Central Great Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. The Central Great Plains extends in a great swath from west-central Texas north through central Oklahoma, Kansas and south-central Nebraska. In Texas, along with the Southwestern Tablelands, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Rolling Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Central Great Plains ecoregion.scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Carex lasiocarpa var. americana | American Woollyfruit Sedge | |
Carex leptalea | Bristlystalked Sedge Flaccid Sedge | |
Carex leptalea ssp. leptalea | Bristlystalked Sedge Flaccid Sedge | |
Cardamine maxima | Large Toothwort | |
Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
Calla palustris | Water Arum Water-dragon Wild Calla | |
Caltha palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Cowslip | |
Carex pedunculata | Longstalk Sedge | |
Carex plantaginea | Plantainleaf Sedge Plantain-leaf Sedge | |
Carex retrorsa | Knotsheath Sedge | |
Carex rosea | Rosy Sedge | |
Calystegia sepium | Hedge False Bindweed Hedge Bindweed | |
Carex sparganioides | Bur-reed Sedge | |
Carex sprengelii | Sprengel's Sedge | |
Carex squarrosa | Squarrose Sedge Narrowleaf Cattail Sedge | |
Caulophyllum thalictroides | Blue Cohosh Squaw-root Papoose-root Caulophylle Faux-pigamon | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead | |
Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra Clethra Summer Sweet | |
Clintonia borealis | Bluebead Yellow Bluebead-lily Clintonia Blue-bead Lily | |
Clematis ligusticifolia | Western White Clematis Virgin's Bower Pepper Vine Hierba De Chivo | |
Clematis occidentalis | Western Blue Virginsbower | |
Clematis occidentalis var. occidentalis | Western Blue Virginsbower Purple Clematis | |
Clematis virginiana | Devil's Darning Needles Virgin's Bower Old Man's Beard | |
Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
Cornus amomum | Silky Dogwood Red Willow Silky Cornel | |
Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
Cornus canadensis | Bunchberry Dogwood Canadian Bunchberry | |
Corylus cornuta | Beaked Hazelnut Beaked Filbert | |
Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Corallorhiza maculata | Summer Coralroot Spotted Coralroot Speckled Coral Root Large Coral Root Many-flowered Coral Root | |
Cornus obliqua | Silky Dogwood Pale Dogwood Swamp Dogwood Kinnikinnik | |
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 | |
Cornus racemosa | Gray Dogwood | |
Cornus rugosa | Roundleaf Dogwood | |
Coptis trifolia | Threeleaf Goldthread Three-leaf Goldthread Canker Root | |
Collinsia verna | Spring Blue Eyed Mary Spring Blue-eyed Mary | |
Commelina virginica | Virginia Dayflower | |
Crataegus brainerdii | Brainerd's Hawthorn | |
Crataegus chrysocarpa | Fireberry Hawthorn | |
Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
Crataegus dilatata | Broadleaf Hawthorn | |
Crataegus holmesiana | Holmes' Hawthorn | |
Crataegus macrosperma | Bigfruit Hawthorn Large-seeded Hawthorn | |
Crataegus mollis | Downy Hawthorn White Thorn Whitethorn Scarlet Hawthorn Scarlet Haw Red Haw Downy Thorn | |
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