Remarkable Riparian
A field guide to riparian plants within the Nueces River Basin of Texas. A publication of the Nueces River Authority. This user-friendly guide introduces the most commonly observed riparian vegetation in the Edward's Plateau and Rio Grande Plains. However, most of the plants presented herein occur in riparian areas all across Texas, including the Cross Timbers, Trans-Pecos and Rolling Plains.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
Ludwigia peploides | Floating Primrose-willow Water-primrose Creeping Water-primrose | |
Lythrum californicum | California Loosestrife | |
Lygodesmia texana | Texas Skeleton Plant Texas Skeleton Weed Skeleton-plant Purple Dandelion Flowering Straw | |
Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving Sailor Climbing Snapdragon Little Snapdragon Vine | |
Matelea reticulata | Pearl Milkweed Vine Netted Milkvine Green Milkweed Vine Net Vein Milkvine | |
Mecardonia procumbens | Baby Jump-up | |
Mitreola petiolata | Lax Hornpod | |
Mikania scandens | Climbing Hempvine Climbing Hempweed | |
Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
Muhlenbergia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Muhly Lindheimer Muhly Big Muhly Blue Muhly | |
Myriophyllum heterophyllum | Twoleaf Watermilfoil | |
Opuntia engelmannii | Cactus Apple Prickly Pear | |
Palafoxia callosa | Small Palafox Small Palafoxia | |
Parthenium confertum | Gray's Feverfew | |
Panicum hallii | Hall's Panicgrass Hall's Panic Grass | |
Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
Physalis cinerascens | Smallflower Groundcherry | |
Physostegia correllii | Correll's False Dragonhead | |
Phyla nodiflora | Texas Frogfruit Turkey Tangle Fogfruit Frogfruit | |
Pluchea camphorata | Camphor Pluchea Camphor Weed | |
Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
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