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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 |
| 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 | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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