Special Collections
Southern Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 21 Texas counties. This ecoregion borders most of the southwestern portion of the Rio Grande River and extends into northern Mexico. In Texas, it encompasses much of the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s South Texas Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Southern Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Asclepias linearis | Slim Milkweed | |
| Astragalus nuttallianus | Nuttall's Milkvetch Small-flowered Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
| Astragalus plattensis | Platte River Milkvetch | |
| Astragalus pleianthus | Edwards Plateau Milkvetch | |
| Asclepias prostrata | Prostrate Milkweed | |
| Asplenium resiliens | Blackstem Spleenwort | |
| Astrolepis sinuata | Wavy Scaly Cloakfern | |
| Asclepias stenophylla | Slimleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Green Milkweed | |
| Asclepias viridiflora | Green Comet Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Green Milkweed Wand Milkweed | |
| Asclepias viridis | Green Milkweed Spider Milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
| Atriplex matamorensis | Matamoros Saltbush | |
| Aureolaria grandiflora | Largeflower Yellow False Foxglove False Foxglove | |
| Azolla caroliniana | Carolina Mosquitofern | |
| Bahia absinthifolia | Hairyseed Bahia Hairy-seed False Goldfields Bahia Yerba Raton | |
| Baptisia bracteata | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
| Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
| Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho Orchid Tree Anacacho Bauhinia Orchid Tree Texas Plume | |
| Batis maritima | Turtleweed Seaside Saltwort | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
| Baileya multiradiata | Desert Marigold Showy Desert Marigold Paper Daisy Desert Baileya | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Bacopa rotundifolia | Disk Waterhyssop Disc Water-hyssop | |
| Baccharis salicina | Willow Baccharis Great Plains False Willow | |
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