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