Plants to Attract Birds

Seven types of plants are important for bird habitat. These provide escape cover, winter and summer shelter, nesting sites and natural food sources for the birds each season.

Conifers:
Bald Cypress*, Eastern Red Cedar*, Junipers
Pines - Austrian, Japanese Black, Eldarica

Grasses:
Big Bluestem*, Indian Grass*, Little Bluestem*, Lindheimer Muhly*, Pampas Grass, Sideoats Gramma*, Switch Grass*

Nectar Producing Plants
(For Hummingbirds):
Annuals: Cigar Plant, Cosmos, Firebush, Four O’Clocks, Impatiens, Marigolds, Nicotiana, Penta, Petunia, Salvia Coccinea*, Sunflowers.
Perennials: Bee Balm*, Cardinal Flower*, Flame Acanthus*, Lantana*, Red Yucca*, Rose of Sharon, Salvia Greggii*, Salvia Gauranitica, Salvia Indigo Spires, Turks Cap*.
Vines: Coral Honeysuckle*, Crossvine*, Cypress Vine, Trumpet Vine*.
Shrubs: Budleigha, Flame Acanthus, Salvia Greggii.

Summer Fruiting Plants:
Blackberry*, Chile Pequin*, Chinese Fringe Tree, Fig, Glossy Abelia, Grapes*, Honeysuckle, Leather Leaf Mahonia, Japanese Yew, Loquat.

Fall Fruiting Plants:
American Beautyberry*, Bradford Pear, Carolina Buckthorne*, Cherry Laurel*, Chinese Photinia, Cotoneaster, Euonymus Alata, Flowering Dogwood*, Hawthorns*, Mexican Plum*, Nandina Domestica, Persimmon*, Pyracantha, Rusty Blackhaw Virburnum*, Rough Leaf Dogwood*, Soapberry*, Southern Magnolia*, Southern Wax Myrtle*, Sumac (Smooth, Flameleaf)*, Sweet Gum*, Wax-leaf Ligustrum.

Winter Fruiting Plants:
Crabapple, Sumac*, Virginia Creeper*, Eleagnus, Hollies, Wax-Leaf Ligustrum, Nandina Domestica, Chinese Photinia.

Nut and Acorn Plants:
Shumard Live Oak*, Chinquapin Oak*, Lacey Oak*, Vacey Oak*, Post Oak*, Scarlet Buckeye*, Pecan*.

* Native Plant (Dallas, Texas)