Texas Barberry
Mahonia swaseyi
Texas barberry is a compact evergreen barberry of the Edwards Plateau, with spiny blue-green leaflets, yellow bloom, and red-to-yellow berries good for jelly. Heat-, drought-, and deer-resistant.
- Family
- Berberidaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–5 ft
- Spacing
- 3–5 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- alkaline
- Bloom
- February, March, April
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~12 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- TX
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