Western Gulf Coastal Plain
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. As its name suggests, it is comprised of the coastal plain of Texas, extending along the Gulf Coast south into Mexico and east over portions of the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Gulf Marshes and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Western Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Abutilon abutiloides | Shrubby Indian Mallow | |
Abronia ameliae | Amelia's Sand-verbena Heart's Delight | |
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 hypoleucum | Whiteleaf Indian Mallow White-leaf Indian-mallow Rio Grande Abutilon | |
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 | |
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 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 | |
Acanthocereus tetragonus | Triangle Cactus Barbed-wire Cactus Chaco | |
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 pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red Buckeye Southern Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Ageratina altissima | White Snakeroot | |
Agave americana | American Century Plant Century Plant | |
Agalinis fasciculata | Beach False Foxglove | |
Agalinis heterophylla | Prairie Agalinis Prairie False-foxglove | |
Agalinis homalantha | San Antonio False Foxglove | |
Agrostis hyemalis | Winter Bentgrass | |
Agalinis maritima | Saltmarsh False Foxglove | |
Agalinis oligophylla | Ridgestem False Foxglove | |
Agrostis perennans | Upland Bentgrass Autumn Bentgrass | |
Agalinis purpurea | Purple False Foxglove Purple Gerardia Gerardia | |
Agalinis strictifolia | Stiffleaf False Foxglove | |
Agave univittata | Thorncrest Century Plant Maguey Mezortillo | |
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 | |
Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion | |
Allionia choisyi | Smooth Trailing Four O'Clock Trailing Four O'Clock Annual Windmills Umbrellawort Garapatilla | |
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 | |
Allionia incarnata | Trailing Windmills Trailing Four O'Clock Pink Windmills Trailing Allionia | |
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 | |
Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
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 greggii | Gregg's Amaranth | |
Amaranthus hybridus | Slim Amaranth | |
Amsonia illustris | Ozark Bluestar Showy Blue-star Missouri Blue Star Swamp Bluestar | |
Amyris madrensis | Mountain Torchwood Shrub Amyris | |
Amaranthus palmeri | Carelessweed | |
Amorpha paniculata | Panicled False Indigo | |
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 | |
Ammannia robusta | Grand Redstem | |
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 | |
Amaranthus tuberculatus | Roughfruit Amaranth Water Hemp | |
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 | |
Androstephium coeruleum | Blue Funnel-lily Prairie Lily Funnel-flower Fragrant Lily | |
Anoda cristata | Crested Anoda | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
Andropogon gyrans | Elliott's Bluestem | |
Anagallis minima | Chaffweed | |
Antennaria parlinii | Parlin's Pussytoes Ladies' Tobacco | |
Antennaria parlinii ssp. fallax | Parlin's Pussytoes | |
Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii | Flame Acanthus Hummingbird Bush Wright's Desert Honeysuckle Wright Acanthus Mexican Flame Wright's Mexican Flame | |
Anthaenantia rufa | Purple Silkyscale | |
Ancistrocactus scheeri | Scheer's Fishhook Cactus | |
Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard Bluestem Split Bluestem | |
Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge Broomsedge Bluestem Yellowsedge Bluestem Whiskey Grass Popotillo Pajon | |
Apios americana | Groundnut Wild Potato Indian Potato | |
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