High Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 51 counties in western and northwestern Texas. It extends west into New Mexico and north across western Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, into southwestern South Dakota and southeastern Wyoming. In Texas, this ecoregion is commonly referred to as the Llano Estacado, a mostly flat plateau of short grass prairie. It covers approximately the same area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s High Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the High Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
Thymophylla tenuiloba var. tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
Thelypodium wrightii | Wright's Thelypody Wright Thelypody | |
Tiquilia canescens | Woody Crinklemat Shrubby Coldenia Shrubby Tiquilia | |
Tiquilia canescens var. canescens | Woolly Crinklemat Woody Crinklemat Dog's Ear Oreja De Perro Rat's Ear Coldenia Woody Tiquilia Gray Tiquilia Gray Coldenia Shrubby Coldenia | |
Tiquilia greggii | Plumed Crinklemat Plume Tiquilia Plume Coldenia Gregg Coldenia Hierba Del Cenizo | |
Tiquilia hispidissima | Hairy Crinklemat Hairy Coldenia Hairy Tiquilia | |
Tidestromia lanuginosa | Woolly Tidestromia | |
Townsendia exscapa | Stemless Townsend Daisy Stemless Townsend-daisy Easter Daisy | |
Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy Poison Ivy | |
Toxicodendron rydbergii | Western Poison Ivy | |
Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
Tragia betonicifolia | Betonyleaf Noseburn | |
Trichloris crinita | Two-flowered Trichloris False Rhodes Grass | |
Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
Tridens flavus | Purpletop Tridens Redtop Tridens Tall Redtop Tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall Redtop | |
Triodanis holzingeri | Holzinger's Venus' Looking-glass | |
Trisetum interruptum | Prairie False Oat | |
Tridens muticus | Slim Tridens | |
Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort Bluejacket | |
Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
Triplasis purpurea | Purple Sandgrass Purple Triplasis | |
Tragia ramosa | Branched Noseburn | |
Typha domingensis | Southern Cattail | |
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