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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 |
| Taraxacum officinale | Common dandelion Blowball Dandelion Faceclock | |
| Teucrium canadense | Canada germander American germander Canadian germander Germander Hairy germander Wood sage | |
| Teucrium laciniatum | Cut-Leaf germander Dwarf germander Lacy germander | |
| Tephrosia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's hoarypea Hoary Pea Lindheimer tephrosia | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy four-nerve daisy Yellow daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tecoma stans | Yellow bells Yellowbells Esperanza Yellow trumpetbush Yellow trumpetflower Trumpetbush Trumpetflower Yellow elder | |
| Thelypteris kunthii | Wood fern River fern Southern shield fern Kunth's maiden fern | |
| Tridens albescens | White tridens White Top | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern gamagrass | |
| Tridens flavus | Purpletop tridens Redtop tridens Tall redtop tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall redtop | |
| Tradescantia gigantea | Giant spiderwort | |
| Tridens muticus var. elongatus | Slim tridens | |
| Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | Bluejacket Ohio spiderwort | |
| Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus' looking-glass | |
| Tradescantia pedicellata | Edwards Plateau spiderwort Granite spiderwort | |
| Triplasis purpurea | Purple sandgrass Purple triplasis | |
| Ulmus americana | American elm White elm | |
| Ulmus crassifolia | Cedar elm Fall elm Olmo | |
| Ungnadia speciosa | Mexican buckeye | |
| Verbena halei | Slender verbena Texas verbena Texas vervain | |
| Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly ironweed | |
| 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 | Sunflower goldeneye Plateau goldeneye Toothleaf goldeneye Goldeneye Chimalacate | |
| Vitis mustangensis | Mustang grape | |
| Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty blackhaw viburnum Rusty blackhaw Southern blackhaw Downy viburnum | |
| Viguiera stenoloba | Resinbush Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye | |
| Wedelia texana | Zexmenia Orange zexmenia Wedelia Hairy wedelia Texas creeping-oxeye | |
| Woodwardia virginica | Virginia chainfern Virginia chain fern | |
| Xanthisma texanum ssp. drummondii | Drummond's sleepydaisy Sleepy-Daisy | |
| Yucca constricta | Buckley yucca Buckley's yucca | |
| Yucca rupicola | Twistleaf yucca Twisted-leaf yucca Texas yucca | |
| Yucca treculeana | Spanish Dagger Don Quixote's Lance Palma Pita | |
| Zanthoxylum hirsutum | Texas Hercules' club Texas prickly ash Prickly ash Toothache tree Tickle-tongue Tingle-tongue | |
| Zinnia acerosa | Desert zinnia Dwarf zinnia Dwarf white zinnia | |
| Zigadenus nuttallii | Death Camas Nuttall's deathcamas Nuttall’s death camas Poison onion | |
| Ziziphus obtusifolia | Lote-bush condalia Lotebush | |
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