Southern Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 21 Texas counties. This ecoregion borders most of the southwestern portion of the Rio Grande River and extends into northern Mexico. In Texas, it encompasses much of the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s South Texas Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Southern Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Argythamnia mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wildmercury | |
Argythamnia mercurialina var. pilosissima | Tall Silverbush | |
Argythamnia neomexicana | New Mexico Silverbush | |
Aristida oligantha | Prairie Threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield Threeawn | |
Arabis petiolaris | Brazos Rockcress Rock-cress Brazos Rock-cress | |
Aristolochia pentandra | Marsh's Dutchman's Pipe | |
Argemone polyanthemos | Crested Pricklypoppy Annual Pricklepoppy Bluestem Pricklepoppy Bluestem Prickly Poppy Pricklypoppy Thistle Poppy White Prickly Poppy White Pricklypoppy | |
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 | |
Aristida purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Threeawn Red Threeawn | |
Argemone sanguinea | Red Pricklypoppy Rose Prickly Poppy Red Prickly Poppy | |
Aristolochia serpentaria | Virginia Snakeroot Virginia Dutchmanspipe | |
Argythamnia simulans | Plateau Silverbush Tall Wild-mercury | |
Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl | |
Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
Asclepias emoryi | Emory's Milkweed | |
Astragalus emoryanus | Emory's Milkvetch | |
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 | |
Asclepias linearis | Slim Milkweed | |
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 prostrata | Prostrate Milkweed | |
Asplenium resiliens | Blackstem Spleenwort | |
Astrolepis sinuata | Wavy Scaly Cloakfern | |
Asclepias stenophylla | Slimleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Green 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 | |
Atriplex matamorensis | Matamoros Saltbush | |
Aureolaria grandiflora | Largeflower Yellow False Foxglove False Foxglove | |
Azolla caroliniana | Carolina Mosquitofern | |
Bahia absinthifolia | Hairyseed Bahia Hairy-seed False Goldfields Bahia Yerba Raton | |
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 | |
Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho Orchid Tree Anacacho Bauhinia Orchid Tree Texas Plume | |
Batis maritima | Turtleweed Seaside Saltwort | |
Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
Baileya multiradiata | Desert Marigold Showy Desert Marigold Paper Daisy Desert Baileya | |
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 salicifolia | Mule's Fat Seep Willow | |
Baccharis texana | Prairie False Willow Prairie Baccharis | |
Bastardia viscosa | Viscid Mallow Bastardia | |
Berlandiera betonicifolia | Texas Greeneyes Broochflower | |
Bernardia myricifolia | Mouse's Eye Mouse Ears | |
Bernardia obovata | Desert Myrtlecroton | |
Bifora americana | Prairie Bishop Prairie Bishop's Weed | |
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 | |
Bothriochloa edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Beardgrass | |
Boerhavia erecta | Erect Spiderling Common Spiderling | |
Bouchetia erecta | Erect Bouchetia Painted-tongue Paintedtongue Painted Tongue | |
Borrichia frutescens | Bushy Seaside Tansy Ox-eye Daisy Sea Daisy Sea Ox-eye | |
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 | |
Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass Silver Beard Grass | |
Boerhavia linearifolia | Narrowleaf Spiderling | |
Bouchea linifolia | Groovestem Bouchea Flaxleaf Bouchea | |
Bouteloua repens | Slender Grama | |
Bonamia repens | Creeping Lady's Nightcap | |
Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas Grama | |
Bouteloua trifida | Red Grama | |
Bouteloua uniflora | Oneflower Grama | |
Brazoria arenaria | Sand Brazos-mint | |
Brickellia cylindracea | Gravel-bar Brickellbush | |
Brickellia dentata | Leafy Brickellbush | |
Brickellia eupatorioides | False Boneset | |
Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides | False Boneset | |
Brickellia eupatorioides var. gracillima | False Boneset | |
Brickellia laciniata | Splitleaf Brickellbush | |
Bromus pubescens | Hairy Woodland Brome | |
Bromus texensis | Texas Brome | |
Brazoria truncata | Rattlesnake Flower | |
Buchnera americana | American Bluehearts Bluehearts | |
Bulbostylis capillaris | Densetuft Hairsedge Hair-sedge | |
Bulbostylis ciliatifolia | Capillary Hairsedge | |
Buddleja racemosa | Wand Butterflybush Wand Butterfly-bush | |
Buddleja sessiliflora | Rio Grande Butterflybush Tepozan | |
Callirhoe alcaeoides | Light Poppymallow Plains Poppy-mallow Light Poppy-mallow Pink Poppy-mallow Light Poppy Mallow | |
Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
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