Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 18, 0 by LindaTX8

LindaTX8 wrote:
These plant were always around the yard...at least as far back as I remember. Kind of overlooked most of the time because it isn't showy at all. But it used to bother me that I couldn't identify them. Then a lady living in an area of far south Texas sent me a few little Nodding Green Violets (Hybanthus verticillatus) in exchange for something I sent her. They grow down in the valley and the Variegated Fritillary use them as host plants in that area. Later on, I realized my unidentified plants looked pretty much like those. The Variegated Fritillary here prefer Rock Flax and Maypop, but they will eat the Nodding Green Violet also on occasion. How my original plants got here, I don't know. I've never seen them anywhere else in the area. One of the advantages of buying property from people who didn't bother to plant things....not as much vegetation was cleared. Much more interesting that way.