The National Butterfly Center is pleased to make plants and seeds available to the public, for the propagation of butterfly gardens throughout deep South Texas. All of the species listed are native to Hidalgo County and the surrounding region.

If there is something you are interested in obtaining, please visit, call or email: max@nationalbutterflycenter.org. We will be happy to let you know what is available for sale. Actual packing and shipping charges will apply for live specimens.

The following list is subject to change, according to inventory on hand.

Tropical Milkweed		Asclepias curassavica
Runyon's Water Willow		Justicia runyonii
Corky Stemmed Passion Flower		Passiflora suberosa
Mexican Flame Vine		Senecio confusus
Texas Sabal Palm		Sabal Mexicana
Palo Verde		Parkinsonia texana
Mottled Tuberose		Mandreda variegata
Dumpling Cactus		Runyon's Coryphantha
Horse Crippler		Echinocactus texensis
Raspilla		Mimosa malacophylla
Mexican Ash		Fraxinus berlandieriana
Persimmon		Diospyros texana
Tenaza		Pithecellobium pallens
Honey Mesquite		Prosopis glandulosa
Sugar Hackberry		Celtis laevigata
Texas Torchwood		Amyris texana
Anacua		Ehritia anacua
Wright's Catclaw		Acacia greggii var. wrightii
Common Bee Bush ( white brush)		Aloysia gratissima
Retama		Parkinsonia aculeata
Guajillo		Acacia berlandieri
Narrow Leaf Elbow Bush		Forestiera angustifolia
Snap Dragon Vine		Maurandya antirrhiniflora
Mexican Hat		Ratibida columnifera
Texas Mountain Laurel (mescal bean)		Sophora secundiflora
Rio Grande Abutilon		Abutilon hypoleucum
Huisache		Acacia farnesiana
Huisachillo		Acacia schaffneri
Mexican Capraria		Capraria mexicana
Guayacan		Guaiacum angustifolium
Carolina Wolfberry		Lycium Carolinianum var. quadrifidum
Soapberry (jaboncillo)		Sapindus saponaria
Potato Tree		Solanum erianthum
Rio Grande Butterfly Bush (tepozan)		Cephalanthus salicifolius
Texas Ebony		Chloroleucon ebano
Mexican Caesalpinia		Caesalpinia mexicana
Coral Bean		Erythrina herbacea
Berlandier's Fiddlewood		Citharexylum berlandieri
Berlandier's Indian Mallow		Abutilon berlandieri
Red Sage ( scarlet sage) var. [white,pink]		Salvia coccinea
Hierba de Alacran ( White Plumbago)		Plumbago scandens
Blue Boneset (Spring Mistflower)		Tamaulipa Azurea (Eupatorium azureum)
Blue Mistflower (crucita)		Chromolaena odorata
Yellow Sophora ( Necklace Pod)		Sophora tomentosa var. occidentalis
Mexican Oregano ( redbrush Lippia)		Lippia graveolens
Skeleton Leaf Daisy (golden eye daisy)		Viguiera stenoloba
Brushy Lippia		Lippia Alba
Shrubby Blue Sage		Salvia ballotiflora
Brush Holly		Xylosma flexuosa
Crenate Leaf Snake Herb		Dyschoriste crenulata
Flame Acanthus		Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii
Shorthorn Jefea		Jefea brevifolia
Mexican Tournefortia ( googly-eyed vine)		Tournifortia volubilis
Tube Tongue		Justicia pilosella
Hachinal (willow leaved heimia)		Heimia salicifolia
Texas Kidneywood		Eysenhardtia texana
Barbados Cherry (manzanita)		Malpighia glabra
Pigeon Berry (Rouge plant)		Rivina humilis
Crucillo (randia)		Randia rhagocarpa
Lili of the Lomas (lila de los llanos)		Echeandia chandleri
Chisme (portulaca)		Portulaca pilosa
Texas Stone Crop (texas sedum)		Lenophyllum texanum
Texas Frog Fruit		Phyla nodiflora
Silky Leaf Frog Fruit		Phyla strigulosa
Gregg's Mistflower		Conoclinium greggii
Betony Mistflower		Conoclinium betonicifolium
Texas Lantana (calico bush)		Lantana urticoides
Sonset Lantana		Lantana camara
Low Croton (berlandier croton)		Croton humilis
Rio Grande Mock Vervain		Glandularia polyantha
Spanish Dagger (palma pita)		Yucca treculeana
Vasey's Adelia		Adelia vaseyi
Zizotes Milkweed		Asclepias oenotheroides
Heart-leaved Hibiscus		Hibiscus martianus
Purple Sage (cenizo)		Leucophyllum frutescens
Goldenrod		Solidago sempervirens
Hairy Wedelia		Wedelia texana
Small-flowered Wrightwort		carlowrightia parviflora
Six-angle Fold Wing		Dicliptera sexangularis
Common Balloon Vine		Cardiospermum halicacabum
Baby Bonnets		Coursetia axillaris
Turk's cap		Malvaviscus drummondii