Special Collections
Southern Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 21 Texas counties. This ecoregion borders most of the southwestern portion of the Rio Grande River and extends into northern Mexico. In Texas, it encompasses much of the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s South Texas Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Southern Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Phlox drummondii ssp. mcallisteri | Mcallister's Phlox Drummond Phlox | |
| Phlox glabriflora | Rio Grande Phlox | |
| Phlox glabriflora ssp. littoralis | Rio Grande Phlox | |
| Physalis hederifolia | Ivyleaf Groundcherry Ivy-leaf Groundcherry | |
| Physalis heterophylla | Clammy Groundcherry | |
| Phacelia hirsuta | Fuzzy Phacelia | |
| Physostegia intermedia | Spring Obedient Plant Marsh Obedient Plant Slender False Dragonhead Intermediate False Dragonhead | |
| Phacelia laxa | Coastal Phacelia | |
| Phyla lanceolata | Lanceleaf Frogfruit Lanceleaf Fogfruit | |
| Physalis longifolia | Longleaf Groundcherry | |
| Physalis mollis | Field Groundcherry | |
| Physalis mollis var. variovestita | Field Groundcherry | |
| Phyla nodiflora | Texas Frogfruit Turkey Tangle Fogfruit Frogfruit | |
| Phemeranthus parviflorus | Sunbright Dwarf Flameflower Prairie Flameflower | |
| Phacelia patuliflora | Sand Phacelia Sand Scorpionweed Blue Phacelia | |
| Phacelia patuliflora var. austrotexana | South Texas Sand Phacelia | |
| Phacelia patuliflora var. patuliflora | Sand Phacelia | |
| Phacelia patuliflora var. teucriifolia | Sand Phacelia | |
| Phlox pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
| Phlox pilosa ssp. pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
| Phyllanthus polygonoides | Smartweed Leaf-flower Knotweed Leafflower | |
| Philadelphus pubescens | Hoary Mock Orange | |
| Physalis pubescens | Husk Tomato Downy Ground-cherry Downy Groundcherry | |
| Physostegia pulchella | Showy False Dragonhead Beautiful False Dragon-head | |
| Phlox roemeriana | Goldeneye Phlox Golden-eye Phlox | |
| Phaulothamnus spinescens | Devilqueen Snake-eyes | |
| Philadelphus texensis | Texas Mock Orange | |
| Phoradendron tomentosum | Christmas Mistletoe Mistletoe Injerto | |
| Physalis virginiana | Virginia Groundcherry | |
| Pistacia mexicana | Mexican Pistachio Texas Pistachio American Pistachio Copal Pistachio Wild Pistachio Lentisco Texas Pistache | |
| Pinus remota | Papershell Pinyon Remote Pinyon Pine | |
| Pinaropappus roseus | White Rocklettuce White Dandelion Pink Dandelion White Rock Lettuce | |
| Pistia stratiotes | Water Lettuce | |
| Plantago aristata | Largebracted Plantain Buckthorn | |
| Plantago helleri | Heller's Plantain Cedar Plantain | |
| Plantago heterophylla | Slender Plantain | |
| Plantago hookeriana | California Plantain Tallow Weed | |
| Pleuraphis mutica | Tobosagrass Tobosa Grass | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
| Pluchea odorata | Sweetscent Saltmarsh Fleabane | |
| Pluchea odorata var. odorata | Sweetscent Marsh Fleabane Southern Marsh Fleabane | |
| Plantago patagonica | Woolly Plantain Bristle-bract Plantain | |
| Pleopeltis polypodioides | Resurrection Fern | |
| Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana | Resurrection Fern | |
| Plantago rhodosperma | Redseed Plantain Red-seeded Plantain | |
| Plumbago scandens | Doctorbush Summer Snow Plumbago Mexican Plumbago | |
| Plantago virginica | Virginia Plantain Paleseed Indian-wheat Dwarf Plantain Paleseed Plantain Hoary Plantain Southern Plantain | |
| Plantago wrightiana | Wright's Plantain | |
| Polygala alba | White Milkwort | |
| Poa bigelovii | Bigelow's Bluegrass | |
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