Central Great Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. The Central Great Plains extends in a great swath from west-central Texas north through central Oklahoma, Kansas and south-central Nebraska. In Texas, along with the Southwestern Tablelands, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Rolling Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Central Great Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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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 | |
Valerianella radiata | Beaked Cornsalad Woods Corn-salad | |
Valerianella stenocarpa | Narrowcell Cornsalad | |
Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed Baldwin's Ironweed Ironweed | |
Verbena bracteata | Bigbract Verbena Carpet Vervain Prostrate Vervain | |
Verbena canescens | Gray Vervain | |
Verbena cloverae | Clover's Vervain | |
Verbesina encelioides | Cowpen Daisy Golden Crownbeard Butter Daisy | |
Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
Verbena hastata | Swamp Verbena Blue Verbena Blue Vervain Simpler's Joy | |
Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly Ironweed | |
Vernonia marginata | Plains Ironweed | |
Veronica peregrina | American Speedwell Purslane Speedwell Neckweed | |
Veronica peregrina ssp. xalapensis | Hairy Purslane Speedwell | |
Verbena plicata | Fanleaf Vervain | |
Verbena stricta | Hoary Verbena Hoary Vervain Tall Vervain Woolly Verbena | |
Verbena urticifolia | White Vervain White Verbena | |
Vitis acerifolia | Mapleleaf Grape Panhandle Grape Bush Grape | |
Vicia americana | American Vetch American Deervetch | |
Vicia americana ssp. americana | American Vetch | |
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