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 |
Crataegus pedicellata | Scarlet Hawthorn | |
Crataegus pringlei | Pringle's Hawthorn | |
Crataegus pruinosa | Waxyfruit Hawthorn | |
Crataegus prona | Illinois Hawthorn | |
Crataegus punctata | Dotted Hawthorn White Thorn Dotted Haw | |
Crataegus schuettei | Royal Hawthorn Schuette's Hawthorn | |
Crataegus scabrida | Rough Hawthorn | |
Crataegus submollis | Quebec Hawthorn | |
Crataegus succulenta | Fleshy Hawthorn | |
Euonymus atropurpureus var. atropurpureus | Eastern Wahoo | |
Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
Fraxinus nigra | Black Ash | |
Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
Fraxinus quadrangulata | Blue Ash | |
Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky Coffeetree Stump Tree | |
Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
Ilex mucronata | Catberry | |
Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
Juglans cinerea | Butternut White Walnut | |
Juniperus communis | Common Juniper | |
Juglans nigra | Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut | |
Juniperus virginiana | Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin | |
Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana | Eastern Redcedar Eastern Red Cedar | |
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