Special Collections
Cross Timbers
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. With most of this ecoregion occurring in a swath from central Texas north, its northern reaches extend into southeastern Oklahoma. In Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Cross Timbers and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Cross Timbers ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Aristida desmantha | Curly Threeawn | |
| Argyrochosma dealbata | Powdery False Cloak Fern Powdery Cloak Fern False Cloak Fern | |
| Aristida dichotoma | Churchmouse Threeawn | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Arundinaria gigantea | Giant Cane River Cane Switch Cane American Bamboo | |
| Argythamnia humilis | Low Silverbush | |
| Aristida lanosa | Woollysheath Threeawn Woolly Three-awn | |
| Aristida longespica | Slimspike Threeawn Kearney's Three-awn Red Three-awn Slender Three-awn | |
| Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. mexicana | White Sagebrush Louisiana Wormwood Cudweed Sagewort Gray Sagewort Mugwort Wormwood Prairie Sage | |
| Argythamnia mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wildmercury | |
| Argythamnia mercurialina var. mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wild Mercury Tall Ditaxis | |
| Aristida oligantha | Prairie Threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield Threeawn | |
| Arabis petiolaris | Brazos Rockcress Rock-cress Brazos Rock-cress | |
| Arnoglossum plantagineum | Groovestem Indian Plantain Indian Plantain Prairie Plantain Prairie Indian Plantain | |
| Argemone polyanthemos | Crested Pricklypoppy Annual Pricklepoppy Bluestem Pricklepoppy Bluestem Prickly Poppy Pricklypoppy Thistle Poppy White Prickly Poppy White Pricklypoppy | |
| Aristida purpurascens | Arrowfeather Threeawn | |
| Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
| Aristida purpurea var. longiseta | Red Three-awn Fendler Three-awn Purple Threeawn | |
| Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi | Blue Threeawn | |
| Aristolochia reticulata | Texas Dutchman's Pipe | |
| Argemone sanguinea | Red Pricklypoppy Rose Prickly Poppy Red Prickly Poppy | |
| Aristolochia serpentaria | Virginia Snakeroot Virginia Dutchmanspipe | |
| Argythamnia simulans | Plateau Silverbush Tall Wild-mercury | |
| Aristolochia tomentosa | Woolly Dutchman's Pipe Common Dutchman's Pipe | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl | |
| Asclepias amplexicaulis | Clasping Milkweed Bluntleaf Milkweed | |
| Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
| Astragalus canadensis | Canadian Milkvetch Canada Milkvetch Milk Vetch | |
| Astragalus crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch Ground Plum | |
| Astragalus crassicarpus var. berlandieri | Berlandier's Groundplum Groundplum Milkvetch Groundplum | |
| Astragalus crassicarpus var. crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch | |
| Astragalus distortus | Ozark Milkvetch Bent Milk Vetch Bentpod Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias emoryi | Emory's Milkweed | |
| Asclepias engelmanniana | Engelmann's Milkweed | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Astrolepis integerrima | Hybrid Cloakfern | |
| Astranthium integrifolium | Entireleaf Western Daisy | |
| Astranthium integrifolium ssp. ciliatum | Entireleaf Western Daisy | |
| Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata | Swamp Milkweed | |
| Astragalus leptocarpus | Rare Loco Milkvetch Slimpod Milkvetch | |
| Astragalus lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Milkvetch Lindheimer's Astragulus | |
| Astragalus lotiflorus | Lotus Milkvetch Lotus Milk-vetch Low Milkvetch Milkvetch | |
| Astragalus missouriensis | Missouri Milkvetch | |
| 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 | |
| Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony Spleenwort | |
| Astragalus plattensis | Platte River Milkvetch | |
| Astragalus pleianthus | Edwards Plateau Milkvetch | |
| Asplenium resiliens | Blackstem Spleenwort | |
| Asclepias stenophylla | Slimleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Green Milkweed | |
| Asclepias subverticillata | Horsetail Milkweed Poison Milkweed | |
| Asclepias texana | Texas Milkweed White Milkweed | |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
| 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 | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
| Azolla caroliniana | Carolina Mosquitofern | |
| 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. laevicaulis | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
| Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Baptisia nuttalliana | Nuttall's Wild Indigo | |
| Bacopa rotundifolia | Disk Waterhyssop Disc Water-hyssop | |
| Baccharis salicina | Willow Baccharis Great Plains False Willow | |
| Baptisia sphaerocarpa | Yellow Wild Indigo Green Wild Indigo Bush Pea Yellow Wisteria | |
| Baccharis texana | Prairie False Willow Prairie Baccharis | |
| Berlandiera betonicifolia | Texas Greeneyes Broochflower | |
| Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate Daisy Chocolate Flower Lyreleaf Greeneyes Green-eyed Lyre Leaf | |
| Berlandiera pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
| Berlandiera pumila var. pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
| Berchemia scandens | Alabama Supplejack Alabama Supple-jack Rattan-vine | |
| Bifora americana | Prairie Bishop Prairie Bishop's Weed | |
| Bidens bipinnata | Spanish Needles | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bidens frondosa | Devil's Beggartick Spanish Needles | |
| Bidens laevis | Smooth Beggartick Smooth Bidens Smooth Bur Marigold Larger Bur Marigold | |
| Blutaparon vermiculare | Silverhead | |
| 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 | |
| Boltonia diffusa | Doll's Daisy Smallhead Doll's Daisy | |
| Boerhavia diffusa | Red Spiderling | |
| Boerhavia erecta | Erect Spiderling Common Spiderling | |
| Bouchetia erecta | Erect Bouchetia Painted-tongue Paintedtongue Painted Tongue | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta var. pectinata | Tall Grama Hairy Grama | |
| Bothriochloa hybrida | Hybrid Beardgrass | |
| Bowlesia incana | Hoary Bowlesia | |
| Bothriochloa laguroides | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass | |
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