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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 |
| 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 | |
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