Dasylirion texanum (Texas Sotol)

Dasylirion texanum (Texas Sotol)Also known as Texas Desert Spoon. Texas Sotol is a slow growing, sculptural plant with long, narrow leaves edged with small teeth. It is evergreen and extremely drought and heat tolerant once established. It produces a tall flower stalk with creamy white flowers in summer. Texas Sotol is native to the Trans Pecos and Edwards Plateau regions, but it does well in North Texas when planted in well drained or rocky soils. AT A GLANCE Texas native Yes Water

dry conditions than the similar Ohio buckeye

Bronzed Roadside-Skipper butterfly Erosion control Yes Deer resistant Yes Notes Remove seedheads before maturing to prevent reseeding if desired

It provides brilliant yellow fall color

It produces a tall flower stalk with creamy white flowers in summer

part sun Bloom color Orange

It works well in rock and cottage gardens

and add interesting textural interest there

Wafer Ash is an attractive shrub or small understory tree

It is more drought-tolerant than Purple or Pale Coneflower

Escarpment Live Oak (Quercus fusiformis)

It has deeply cut

Black Dalea is a thornless