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Edwards Plateau
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. Lying entirely within the state, it is commonly referred to as the Texas Hill Country. This ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Edwards Plateau vegetative region.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Nassella leucotricha | Texas Wintergrass Texas Speargrass Wintergrass | |
| Nama parvifolium | Small-leaf Fiddleleaf | |
| Nekemias arborea | Peppervine | |
| Nerisyrenia camporum | Bicolor Fanmustard Mesa Greggia | |
| Neolloydia conoidea | Chihuahuan Beehive Cactus Chihuahuan Beehive Cone Cactus | |
| Nephrolepis exaltata | Boston Swordfern | |
| Nephrolepis exaltata ssp. exaltata | Boston Fern Sword Fern Wild Boston Fern | |
| Nemastylis geminiflora | Prairie Celestials Celestials Prairie Pleatleaf | |
| Nelumbo lutea | American Lotus Yellow Water Lotus Yellow Lotus | |
| Neptunia lutea | Yellow Sensitive Briar Yellow Puff | |
| Nemophila phacelioides | Texas Baby Blue Eyes Large-flower Baby-blue-eyes Baby Blue-eyes Flannel Breeches | |
| Neptunia pubescens | Tropical Puff | |
| Neptunia pubescens var. microcarpa | Tropical Puff | |
| Neeragrostis reptans | Creeping Lovegrass | |
| Nicotiana obtusifolia | Desert Tobacco Little Tobacco Tabaquillo Punche | |
| Nicotiana obtusifolia var. obtusifolia | Desert Tobacco Little Tobacco Tabaquillo Punche | |
| Nicotiana repanda | Fiddleleaf Tobacco Fiddle-leaf Tobacco | |
| Nothoscordum bivalve | Crowpoison False Garlic Crow Poison | |
| Notholaena copelandii | Copeland's Cloakfern | |
| Nolina lindheimeriana | Devil's Shoestring Devil's-shoestring Ribbon Grass | |
| Notholaena standleyi | Star Cloak Fern Northern Desert Star Cloakfern | |
| Nolina texana | Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass | |
| Nuphar lutea | Yellow Pond Lily Yellow Cow Lily Cow Lily Spatter Dock Wakas | |
| Nuphar lutea ssp. advena | Common Spatterdock Spatterdock Yellow Cow-lily Cow-lily Yellow Pond-lily Brandy-bottle | |
| Nuttallanthus texanus | Texas Toadflax Texas Toad-flax Toadflax | |
| Nyctaginia capitata | Devil's Bouquet Scarlet Muskflower | |
| Oenothera calcicola | Texas Beeblossom Limestone Gaura | |
| Oenothera cinerea | Woolly Beeblossom High Plains Beeblossom Woolly Gaura High Plains Gaura | |
| Oenothera cinerea ssp. parksii | Parks' Beeblossom Woolly Butterfly-weed Parks Gaura | |
| Oenothera curtiflora | Velvetweed Velvetleaf Gaura Lizard-tail Gaura Willow Gaura | |
| Oenothera engelmannii | Engelmann's Evening-primrose Engelmann Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera filiformis | Longflower Beeblossom Longflower Gaura Large-flowered Gaura Kearney Gaura Tall Gaura | |
| Oenothera grandis | Showy Evening-primrose Largeflower Eveningprimrose Showy Eveningprimrose | |
| Oenothera heterophylla | Variable-leaf Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera jamesii | Trumpet Evening-primrose Trumpet Evening Primrose River Primrose | |
| Oenothera kunthiana | Kunth's Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera laciniata | Cutleaf Evening-primrose Cut-leaved Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Missouri Evening-primrose Fluttermill Big-fruit Evening-primrose Missouri Primrose Bigfruit Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Fluttermill Missouri Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera mexicana | Mexican Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera patriciae | Plains Beeblossom Plains Gaura | |
| Oenothera rhombipetala | Fourpoint Evening-primrose Four-point Evening Primrose Diamond Petal Primrose Greater Four-point Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera sinuosa | Wavyleaf Beeblossom Wavyleaf Gaura | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups | |
| Oenothera suffrutescens | Scarlet Beeblossom Scarlet Gaura | |
| Oenothera suffulta | Kisses Wild Honeysuckle Beeblossom Roadside Gaura | |
