Black Hickory

This tree can grow up to 80 feet high.  The flowers bloom in the spring and have tiny red hairs covering them.  A nut develops within the fruit that is extremely hard to crack.  The fruit itself is dark red and is edible.

Texas Buckeye

This shrub can grow into a tree at 35 high.  The flowers are very dense yellow bundles and the fruit of the tree matures between the months of May and June.

Red Buckeye

This shrub can grow into a tree at 28 high.  The flowers bloom in the months of March through May and are bright red.  The fruit is light brown and ripens in late summer.  The bark has sometimes been crushed and used to prevent toothaches and ulcers.

Box Elder

This tree can grow up to 75 feet high.  This maple can be tapped for its sugary sap.  The greenish flowers bloom in the months of March through May.  The fruits are reddish-brown and grow in cluster during the months of August through October.

Bigtooth Maple

This tree can grow up to 50 feet high.  The yellow flower of this tree blooms throughout the spring.  This tree is exceptionally drought resistant, which works well in the hot Texas summers.

Sugarberry

This tree can also be called an Anaqua tree and can grow up to 50 feet high.  The flowers bloom in the months of March through April and sometimes in the fall after heavy rain.  The fruit is yellowish-orange and is edible.

Netleaf Hackberry

This tree can also be called a Netleaf Sugar Hackberry and can grow up to 100 feet high.  This tree is part of the Sugar Hackberry series of trees.  The fruit develops and ripens in the late summer.

American Elm

This tree can grow up to 120 feet high and have been known to live past 300 years.  The flowers bloom in the months of February and April.  The fruit ripens in the months of March and June.  The minimum seed bearing years can last from fifteen year to 300 years.

This tree can also be called a Woollybucket Bumelia and can grow up to 60 feet high.  The flowers consists of five white petals and bloom in the months of June and July.  The fruit is small berry-like and grows in the months of September through October.

This tree can grow up to 50 feet high.  The flowers have long, white petals on them and bloom in May and June.  The fruit are yellow and white and ripen in the months of September and October.

This tree can grow up to 35 feet high.  The flowers are very small, green, and bloom in the months of May and June.  The fruit is red at first and black at maturity.  The fruit grows in the months of August through October.

This tree can grow up to 20-50 feet high.  The fruit grows in the early spring and contain an elongated acorn inside of it.

This tree can grow up to 150 feet high and has very large limbs.  This tree grows large acorns in the spring.

This is a very narrow tree that seldom reaches 60 feet.  It has elongated limbs that stretch throughout the canopy of the trunk.

This tree can grow up to 40 feet high.  The flower has very bright red petals.  Small acorns grow throughout the summer.  This tree grows the best in limestone, which makes it ideal for this area.

This tree can grow up to 75 feet high.  The flowers bloom in the months of March through May.  The fruit of this tree ripens in the months of September to November and is reddish brown in color.

This is a small tree that rarely reaches 35 feet.  The leaves turn dark red in the summer and are a very prominent feature.

This tree can also be called an American Plane-Tree and can grow up to 170 feet high.  This tree has unique reddish brown bark that scales off to reveal the white, smooth bark underneath.

This tree can grow up to 100 feet high with a trunk of eight feet in diameter.  It has a very shallow root system.  This tree surrounded the Alamo during the battle that occurred there and the Spanish name for the tree is Alamo.

This tree belongs to the Great Plains Cottonwood series and can grow up to 90 feet high.  The fruit grows in the months of June through August.  This tree is a xerophytes western form of the Eastern Cottonwood.

This tree is also called a Western Blackwillow.  It can grow up to 45 feet high.

This tree is usually found as a shrub that grows between 3 and 9 feet high but can grow into a small tree.  The white flowers grow in April and May and have very thorny leaves.

This tree can grow up to 20 feet high.  The bright red fruit grows in the spring but does not ripen until September.  The flowers are white and grow in the spring.

This shrub can grow into a tree that reaches 35 feet.  The flower is white and the fruit is red and both grow in the spring. 

This shrub can grow into a tree that reaches 26 feet. It has small white flowers and dark purple plums.  This tree is very drought resistant, which grows well in the hot Texas summers.

This tree can grow up to 25 feet high.  The white flower blooms in the spring.  The yellow plum on the smaller trees is virtually inedible but the taller trees bare darker plums that are very edible.

This tree can also be called a Sweet Acacia and can grow up to 30 feet.  This tree could also be a shorter multi-stem shrub if it does not fully develop.  The flowers bloom in late winter through early spring and are very fragrant. 

This tree is also called an Eastern Redbud and can either be a shorter shrub or can grow into a tree up to 40 feet.  It is distinctly ornamental in the spring with small, clustered rose-purple flowers covering the bare branches before the leaves.

This tree can grow up to 100 feet high.  The fruit ripens in September and October and develops a legume that is usually 6-18 inches long.  The pods have been known to have been a food source for Native Americans and today are eaten by several animals.

This shrub can grow into a small tree with multiple trunks rising from the base.  Each spring, the foliage turns to a noticeable red shade.

This shrub can grow into a tree with a height of 30 feet. The flower ranges from a yellowish green to white.  This tree is most beautiful in the fall because the leaves become red, purple and orange.

This tree can grow up to 70 feet high, sometimes even more.  The wood of this tree is often used to make products such as tool handles, furniture and wagons.

This tree can grow up to 50 feet high and can have a trunk that is 2 to 3 feet thick.  This tree is very aesthetic and is usually grown as an ornamental tree.

This shrub can grow into a tree that is 30 feet high.  The tree received its name because possums often eat the fruit as their main food source.  The fruit ripens in early fall and can usually still be hanging on the braches throughout the winter.

This tree is also called an Osage-Orange and can grow up to 60 feet high.  The flowers bloom in the early spring and are present throughout the summer but have no petals.  The fruit is produced from late summer to the middle of the fall and can grow up to 4-5 inches in diameter.

This shrub can grow into a tree that is 20 feet high.  The fruit ripens in May and the color changes from red to black.  It is easily distinguished from the Red Mulberry because it has smaller leaves and fruit.

The tree can grow up to 70 feet high.  The fruit ripens between through the months of May and August.  The tree must be ten years old in order to bare fruit.  It receives its name because the scientific name contains rubra which is red in Latin.  The immature fruit of this tree is bright red.

This tree is also called a Rusty Blackhaw Viburnun and can grow up to 40 feet high.  The flowers bloom in the spring and are very small and white.  The fruit grows in the months of July and October.

Endangered Species

This shrub can grow into a tree that reaches 4 feet.  It became endangered in 1988 because of limited distribution, low reproduction and climate change.  This thorny-leaved tree only has ten populations in Brewster and Presidio counties.

This tree can grow up to 30 feet high in the right conditions.  It is not yet endangered but it is a tree that is very limited and projects are being created to help keep this species from becoming endangered.  Before there was concern, this tree was greatly used for furniture products, which made this species very limited in Texas.  It has a very strong scent produced by the bark and flowers that develop in March and April.

This shrub can grow into a tree that reaches 15 feet high.  It is named after its bells that are white dome-shaped petals that face towards the ground.  It became endangered in 1984 because of mass over-grazing.  It grows best in steep limestone ledges.

This tree can grow up to 6 feet high.  It became endangered in 1991 because the areas it was native to were cleared for agriculture.  Four populations of this species are found in two Texas counties and into northern Mexico.