Western Gulf Coastal Plain
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. As its name suggests, it is comprised of the coastal plain of Texas, extending along the Gulf Coast south into Mexico and east over portions of the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Gulf Marshes and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Western Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion.scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Philadelphus ernestii | Canyon Mock Orange Canyon Mock-orange Mock-orange | |
Phyla nodiflora | Texas Frogfruit Turkey Tangle Fogfruit Frogfruit | |
Phlox pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
Pinus cembroides | Mexican Pinyon Mexican Pinyon Pine Pinyon Nut Pine Border Pinyon | |
Pityopsis graminifolia var. graminifolia | Narrowleaf Silkgrass Grass-leaved Golden-aster | |
Pistacia mexicana | Mexican Pistachio Texas Pistachio American Pistachio Copal Pistachio Wild Pistachio Lentisco Texas Pistache | |
Pinus palustris | Longleaf Pine Georgia Pine Longleaf Yellow Pine Southern Yellow Pine Longstraw Pine Hill Pine Hard Pine Heart Pine | |
Pinus ponderosa | Ponderosa Pine Western Yellow Pine Pino Blanco | |
Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum | Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Interior Ponderosa Pine Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Ponderosa Pine | |
Pinus strobiformis | Southwestern White Pine Border White Pine Mexican White Pine Border Limber Pine Limber Pine | |
Pleuraphis mutica | Tobosagrass Tobosa Grass | |
Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
Polygala ovatifolia | Eggleaf Milkwort | |
Poa pratensis | Kentucky Bluegrass | |
Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen Golden Aspen Trembling Aspen Mountain Aspen Aspen Trembling Poplar Alamo Blanco | |
Prunus angustifolia | Chickasaw Plum Sandhill Plum | |
Prosopis glandulosa | Honey Mesquite Glandular Mesquite Algarroba | |
Prunus gracilis | Oklahoma Plum | |
Prunus mexicana | Mexican Plum Bigtree Plum Inch Plum | |
Prunus minutiflora | Texas Almond Texas Wild Almond Dwarf Plum | |
Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
Prunus serotina var. virens | Southwestern Black Cherry Southwestern Chokecherry Black Cherry | |
Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
Psathyrotopsis scaposa | Naked Turtleback Naked Brittlestem | |
Psilostrophe tagetina | Woolly Paperflower Paperflower | |
Ptelea trifoliata | Wafer Ash Common Hoptree Hop Tree | |
Purshia ericifolia | Heath Cliffrose Heath Cliff-rose | |
Pulsatilla patens | Eastern Pasqueflower American Pasqueflower | |
Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida | Cutleaf Anemone Pasqueflower Wild Crocus | |
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium | Narrowleaf Mountain Mint Slender Mountain Mint Common Horsemint | |
Quercus alba | White Oak Northern White Oak Eastern White Oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
Quercus arizonica | Arizona White Oak Arizona Oak | |
Quercus buckleyi | Texas Red Oak Buckley Oak Texas Oak Spanish Oak Spotted Oak Rock Oak | |
Quercus emoryi | Emory Oak Black Oak Holly Oak Apache Oak Desert Live Oak Western Black Oak Roble Negro Bellota | |
Quercus fusiformis | Escarpment Live Oak Plateau Live Oak Hill Country Live Oak Texas Live Oak Scrub Live Oak Plateau Oak Encino Molino Tesmoli | |
Quercus havardii | Havard Oak Havard Shin-oak Shinnery Oak | |
Quercus hemisphaerica | Coast Laurel Oak Darlington Oak Laurel Oak | |
Quincula lobata | Purple Groundcherry Chinese Lantern Purple Ground Cherry | |
Quercus macrocarpa | Bur Oak Burr Oak Savanna Oak Overcup Oak Prairie Oak Mossy-cup Oak Mossy-overcup Oak Blue Oak | |
Quercus muehlenbergii | Chinkapin Oak Chinquapin Oak Chestnut Oak Yellow Chestnut Oak Rock Chestnut Oak Yellow Oak Rock Oak | |
Quercus shumardii | Shumard Oak Shumard's Oak Shumard Red Oak Southern Red Oak Swamp Red Oak Spotted Oak | |
Quercus sinuata | Bastard Oak Durand Oak | |
Quercus turbinella | Shrub Live Oak Sonoran Scrub Oak Scrub Oak Turbinella Oak Turbinella Encino | |
Quercus velutina | Black Oak Quercitron Oak Yellow Oak Smoothbark Oak Yellowbark Oak | |
Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
Rhus aromatica | Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Lemon Sumac Polecat Bush | |
Rhus copallinum | Winged Sumac Shining Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Mountain Sumac Dwarf Sumac Wing-rib Sumac Black Sumac Upland Sumac | |
Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
Rhus lanceolata | Prairie Flameleaf Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Prairie Sumac Lance-leaf Sumac Lance-leaved Sumac Texas Sumac Tree Sumac Limestone Sumac Prairie Shining Sumac | |
Rhus trilobata | Skunkbush Skunkbush Sumac Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Scented Sumac Ill-scented Sumac Basketbush Squawbush | |
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