Prairie Lily
Cooperia pedunculatanative · Hill Country
Prairie Lily is a perennial wildflower native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 0.5–1 ft tall and 0.5 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms white in Mar–Aug. Good for butterflies and bees.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Perennial wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (5–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 0.5–1 ft
- Spread
- 0.5 ft
- Bloom
- Mar–Aug · white
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on sand, loam, clay, limestone, caliche, well drained, moist
- Deer
- Moderate — deer may browse it, especially new growth
- Wildlife
- Supports butterflies and bees
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsLlano UpliftEdwards Plateau WoodlandNorthern Blackland PrairieSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low Terraces
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.