Just like us
The Gopher Tortoise remains healthy by eating a healthy diet of a variety of plants and sometimes even in our yards. Not using poisons in our yards can avoid tragedy of killing or sickening a Gopher Tortoise thats just out looking for a healthy lunch.
Planting tortoise friendly plants in our yards can provide a safe meal keeping our tortoise populations from having to be cared for by a vet.
This hatchling burrowing into the garden didn't go quite deep enough but seems to still be getting some great shuteye anyway.
Abutilon
Aeonium
African Violet
Air Plant
Alexanders
Anthirrhinum
Aster
Astilbe
Barley Grass
Bears Breeches
Bergamont
Blue Sowthistle
Boston Fern
Bristly Oxtongue
Broadleaf Filaree
Broadleaf Stonecrop
Bromeliad
Cabomba
Campanula
Cape Pondweed
Carex
Cat Grass
Cats Ear
Chameleon Plant
Chia
China Doll
Clarkia
Coleus
Coneflower
Coreopsis
Corn Salad
Couch Grass
Cranesbill Geranium
Creeping Thistle
Crossandra
Cuphea
Deadnettle
Desert Willow
Diascia
Echeveria
Elm
Elodea
Evening Primrose
Fescue Grass
Field Madder
Flowering Currant
Forget Me Not
Fountain Grass
Friendship Plant
Gasteria
Geranium
Globe Artichoke
Globe Thistle
Gloxinia
Goats Beard
Grape Ivy
Ground Elder
Harebell
Hawks Beard
Hawkbit
Haworthia
Heartleaf Iceplant
Hebe
Hedge Woundwort
Hibiscus
Hollyhock
Hornwort
House Leek
Ice Plant
Jacaranda
Kidney Weed
Knapweed
Ladys Purse
Lambs Lettuce
Lavatera
Lilac
Lipstick Plant
Livingstone Daisy
London Pride
Maize
Mallow
Malope Mallow
Marigold
Marjoram
Mazus
Mexican Petunia
Michaelmas Daisy
Millet
Mimulus
Mind Your Own Business
Mint
Mossy Saxifrage
Mother of Plant
Mulberry Tree
Musk Mallow
Navelwort
Oat
Opuntia Cactus
Oregano
Pampas Grass
Pansy
Parrot Feather
Peperomia
Plantain Bucks Horn
Polka Dot Plant
Prayer Plant
Purple Loosestrife
Red Valerian
Rhipsalis
Roundleaf Cranesbill
Saxifrage
Scotch Thistle
Sea Holly
Sedum
Sedum Album
Sedum Reflexum
Sedum Spurium
Shining Cranesbill
Sow Thistle
Spear Thistle
Spider Plant
Spiraea
Spotted Deadnettle
Teasel
Thyme
Timothy Grass
Viola
Violet
Wall Lettuce
Water Hyacinth
Wheat
White Deadnettle
Yellow Archangel
Zinnia
(pics coming soon);
Healthy Menu
Below is an alphabetical list of healthy plants for your yard & garden that Gopher Tortoises can enjoy.
