xeriscaping in west Texas...
Native
and Adapted Plants
I am going to group plants together that look good
together… so this is a learning experience, too!
1. The
very best type of red oak for West Texas is?
2. Latin
name
3. Family
name
4. I.D. or
cultural tips
5. Plumbago
has _________ blossoms and leaves that turn _________ in the fall.
6. Latin
name
7. Family
name
8. Tips
9. Kerrville
and Spicy Phlox are ____________________, have pink blossoms that smell very
sweet, and like _________________ shade.
10. Latin
name
11. Family
name
12. Tips
13. Gulf
Coast Muhly has _____________ colored panicles, and wiry leaves and grows to
_________ feet high.
14. Latin
name
15. Family
name
16. Tips
17. Agaritas
are ____________leaved. They have yellow blossoms in the spring and
______________ colored berries in May.
18. Latin
name
19. Family
name
20. Tips
21. Coralberry
has small blooms in the fall, and ___________c0lored berries all winter, and
spreads by _________________.
22. Latin
name
23. Family
name
24. Tips
25. Nolinas
look like big evergreen ________________.
26. Latin
name
27. Family
name
28. Tips
29. Oxalis
bloom mostly in the _______________.
30. Latin
name
31. Family
name
32. Tips
33. Blue
eyed grass actually has what color in the center?
34. Latin
name
35. Family
name
36. Tips
37. Purple
clematis would be pretty draped over a rock in this landscape. Its flowers look
like little ______________.
38. Latin
name
39. Family
name
40. Tips
41. Columbines
have _____________ ___________ on the back side of their ____________ colored
blossoms.
42. Latin
name
43. Family
name
44. Tips
45. Caryopteris
has ___________colored blossoms.
46. Latin
name
47. Family
name
48. Tips
49. Purple
coneflower can take some shade. The cone in the center has what color on the
tips of their stamens?
50. Latin
name
51. Family
name
52. Tips
53. A strange looking member of the Evening
Primrose family, _____________ has one inch blossoms lined up along slender
stems to three feet tall. It comes in both pink and white.
54. Latin
name
55. Family
name
56. Tips
57. The
most commonly used Pavonia has ___________ blossoms about 1 inch across. It can
get __________ feet tall.
58. Latin
name
59. Family
name
60. Tips
61. Lady in
red is a shortlived perennial- sometimes not coming back after a cold winter.
It can get ______ feet tall, and has _________colored blossoms.
62. Latin
name
63. Family
name
64. Tips
65. Salad
burnet can be used in salads. Its leaves look like the fronds of _________.
66. Latin
name
67. Family
name
68. Tips
69. Texas
Betony has ________ flowers. It is almost evergreen, and begins to bloom
____________________. It has ________ stems.
70. Latin
name
71. Family
name
72. Tips
73. A small
ornamental tree to round out this grouping of plants is a legume, has pink to
red blooms in the spring. The variety with very glossy and small leaves makes
it the __________ species of _____________.
74. Latin
name
75. Family
name
76. Tips
For the next grouping we go for sunloving plants along a
hot west or south wall…..
77. Mesquite
has ______________ on its branches, and yellowish catkin like blooms followed
by __________, and when they are red, they are ripe.
78. Latin
name
79. Family
name
80. Tips
81. Goldenball
lead tree is a member of the same family, but its blooms are ___________ in
shape. It also has __________. Both trees can get up to __________ feet tall,
and are usually multitrunked.
82. Latin
name
83. Family
name
84. Tips
85. Autumn sage, or hummingbird sage, comes in
many different color variations,.. name three
_______________<______________<__________________. It gets to _________
feet tall, and blooms from __________ to ________________. It attracts
___________________________-.
86. Latin
name
87. Family
name
88. Tips
89. Sotol
has _____________ edges to its leaves, and sends up a bloom stalk up to
______________feet tall.
90. Latin
name
91. Family
name
92. Tips
93. Red
yucca is not a true yucca. The tips of its leaves are not _____________,
94. Latin
name
95. Family
name
96. Tips
97. Alkali
sacation is native to Midland County. Its bloom stalks get _____________ feet tall.
98. Latin
name
99. Family
name
100. Tips
101. Wild
Zinnia has ___________colored blossoms, and gets __________ inches tall. It can
grow in gravel and other tight soils.
102. Latin
name
103. Family
name
104. Tips
105. Yellow
euphorbia is another low plant that can take hot dry soils. It has ________
colored leaves, of which the lower ones drop off, leaving a ropy look. Its
bloom is ______________-in the spring.
106. Latin
name
107. Family
108. Tips
109. Damianita
and Ericameria both have ___________ colored blossoms and both have strongly
scented foliage that is ______________. Both get to about _______feet tall.
