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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Vicia ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
Vicia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
Viola missouriensis | Missouri Violet | |
Vitis mustangensis | Mustang Grape | |
Viola nephrophylla | Northern Bog Violet Wanderer Violet Entire-leaved Prairie Violet Small Mottled Blue Violet | |
Viola sororia | Missouri Violet Common Blue Violet Hooded Blue Violet Florida Violet Meadow Violet Confederate Violet Dooryard Violet Purple Violet Woolly Blue Violet Wood Violet Hooded Violet | |
Viguiera stenoloba | Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Resinbush | |
Vitis vulpina | Frost Grape Fox Grape | |
Vulpia octoflora | Sixweeks Fescue Common Sixweeks Grass | |
Warnockia scutellarioides | Prairie Brazosmint Prairie Brazoria | |
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