Special Collections
East Central Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 56 Texas counties. This ecoregion separates the two bands of the Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion and extends just across the Oklahoma border. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Post Oak Savannah vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Juglans microcarpa | Little Walnut Texas Walnut Texas Black Walnut River Walnut Nogalito Nogalillo Namboca | |
| Juglans nigra | Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut | |
| Juncus nodatus | Stout Rush | |
| Justicia pacifica | Runyon's Water-willow | |
| Justicia pilosella | Hairy Tube-tongue Gregg's Tube-tongue False Honeysuckle | |
| Juncus polycephalos | Manyhead Rush | |
| Juncus roemerianus | Needlegrass Rush Black Needlerush | |
| Juncus scirpoides | Needlepod Rush | |
| Juncus tenuis | Poverty Rush Path Rush | |
| Juncus texanus | Texas Rush | |
| Juncus torreyi | Torrey's Rush | |
| Juncus trigonocarpus | Redpod Rush | |
| Juncus validus | Roundhead Rush | |
| Juncus validus var. validus | Roundhead Rush | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin | |
| Kallstroemia grandiflora | Arizona Poppy Desert Poppy Orange Caltrop Summer Poppy | |
| Kallstroemia hirsutissima | Hairy Caltrop Hairy Carpetweed | |
| Kallstroemia maxima | Big Caltrop | |
| Kallstroemia parviflora | Warty Caltrop Small-flowered Carpetweed | |
| Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's Grass | |
| Koeberlinia spinosa | Crown Of Thorns Spiny Allthorn | |
| Kosteletzkya virginica | Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow Virginia Fen-rose Saltmarsh Mallow Seashore Mallow | |
| Krigia caespitosa | Weedy Dwarfdandelion Dwarf Dandelion | |
| Krigia dandelion | Potato Dwarf Dandelion Potato Dandelion | |
| Krameria erecta | Littleleaf Ratany Range Ratany | |
| Krameria grayi | White Ratany Crimson Beak Chacati Cosahui | |
| Krameria lanceolata | Trailing Krameria Ratany Crameria Prairie Sandbur Trailing Ratany | |
| Krigia occidentalis | Western Dwarfdandelion | |
| Krigia virginica | Virginia Dwarfdandelion Virginia Dwarf-dandelion Virginia Dwarf Dandelion Dwarf Dandelion | |
| Krigia wrightii | Wright's Dwarfdandelion | |
| Kyllinga brevifolia | Shortleaf Spikesedge | |
| Kyllinga odorata | Fragrant Spikesedge | |
| Lactuca canadensis | Canada Lettuce Wild Lettuce | |
| Lactuca floridana | Woodland Lettuce Florida Lettuce | |
| Lactuca hirsuta | Hairy Lettuce | |
| Lactuca ludoviciana | Western Wild Lettuce Louisiana Wild Lettuce Prairie Lettuce Prairie Wild Lettuce Biannual Lettuce | |
| Lantana urticoides | Texas Lantana Calico Bush | |
| Lathyrus venosus | Veiny Pea Veiny Vetchling Wild Sweet Pea Bushy Vetch | |
| Lemna aequinoctialis | Lesser Duckweed | |
| Lesquerella argyraea | Silver Bladderpod | |
| Lepidium austrinum | Southern Peppergrass Southern Pepperwort | |
| Lesquerella auriculata | Earleaf Bladderpod | |
| Lespedeza capitata | Roundhead Lespedeza Roundhead Bush-clover Round-headed Lespedeza Round-headed Bush-clover | |
| Lepidium densiflorum | Common Pepperweed | |
| Lesquerella densiflora | Denseflower Bladderpod Low Bladderpod | |
| Leptochloa dubia | Green Sprangletop | |
| Lesquerella engelmannii | Engelmann's Bladderpod | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
| Leptochloa fusca | Malabar Sprangletop | |
| Leptochloa fusca ssp. fascicularis | Bearded Sprangletop | |
| Lesquerella gordonii | Gordon's Bladderpod | |
| Lesquerella gracilis | Spreading Bladderpod Cloth-of-gold | |
| Lesquerella grandiflora | Bigflower Bladderpod | |
| Lesquerella gracilis ssp. gracilis | Spreading Bladderpod | |
| Leersia hexandra | Southern Cutgrass | |
| Lespedeza hirta | Hairy Lespedeza | |
| Lesquerella lasiocarpa | Roughpod Bladderpod | |
| Leersia lenticularis | Catchfly Grass Oatmeal Grass | |
| Lesquerella lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Bladderpod | |
| Lemna minor | Common Duckweed | |
| Leersia monandra | Cut Rice Grass Bunch Cutgrass | |
| Leucospora multifida | Narrowleaf Paleseed | |
| Lechea mucronata | Hairy Pinweed | |
| Lepidium oblongum | Veiny Pepperweed | |
| Lemna obscura | Little Duckweed | |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass | |
| Leptochloa panicea | Mucronate Sprangletop Red Sprangletop Needle Sprangletop | |
| Leptochloa panicea ssp. brachiata | Red Sprangletop | |
| Leucaena pulverulenta | Great Leadtree Mexican Leadtree Great Leucaena Tepeguaje | |
| Lespedeza repens | Creeping Lespedeza Creeping Bush-clover | |
| Lesquerella recurvata | Gaslight Bladderpod Slender Bladderpod | |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball Leadtree Littleleaf Leadtree Little Leucaena Lemonball Wahoo Tree | |
| Lechea san-sabeana | San Saba Pinweed | |
| Lesquerella sessilis | Sessile Bladderpod | |
| Lepuropetalon spathulatum | Petiteplant | |
| Lespedeza stuevei | Tall Bush-clover Tall Lespedeza | |
| Lechea tenuifolia | Narrowleaf Pinweed | |
| Lespedeza texana | Texas Lespedeza Texas Bush-clover | |
| Lemna valdiviana | Valdivia Duckweed | |
| Leersia virginica | Whitegrass | |
| Lepidium virginicum | Virginia Peppergrass Virginia Pepperweed Peppergrass Poor Man's Pepper | |
| Lespedeza violacea | Violet Lespedeza | |
| Lespedeza virginica | Slender Lespedeza Slender Bush-clover | |
| Liatris acidota | Sharp Blazing Star Sharp Gayfeather Sharp Liatris | |
| Liatris aestivalis | Summer Gayfeather Summer Blazing Star Summer Liatris | |
| Linum alatum | Winged Flax | |
| Limnodea arkansana | Ozark Grass Ozarkgrass | |
| Linum aristatum | Bristle Flax | |
| Lipocarpha aristulata | Awned Halfchaff Sedge | |
| Liatris aspera | Tall Blazing Star Tall Gayfeather Tall Liatris Rough Blazing Star Rough Gayfeather Rough Liatris Button Snakeroot | |
| Listera australis | Southern Twayblade | |
| Linum berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
| Linum berlandieri var. berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax Yellow Flax Stiff-stem Flax | |
| Liatris bracteata | Bracted Blazing Star Bracted Gayfeather Bracted Liatris | |
| Lithospermum caroliniense | Carolina Puccoon Hairy Puccoon Hispid Gromwell | |
| Limonium carolinianum | Carolina Sealavender Sea Lavender | |
| Lipocarpha drummondii | Drummond's Halfchaff Sedge | |
| Lindernia dubia | Yellowseed False Pimpernel | |
| Lindernia dubia var. anagallidea | Yellowseed False Pimpernel | |
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