Special Collections
East Central Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 56 Texas counties. This ecoregion separates the two bands of the Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion and extends just across the Oklahoma border. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Post Oak Savannah vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Abronia ameliae | Amelia's Sand-verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abronia angustifolia | Purple Sand Verbena Narrow-leaf Sand-verbena | |
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 malacum | Yellow Indian Mallow | |
Abutilon parvulum | Dwarf 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 | |
Acalypha gracilens | Slender Threeseed Mercury | |
Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acalypha monostachya | Round Copperleaf | |
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 | |
Acalypha rhomboidea | Common Threeseed Mercury Virginia Threeseed Mercury | |
Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
Acourtia runcinata | Featherleaf Desertpeony Peonia | |
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 | |
Adolphia infesta | Junco | |
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 | |
Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red Buckeye Southern Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Ageratina altissima | White Snakeroot | |
Agalinis edwardsiana | Plateau False Foxglove Plateau Agalinis Plateau Gerardia Plateau False-foxglove | |
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 | |
Agrimonia parviflora | Harvest Lice Small-flowered Agrimony Southern Agrimony Swamp Agrimony | |
Agrostis perennans | Upland Bentgrass Autumn Bentgrass | |
Agalinis purpurea | Purple False Foxglove Purple Gerardia Gerardia | |
Agalinis strictifolia | Stiffleaf False Foxglove | |
Agalinis tenuifolia | Slenderleaf False Foxglove | |
Aletris aurea | Golden Colicroot Colicroot Star Grass Yellow Colic Root | |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
Alopecurus carolinianus | Carolina Foxtail | |
Allium canadense var. canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion Canada Onion | |
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