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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
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| 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 | |
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