Special Collections
South Central Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. It extends from the Western Gulf Coastal Plain east across much of Louisiana and north into southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Pineywoods vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the South Central Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard Bluestem Split Bluestem | |
| Ancistrocactus tobuschii | Tobusch Fishhook Cactus Shorthook Fishhook Cactus | |
| 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 | |
| Argemone aenea | Golden Pricklypoppy Golden Prickly Poppy | |
| 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 | |
| Aristolochia coryi | Cory's Dutchman's-pipe Cory's Pipevine | |
| Aristida desmantha | Curly Threeawn | |
| Aristida dichotoma | Churchmouse Threeawn | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Aristolochia erecta | Swanflower | |
| Ariocarpus fissuratus | Chautle Livingrock Living Rock Cactus Texas Living Rock | |
| 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 | |
| Argythamnia mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wildmercury | |
| Argythamnia mercurialina var. mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wild Mercury Tall Ditaxis | |
| Argythamnia neomexicana | New Mexico Silverbush | |
| Aristida oligantha | Prairie Threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield Threeawn | |
| Arnoglossum ovatum | Ovateleaf Cacalia | |
| 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 | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
| Arundinaria tecta | Switch Cane | |
| Aristolochia tomentosa | Pipevine 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. quinatum | Five-leaved Jack-in-the-pulpit Jack In The Pulpit Indian Turnip | |
| Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit | |
| 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 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 | |
| Asclepias incarnata ssp. pulchra | Swamp Milkweed | |
| Asclepias lanceolata | Fewflower Milkweed Few-flower Milkweed Red Milkweed | |
| Astragalus leptocarpus | Rare Loco Milkvetch Slimpod Milkvetch | |
| 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 pleianthus | Edwards Plateau Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias purpurascens | Purple Milkweed | |
| Asplenium resiliens | Blackstem Spleenwort | |
| Asclepias rubra | Red Milkweed Tall Pink Bog Milkweed | |
| Astrolepis sinuata | Wavy Scaly Cloakfern | |
| Asclepias stenophylla | Slimleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Green Milkweed | |
| Asclepias tomentosa | Tuba 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 variegata | Redring Milkweed White-flowered Milkweed | |
| 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 | |
| Athyrium filix-femina ssp. asplenioides | Southern Lady Fern | |
| Aureolaria grandiflora | Largeflower Yellow False Foxglove False Foxglove | |
| Aureolaria virginica | Downy Yellow False Foxglove Downy False Foxglove | |
| Avicennia germinans | Black Mangrove | |
| Axonopus compressus | Broadleaf Carpetgrass | |
| Axonopus fissifolius | Common Carpetgrass | |
| Axonopus furcatus | Big Carpetgrass | |
| Azolla caroliniana | Carolina Mosquitofern | |
| Bahia absinthifolia | Hairyseed Bahia Hairy-seed False Goldfields Bahia Yerba Raton | |
| Baptisia alba | White Wild Indigo White Baptisia | |
| Baptisia alba var. macrophylla | Largeleaf Wild Indigo White Wild Indigo | |
| Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo Wild Blue Indigo Blue False Indigo | |
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