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Georgette Guernsey, 2004

I have explored the Prosper Butterfly Garden in Whitley Place subdivision once a week since March.  Below is a checklist of the plants I have identified during these visits.  All have been confirmed by either iNaturalist, botany monitors or “Shinner’s and Mahler’s Flora of North Central Texas” by Diggs, Lipscomb, Reed, O’Kennon.  The plants for the most part are described as growing in clay or calcareous soils that have been disturbed or overgrazed.  The only plant that was removed by us during this time period was Sweet Scabious (Scabiosa autropurpurea).

I monitored the field looking particularly for the 43 plant varieties that were part of the Blackland Prairie Mix from the Native American Seed Company, which were planted in November of 2020.  Due to the May mowing by the Whitley Place Home Owners’ Association, I suspect that some of the plants, especially the grasses, may have been killed.  I was able to find 17 varieties from the mix that germinated and flowered in the garden after the mowing.  They are listed in bold type in the checklist.

The whole garden was full of flowers during the growing season,which brought insects, butterflies and a few birds.  I did not take the time to identify these this year; however, I do have photographs of all of the plants.

I hope this will be of benefit to you.

Prosper Butterfly Easement Garden Plants
Common Plant Name	Binominal Name
American Basketflower*	Plectocephalus americanus
Annual Bastard Cabbage	Rapistrum rugosum
Annual Fleabane	Erigeron annuus
Annual Wall-Rocket	Diplotaxis muralis
Annual Winecup (Tall Poppymallow)*	Callirhoe leiocarpa
Beaked Cornsalad	Valerianella radiata
Ballon Vine	Cardiospermum halicacbum
Berlandier’s Sundrops	Oenothera berlandieri
Black-eyed Susan*	Rudbeckia hirta
Broadpod Whitlowgrass	Draba platycarpa
Buffalo-Bur	Solanum rostratum
Canada Goldenrod	Solidago canadensis
Carolina Buckthorn	Frangula caroliniana
Catclaw Briar (Sensitive Briar)	Mimosa nuttallii
Clasping Coneflower*	Rudbeckia amplexicaulis
Clasping Venus’s Looking Glass	Tridanis perfoliata
Cloth-of-Gold	Physaria gracilis
Common Hedge Parsley	Torilis arvensis
Common Ragweed	Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Common Stork’s-Bill	Erodium cicutarium
Common Sunflower	Helianthus annuus
Coralberry	Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
Crowpoison (False Garlic)	Nothoscordum bivalve
Dakota Mock Vervain	Glandularia bipinnatifida
Diamond Flower	Stenaria nigricans
Dotted Gayfeather	Liatris punctata
Drummond’s Onion	Allium drummondii
Drummond’s Skullcap	Scutellaria drummondii
Engelmann Daisy (Cutleaf Daisy)*	Engelmannia peristenia
Englemann’s Thistle	Cirsium engelmannii
False Dandelion	Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus
Field Bindweed	Convolvulus arvensis
Field Madder	Sherardia arvensis
Flathead Rabbit Tobacco	Diaperia prolifera
Fringed Puccoon	Lithospermum incisum
Frost Grape	Vitis vulpina
Giant Ragweed	Ambrosia trifida
Great Plains Ragwort	Packera tampicana
Green Antelopehorns	Asclepias viridis
Green Poinsettia	Euphorbia dentata
Hairy Petunia or Prairie Petunia	Ruellia humilis
Heart Leaf Peppervine	Ampelopsis cordata
Hemp Dogbane	Apocynum cannabinum
Hooker’s Eryngo	Eryngium hookeri
Horseweed	Erigeron canadensis
Illinois Bundleflower	Desmanthus illinoensis
Indian Blanket*	Gaillardia pulchella
Lance-leaved Coreopsis	Coreopsis lanceolata
Lemon Beebalm (Lemon Mint)*	Monarda citriodora
Maximilian Sunflower*	Helianthus maximiliani
Meadow Flax	Linum pratense
Musk Thistle	Carduus nutans
Nettleleaf Noseburn	Tragia urticifolia
Nodding Spurge	Euphorbia nutans
Nuttall’s Wild Indigo	Baptisia nuttalliana
Partridge Pea*	Chamaecrista fasciculata
Pasture Heliotrope	Heliotropium tenellum
Pink Ladies (Pink Evening Primrose)*	Oenothera speciosa
Plains Coreopsis*	Coreopsis tinctoria
Plains Fleabane	Erigeron modestus
Prairie Broomweed	Amphiachyris dracunculoides
Prairie Blue-eyed Grass	Sisyrinchium campestre
Prairie Sandmat	Euphorbia missurica
Prairie Tea	Croton monanthogunus
Prickly Lettuce	Lactuca serriola
Redseed Plantain	Plantago rhodosperma
Rattlebush	Sesbania drummondii
Reverchon’s False Pennyroyal	Hedeoma reverchonii
Roadside Gaura	Oenothera suffulta
Rough Cocklebur	Xanthium strumarium
Saw Greenbrier	Smilax bona-nox
Saw-tooth Daisy	Grindelia papposa
Shortspike Noseburn	Tragia brevispica
Small Palafox	Palafoxia callosa
Smartweed Leafflower	Phyllanthus polygonoides
Snow-on-the-Prairie	Euphorbia bicolor
Southern Dewberry	Rubus trivialis
Sow Thistle	Sonchus
Spanish Gold (Waxleaf Goldenweed)	Grindelia ciliata
Standing Cypress*	Ipomopsis rubra
Stemless Evening Primrose	Oenothera triloba
Stemmy Four-Nerve Daisy	Tetraneuris scaposa
Supplejack	Berchemia scandens
Sweet Scabious	Sixalix atropurpurea
Ten Petal Anemone	Anemone berlandier
Texas Bluebonnet	Lupinus texensis
Texas Yellow Star*	Lindheimera texana
Trailing Fuzzy-Bean	Strophostyles helvula
Trailing Ratany	Krameria lanceolata
Tweedy’s Tick Clover	Desmodium tweedyi
Upright Prairie Coneflower (Mexican Hat)	Ratibida columnifera
Velvetweed	Oenothera curtiflora
Western Horsenettle	Solanum dimidiatum
Western Ironweed	Vernonia baldwinii
Woolly Croton	Croton capitatus
Woolly-White (Chalk Hill)	Hymenopappus tennifolius
Yellow Flax	Linum rigidum
Yellow Sweetclover	Melilotus officinalis
Grasses	Binominal Name
Bermuda Grass	Cynodon dactylon
Green Bristle Grass	Setaria viridis
Green Spangletop*	Leptochloa dubia
Japanese Brome	Bromus japonicus
Johnson Grass	Sorghum halepensa
King Ranch Bluestem	Bothriochloa ischaemum var. songarica
Little Barley	Hordeum pusillum
Perennial Ryegrass	Lolium perenne
Texas Cupgrass*	Eriochloa sericea
Weeping Lovegrass	Eragrostis curvula
White Tridens*	Tridens albescens
Witch Grass	Panicum capillare
*Blackland Prairie Mix