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
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| 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 | |
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