Texasfan
Meximalva filipesnative · Hill Country
Texasfan is a shrub native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1–4 ft tall and 1.5 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche soil. Blooms purple and violet in spring and summer.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 1–4 ft
- Spread
- 1.5 ft
- Bloom
- Spring, Summer · purple, violet
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes caliche · recorded on caliche, limestone
Where it grows
Recorded in this EPA Level IV ecoregion in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones Canyonlands
84 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.