Creeping Burhead
Echinodorus cordifoliusnative · Hill Country
Creeping Burhead is an annual wildflower native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1–4 ft tall and 2 ft wide. It wants shade and high water. Blooms white in Apr–Sep. Good for aquatic wildlife.
Wet ground only. A wetland plant: it needs standing water or saturated soil — a pond edge, creek bank or rain garden, not a dry upland bed.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Annual wildflower
- Sun
- Shade (0–2 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- High
- Height
- 1–4 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Bloom
- Apr–Sep · white
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on moist, mud, poor drainage
- Wildlife
- Supports aquatic wildlife
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsLlano UpliftNorthern Blackland PrairieSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low TerracesLimestone Cut PlainSan Antonio Prairie
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.