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Edwards Plateau
The Edwards Plateau area includes 1.45 million acres known as the Granitic Central Basin in Llano and Mason Counties (Table 2). The Balcones Escarpment forms the distinct boundary of the Edwards Plateau on its eastern and southern borders and outlines what is known as the Texas Hill Country. The area is a deeply dissected, rapidly drained stony plain having broad, flat to undulating divides. The original vegetation was grassland or open savannah-type plains with tree or brushy species found along rocky slopes and stream bottoms.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie bundle flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie mimosa | |
| Dichondra argentea | Silver Ponyfoot Silver ponysfoot | |
| Digitaria californica | Arizona cottontop California cottontop California crab grass Cottontop | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas persimmon Mexican persimmon Black persimmon Chapote Chapote prieto | |
| Echinacea angustifolia | Black Sampson Black Samson echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye Canadian wildrye Prairie wildrye Nodding wildrye | |
| Elymus elymoides ssp. brevifolius | Squirreltail Long-leaf squirrel-tail | |
| Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
| Epipactis gigantea | Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore Stream orchid | |
| Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouringrush horsetail | |
| Eriogonum annuum | Annual buckwheat Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eragrostis intermedia | Plains lovegrass Plains Lovegrass | |
| Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's eryngo Eryngo | |
| Eriogonum multiflorum | Wild buckwheat Heartsepal buckwheat Heart-sepal wild buckwheat | |
| Erioneuron pilosum | Hairy woollygrass Hairy tridens | |
| Eriochloa sericea | Texas cupgrass | |
| Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Candelilla Wax plant | |
| Eucnide bartonioides | Rock-nettle Yellow rocknettle Yellow stingbush | |
| Euphorbia cyathophora | Wild Poinsettia Poinsettia Fire on the Mountain | |
| Euphorbia marginata | Snow on the mountain Snow-on-the-mountain | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas kidneywood Kidneywood Bee-Brush Vara dulce | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache plume Ponil | |
| Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens | Stretchberry Elbowbush Stretch-berry Downy forestiera Desert olive Elbow-bush | |
| Fouquieria splendens | Ocotillo Devil’s walking stick Candlewood | |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Fraxinus berlandieriana | Mexican ash Fresno Berlandier ash | |
| Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's ash Littleleaf ash Escobilla | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides | Fringed twinevine Climbing milkweed vine Twine-vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides ssp. heterophyllum | Hartweg's twinevine Vine milkweed | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Firewheel Indian Blanket | |
| Gaillardia suavis | Perfumeballs Pincushion daisy Fragrant gaillardia Rayless gaillardia | |
| Geum canadense | White avens | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida | Prairie verbena Purple prairie verbena Dakota mock vervain Dakota vervain | |
| Glandularia canadensis | Rose vervain Sweet william Rose mock vervain | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey locust Common Honey-locust Honey-locust Thornless common honey-locust Honey shucks | |
| Guaiacum angustifolium | Texas lignum-vitae Guayacan Soapbush | |
| Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine weed | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel American witch hazel | |
| Helenium amarum | Yellow Sneezeweed Bitterweed Yellow bitterweed Yellowdicks Slender-leaved sneezeweed Fine-leaved sneezweed Yellow dog-fennel | |
| Heteropogon contortus | Tanglehead | |
| Heliotropium curassavicum | Salt heliotrope Seaside heliotrope Quail plant Cola de mico | |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian sunflower Max sunflower | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red yucca Coral yucca Red flowered false yucca Redflower false yucca Samandoque Yellow yucca | |
| Helianthus petiolaris | Prairie sunflower Plains sunflower | |
| Heliotropium tenellum | Pasture heliotrope White heliotrope | |
| Hilaria belangeri var. belangeri | Curly-mesquite | |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf rosemallow Halberdleaf hibiscus Scarlet rose mallow | |
