Best Plants for a Bird-Friendly Landscape
Large Trees
Water Oak
Willow Oak
Southern Red Oak
Shumard Oak
Drummond's Red Maple
American Elm
Pecan
Green Ash
American Basswood
Sugarberry (Hackberry)
Deciduous trees like Pecan are bird-friendly and beautiful.
Small Trees
Mexican Plum
Parsley Hawthorn
Roughleaf Dogwood
American Hornbeam
Possumhaw
Yaupon Holly
Hard to beat the beauty of a Hawthorn.
Shrubs
Wax Myrtle
Arrowwood Viburnum
Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum
Turk's Cap
American Beautyberry
Vines
Purple Passionflower
Crossvine
Carolina Jessamine
Coral Honeysuckle
Grasses
Gulf Muhly
Switchgrass
Eastern Gamagrass
Little Bluestem
Inland Sea Oats
Gulf Muhly and Sunflowers make a perfect, colorful combination.
Wildflowers
Aquatic Milkweed
Blazing Star
Green Milkweed
Texas Coneflower
Rough Coneflower
Blue Sage
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Gulf Coast Penstemon
Cardinal Flower
Indian Blanket
Explore KPC's Nine Natives program for some great inspiration with wildflowers and grasses.
This is native Aquatic Milkweed, a Monarch's dream.
Avoid These Invasives
Chinese Elm
Bradford Pear
Golden Rain Tree
Ligustrums
Nandina
Elephant Ear
Mexican Petunia
Yellow Flag Iris
Liriope
Pampas Grass