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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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| Aristolochia tomentosa | Woolly dutchman's pipe Common dutchmanspipe | |
| Astragalus crassicarpus | Groundplum milkvetch Ground plum | |
| Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony spleenwort | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo grass | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy grama | |
| Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas grama | |
| Bothriochloa saccharoides | Silver bluestem Longspike silver bluestem | |
| Calylophus berlandieri ssp. pinifolius | Berlandier's sundrops Square-bud primrose Sundrops Square-bud day-primrose | |
| Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's sundrops Western Primrose | |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Castilleja indivisa | Entireleaf indian paintbrush Texas paintbrush Indian paintbrush Scarlet paintbrush Entire-leaf indian-paintbrush | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Castilleja purpurea | Prairie paintbrush Downy Indian paintbrush Purple paintbrush Lemon paintbrush Purple painted cup | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Camassia scilloides | Atlantic camas Wild hyacinth | |
| Carya texana | Black hickory | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea Redroot | |
| Centaurea americana | American star-thistle Basket-Flower Star thistle Shaving brush American basket-flower | |
| Cercis canadensis var. canadensis | Eastern redbud | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas redbud | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar hackberry Hackberry Sugarberry Texas sugarberry Palo blanco | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge pea Sleepingplant Sensitive plant | |
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