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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Vicia americana ssp. minor | Mat Vetch | |
Viola bicolor | Field Pansy Wild Pansy | |
Vicia ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
Vicia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
Vicia ludoviciana ssp. leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Vetch | |
Vicia minutiflora | Pygmyflower Vetch | |
Viola missouriensis | Missouri Violet | |
Vitis monticola | Sweet Mountain Grape Champin Grape | |
Viola nephrophylla | Northern Bog Violet Wanderer Violet Entire-leaved Prairie Violet Small Mottled Blue Violet | |
Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry | |
Vitis rupestris | Sand Grape | |
Vitis vulpina | Frost Grape Fox Grape | |
Vulpia octoflora | Sixweeks Fescue Common Sixweeks Grass | |
Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida | Zexmenia Orange Zexmenia Hairy Wedelia Wedelia Texas Creeping-oxeye | |
Wolffia columbiana | Columbian Watermeal | |
Woodsia obtusa | Bluntlobe Cliff Fern Blunt Cliff Fern | |
Xanthium strumarium | Rough Cocklebur | |
Xanthisma texanum | Texas Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Star of Texas Texas Sleepy-daisy Texas Sleepydaisy | |
Xanthisma texanum var. drummondii | Drummond's Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Drummond's Sleepy-daisy Drummond's Sleepydaisy | |
Yucca arkansana | Arkansas Yucca Softleaf Yucca | |
Yucca constricta | Buckley Yucca Buckley's Yucca | |
Yucca glauca | Soapweed Yucca Narrowleaf Yucca Plains Yucca Beargrass Great Plains Yucca | |
Yucca glauca var. glauca | Soapweed Yucca Narrow-leaf Yucca | |
Yucca pallida | Pale-leaf Yucca | |
Yucca reverchonii | San Angelo Yucca | |
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