Blackland Prairies
The Blackland Prairies area intermingles with the Post Oak Savannah in the southeast and has divisions known as the San Antonio and Fayette Prairies. This rolling and well-dissected prairie represents the southern extension of the true prairie that occurs from Texas to Canada. The upland blacklands are dark, calcareous shrink-swell clayey soils, changing gradually with depth to light marls or chalks. Bottomland soils are generally reddish brown to dark gray, slightly acid to calcareous, loamy to clayey and alluvial. The soils are inherently productive and fertile, but many have lost productivity through erosion and continuous cropping.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Ruellia humilis | Prairie Petunia Fringeleaf Wild Petunia Hairy Ruellia Low Wild Petunia Low Ruellia Fringeleaf Ruellia Fringe-leaf Wild Petunia | |
Ruellia nudiflora | Violet Ruellia Common Wild Petunia Violet Wild Petunia Wild Petunia Hierba De La Calentura | |
Rubus trivialis | Southern Dewberry Dewberry | |
Sassafras albidum | Sassafras White Sassafras Ague Tree Cinnamon Wood Mitten Tree Saloop Smelling Stick | |
Salvia azurea | Pitcher Sage Big Blue Sage Azure Sage Giant Blue Sage Blue Sage | |
Sabatia campestris | Texas Star Rose Gentian Meadow Pink Prairie Rose-gentian Prairie Sabatia | |
Saururus cernuus | Lizard's Tail Lizard Tail Breastweed Water Dragon | |
Salvia coccinea | Scarlet Sage Tropical Sage Blood Sage Red Sage Indian Fire | |
Salvia engelmannii | Engelmann's Sage Engelmann's Salvia | |
Salvia farinacea | Mealy Blue Sage Mealy Sage Mealycup Sage | |
Sagittaria latifolia | Broadleaf Arrowhead Arrowhead Duckroot Duck-potato Wapato | |
Sabal minor | Dwarf Palmetto Bush Palmetto Palmetto | |
Sagittaria platyphylla | Delta Arrowhead | |
Salvia texana | Texas Sage Blue Sage | |
Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul | |
Setaria parviflora | Marsh Bristlegrass Knotroot Bristlegrass | |
Silphium albiflorum | White Rosinweed White-flowered Rosinweed Compass Plant | |
Silphium gracile | Slender Rosinweed | |
Sisyrinchium langloisii | Roadside Blue-eyed Grass Dotted Blue-eyed Grass Southern Blue-eyed Grass | |
Sisyrinchium sagittiferum | Spearbract Blue-eyed Grass Blue-eyed Grass | |
Solidago altissima | Tall Goldenrod Late Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Canada Goldenrod | |
Solidago canadensis | Canada Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Tall Goldenrod Giant Goldenrod | |
Solanum elaeagnifolium | Silverleaf Nightshade Silver-leaf Nightshade White Horse Nettle Trompillo Tomato Weed Bull Nettle | |
Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
Sporobolus compositus var. compositus | Composite Dropseed Tall Dropseed | |
Sporobolus cryptandrus | Sand Dropseed | |
Spartina spartinae | Gulf Cordgrass | |
Styphnolobium affine | Eve's Necklace Eve's Necklacepod Texas Sophora Pink Sophora Necklace Tree | |
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus | Coralberry Indian Currant Buckbrush | |
Symphyotrichum pratense | Barrens Silky Aster Meadow Aster | |
Symphyotrichum subulatum | Eastern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Baby's Breath Aster Annual Aster Blackland Aster Hierba Del Marrano | |
Taxodium distichum | Bald Cypress Baldcypress Common Bald Cypress Southern Bald Cypress Deciduous Cypress Southern Cypress Swamp Cypress Red Cypress White Cypress Yellow Cypress Gulf Cypress Tidewater Red Cypress | |
Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed | |
Thalictrum dasycarpum | Purple Meadow-rue Tall Meadow-rue Meadow Rue | |
Thalia dealbata | Powdery Alligator-flag Powdery Thalia Water Canna | |
Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Showy Navajo Tea Greenthread | |
Thelypteris kunthii | Wood Fern River Fern Southern Shield Fern Kunth's Maiden Fern Normal Shield Fern | |
Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
Tridens flavus | Purpletop Tridens Redtop Tridens Tall Redtop Tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall Redtop | |
Tradescantia gigantea | Giant Spiderwort | |
Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort Bluejacket | |
Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
Triplasis purpurea | Purple Sandgrass Purple Triplasis | |
Ulmus alata | Winged Elm Wahoo Elm Cork Elm Witch Elm | |
Ulmus americana | American Elm White Elm Soft Elm Water Elm Common Elm | |
Ulmus crassifolia | Cedar Elm Fall Elm Basket Elm Scrub Elm Lime Elm Texas Elm Southern Rock Elm Olmo | |
Utricularia radiata | Little Floating Bladderwort Floating Bladderwort | |
Vaccinium arboreum | Farkleberry Tree Sparkleberry Sparkleberry Winter Huckleberry Huckleberry | |
Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly Ironweed | |
Verbesina virginica | Frostweed White Crownbeard Iceplant Iceweed Virginia Crownbeard Indian Tobacco Richweed Squawweed | |
Vitis acerifolia | Mapleleaf Grape Panhandle Grape Bush Grape | |
Vitis cinerea var. helleri | Winter Grape Heller's Grape Gray-leaf Grape Smooth-leaf Grape Sweet Grape Spanish Grape | |
Viguiera dentata | Plateau Goldeneye Sunflower Goldeneye Toothleaf Goldeneye Chimalacate Golden-eye | |
Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry | |
Woodwardia areolata | Netted Chainfern Chain Fern Netted Chain Fern | |
Woodwardia virginica | Virginia Chainfern Virginia Chain Fern | |
Yucca arkansana | Arkansas Yucca Softleaf Yucca | |
Yucca pallida | Pale-leaf Yucca | |
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis | Hercules Club Pepperbark Toothache Tree Tickle Tongue Prickly Ash | |
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