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Edwards Plateau
The Edwards Plateau area includes 1.45 million acres known as the Granitic Central Basin in Llano and Mason Counties. The Balcones Escarpment forms the distinct boundary of the Edwards Plateau on its eastern and southern borders and outlines what is known as the Texas Hill Country.The area is a deeply dissected, rapidly drained stony plain having broad, flat to undulating divides. Prior to modern settlement, vegetation was grassland or open savannah-type plains with tree or brushy species found along rocky slopes and stream bottoms.
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| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| 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 | |
| Acaciella angustissima | Prairie Acacia Fern Acacia Whiteball Acacia Prairie Wattle White-ball Acacia | |
| Achnatherum hymenoides | Indian Ricegrass Indian Millet Sandgrass | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
| Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
| Acourtia wrightii | Brownfoot Pink Perezia | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
| Aesculus glabra var. arguta | Ohio Buckeye White Buckeye Texas Buckeye | |
| Aesculus pavia var. flavescens | Texas Yellow Buckeye Yellow Woolly Buckeye Pale Buckeye Plateau Yellow Buckeye | |
| Allium canadense var. canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion Canada Onion | |
| Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion | |
| Allium coryi | Yellowflower Onion Yellow-flowered Onion | |
| Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
| Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
| Aloysia wrightii | Wright's Beebrush Wright's Lippia | |
| Amsonia ciliata | Fringed Bluestar Bluestar Texas Bluestar | |
| Ampelopsis cordata | Heartleaf Peppervine Heart-leaf Ampelopsis | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
| Amsonia illustris | Ozark Bluestar Showy Blue-star Missouri Blue Star Swamp Bluestar | |
| Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge Broomsedge Bluestem Yellowsedge Bluestem Whiskey Grass Popotillo Pajon | |
| Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy Daisy Arkansas Lazy Daisy Arkansas Doze-daisy | |
| Argemone mexicana | Mexican Prickly Poppy Mexican Prickly Poppy Yellow Prickly Poppy | |
| Asclepias texana | Texas Milkweed White Milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Bothriochloa barbinodis | Pinhole Bluestem Cane Bluestem Cane Beardgrass Feather Bluestem Plains Beardgrass | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
| Bouteloua eriopoda | Black Grama | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta var. pectinata | Tall Grama Hairy Grama | |
| Bouchea linifolia | Groovestem Bouchea Flaxleaf Bouchea | |
| Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas Grama | |
| Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum | Chile Pequin Chile Tepin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
| Calylophus berlandieri ssp. pinifolius | Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops Square-bud Day-primrose | |
| Calliandra conferta | Rio Grande Stickpea Fairy Duster | |
| Callirhoe digitata | Winecup Standing Winecup Poppy Mallow Wine Cup Finger Poppy-mallow | |
| Castela erecta ssp. texana | Texan Goatbush Goat-bush Allthorn Goatbush Amargoso | |
| Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's Sundrops Western Primrose | |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Castilleja indivisa | Texas Indian Paintbrush Entireleaf Indian Paintbrush Texas Paintbrush Indian Paintbrush Scarlet Paintbrush | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
| Carex planostachys | Cedar Sedge | |
| Castilleja purpurea | Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush Purple Paintbrush Lemon Paintbrush Purple Painted Cup | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Camassia scilloides | Atlantic Camas Wild Hyacinth | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
| Centaurium beyrichii | Mountain Pink Meadow Pink Catchfly Quinineweed | |
| Celtis ehrenbergiana | Desert Hackberry Spiny Hackberry Shiny Hackberry Granjeno Huasteco | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf Hackberry Netleaf Sugar Hackberry Western Hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Cercocarpus montanus var. argenteus | Silver Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany True Mountain Mahogany Mountain Mahogany | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
| Chloris cucullata | Hooded Windmill Grass Hooded Windmillgrass | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Chloris virgata | Feather Fingergrass Showy Chloris | |
| Citharexylum berlandieri | Berlandier's Fiddlewood Berlandier Fiddlewood Fiddlewood | |
| Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle | |
| Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
| Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
| Clematis texensis | Scarlet Clematis Scarlet Leatherflower Texas Clematis | |
| Corydalis aurea | Scrambled Eggs Golden Corydalis | |
| Coreopsis basalis | Goldenmane Tickseed Golden-wave | |
| Cocculus carolinus | Carolina Snailseed Carolina Coralbead Carolina Moonseed Red Berried Moonseed Carolina Red Berried Moonseed | |
| Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort Scrambled Eggs Golden Smoke Curvepod | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
| Cooperia drummondii | Evening Rain Lily Evening Star Rain Lily | |
| Condalia hookeri | Bluewood Condalia Brasil Brasilwood Bluewood Logwood Purple Haw Capul Negro | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
| Cotinus obovatus | American Smoke Tree Texas Smoke Tree Wild Smoke Tree Smoke Tree Smokebush Chittamwood | |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country Rain Lily Prairie Lily Rain Lily Flor De Mayo | |
| Colubrina texensis | Texas Hog Plum Texas Snakewood Texas Colubrina Hog Plum | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Croton alabamensis var. texensis | Texabama Croton Texas Alabama Croton | |
| Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
| Crataegus reverchonii | Reverchon's Hawthorn Reverchon Hawthorn | |
| Crataegus viridis | Green Hawthorn Southern Hawthorn | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover | |
| Dasyochloa pulchella | Desert Fluffgrass Low Woollygrass Low Tridens Fluff Grass Fluffgrass Desert Fluff-grass | |
| Dasylirion texanum | Texas Sotol Sotol | |
| Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa | |
| Dichondra argentea | Silver Ponysfoot Silver Ponyfoot | |
| Digitaria californica | Arizona Cottontop California Cottontop California Crab Grass Cottontop | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
| Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
| Elymus elymoides ssp. brevifolius | Squirreltail Long-leaf Squirrel-tail | |
| Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon Tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
| Epipactis gigantea | Stream Orchid Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore | |
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