Fluxweed
Trichostema brachiatumnative · Hill Country
Fluxweed is an annual wildflower native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1–2 ft tall and 1 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water. Blooms blue, pink and purple in summer and fall. Good for bees.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Annual wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spread
- 1 ft
- Bloom
- Summer, Fall · blue, pink, purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on calcareous, dry, gravelly, limestone, moist, sand, shallow
- Wildlife
- Supports bees
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsEdwards Plateau WoodlandNorthern Blackland Prairie
16 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.