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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