Cross Timbers
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. With most of this ecoregion occurring in a swath from central Texas north, its northern reaches extend into southeastern Oklahoma. In Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Cross Timbers and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Cross Timbers ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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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 | |
Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth Maple Big-toothed Maple Uvalde Bigtooth Maple Southwestern Bigtooth Maple Canyon Maple Sabinal Maple Western Sugar Maple | |
Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acalypha monococca | Slender Threeseed Mercury | |
Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
Acleisanthes obtusa | Berlandier's Trumpets Vine Four O'Clock | |
Acmella oppositifolia | Oppositeleaf Spotflower | |
Acmella oppositifolia var. repens | Oppositeleaf Spotflower Opposite-leaf Spotflower | |
Acalypha ostryifolia | Pineland Threeseed Mercury Hop-hornbeam Copperleaf | |
Acalypha phleoides | Shrubby Copperleaf Three-seeded Mercury | |
Acalypha radians | Cardinal's Feather Cardinal Feather | |
Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
Acalypha virginica | Virginia Threeseed Mercury | |
Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
Aesculus glabra | Ohio Buckeye Texas Buckeye Fetid Buckeye Horse Chestnut | |
Aesculus glabra var. arguta | Ohio Buckeye White Buckeye Texas Buckeye | |
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 | |
Agalinis fasciculata | Beach False Foxglove | |
Ageratina havanensis | Shrubby Boneset White Mistflower White Shrub Mistflower Havana Snakeroot | |
Agalinis heterophylla | Prairie Agalinis Prairie False-foxglove | |
Agalinis homalantha | San Antonio False Foxglove | |
Agrostis hyemalis | Winter Bentgrass | |
Agalinis strictifolia | Stiffleaf False Foxglove | |
Agalinis tenuifolia | Slenderleaf False Foxglove | |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
Alopecurus carolinianus | Carolina Foxtail | |
Allium canadense var. canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion Canada Onion | |
Allium canadense var. fraseri | Fraser Meadow Garlic Fraser Meadow Garlic | |
Allium canadense var. hyacinthoides | Hyacinth Meadow Garlic | |
Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion | |
Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
Alophia drummondii | Propeller Flower Purple Pleat-leaf Pinewoods Lily Prairie Iris Pleatleaf Iris | |
Allium elmendorfii | Elmendorf's Onion | |
Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
Allowissadula holosericea | Velvet-leaf Mallow Chisos Mountain False Indianmallow | |
Allionia incarnata | Trailing Windmills Trailing Four O'Clock Pink Windmills Trailing Allionia | |
Allium stellatum | Autumn Onion Prairie Onion | |
Amphiachyris amoena | Texas Broomweed | |
Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Annual Ragweed Short Ragweed | |
Ammannia auriculata | Eared Redstem | |
Amphicarpaea bracteata | American Hogpeanut | |
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 | |
Amsonia longiflora | Tubular Bluestar Trumpet Slimpod | |
Amsonia longiflora var. salpignantha | Tubular Bluestar Trumpet Slimpod | |
Amsinckia menziesii var. menziesii | Menzies' Fiddleneck | |
Amaranthus palmeri | Carelessweed | |
Amaranthus polygonoides | Tropical Amaranth | |
Amaranthus powellii | Powell's Amaranth Green Amaranth Powell's Smooth Amaranth | |
Ammoselinum popei | Plains Sandparsley | |
Ambrosia psilostachya | Cuman Ragweed Western Ragweed Perennial Ragweed Common Ragweed | |
Amaranthus retroflexus | Redroot Amaranth | |
Amsonia repens | Creeping Bluestar | |
Amorpha roemeriana | Roemer's False Indigo | |
Amaranthus scleropoides | Bonebract Amaranth | |
Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
Amaranthus spinosus | Spiny Amaranth Thorny Pigweed | |
Amyris texana | Texas Torchwood Chapotillo | |
Ambrosia trifida | Great Ragweed Giant Ragweed | |
Ambrosia trifida var. texana | Texan Great Ragweed Giant Ragweed | |
Amaranthus tuberculatus | Roughfruit Amaranth Water Hemp | |
Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
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 | |
Anagallis minima | Chaffweed | |
Antennaria parlinii | Parlin's Pussytoes Ladies' Tobacco | |
Antennaria parlinii ssp. fallax | Parlin's Pussytoes | |
Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard Bluestem Split Bluestem | |
Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge Broomsedge Bluestem Yellowsedge Bluestem Whiskey Grass Popotillo Pajon | |
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 | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Aquilegia chrysantha | Golden Columbine Yellow Columbine Southwestern Yellow Columbine | |
Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's Golden Columbine Yellow Columbine Hinckley Columbine Capote Columbine | |
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 | |
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