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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 americana | White ash | |
| Fraxinus berlandieriana | Mexican ash Fresno Berlandier ash | |
| Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's ash Littleleaf ash Escobilla | |
| Fraxinus texensis | Texas ash | |
| 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 | |
| Guajacum 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 | |
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