Welcome to Wild Ones Dallas Fort Worth!
Wild Ones is national nonprofit organization that promotes native landscapes through education, advocacy and collaborative action. We promote environmentally friendly, sound landscaping to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration, and establishment of native plant communities across the United States.
We are excited to offer the residents of Texas the opportunity to expand their impact in the natural landscaping movement and help promote native plants. Wild Ones DFW is a “seedling” chapter currently serving Northern Texas, and the surrounding areas.
Why native plants?
Dwindling biodiversity is a threat to the foundation of life on earth. In the last century alone, we’ve lost millions of acres of diverse ecosystems. Native plants are resilient and adapted to regional soil and weather conditions help protect and restore biodiversity, improve air and water quality and provide wildlife with quality food and shelter. Our vision is to bring native plants and natural landscapes to every community.
Get started learning what plants are native to your area by checking your ecoregion below.
Ecoregions – Best for Selecting Native Plants
Selecting native plant species from within your geographic region (“ecoregion”) is the best way to incorporate natives in your garden or habitat landscape to help restore the natural environment. A native plant originating from its “home” ecoregion and range will grow best because over thousands of years, it has adapted to that region’s unique environmental conditions, such as climate, moisture, topography and soil. The same plant species may be found in several states and regions, but across its native range, species often have subtle differences in their genetic make-up (called “local genotype”). This environmentally sound landscaping practice helps to preserve biodiversity, the health of the environment and the unique character of where you live.
Ecoregions, mapped at four levels of detail, are nationally used by the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy. (See the U.S. EPA Ecoregions of North America, Level lll map on the back of this page.) The Wild Ones article “Guidelines for Selecting Native Plants” also provides more details.