High Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 51 counties in western and northwestern Texas. It extends west into New Mexico and north across western Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, into southwestern South Dakota and southeastern Wyoming. In Texas, this ecoregion is commonly referred to as the Llano Estacado, a mostly flat plateau of short grass prairie. It covers approximately the same area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s High Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the High Plains ecoregion.scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Abronia ameliae | Amelia's Sand-verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abronia angustifolia | Purple Sand Verbena Narrow-leaf Sand-verbena | |
Abronia fragrans | Fragrant Sand-verbena Snowball Sand Verbena Sweet Sand-verbena Prairie Snowball Sand Verbena Heart's Delight | |
Acalypha gracilens | Slender Threeseed Mercury | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Achillea millefolium var. borealis | Boreal Yarrow | |
Acalypha rhomboidea | Common Threeseed Mercury Virginia Threeseed Mercury | |
Achillea sibirica | Siberian Yarrow | |
Acourtia wrightii | Brownfoot Pink Perezia | |
Ageratina altissima | White Snakeroot | |
Agalinis heterophylla | Prairie Agalinis Prairie False-foxglove | |
Allium canadense var. canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion Canada Onion | |
Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion | |
Allium coryi | Yellowflower Onion Yellow-flowered Onion | |
Allium crispum | Crinkled Onion | |
Alophia drummondii | Propeller Flower Purple Pleat-leaf Pinewoods Lily Prairie Iris Pleatleaf Iris | |
Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Annual Ragweed Short Ragweed | |
Amsonia ciliata | Fringed Bluestar Bluestar Texas Bluestar | |
Ambrosia psilostachya | Cuman Ragweed Western Ragweed Perennial Ragweed Common Ragweed | |
Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
Anemone cylindrica | Candle Anemone Long-headed Thimbleweed Longhead Thimbleweed Thimbleweed | |
Anaphalis margaritacea | Western Pearly Everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
Antennaria parvifolia | Small-leaf Pussytoes Low Everlasting Nuttall's Pussytoes | |
Antennaria plantaginifolia | Woman's Tobacco Ladies' Tobacco Everlasting Mouse Ear Plantain-leaf Pussytoes | |
Anemone virginiana | Tall Thimbleweed Thimbleweed Tall Anemone | |
Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading Dogbane Bitterroot Flytrap Dogbane | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Aquilegia formosa | Western Columbine Crimson Columbine Scarlet Columbine Red Columbine | |
Argemone albiflora | Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
Arabis blepharophylla | Rose Rockcress | |
Arabis glabra | Tower Rockcress | |
Argemone sanguinea | Red Pricklypoppy Rose Prickly Poppy Red Prickly Poppy | |
Aristolochia watsonii | Indianroot Watson's Dutchman's-pipe | |
Astragalus australis | Indian Milkvetch | |
Astragalus canadensis | Canadian Milkvetch Canada Milkvetch Milk Vetch | |
Astragalus crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch Ground Plum | |
Astragalus giganteus | Giant Milkvetch | |
Asclepias michauxii | Michaux's Milkweed | |
Asclepias nummularia | Tufted Milkweed | |
Asclepias obovata | Pineland Milkweed | |
Asclepias ovalifolia | Oval-leaf Milkweed Dwarf Milkweed | |
Asclepias quadrifolia | Fourleaf Milkweed | |
Astragalus tennesseensis | Tennessee Milkvetch | |
Asclepias variegata | Redring Milkweed White-flowered Milkweed | |
Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
Aureolaria grandiflora | Largeflower Yellow False Foxglove False Foxglove | |
Aureolaria virginica | Downy Yellow False Foxglove Downy False Foxglove | |
Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
Baileya multiradiata | Desert Marigold Showy Desert Marigold Paper Daisy Desert Baileya | |
Berlandiera pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
Blephilia ciliata | Downy Pagoda-plant Sunny Woodmint Ohio Horsemint | |
Brickellia cylindracea | Gravel-bar Brickellbush | |
Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides | False Boneset | |
Calochortus albus | White Fairy-lantern Fairy-lantern White Fairy Lantern | |
Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's Sundrops Western Primrose | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Calochortus lyallii | Lyall's Mariposa Lily | |
Calochortus macrocarpus | Sagebrush Mariposa Lily Sagebrush Mariposa-lily Bigpod Mariposa | |
Callisia micrantha | Cherisse Little-flower Roseling Southern Coastal Roseling Little-flower Spiderwort | |
Cardamine parviflora | Sand Bittercress | |
Callirhoe pedata | Palmleaf Poppymallow Standing Winecup Finger Poppymallow Palmleaf Poppy Mallow | |
Calochortus plummerae | Plummer's Mariposa Lily | |
Calochortus pulchellus | Mount Diablo Fairy-lantern | |
Carex retroflexa | Reflexed Sedge | |
Castilleja rhexiifolia | Splitleaf Indian Paintbrush Rosy Indian Paintbrush | |
Callisia rosea | Piedmont Roseling Spiderwort | |
Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
Camassia scilloides | Atlantic Camas Wild Hyacinth | |
Callitriche terrestris | Terrestrial Water-starwort | |
Calyptocarpus vialis | Horseherb Straggler Daisy Hierba Del Caballo Lawnflower | |
Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
Centaurium beyrichii | Mountain Pink Meadow Pink Catchfly Quinineweed | |
Chenopodium album | Lambsquarters | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
Chamaesyce prostrata | Prostrate Spurge Prostrate Sandmat Ground Spurge | |
Chenopodium simplex | Mapleleaf Goosefoot | |
Chaptalia texana | Texas Silverpuff Silverpuff Nodding Lettuce Silver Puff | |
Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe | Southern Green And Gold Green And Gold | |
Cirsium altissimum | Tall Thistle | |
Clarkia concinna | Red Ribbons Redribbons | |
Clematis hirsutissima | Hairy Clematis Sugarbowls Vase Flower Leatherflower Lion's Beard | |
Clarkia unguiculata | Elegant Clarkia Elegant Fairyfan Mountain Garland | |
Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort Scrambled Eggs Golden Smoke Curvepod | |
Cooperia drummondii | Evening Rain Lily Evening Star Rain Lily | |
Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
Commelina erecta var. angustifolia | Whitemouth Dayflower Narrow-leaf Dayflower Widow's Tears | |
Conoclinium greggii | Gregg's Mistflower Palmleaf Thoroughwort Palm-leaf Mistflower Palm-leaf Thoroughwort Purple Palmleaf Mistflower Purple Palmleaf Eupatorium | |
Collomia grandiflora | Grand Collomia Large-flower Mountain-trumpet Collomia | |
Cooperia jonesii | Jones' Rainlily Jones' Rain Lily | |
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
Corallorhiza odontorhiza | Autumn Coralroot Late Coralroot Fall Coral Root Late Southern Coral Root Small Coral Root Small-flowered Coral Root Chicken Toe Turkey Claw Dragon's Claw Fever Root Crawley Root Crawley | |
Corydalis sempervirens | Rock Harlequin | |
Coreopsis verticillata | Threadleaf Coreopsis Whorled Tickseed Whorled Coreopsis | |
Croton fruticulosus | Bush Croton Encinilla Hierba Loca | |
Cypripedium acaule | Moccasin Flower Pink Lady's Slipper | |
Cypripedium arietinum | Ram's Head Lady's Slipper | |
Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush | |
Dalea obovata | Pussyfoot | |
Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
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