Special Collections
Central Great Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. The Central Great Plains extends in a great swath from west-central Texas north through central Oklahoma, Kansas and south-central Nebraska. In Texas, along with the Southwestern Tablelands, 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 Texas portion of the Central Great Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Acalypha gracilens | Slender Threeseed Mercury | |
| Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
| Acalypha monococca | Slender Threeseed Mercury | |
| Acourtia nana | Dwarf Desertpeony | |
| Acalypha ostryifolia | Pineland Threeseed Mercury Hop-hornbeam Copperleaf | |
| Acalypha phleoides | Shrubby Copperleaf Three-seeded Mercury | |
| Acalypha virginica | Virginia Threeseed Mercury | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
| Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
| Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red Buckeye Southern Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
| Agave americana | American Century Plant Century Plant | |
| 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 Wild Onion | |
| Allium canadense var. hyacinthoides | Hyacinth Meadow Garlic Wild Onion | |
| 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 | |
| Amphiachyris amoena | Texas Broomweed | |
| 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 palmeri | Carelessweed | |
| Amaranthus polygonoides | Tropical Amaranth | |
| 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 | |
| Antennaria parlinii | Parlin's Pussytoes Ladies' Tobacco | |
| Antennaria parlinii ssp. fallax | Parlin's Pussytoes | |
| Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard Bluestem Split 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 | |
| Argemone albiflora | Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
| Argemone albiflora ssp. texana | Texas Bluestem Pricklypoppy Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
| Argythamnia aphoroides | Hill Country Silverbush | |
| Argemone aurantiaca | Texas Pricklypoppy Texas Prickly Poppy | |
| Arenaria benthamii | Hilly Sandwort | |
| Artemisia campestris | Field Sagewort | |
| Artemisia campestris ssp. caudata | Field Sagewort | |
| Aristida desmantha | Curly Threeawn | |
| Argyrochosma dealbata | Powdery False Cloak Fern Powdery Cloak Fern False Cloak Fern | |
| Artemisia dracunculus | Tarragon | |
| Artemisia filifolia | Sand Sagebrush Silver Sagebrush Silvery Wormwood Sand Sage | |
| Argythamnia humilis | Low Silverbush | |
| Aristida lanosa | Woollysheath Threeawn Woolly Three-awn | |
| Aristida longespica | Slimspike Threeawn Kearney's Three-awn Red Three-awn Slender Three-awn | |
| Argythamnia mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wildmercury | |
| Argythamnia mercurialina var. mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wild Mercury Tall Ditaxis | |
| Aristida oligantha | Prairie Threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield Threeawn | |
| 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 | |
| Aristolochia reticulata | Texas Dutchman's Pipe | |
| Argythamnia simulans | Plateau Silverbush Tall Wild-mercury | |
| 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 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 | |
| Astranthium integrifolium | Entireleaf Western Daisy | |
| Astranthium integrifolium ssp. ciliatum | Entireleaf Western Daisy | |
| Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata | Swamp Milkweed | |
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