110. Latin
name
111. Latin
name
112. Family
name
113. Family
name
114. Tips
115. Tips
116. Trans
pecos Mimosa has ________ and __________ colored blossoms. Its stems are very
________________. It gets to
______________ tall.
117. Latin
name
118. Family
name
119. Tips
120. Texas
sage has __________ colored leaves, but the blooms can come in several shades
of pink to blue. It is usually evergreen, except in the very coldest of
winters.
121. Latin
name
122. Family
name
123. Tips
124. The
short senna we seeded in the greenhouse is Wisleznius Senna. It has __________yellow blooms in the
______________.
125. Latin
name
126. Family
name
127. Tips
128. Liatris
has a __________, not a bulb. It has __________colored spikes of flowers in
September.
129. Latin
name
130. Family
name
131. Tips
132. Old
man’s beard would make a good backdrop to this planting. It is a ___________,
and has _____________ fluffy seedheads
after a small white flower.
133. Latin
name
134. Family
name
135. Tips
136. Bluebonnets
can be planted in this bed as well. The seed should be planted in
__________________.
137. Latin
name
138. Family
name
139. Tips
140. Calylophus
are tough sun loving plants. They have
__________ blossoms, and most of the species only get _____________inches tall.
141. Latin
name
142. Family
name
143. Tips
144. Anisicanthus
are tough sun loving plants as well, although they will perform well in part
shade. Two of the species have ____________ colored flowers, while one has
white. All have ____________-colored bark.
145. Latin
name
146. Family
name
147. Tips
148. Chocolate
daisy blooms from _____________ to ____________. Burr’s cultivar is name
_________________ _____________- and is
slightly larger bloomed and in size than the native species. It has _____________
flowers .
149. Latin
name
150. Family
name
151. Tips
152. Another sun loving genera have yellow, red and
yellow, pink and yellow, or purple blossoms. The native species has prickly
stems, and does not smell wonderful, but they are extremely popular for their
toughness. Butterflies love to land on their blossoms because of their
“platform”. So… what is it?___________________
153. Latin
name(any species of it)
154. Family
name
155. Tips
156. Another
sun loving plant, Yellow Bells, and it
has ___________________ leaves, and its seeds are in something that looks like
a _______ but it is not a legume. It can
_________ to death in winter, so plant it along a ___________.
157. Latin
name
158. Family
name
159. Tips
160. Black
foot daisy has __________ colored blossoms and gets _________ inches tall.
161. Family name
162. Latin
name
163. Tips
Now, we will move to a less xeric landscape, and figure
out plants that need moist soil near a water feature….
164. Bluebells
can have up to ________ blooms at once and grow to ________ feet tall. The
japanese have bred pink and white varieties.
165. Latin
name
166. Family
name
167. Tips
168. Rabbit’s
Footgrass, and Jamaican Sawgrass and Bulrush all grow near water. Which one is
a true grass?
169. Moneyplant
has leaves that are what shape?____________________-
170. Latin
name
171. Family
name
172. Tips
173. Frogfruit
can grow well next to a pond as well, since it grows in low places in the wild,
as well as along streams. It has __________colored blossoms. It is propogated
by ___________________-
174. Latin
name
175. Family name
176. tips
177. Name the four trees that grow near water
._____________,_______________,______________,___________.
Now… we are going to create a small forest… for people
that have an acre to landscape.
178. A very
good tall pine would be the Afghan Pine. What would be a good short pine to use
at the entrance to the forest?________________--
179. Latin
name
180. Family
name
181. Tips
182. We will
have some elms. What are the two best elms for west Texas?
__________________________ and _____________________
183. Latin
name
184. Latin
name
185. Family
name
186. Family
name
187. Tips
188. Tips
189. We need
some flowering trees that are small. One of the best has funny looking seeds
strung like beads and it is _____________________.
190. Latin
name
191. Family
name
192. Tips
193. Another
tree, a slightly larger, with a Japanese shape and orchid like blossoms usually
pink, sometimes white, and sometimes almost red is ___________ _________.
194. Latin
name
195. Family
name
196. Tips
197. A genus
of small trees with white blooms, red fruit in the fall, and small thorns on
the stems is ________________.
198. Latin
name
199. Family
name
200. Tips
201. We need
some trees for wildlife. One that has purplish fruit that gives people diarrhea
is _____________________.
202. Latin
name
203. Family
name
204. Tips
205. A large
multitrunked shrub with blooms like a redbud is the ___________
____________________. It has funny three sided seedpods.
206. Latin
name
207. Family
name
208. Tips
209. A kin
to Soapberry, this tree has yellow blossoms and papery seedpods.
________________________.
210. Latin
name
211. Family
name
212. Tips
213. For a
nice shady grove of evergreens we could plant any species of treeform juniper
and then a bluish needled tree that produces round balls for fruit. This is
_________________ ___________________-.
214. Latin
name
215. Family name
216. tips
217. We need some oaks in this forest. How about a
live oak, with its seed coming from where?
