Plant in full to partial sun in most any type soil. It is known to tolerate extreme conditions ranging from seasonally wet to seasonally dry soils in winter or summer but seems to look its best in our mediterranean climate if given periodic irrigation in summer months. Cold hardy to 5 °F. Attractive to bees. This is an interesting and attractive fall accent plant for the garden or in a large container that looks a bit like a yellow flowering spider plant.

As the name of this plant implies it hails from Texas, where it grows in clay soils or on sand near the Gulf of Mexico border between Texas and Mexico at the mouth of the Rio Grande in the low lying hill area called Loma del Potrero Cercado. The genus was named for the 19th century Spanish botanist and pharmacist Pedro Gregorio Echeandia y Jimenez. Other common names include Texas Craglily, Texas Echeandia and Copper Spiders (a name perhaps coined by YuccaDo Nursery). Our thanks go out to horticulturist Glen Williams who first provided us with this plant from which our seedling plants have been grown and sold since 2020. 

Information displayed on this page about Echeandia texensis is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.