Upright Burhead
Echinodorus berteroinative · Hill Country
Upright Burhead is an annual wildflower native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1–3 ft tall and 3 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water. Blooms white and yellow in summer and fall. Good for aquatic wildlife and birds.
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
4 sources- Type
- Annual wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 1–3 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Bloom
- Summer, Fall · white, yellow
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Recorded on mud, sand, wet
- Wildlife
- Supports aquatic wildlife and birds
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsNorthern Blackland PrairieFloodplains and Low Terraces
97 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.