Western Gulf Coastal Plain
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. As its name suggests, it is comprised of the coastal plain of Texas, extending along the Gulf Coast south into Mexico and east over portions of the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Gulf Marshes and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Western Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Melampodium cinereum | Hoary Blackfoot | |
Merremia dissecta | Alamo Vine Noyau Vine Correhuela De Las Doce | |
Meximalva filipes | Texasfan | |
Menodora heterophylla | Low Menodora Redbud Twinpod | |
Menodora longiflora | Showy Menodora Twinpod | |
Melica nitens | Three-flower Melic Tall Melicgrass Threeflower Melicgrass Melicgrass | |
Mentzelia nuda | Bractless Blazingstar Sand Lily | |
Mentzelia oligosperma | Stick-leaf Chickenthief | |
Melothria pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber Meloncito Speckled Gourd | |
Melothria pendula var. pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber | |
Mecardonia procumbens | Baby Jump-up | |
Melochia pyramidata | Pyramidflower Broom-wood Pyramid Flower | |
Mentzelia reverchonii | Reverchon's Blazingstar Reverchon's Stick-leaf Prairie Stickleaf | |
Melochia tomentosa | Pyramid Bush Teabush Red Rope Velvety Melochia Kidney Bush Woolly Pyramidflower | |
Mimulus alatus | Sharpwing Monkeyflower Sharp-winged Monkeyflower | |
Mirabilis albida | White Four O'clock Dwarf Four O'clock | |
Minuartia drummondii | Drummond's Stitchwort Sandwort | |
Mimosa hystricina | Porcupine Mimosa | |
Mimosa latidens | Kairn's Sensitive Briar | |
Mirabilis linearis | Narrowleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mimosa nuttallii | Nuttall's Sensitive Briar | |
Mirabilis nyctaginea | Heartleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mitreola petiolata | Lax Hornpod | |
Mitchella repens | Partridgeberry Twinberry Running Box Pigeon Plum | |
Mikania scandens | Climbing Hempvine Climbing Hempweed | |
Mitreola sessilifolia | Swamp Hornpod | |
Mimosa strigillosa | Powderpuff Sunshine Mimosa Sensitive Plant | |
Mimosa texana | Texas Mimosa Wherry Mimosa | |
Modiola caroliniana | Carolina Bristlemallow Carolina Modiola | |
Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
Monarda clinopodioides | Basil Beebalm | |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
Monarda fruticulosa | Shrubby Beebalm Shrubby Horsemint Spotted Beebalm | |
Mortonia greggii | Gregg's Saddlebush Afinador | |
Monanthochloe littoralis | Shoregrass | |
Monarda lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Beebalm Lindheimer Beebalm | |
Monarda maritima | Seaside Beebalm | |
Morus microphylla | Texas Mulberry Littleleaf Mulberry Mountain Mulberry Mexican Mulberry Dwarf Mulberry | |
Monolepis nuttalliana | Nuttall's Povertyweed | |
Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
Monarda punctata var. lasiodonta | Spotted Beebalm | |
Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
Mollugo verticillata | Green Carpetweed | |
Monarda viridissima | Green Beebalm | |
Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf Muhly Hair-awn Muhly Hairy-awn Muhly Hair Grass Pink Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia schreberi | Nimblewill | |
Myriophyllum heterophyllum | Twoleaf Watermilfoil | |
Myosotis macrosperma | Largeseed Forget-me-not | |
Myosotis verna | Spring Forget-me-not | |
Najas guadalupensis | Common Water Nymph Southern Water Nymph Najas | |
Nama hispidum | Sand Bells Bristly Nama Sand-bell | |
Nama jamaicense | Jamaicanweed Jamaican Weed Fiddleleaf Nama | |
Nassella leucotricha | Texas Wintergrass Texas Speargrass Wintergrass | |
Nama parvifolium | Small-leaf Fiddleleaf | |
Nemophila aphylla | Smallflower Baby Blue Eyes | |
Nekemias arborea | Peppervine | |
Nerisyrenia camporum | Bicolor Fanmustard Mesa Greggia | |
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 | |
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 | |
Nolina texana | Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass | |
Nuttallanthus canadensis | Canada Toadflax Blue Toadflax Old-field Toadflax | |
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 | |
Nymphoides aquatica | Big Floatingheart Floating Hearts | |
Nyssa aquatica | Water Tupelo Blackgum Sourgum Cotton Gum Swamp Tupelo Water Gum | |
Nyssa biflora | Swamp Tupelo Swamp Blackgum | |
Nyctaginia capitata | Devil's Bouquet Scarlet Muskflower | |
Nymphaea elegans | Tropical Royalblue Waterlily | |
Nymphaea mexicana | Yellow Waterlily Yellow Water-lily Banana Lily Banana Waterlily Sun Lotus | |
Nymphaea odorata | American White Water-lily Fragrant White Water-lily Fragrant Water-lily White Water-lily Sweet-scented White Water-lily Sweet-scented Water-lily Beaver Root | |
Nymphaea odorata ssp. odorata | American White Waterlily | |
Nyssa sylvatica | Tupelo Blackgum Black Tupelo Sourgum Pepperidge Tupelo Gum Beetlebung | |
Oenothera biennis | Common Evening-primrose King's Cure-all Common Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera curtiflora | Velvetweed Velvetleaf Gaura Lizard-tail Gaura Willow Gaura | |
Oenothera drummondii | Beach Evening-primrose Beach Evening Primrose | |
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 kunthiana | Kunth's Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera laciniata | Cutleaf Evening-primrose Cut-leaved Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera linifolia | Threadleaf Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera lindheimeri | White Gaura Butterfly Gaura Lindheimer's Beeblossom Lindheimer's Gaura | |
Oenothera mexicana | Mexican Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera patriciae | Plains Beeblossom Plains Gaura | |
Oenothera pilosella | Meadow Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera sinuosa | Wavyleaf Beeblossom Wavyleaf Gaura | |
Oenothera spachiana | Spach's Evening-primrose | |
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