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
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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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
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