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.scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Amelanchier alnifolia | Saskatoon Serviceberry Western Serviceberry Juneberry | |
Arctostaphylos columbiana | Hairy Manzanita | |
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Kinnikinnick Red Bearberry Kinnikinnik | |
Ceanothus sanguineus | Redstem Ceanothus Oregon Tea-tree Wild Lilac | |
Ceanothus velutinus | Snowbrush Snowbrush Ceanothus Tobacco-brush Mountain Balm Buckbrush | |
Dirca occidentalis | Western Leatherwood | |
Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
Gaultheria shallon | Salal | |
Heteromeles arbutifolia | Toyon California Christmasberry Christmasberry California Holly Hollywood | |
Lonicera hispidula | Pink Honeysuckle Hairy Honeysuckle California Honeysuckle Western Honeysuckle Pink Chaparral Honeysuckle | |
Mahonia aquifolium | Holly-leaved Barberry Holly-leaf Oregon-grape | |
Mahonia nervosa | Cascade Barberry Cascade Oregon-grape Dwarf Oregon-grape | |
Oemleria cerasiformis | Indian Plum Oso-berry | |
Paxistima myrsinites | Oregon Boxleaf Myrtle Boxwood Mountain Lover | |
Rhamnus crocea | Redberry Buckthorn Holly-leaf Buckthorn Redberry | |
Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
Rhododendron macrophyllum | Pacific Rhododendron California Rhododendron California Rosebay Red Rhododendron | |
Ribes hudsonianum | Northern Black Currant | |
Ribes sanguineum | Redflower Currant Blood Currant Pink-flowered Currant Red Flowering Currant | |
Rosa nutkana | Nootka Rose | |
Rosa woodsii | Woods' Rose Western Wild Rose | |
Salix scouleriana | Scouler's Willow Western Pussy Willow | |
Shepherdia canadensis | Russet Buffaloberry Rabbitberry | |
Symphoricarpos albus | Common Snowberry | |
Vaccinium membranaceum | Thinleaf Huckleberry Square-twig Blueberry Mountain Huckleberry | |
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