| Oenothera triloba | Stemless Evening-primrose Stemless Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera villosa | Hairy Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera villosa ssp. villosa | Hairy Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera xerogaura | Drummond's Beeblossom Drummond's Gaura | |
| Oldenlandia boscii | Bosc's Mille Graines | |
| Oligomeris linifolia | Lineleaf Whitepuff | |
| Omphalodes aliena | Mexican Navelwort | |
| Onosmodium bejariense | Soft-hair Marbleseed | |
| Onosmodium bejariense var. bejariense | Soft-hair Marbleseed False Gromwell | |
| Onosmodium helleri | Heller's Marbleseed Marble-seed | |
| Onoclea sensibilis | Sensitive Fern Bead Fern Sympathy Fern | |
| Opuntia atrispina | Border Pricklypear | |
| Ophioglossum crotalophoroides | Bulbous Adder's-tongue | |
| Ophioglossum crotalophoroides var. crotalophoroides | Bulbous Adder's-tongue | |
| Ophioglossum engelmannii | Limestone Adder's-tongue Limestone Adderstongue | |
| Opuntia engelmannii | Cactus Apple Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri | Texas Prickly Pear Lindheimer's Prickly Pear Lindheimer Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia engelmannii var. linguiformis | Cactus Apple | |
| Oplismenus hirtellus | Basketgrass | |
| Oplismenus hirtellus ssp. setarius | Basketgrass | |
| Opuntia humifusa | Low Prickly Pear Smooth Prickly Pear Devil's Tongue | |
| Opuntia macrorhiza | Bigroot Prickly Pear Twist-spine Prickly Pear Common Prickly Pear Plains Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia macrocentra | Purple Pricklypear Purple Prickly Pear Long-spined Prickly Pear Black Spine Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia macrocentra var. macrocentra | Purple Pricklypear Purple Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia phaeacantha | Tulip Prickly Pear Brownspine Prickly Pear Cactus Purple-fruited Prickly Pear Brown-spined Prickly Pear New Mexico Prickly Pear Desert Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia strigil | Marblefruit Pricklypear Marblefruit Prickly Pear | |
| Orobanche ludoviciana | Louisiana Broomrape | |
| Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon Fern | |
| Osmunda regalis | Royal Fern | |
| Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis | Royal Fern | |
| Oxalis albicans | Radishroot Woodsorrel | |
| Oxalis dichondrifolia | Peonyleaf Woodsorrel | |
| Oxalis dillenii | Slender Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Woodsorrel | |
| Oxalis drummondii | Drummond's Wood-sorrel Large-leaf Wood-sorrel Drummond's Woodsorrel | |
| Oxytropis lambertii | Purple Locoweed | |
| Oxalis violacea | Violet Woodsorrel Violet Wood-sorrel | |
| Parkinsonia aculeata | Retama Paloverde Mexican Paloverde Jerusalem Thorn Horsebean Lluvia De Oro | |
| Passiflora affinis | Bracted Passionflower Passion Flower | |
| Pappophorum bicolor | Pink Pappasgrass Pink Pappusgrass | |
| Palafoxia callosa | Small Palafox Small Palafoxia | |
| Panicum capillare | Witchgrass | |
| Parthenium confertum | Gray's Feverfew | |
| Panicum dichotomiflorum | Fall Panicgrass Fall Panic Grass | |
| Paspalum distichum | Knotgrass | |
| Panicum diffusum | Spreading Witchgrass West Indian Panicgrass West Indian Panic Grass | |
| Paronychia drummondii | Drummond's Nailwort | |
| Paspalum floridanum | Florida Paspalum | |
| Passiflora foetida | Corona De Cristo Fetid Passionflower | |
| Passiflora foetida var. gossypiifolia | Cottonleaf Passionflower Corona De Cristo | |
| Paspalidium geminatum | Egyptian Panicgrass | |
| Panicum hallii | Hall's Panicgrass Hall's Panic Grass | |
| Parthenocissus heptaphylla | Sevenleaf Creeper Seven-leaf Creeper | |
| Palafoxia hookeriana | Sand Palafox Showy Palafox Hooker Palafoxia Sand Palafoxia Hooker's Palafoxia | |
| Parthenium incanum | Mariola | |
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