American Smoke Tree (Cotinus obovatus) is an endangered plant in Texas, where it grows on thin-soiled limestone outcrops in Eastern portions of the Edwards Plateau. While most of the population has been decimated by development, there are still a few individual plants left here and there. This is a species that needs to actively be propagated and put in native plant gardens throughout Central Texas. Once established the blue leaves look incredible and the tiny white flowers clustered together on