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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Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
Ulmus americana | American Elm White Elm Soft Elm Water Elm Common Elm | |
Ungnadia speciosa | Mexican Buckeye Monilla | |
Urtica chamaedryoides | Heart-leaf Stinging Nettle Heart-leaf Nettle Stinging Nettle | |
Urochloa ciliatissima | Fringed Signalgrass | |
Urochloa fusca | Browntop Signalgrass | |
Urochloa texana | Texas Signalgrass | |
Utricularia gibba | Humped Bladderwort Bladderwort Conespur Bladderpod | |
Utricularia macrorhiza | Common Bladderwort | |
Valerianella amarella | Hairy Cornsalad | |
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