| Hymenocallis liriosme | Spider Lily Spring Spider Lily Spring spiderlily | |
| Ibervillea lindheimeri | Lindheimer's globeberry Balsam gourd Globe berry Snake apple | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Winterberry Deciduous yaupon | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon holly Cassina | |
| Ipomoea leptophylla | Bush morning-glory | |
| Ipomopsis rubra | Standing cypress Texas plume Red Texas star Red gilia | |
| Juniperus ashei | Ashe juniper Ashe's juniper Mountain cedar Blueberry juniper | |
| Juglans microcarpa | Little walnut Nogalito Texas walnut Texas black walnut River walnut | |
| Juglans nigra | Black walnut Eastern black walnut | |
| Justicia pilosella | Gregg's tubetongue Hairy Tube-tongue False Honeysuckle | |
| Karwinskia humboldtiana | Coyotillo Humboldt coyotillo | |
| Lesquerella fendleri | Fendler's bladderpod Fendler’s bladderpod Popweed | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple sage Texas ranger Texas barometer bush Texas silverleaf Texas sage | |
| Lepidium montanum | Mountain peppergrass Western peppergrass Mountain pepperweed Mountain pepperwort Montana pepperweed | |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball leadtree Littleleaf leadtree | |
| Linum berlandieri var. berlandieri | Berlandier's yellow flax Yellow Flax Stiff-stem flax | |
| Linum hudsonioides | Hudson Flax Texas flax Yellow Flax | |
| Lithospermum incisum | Narrowleaf stoneseed Puccoon Fringed puccoon Narrowleaf gromwell Fringed gromwell Narrow-leaved puccoon | |
| Linum lewisii var. lewisii | Blue flax Prairie flax | |
| Liatris mucronata | Cusp gayfeather Gayfeather Blazing star Narrow-leaf gayfeather Texas gayfeather Cusp blazing star | |
| Linum pratense | Meadow flax | |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted blazing star Dotted gayfeather | |
| Lindheimera texana | Texas yellowstar Texas star Lindheimer daisy Texas yellow star | |
| Lonicera albiflora | Western white honeysuckle Texas honeysuckle White honeysuckle White shrub honeysuckle White limestone honeysuckle | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | |
| Lupinus subcarnosus | Sandyland bluebonnet Texas bluebonnet | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas lupine Buffalo clover Wolf-flower | |
| Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving sailor Climbing snapdragon Little snapdragon vine | |
| Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's-buttons Puffballs White Barbara’s-buttons | |
| Plateau rocktrumpet Longtube trumpet flower Flor de San Juan Rock trumpet | ||
| Marsilea vestita | Hairy water clover Water clover | |
| Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock daisy Plains blackfoot | |
| Menodora longiflora | Showy menodora Twin-pod | |
| Melica nitens | Three-flower melic Tall melicgrass Threeflower melicgrass Melicgrass | |
| Mimosa borealis | Fragrant mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon beebalm Horsemint Purple horsemint Lemon mint Plains horsemint Lemon horsemint | |
| Morus microphylla | Littleleaf mulberry Mountain mulberry Texas mulberry | |
| Monarda punctata | Spotted beebalm Spotted horsemint Horsemint | |
| Morus rubra | Red mulberry Moral | |
| Muhlenbergia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's muhly Big muhly Lindheimer muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia reverchonii | Seep muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia torreyi | Ring muhly Torrey muhly | |
| Nemastylis geminiflora | Prairie celestials Celestials Prairie pleatleaf | |
| Nolina lindheimeriana | Devil's shoestring Devil’s-shoestring Ribbon grass | |
| Nolina texana | Texas sacahuista Texas beargrass Basket grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass | |
| Nuphar lutea | Yellow pond-lily Cow lily Spatter dock Yellow cow lily | |
| Nuphar lutea ssp. advena | Common spatterdock Yellow cow lily Yellow pond lily Spatterdock | |
| Nuttallanthus texanus | Texas Toad-Flax Texas toadflax Toadflax | |
| Oenothera macrocarpa | Bigfruit evening-primrose Missouri evening-primrose Fluttermill Big-fruit evening-primrose Missouri Primrose | |
| Oenothera rhombipetala | Diamond petal primrose Four-Point Evening Primrose Fourpoint evening-primrose Greater four-point evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink evening primrose Showy evening primrose Mexican evening primrose Showy primrose Pink ladies Buttercups Pink buttercups | |
| Onoclea sensibilis | Sensitive fern Bead fern Sympathy fern | |
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