Special Collections
Southern Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 21 Texas counties. This ecoregion borders most of the southwestern portion of the Rio Grande River and extends into northern Mexico. In Texas, it encompasses much of the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s South Texas Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Southern Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Abutilon abutiloides | Shrubby Indian Mallow | |
| Abronia ameliae | Amelia's Sand-verbena Heart's Delight | |
| Abutilon fruticosum | Indian Mallow Texas Indian Mallow | |
| Abutilon hypoleucum | Whiteleaf Indian Mallow White-leaf Indian-mallow Rio Grande Abutilon | |
| Abutilon parvulum | Dwarf Indian Mallow | |
| Abutilon trisulcatum | Anglestem Indian Mallow | |
| Abutilon wrightii | Wright's 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Acalypha monostachya | Round Copperleaf | |
| Acleisanthes obtusa | Berlandier's Trumpets Vine Four O'Clock | |
| Acalypha ostryifolia | Pineland Threeseed Mercury Hop-hornbeam Copperleaf | |
| Acalypha phleoides | Shrubby Copperleaf Three-seeded Mercury | |
| Acalypha radians | Cardinal's Feather Cardinal Feather | |
| Acourtia runcinata | Featherleaf Desertpeony Peonia | |
| Acanthocereus tetragonus | Triangle Cactus Barbed-wire Cactus Chaco | |
| Acleisanthes wrightii | Wright's Trumpets | |
| Acourtia wrightii | Brownfoot Pink Perezia | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
| Adelia vaseyi | Vasey's Wild-lime | |
| 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. flavescens | Texas Yellow Buckeye Yellow Woolly Buckeye Pale Buckeye Plateau Yellow Buckeye | |
| Ageratina altissima | White Snakeroot | |
| Agave americana | American Century Plant Century Plant | |
| Agalinis fasciculata | Beach False Foxglove | |
| Agalinis gattingeri | Roundstem 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 | |
| Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla Tula Ixtle Maguey Lechuguilla Shindagger | |
| Agalinis strictifolia | Stiffleaf False Foxglove | |
| Agalinis tenuifolia | Slenderleaf False Foxglove | |
| Agave univittata | Thorncrest Century Plant Maguey Mezortillo | |
| Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
| Allium canadense var. fraseri | Fraser Meadow Garlic Fraser Meadow Garlic | |
| 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 kunthii | Kunth's Onion | |
| Allowissadula lozanii | Lozano's False Indianmallow | |
| Aloysia macrostachya | Rio Grande Beebrush Woolly Bee-brush | |
| Allium runyonii | Runyon's Onion | |
| Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Annual Ragweed Short Ragweed | |
| Ammannia auriculata | Eared Redstem | |
| Ammannia coccinea | Valley Redstem Scarlet Tooth-cup | |
| 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 greggii | Gregg's Amaranth | |
| Amaranthus hybridus | Slim Amaranth | |
| Amsonia longiflora | Tubular Bluestar Trumpet Slimpod | |
| Amsonia longiflora var. salpignantha | Tubular Bluestar Trumpet Slimpod | |
| Amyris madrensis | Mountain Torchwood Shrub Amyris | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Amoreuxia wrightii | Wright's Yellowshow Yellow-show | |
| Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
| Anemone caroliniana | Carolina Anemone Carolina Thimbleweed Southern Thimbleweed | |
| Anemone edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Thimbleweed Two-flowered Anemone | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
| Anemia mexicana | Mexican Fern Mexican Flowering Fern | |
| Anagallis minima | Chaffweed | |
| Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii | Flame Acanthus Hummingbird Bush Wright's Desert Honeysuckle Wright Acanthus Mexican Flame Wright's Mexican Flame | |
| Ancistrocactus scheeri | Scheer's Fishhook Cactus | |
| Ancistrocactus tobuschii | Tobusch Fishhook Cactus Shorthook Fishhook Cactus | |
| Anemone tuberosa | Tuber Anemone Desert Anemone | |
| 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 aenea | Golden Pricklypoppy Golden Prickly Poppy | |
| 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 | |
| Aristolochia coryi | Cory's Dutchman's-pipe Cory's Pipevine | |
| Aristida desmantha | Curly Threeawn | |
| Aristolochia erecta | Swanflower | |
| Ariocarpus fissuratus | Chautle Livingrock Living Rock Cactus Texas Living Rock | |
| Argythamnia humilis | Low Silverbush | |
| Aristida longespica | Slimspike Threeawn Kearney's Three-awn Red Three-awn Slender Three-awn | |
| Argemone mexicana | Mexican Prickly Poppy Mexican Prickly Poppy Yellow Prickly Poppy | |
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