Cross Timbers and Prairies
The Cross Timbers and Prairies area in North Central Texas includes the Cross Timbers, Grand Prairie, and North Central Prairies land resource areas. This area represents the southern extension of the Central Lowlands and the western extreme of the Coastal Plains. The wide variances in geologic formations bring about sharp contrasts in topography, soils, and vegetation. Upland soils of both the East and West Cross Timbers are light, slightly acid loamy sands and sandy loams with yellowish brown to red clayey subsoils. Bottomland soils have small, dark, neutral to calcareous clayey areas, and loamy alluvial soils occur along the minor streams. Upland soils are dark, deep to shallow, and stony calcareous clays with subsoils of lighter, limy earths and limestone fragments. Bottomland soils are reddish brown, loamy to clayey calcareous alluvial. The North Central Prairies are interspersed with rapidly drained sandstone and shaley ridges and hills occupied by scrub live oak, juniper, and mesquite. Uplands are brown, sandy loam to silt loam, slightly acid soils over red to gray, neutral to alkaline clayey subsoils. Bottomland soils are brown to dark gray, loamy and clayey, neutral to calcareous, and alluvial.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Abronia fragrans | Fragrant Sand-verbena Snowball Sand Verbena Sweet Sand-verbena Prairie Snowball Sand Verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abutilon fruticosum | Indian Mallow Texas Indian Mallow | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
Aesculus glabra var. arguta | Ohio Buckeye White Buckeye Texas Buckeye | |
Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red Buckeye Southern Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Allium canadense var. canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion Canada Onion | |
Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion | |
Allium coryi | Yellowflower Onion Yellow-flowered Onion | |
Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
Alophia drummondii | Propeller Flower Purple Pleat-leaf Pinewoods Lily Prairie Iris Pleatleaf Iris | |
Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
Ampelopsis cordata | Heartleaf Peppervine Heart-leaf Ampelopsis | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
Amsonia illustris | Ozark Bluestar Showy Blue-star Missouri Blue Star Swamp Bluestar | |
Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard Bluestem Split Bluestem | |
Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge Broomsedge Bluestem Yellowsedge Bluestem Whiskey Grass Popotillo Pajon | |
Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy Daisy Arkansas Lazy Daisy Arkansas Doze-daisy | |
Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
Bothriochloa barbinodis | Pinhole Bluestem Cane Bluestem Cane Beardgrass Feather Bluestem Plains Beardgrass | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
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