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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Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
Crataegus reverchonii | Reverchon's Hawthorn Reverchon Hawthorn | |
Crataegus viridis | Green Hawthorn Southern Hawthorn | |
Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover | |
Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
Delphinium carolinianum | Prairie Larkspur Carolina Larkspur Blue Larkspur | |
Delphinium carolinianum ssp. vimineum | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur | |
Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa | |
Digitaria californica | Arizona Cottontop California Cottontop California Crab Grass Cottontop | |
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