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Neighborhood Plants brings the rangelands to our neighbors. Explore the diversity of TX plants from your own 'backyard'. In this episode, you'll learn how to identify mistletoe, a native shrub that is found growing high upon tree branches across neighborhoods and rangelands. There are seven species of mistletoe in Texas, but it has been reported that Christmas mistletoe is the only species that grows in deep South Texas. Mistletoe is a semi-parasitic plant that gets its water and some nutrients from the host tree it grows on. Plants are either male or female. Both have tiny yellow flowers, but only the female flowers turn into small white berries. Christmas mistletoe is a host plant for the Great Purple Hairstreak butterfly, and it is used as a food resource for some birds and mammals.