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This plant prefers full sun and sandy soil or caliche soil.

Desmanthus illinoensis is a great plant for wildlife, attracting bees, butterflies, and many other beneficial pollinators, and the seeds are food for birds and mammals.

Flame Acanthus is a most wonderful and useful plant.

#1 Drought tolerance, I have never seen this plants wilt even in the hottest days, and and it can go without water for at least two weeks and not suffer one bit.

#2 Nectar for hummingbirds and butterflies, if you have this plant and they are in your area they will visit it regularly, guaranteed.

#3 Long lasting beauty and adaptability, this plant will bloom in full sun and partial shade for a very long period of time, until frost causes it to go dormant.

I truly couldn't do without this plant and I highly recommend it.
Josephine.

This plant grows naturally in the swamps so it likes lots of water, but surprisingly it will also do well in average garden situations with a little additional water, the beauty and simplicity of the blooms make it worth the extra effort.

Crossvine is a show stopper when in bloom.

Turk's Cap is a very long-lived and care-free plant. It has been reported to live 50 years or longer.

Asclepias curassavica is poisonous to humans and it is deciduous in zone 8a, but it comes back from the roots in spring.

A very interesting thing about this plant is that it goes dormant and disappears in August then in October it starts to grow again and remains green all winter.
The leaves are very soft and velvety.

Senna lindheimeriana is a host plant for Sulphur butterflies.

This plant went through many days of 100+ temperatures without wilting, I call this a heat and drought tolerant plant.