Field Guide / Native Plant
Native Plant
Texas Mountain Laurel
Dermatophyllum secundiflorum
Texas mountain laurel is evergreen, drought-proof, and once a year the purple flowers smell, unmistakably, of grape soda — a fact that delights children and faintly embarrasses serious botanists. Strangers stop on the sidewalk for it. It grows slowly, the way good things tend to. Worth the wait. 💜
Water
Very low
Sun
Full · part
Blooms
Early spring
Wildlife
Bees
Evergreen, slow, sculptural — the sort of plant you buy for the version of yourself you'll be in ten years. And in spring the purple blooms smell exactly like grape soda, which no amount of dignity can talk you out of enjoying.
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