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Plant profile · Austin & Hill Country

Guajillo

Senegalia berlandieri
native · Hill Country

Guajillo is a tree native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 3–16 ft tall and 4 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms white in Feb–Apr. Good for birds and butterflies.

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The facts

4 sources
Type
Tree
Sun
Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
Water
Low
Height
3–16 ft
Spread
4 ft
Bloom
Feb–Apr · white
Foliage
Deciduous or dies back in winter
Soil
Takes caliche and clay · recorded on caliche, clay, dry, gravelly, limestone, loam, sand
Wildlife
Supports birds and butterflies

Where it grows

No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:

Edwards PlateauChihuahuan DesertSouthern Texas Plain

5 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.