Special Collections
Central Great Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. The Central Great Plains extends in a great swath from west-central Texas north through central Oklahoma, Kansas and south-central Nebraska. In Texas, along with the Southwestern Tablelands, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Rolling Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Central Great Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Asclepias latifolia | Broadleaf Milkweed | |
| Astragalus lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Milkvetch Lindheimer's Astragulus | |
| Astragalus lotiflorus | Lotus Milkvetch Lotus Milk-vetch Low Milkvetch Milkvetch | |
| Astragalus missouriensis | Missouri Milkvetch | |
| Astragalus mollissimus | Woolly Locoweed Purple Locoweed Woolly Loco Woolly Milkvetch Wooly Loco Wooly Locoweed | |
| Astragalus nuttallianus | Nuttall's Milkvetch Small-flowered Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
| Astragalus plattensis | Platte River Milkvetch | |
| Astragalus pleianthus | Edwards Plateau Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias pumila | Plains Milkweed | |
| Astragalus racemosus | Cream Milkvetch | |
| Astrolepis sinuata | Wavy Scaly Cloakfern | |
| Asclepias speciosa | Showy Milkweed | |
| Asclepias subverticillata | Horsetail Milkweed Poison Milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Asclepias viridiflora | Green Comet Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Green Milkweed Wand Milkweed | |
| Asclepias viridis | Green Milkweed Spider Milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
| Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo Wild Blue Indigo Blue False Indigo | |
| Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo | |
| Baptisia bracteata | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
| Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Bacopa rotundifolia | Disk Waterhyssop Disc Water-hyssop | |
| Baccharis salicina | Willow Baccharis Great Plains False Willow | |
| Baccharis texana | Prairie False Willow Prairie Baccharis | |
| Berlandiera betonicifolia | Texas Greeneyes Broochflower | |
| Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate Daisy Chocolate Flower Lyreleaf Greeneyes Green-eyed Lyre Leaf | |
| Bifora americana | Prairie Bishop Prairie Bishop's Weed | |
| Bidens cernua | Nodding Beggartick Bur Marigold Nodding Beggarticks Nodding Bur Marigold Nodding Burmarigold Nodding Burr-marigold Sticktight | |
| Bidens frondosa | Devil's Beggartick Spanish Needles | |
| Bidens laevis | Smooth Beggartick Smooth Bidens Smooth Bur Marigold Larger Bur Marigold | |
| Bidens tripartita | Threelobe Beggarticks Three-part Beggarticks Leafy-bracted Beggarticks Trifid Bur-marigold | |
| Bouteloua barbata | Sixweeks Grama | |
| Bothriochloa barbinodis | Pinhole Bluestem Cane Bluestem Cane Beardgrass Feather Bluestem Plains Beardgrass | |
| Boerhavia coccinea | Scarlet Spiderling | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Boehmeria cylindrica | Smallspike False Nettle Bog Hemp | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
| Boerhavia erecta | Erect Spiderling Common Spiderling | |
| Bouteloua eriopoda | Black Grama | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta var. pectinata | Tall Grama Hairy Grama | |
| Bothriochloa laguroides | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass | |
| Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass Silver Beard Grass | |
| Boerhavia linearifolia | Narrowleaf Spiderling | |
| Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas Grama | |
| Bouteloua trifida | Red Grama | |
| Bouteloua uniflora | Oneflower Grama | |
| Brickellia eupatorioides | False Boneset | |
| Brickellia eupatorioides var. texana | Texas False Boneset | |
| Buchnera americana | American Bluehearts Bluehearts | |
| Callirhoe alcaeoides | Light Poppymallow Plains Poppy-mallow Light Poppy-mallow Pink Poppy-mallow Light Poppy Mallow | |
| Carex amphibola | Eastern Narrowleaf Sedge Creek Sedge | |
| Carex annectens | Yellowfruit Sedge | |
| Carex austrina | Southern Sedge | |
| Calylophus berlandieri | Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops | |
| Calylophus berlandieri ssp. berlandieri | Berlandier's Sundrops Drummond Sundrops Square-bud Primrose | |
| Calylophus berlandieri ssp. pinifolius | Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops Square-bud Day-primrose | |
| Carex blanda | Eastern Woodland Sedge Creek Sedge Common Wood Sedge | |
| Carex brevior | Shortbeak Sedge | |
| Carex crus-corvi | Ravenfoot Sedge | |
| Carex emoryi | Emory's Sedge Emory Sedge | |
| Carex frankii | Frank's Sedge | |
| Calamovilfa gigantea | Giant Sandreed Prairie Sandreed | |
| Carex gravida | Heavy Sedge | |
| Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's Sundrops Western Primrose | |
| Calylophus hartwegii ssp. fendleri | Hartweg's Sundrops | |
| Calylophus hartwegii ssp. filifolius | Hartweg's Sundrops | |
| Calylophus hartwegii ssp. pubescens | Hartweg's Sundrops Grand Prairie Evening Primrose | |
| Callitriche heterophylla | Two-headed Water-starwort | |
| Callitriche heterophylla ssp. heterophylla | Two-headed Water-starwort Varied-leaved Water-starwort Diverse-leaved Water-starwort | |
| Carex hystericina | Bottlebrush Sedge | |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Castilleja indivisa | Texas Indian Paintbrush Entireleaf Indian Paintbrush Texas Paintbrush Indian Paintbrush Scarlet Paintbrush | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
| Calylophus lavandulifolius | Lavenderleaf Sundrops Lavendar-leaf Sundrops Lavender-leaf Primrose | |
| Callirhoe leiocarpa | Tall Poppymallow Annual Winecup Tall Poppy-mallow Tall Poppy Mallow | |
| Carex leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Sedge | |
| Carex meadii | Mead's Sedge | |
| Carex microdonta | Littletooth Sedge | |
| Carex muehlenbergii | Muhlenberg's Sedge | |
| Carex oklahomensis | Oklahoma Sedge | |
| Cardamine parviflora | Sand Bittercress | |
| Cardamine parviflora var. arenicola | Sand Bittercress | |
| Callirhoe pedata | Palmleaf Poppymallow Standing Winecup Finger Poppymallow Palmleaf Poppy Mallow | |
| Carex perdentata | Sand Sedge Meadow Sedge | |
| Carex pellita | Woolly Sedge | |
| Carex planostachys | Cedar Sedge | |
| Castilleja purpurea | Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush Purple Paintbrush Lemon Paintbrush Purple Painted Cup | |
| Castilleja purpurea var. citrina | Lemon Paintbrush Yellow Paintbrush Yellow Prairie Paintbrush Citron Paintbrush Prairie Paintbrush Prairie Indian Paintbrush | |
| Castilleja purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Paintbrush Purple Prairie Painbrush Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Callirhoe scabriuscula | Texas Poppymallow Texas Poppy Mallow | |
| Camassia scilloides | Atlantic Camas Wild Hyacinth | |
| Calylophus serrulatus | Yellow Sundrops Yellow Evening Primrose Plains Evening Primrose | |
| Castilleja sessiliflora | Downy Painted Cup Downy Paintbrush Great Plains Paintbrush Great Plains Indian-paintbrush | |
| Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
| Carlowrightia texana | Texas Wrightwort | |
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