cypress Possumhaw Holly Large Bur Oak Red Buckeye Flowering Senna Cedar Elm Rough Leaf Dogwood Fragrant Sumac Chinquapin Oak Rusty Blackhaw Sage Escarpment Live Oak Viburnum Skull Cap Lacey Oak Texas Mountain Laurel Monterey Oak (evergreen) Small Pecan Texas Persimmon Bamboo Muhly Pistachio (Texas) Texas Pistache (evergreen) Big Muhly Red Oak Texas Redbud Black Dalea Texas Ash Yaupon Holly (evergreen) Deer Muhly Texas Red Oak (Spanish Flame Acanthus Oak) Evergreen Shrubs Gulf Muhly Large Inland Sea Oats Street Trees Abelia Lantana Cedar Elm Agarita Mexican Feather Grass Drake Elm Agave Mountain Sage Bigtooth Maple Burford Holly Sideoats Grama Red Oak Bush Germander Wooly Butterfly Bush Cenizo/Texas Yellow Bells Sage/Autumn Sage Ornamental Trees (Salvia Greggii) Groundcovers American Smoke Tree Cotoneaster Artemisia Anacacho Orchid Tree Primrose Jasmine Asian Jasmine Carolina Buckthorn Aztec Grass Chitalpa Small Creeping Germander Crape Myrtle Dwarf Chinese Holly Frog Fruit (deciduous) Desert Willow Dwarf Palmetto Gregg Dalea (deciduous) Escarpment Black Cherry Dwarf Yaupon Holly Liriope Eve’s Necklace Texas Sotol Meadow Sedge Evergreen Sumac Yucca Monkey Grass Goldenball Lead Tree Mountain Pea (deciduous) Kidneywood Oregano Mexican Buckeye Trailing Rosemary EXHIBIT C List of Invasive Plants Not Acceptable for Use The following list comes from the August 2004 edition of the Grow Green Guide to Native and Adapted Landscape Plants. Trees to Avoid Ashe Juniper Juniperus ashei Chinaberry Melia azedarach Chinese Parasol Tree Firmiana simplex Chinese Pistache Pistacia chinensis Chinese Tallow Sapium sebiferum Mimosa (non-native) Albizzia julibrissin Paper Mulberry Broussonetia papyrifera Salt Cedar Tamarisk spp. Tree of Heaven Ailanthus altissima Vitex Vitex agnus-castus White Mulberry Morus alba Shrubs to Avoid Chinese Photinia Photinia spp. Common Privet Ligustrum sinense, L. vulgare Japanese Ligustrum Ligustrum lucidum Nandina (berrying varieties) Nandina domestica Pyracantha Pyracantha spp. Russian Olive Elaeagnus angustifolia Wax Leaf Ligustrum Ligustrum japonicum Vines to Avoid Cat’s Claw Vine Macfadyena unguis-cati English Ivy Hedera helix Japanese Honeysuckle Lonicera japonica Kudzu Pueraria lobata Vinca Vinca major, V. Minor Wisteria (non-native) Wisteria sinensis, W. floribunda Other Plants to Avoid Elephant Ear Alocasia spp., Colocasia spp. Giant Cane Arundo donax Holly Fern Cyrtomium falcatum Running Bamboo Phyllostachys aurea Ground Cover to Avoid Bermuda (Seeding Varieties) Cynodon dactylon Johnson Grass Sorghum halepense .