218. Latin
name
219. Family
name
220. Tips
221. How
about a shrub oak- name one.___________________-
222. Latin
name
223. Family
name
224. Tips
225. We need
a tree for the butterflies. Which is the best? _______________-
226. Latin
name
227. Family
name
228. Tips
229. If you
are a old-fashioned West Texan, the forest will have Soapberry and Chinaberry.
Chinaberry has __________ colored blossoms and fruit that are
_____________colored/.
230. Latin
name
231. Family
name
232. Tips
233. And if
you want wonderful color, you should have the best species of red oak, and
___________________ _____________which
has reddish to bluish nutlike fruits, and red to orange foliage in the fall.
234. Latin
name
235. Family
name
236. Tips
237. If you
are totally crazy and you want a tree that suckers, so you will have tons of
trees you might plant ____________________(name one of 5 possibles).
238. Latin
name
239. Family
name
240. Tips
Shrubs can be used for screening, for dividing beds, for
hiding ugly walls and fences, and for a wildlife thicket, and some have special
uses.
241. Two
species should be grown for their wonderful scent. __________________ and
_____________________. They are not otherwise attractive, so should be hidden
as secrets.
242. Latin
name
243. Family
name
244. Tips
245. Latin
name
246. Family
name
247. Tips
248. For
fall migrating birds a ______________ can have white or purple berries.
249. Latin
name
250. Family
name
251. Tips
252. There
are three bird of Paradises. One is commonly used, and it has blooms that are
__________ with ________ stamens. That is the Mexican Bird of Paradise. Another
has orange blossoms, and a name used for it is ______________ ___ _______________. We have about 20 of
those germinated. The third has
________________ flowers, and bloomed in October, and is much taller than the
others.
253. Latin
name (of one)
254. Family
name (of one)
255. Tips
(of one)
256. There
are three species of good broadleaved evergreen shrubs. One has purple blooms
that smell like grapes, and has a sister species that comes from gyppy soils.
Its seeds are poisonous, and it is ________________ ________________.
257. Latin
name
258. Family
name
259. Tips
260. Another
one has white blooms in the fall, followed by red berries. It is
_______________ _________________.
261. Latin
name
262. Family
name
263. Tips
264. Another
have small white blooms and blackish fruit. One species is from Arizona has
stiff leaves, and the other has roundish and soft leaves._________________
265. Family
name
266. Latin
name
267. Tips
268. There
is a group of three narrow leaved evergreens.
All have serrated leaves, whitish compund blooms in the spring. They are
________________
269. Winter
Honeysuckle blooms in _______________ with a vanilla scent.
270. Family
name
271. Latin
name
272. Tips
273. Big
bend buddleja has __________ leaves, _____________ blossoms and looks like a
strange lantana.
274. Latin
name
275. Family
name
276. Tips.
A few more low growing plants, for fun.
277. Yellowpuff
leaves ___________ if touched.
278. Spring
snow has ___________ colored leaves.
279. Wine
cup blooms mostly in the _____________.
280. Katy’s
________________ has a nice rosette of leaves flat on the ground, with
____________purplish flowers sticking out among them.
281. Scabiosa
can have __________ or ____________ colored flowers.
282. Creeping
germander has ____________ colored leaves and ___________ colored flowers.
283. Lambs’ ears
has __________ colored leaves.
A couple more grasses… for good measure.
284. The
Texas state grass is ______________ ________ ___________.
285. Lindheimer’s
muhly gets _______ feet tall.
286. Stipa
is known as ___________ ______________ ___________, too.
And a few more desert plants….
287. Ocotillo
looks like a ___________, except after a rain.
288. Curve-leaf
yucca comes from what part of Texas?
289. Chollas
look like__________________________________
One more bulb…
290. South
African rainlilies are ___________ than native Texas rainlilies
because______________________.
And a couple of vines….
291. Passion
flowers attract __________________ __________________.
292. Coral
Wreath (or Queen’s Wreath) blooms _______________ color.
And an annual
293. Snow on
the Prairie has _____________ sap
And finally a few perennials…..
294. Blue
Mist flower is a member of what genus____________, and what type of butterfly
loves it?_____________________________
295. Indian
Blanket has _______ and ___________ colored flowers.
296. If you
plant one _______ __________ ____________ you will have hundreds, for it
spreads by rhizomes… it has pink flowers and is an Onagraceae.
297. Penstemons
have __________ shaped flowers.
298. The
Russian plant kin to salvia is ___________________.
299. Balloon
flower has what colored blooms_______________.
300. Salvia
farinaceae has _________ colored flowers.
Grading… an A will have 300 or more answers correct.
Any B will have 225 to 299 correct
Any C will have 150 to 225 correct
A D will have 100 to 150 correct…
There are almost 425 correct answers…. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!
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