Special Collections
Remarkable Riparian
A field guide to riparian plants within the Nueces River Basin of Texas. A publication of the Nueces River Authority. This user-friendly guide introduces the most commonly observed riparian vegetation in the Edward's Plateau and Rio Grande Plains. However, most of the plants presented herein occur in riparian areas all across Texas, including the Cross Timbers, Trans-Pecos and Rolling Plains.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Abutilon fruticosum | Indian Mallow Texas Indian Mallow | |
| Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
| Acalypha phleoides | Shrubby Copperleaf Three-seeded Mercury | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
| Ambrosia psilostachya | Cuman Ragweed Western Ragweed Perennial Ragweed Common Ragweed | |
| Ambrosia trifida var. texana | Texan Great Ragweed Giant Ragweed | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
| Anemia mexicana | Mexican Fern Mexican Flowering Fern | |
| Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Boehmeria cylindrica | Smallspike False Nettle Bog Hemp | |
| Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass Silver Beard Grass | |
| Brickellia cylindracea | Gravel-bar Brickellbush | |
| Brickellia dentata | Leafy Brickellbush | |
| Catalpa bignonioides | Southern Catalpa Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Calyptocarpus vialis | Horseherb Straggler Daisy Hierba Del Caballo Lawnflower | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf Hackberry Netleaf Sugar Hackberry Western Hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
| Cenchrus spinifex | Grass Bur Coastal Sandbur Field Sandspur Southern Sandbur Spiny Burrgrass | |
| Chloris cucullata | Hooded Windmill Grass Hooded Windmillgrass | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
| Chamaesyce serpens | Matted Sandmat Prostrate Spurge Creeping Spurge | |
| Cicuta maculata | Spotted Water Hemlock Water-hemlock Beaver Poison | |
| Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
| Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple Leatherflower Purple Clematis Leatherflower Bluebill Bellflower Clematis Pitcher's Clematis | |
| Cocculus carolinus | Carolina Snailseed Carolina Coralbead Carolina Moonseed Red Berried Moonseed Carolina Red Berried Moonseed | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa | |
| Dichanthelium acuminatum var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer Panicgrass Lindheimer's Rosettegrass | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
| Eleocharis cellulosa | Gulf Coast Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis montevidensis | Sand Spikerush Spike Rush | |
| Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked Spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
| Equisetum laevigatum | Smooth Horsetail Horsetail | |
| Euphorbia dentata | Toothed Spurge Toothed-leaf Poinsettia | |
| Eustoma exaltatum | Catchfly Prairie Gentian Bluebell Gentian Western Blue Gentian Blue Marsh Lily Small Bluebell Catchfly Gentian Seaside Gentian | |
| Eupatorium serotinum | White Boneset Lateflowering Thoroughwort Late Boneset Late-flowering Boneset | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood | |
| Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's Ash Gregg Ash Littleleaf Ash Dogleg Ash Escobilla Barreta China | |
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