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
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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 | 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 | |
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