Special Collections
Southwestern Tablelands
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 49 Texas counties. Situated adjacent to the Central Great Plains ecoregion to the east and the High Plains to the west (which it bisects along the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle), the Southwestern Tablelands ecoregion encompasses much of east-central New Mexico and southeastern Colorado. It also reaches into south-central Oklahoma. In Texas, along with the Central Great Plains, 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 the Texas portion of the Southwestern Tablelands ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Abronia fragrans | Fragrant Sand-verbena Snowball Sand Verbena Sweet Sand-verbena Prairie Snowball Sand Verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abutilon fruticosum | Indian Mallow Texas Indian Mallow | |
Abutilon parvulum | Dwarf Indian Mallow | |
Acaciella angustissima | Prairie Acacia Fern Acacia Whiteball Acacia Prairie Wattle White-ball Acacia | |
Acaciella angustissima var. hirta | Prairie Acacia Texas Prairie Acacia Texas Fern Acacia Prairie Wattle | |
Achnatherum hymenoides | Indian Ricegrass Indian Millet Sandgrass | |
Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acourtia nana | Dwarf Desertpeony | |
Acalypha ostryifolia | Pineland Threeseed Mercury Hop-hornbeam Copperleaf | |
Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
Agrostis hyemalis | Winter Bentgrass | |
Agrimonia parviflora | Harvest Lice Small-flowered Agrimony Southern Agrimony Swamp Agrimony | |
Agalinis tenuifolia | Slenderleaf False Foxglove | |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
Alopecurus carolinianus | Carolina Foxtail | |
Allium canadense var. fraseri | Fraser Meadow Garlic Fraser Meadow Garlic | |
Allium canadense var. hyacinthoides | Hyacinth Meadow Garlic | |
Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
Allionia incarnata | Trailing Windmills Trailing Four O'Clock Pink Windmills Trailing Allionia | |
Alisma subcordatum | American Water Plantain | |
Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Annual Ragweed Short Ragweed | |
Ammannia auriculata | Eared Redstem | |
Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
Amsonia ciliata | Fringed Bluestar Bluestar Texas Bluestar | |
Ammannia coccinea | Valley Redstem Scarlet Tooth-cup | |
Ampelopsis cordata | Heartleaf Peppervine Heart-leaf Ampelopsis | |
Ambrosia confertiflora | Weakleaf Bur Ragweed Weak Leaved Burweed Slimleaf Bursage | |
Amphiachyris dracunculoides | Prairie Broomweed Broomweed | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
Amaranthus hybridus | Slim Amaranth | |
Amaranthus palmeri | Carelessweed | |
Ammoselinum popei | Plains Sandparsley | |
Ambrosia psilostachya | Cuman Ragweed Western Ragweed Perennial Ragweed Common Ragweed | |
Amaranthus retroflexus | Redroot Amaranth | |
Ammannia robusta | Grand Redstem | |
Amaranthus scleropoides | Bonebract Amaranth | |
Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
Amaranthus spinosus | Spiny Amaranth Thorny Pigweed | |
Ambrosia trifida | Great Ragweed Giant Ragweed | |
Amaranthus tuberculatus | Roughfruit Amaranth Water Hemp | |
Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
Anemopsis californica | Yerba Mansa Yerba-mansa Lizard Tail | |
Anemone caroliniana | Carolina Anemone Carolina Thimbleweed Southern Thimbleweed | |
Androstephium coeruleum | Blue Funnel-lily Prairie Lily Funnel-flower Fragrant Lily | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
Andropogon hallii | Sand Bluestem | |
Apios americana | Groundnut Wild Potato Indian Potato | |
Apocynum cannabinum | Indian Hemp Prairie Dogbane Hemp Dogbane Dogbane | |
Aphanostephus pilosus | Hairy Dozedaisy | |
Aphanostephus ramosissimus | Plains Dozedaisy Lazy Daisy | |
Aphanostephus ramosissimus var. ramosissimus | Plains Dozedaisy | |
Aphanostephus riddellii | Riddell's Dozedaisy Lazy Daisy | |
Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy Daisy Arkansas Lazy Daisy Arkansas Doze-daisy | |
Artemisia campestris | Field Sagewort | |
Artemisia campestris ssp. caudata | Field Sagewort | |
Artemisia dracunculus | Tarragon | |
Artemisia filifolia | Sand Sagebrush Silver Sagebrush Silvery Wormwood Sand Sage | |
Argythamnia humilis | Low Silverbush | |
Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. mexicana | White Sagebrush Louisiana Wormwood Cudweed Sagewort Gray Sagewort Mugwort Wormwood Prairie Sage | |
Argythamnia mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wildmercury | |
Argythamnia mercurialina var. mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wild Mercury Tall Ditaxis | |
Argythamnia neomexicana | New Mexico Silverbush | |
Argemone polyanthemos | Crested Pricklypoppy Annual Pricklepoppy Bluestem Pricklepoppy Bluestem Prickly Poppy Pricklypoppy Thistle Poppy White Prickly Poppy White Pricklypoppy | |
Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea var. longiseta | Red Three-awn Fendler Three-awn Purple Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi | Blue Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Threeawn Red Threeawn | |
Argemone squarrosa | Hedgehog Pricklypoppy Hedgehog Prickly Poppy | |
Asclepias arenaria | Sand Milkweed Western Sand Milkweed | |
Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
Astragalus ceramicus | Painted Milkvetch | |
Astragalus crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch Ground Plum | |
Astragalus crassicarpus var. crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch | |
Asclepias emoryi | Emory's Milkweed | |
Asclepias engelmanniana | Engelmann's Milkweed | |
Astragalus gracilis | Slender Milkvetch | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Astrolepis integerrima | Hybrid Cloakfern | |
Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata | Swamp Milkweed | |
Asclepias latifolia | Broadleaf Milkweed | |
Astragalus lentiginosus | Freckled Milkvetch | |
Astragalus lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Milkvetch Lindheimer's Astragulus | |
Astragalus lotiflorus | Lotus Milkvetch Lotus Milk-vetch Low Milkvetch Milkvetch | |
Asclepias macrotis | Longhood Milkweed | |
Astragalus missouriensis | Missouri Milkvetch | |
Astragalus mollissimus | Woolly Locoweed Purple Locoweed Woolly Loco Woolly Milkvetch Wooly Loco Wooly Locoweed | |
Astragalus nuttallianus | Nuttall's Milkvetch Small-flowered Milkvetch | |
Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
Astragalus plattensis | Platte River Milkvetch | |
Astragalus praelongus | Stinking Milkvetch | |
Asclepias pumila | Plains Milkweed | |
Astragalus racemosus | Cream Milkvetch | |
Astrolepis sinuata | Wavy Scaly Cloakfern | |
Asclepias speciosa | Showy Milkweed | |
Asclepias stenophylla | Slimleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Green Milkweed | |
Asclepias subverticillata | Horsetail Milkweed Poison Milkweed | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
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