Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 88.001 · Chapter 88. ENDANGERED PLANTS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Endangered plant" means a species of plant life that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
(2) "Threatened plant" means a species of plant life that is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
(3) "Protected plant" means a species of plant life that the director determines is of historical or cultural value to the state or the area in which it is found.
(4) "Native plant" means any tree, shrub, herb, grass, forb, legume, fern, fern ally, or wildflower that is indigenous to the state and that is growing on public or private land.
(5) "Public land" means land that is owned by the state or a local governmental entity.
(6) "Take" means to collect, pick, cut, dig up, or remove.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 2461, ch. 637, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.88.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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