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 |
Antennaria plantaginifolia | Woman's Tobacco Ladies' Tobacco Everlasting Mouse Ear Plantain-leaf Pussytoes | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Callisia micrantha | Cherisse Little-flower Roseling Southern Coastal Roseling Little-flower Spiderwort | |
Cheilanthes gracillima | Lace Lipfern Lace Lip Fern | |
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
Dichondra argentea | Silver Ponysfoot Silver Ponyfoot | |
Galax urceolata | Beetleweed Galax Coltsfoot Wand Flower | |
Goodyera pubescens | Downy Rattlesnake Plantain | |
Hexastylis arifolia | Little Brown Jug Heartleaf Evergreen Wild Ginger | |
Lycopodium digitatum | Fan Clubmoss Running Cedar Ground Pine | |
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