Special Collections
East Central Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 56 Texas counties. This ecoregion separates the two bands of the Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion and extends just across the Oklahoma border. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Post Oak Savannah vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
| Anemopsis californica | Yerba Mansa Yerba-mansa Lizard Tail | |
| Anemone caroliniana | Carolina Anemone Carolina Thimbleweed Southern Thimbleweed | |
| Androstephium coeruleum | Blue Funnel-lily Prairie Lily Funnel-flower Fragrant Lily | |
| Anoda cristata | Crested Anoda | |
| Anemone edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Thimbleweed Two-flowered Anemone | |
| Anemone edwardsiana var. edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Thimbleweed Edwards Thimbleweed Two-flower Anemone | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
| Andropogon gyrans | Elliott's Bluestem | |
| Anemia mexicana | Mexican Fern Mexican Flowering Fern | |
| Anagallis minima | Chaffweed | |
| Antennaria parlinii | Parlin's Pussytoes Ladies' Tobacco | |
| Antennaria parlinii ssp. fallax | Parlin's Pussytoes | |
| Antennaria plantaginifolia | Woman's Tobacco Ladies' Tobacco Everlasting Mouse Ear Plantain-leaf Pussytoes | |
| Anthaenantia rufa | Purple Silkyscale | |
| Ancistrocactus scheeri | Scheer's Fishhook Cactus | |
| Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard Bluestem Split Bluestem | |
| Anemone tuberosa | Tuber Anemone Desert Anemone | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge Broomsedge Bluestem Yellowsedge Bluestem Whiskey Grass Popotillo Pajon | |
| Apios americana | Groundnut Wild Potato Indian Potato | |
| Apocynum cannabinum | Indian Hemp Prairie Dogbane Hemp Dogbane Dogbane | |
| Aphanostephus ramosissimus | Plains Dozedaisy Lazy Daisy | |
| Aphanostephus ramosissimus var. ramosissimus | Plains Dozedaisy | |
| Aphanostephus riddellii | Riddell's Dozedaisy Lazy Daisy | |
| Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy Daisy Arkansas Lazy Daisy Arkansas Doze-daisy | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
| Argemone albiflora | Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
| Argemone albiflora ssp. texana | Texas Bluestem Pricklypoppy Bluestem Pricklypoppy White Pricklypoppy White Prickly Poppy | |
| Aronia arbutifolia | Red Chokeberry Red Chokecherry | |
| Argemone aurantiaca | Texas Pricklypoppy Texas Prickly Poppy | |
| Aristida basiramea | Forked Threeawn Wiregrass Needlegrass Three-awned Grass Fork-tip Threeawn | |
| Arenaria benthamii | Hilly Sandwort | |
| Arabis canadensis | Sicklepod | |
| 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 | |
| Aristolochia erecta | Swanflower | |
| 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 | |
| Argemone mexicana | Mexican Prickly Poppy Mexican Prickly Poppy Yellow Prickly Poppy | |
| Argythamnia mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wildmercury | |
| Argythamnia mercurialina var. mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wild Mercury Tall Ditaxis | |
| Argythamnia mercurialina var. pilosissima | Tall Silverbush | |
| Argythamnia neomexicana | New Mexico Silverbush | |
| Aristida oligantha | Prairie Threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield Threeawn | |
| Arnoglossum ovatum | Ovateleaf Cacalia | |
| 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 | |
| Aristida purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Threeawn Red 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 | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
| Argemone squarrosa | Hedgehog Pricklypoppy Hedgehog Prickly Poppy | |
| 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 | |
| Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit | |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl | |
| Asclepias amplexicaulis | Clasping Milkweed Bluntleaf Milkweed | |
| Astragalus amphioxys | Crescent Milkvetch Crescent Milk-vetch | |
| Asclepias arenaria | Sand Milkweed Western Sand 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 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 | |
| Asclepias incarnata ssp. pulchra | Swamp Milkweed | |
| Asclepias latifolia | Broadleaf Milkweed | |
| Astragalus leptocarpus | Rare Loco Milkvetch Slimpod Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias linearis | Slim Milkweed | |
| Astragalus lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Milkvetch Lindheimer's Astragulus | |
| Asclepias longifolia | Longleaf Milkweed | |
| Astragalus lotiflorus | Lotus Milkvetch Lotus Milk-vetch Low Milkvetch Milkvetch | |
| Astragalus nuttallianus | Nuttall's Milkvetch Small-flowered Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias obovata | Pineland Milkweed | |
| Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
| Asimina parviflora | Smallflower Pawpaw Small-flower Pawpaw Dwarf Pawpaw | |
| Asclepias perennis | White Swamp Milkweed Aquatic Milkweed | |
| Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony Spleenwort | |
| Astragalus plattensis | Platte River Milkvetch | |
| Astragalus pleianthus | Edwards Plateau Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias purpurascens | Purple Milkweed | |
| Asplenium resiliens | Blackstem Spleenwort | |
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