Common Hoptree
Ptelea trifoliataCommon Hoptree is a tree native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 10–20 ft tall and 20 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms yellow in early summer. Deer rarely browse it. Good for birds and butterflies.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Tree
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 10–20 ft
- Spread
- 20 ft
- Bloom
- Early Summer · yellow
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on calcareous, clay, dry, limestone, loam, rocky, well drained
- Deer
- High — deer rarely browse it
- Wildlife
- Supports birds and butterflies
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
3,602 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.