Special Collections
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 |
| Physostegia pulchella | Showy False Dragonhead Beautiful False Dragon-head | |
| Phlox roemeriana | Goldeneye Phlox Golden-eye Phlox | |
| Phacelia strictiflora | Prairie Phacelia | |
| Philadelphus texensis | Texas Mock Orange | |
| Phoradendron tomentosum | Christmas Mistletoe Mistletoe Injerto | |
| Physalis virginiana | Virginia Groundcherry | |
| Physostegia virginiana | Fall Obedient Plant False Dragonhead Virginia Lions-heart | |
| Physostegia virginiana ssp. praemorsa | Obedient Plant Fall Obedient Plant Lionheart False Dragonhead | |
| Pilularia americana | American Pillwort | |
| Piptochaetium avenaceum | Blackseed Speargrass | |
| Pityopsis graminifolia | Narrowleaf Silkgrass Golden Aster | |
| Pistacia mexicana | Mexican Pistachio Texas Pistachio American Pistachio Copal Pistachio Wild Pistachio Lentisco Texas Pistache | |
| Pinus remota | Papershell Pinyon Remote Pinyon Pine | |
| Pinaropappus roseus | White Rocklettuce White Dandelion Pink Dandelion White Rock Lettuce | |
| Pistia stratiotes | Water Lettuce | |
| Pilostyles thurberi | Thurber's Stemsucker Pilostyles | |
| Plantago aristata | Largebracted Plantain Buckthorn | |
| Pluchea camphorata | Camphor Pluchea Camphor Weed | |
| Plantago helleri | Heller's Plantain Cedar Plantain | |
| Plantago heterophylla | Slender Plantain | |
| Plantago hookeriana | California Plantain Tallow Weed | |
| Pleuraphis jamesii | James' Galleta | |
| Pleuraphis mutica | Tobosagrass Tobosa Grass | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
| Pluchea odorata | Sweetscent Saltmarsh Fleabane | |
| Pluchea odorata var. odorata | Sweetscent Marsh Fleabane Southern Marsh Fleabane | |
| Plantago patagonica | Woolly Plantain Bristle-bract Plantain | |
| Pleopeltis polypodioides | Resurrection Fern | |
| Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana | Resurrection Fern | |
| Plantago rhodosperma | Redseed Plantain Red-seeded Plantain | |
| Plantago virginica | Virginia Plantain Paleseed Indian-wheat Dwarf Plantain Paleseed Plantain Hoary Plantain Southern Plantain | |
| Plantago wrightiana | Wright's Plantain | |
| Polygala alba | White Milkwort | |
| Polygonum amphibium | Water Knotweed Water Smartweed | |
| Polygonum amphibium var. emersum | Longroot Smartweed | |
| Poa arachnifera | Texas Bluegrass Texas Blue Grass | |
| Poa bigelovii | Bigelow's Bluegrass | |
| Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Rush | |
| Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
| Populus deltoides ssp. deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Southern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Eastern Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
| Populus deltoides ssp. monilifera | Plains Cottonwood Great Plains Cottonwood Texas Cottonwood Northern Cottonwood | |
| Potamogeton diversifolius | Waterthread Pondweed Threadleaf Pondweed | |
| Polanisia dodecandra | Redwhisker Clammyweed Clammyweed | |
| Polanisia dodecandra ssp. trachysperma | Sandyseed Clammyweed Clammy-weed Clammyweed | |
| Polanisia erosa | Large Clammyweed | |
| Polanisia erosa ssp. erosa | Large Clammyweed | |
| Potamogeton foliosus | Leafy Pondweed | |
| Potamogeton foliosus ssp. foliosus | Leafy Pondweed | |
| Polygonum glabrum | Denseflower Knotweed | |
| Portulaca halimoides | Silkcotton Purslane | |
| Polygonum hydropiperoides | Swamp Smartweed | |
| Potamogeton illinoensis | Illinois Pondweed | |
| Pomaria jamesii | James' Holdback James Rush-pea | |
| Polygonum lapathifolium | Curlytop Knotweed Curl-top Smartweed Pale Smartweed | |
| Polygala lindheimeri | Shrubby Milkwort Purple Milkwort | |
| Polygala lindheimeri var. lindheimeri | Shrubby Milkwort Purple Milkwort | |
| Polygala lindheimeri var. parvifolia | Shrubby Milkwort | |
| Polygala macradenia | Glandleaf Milkwort | |
| Potamogeton nodosus | Longleaf Pondweed Knotty Pondweed | |
| Polytaenia nuttallii | Nuttall's Prairie Parsley Prairie Parsley Wild Dill Prairie Parsnip | |
| Polygala ovatifolia | Eggleaf Milkwort | |
| Polygonella parksii | Parks' Jointweed | |
| Polygonum pensylvanicum | Pennsylvania Smartweed Pink Smartweed | |
| Portulaca pilosa | Kiss Me Quick Chisme | |
| Poa pratensis | Kentucky Bluegrass | |
| Polypremum procumbens | Juniper Leaf Rustweed | |
| Polygonum punctatum | Dotted Smartweed | |
| Potamogeton pusillus | Small Pondweed | |
| Polygonum ramosissimum | Bushy Knotweed | |
| Porophyllum scoparium | Trans-pecos Poreleaf Poreleaf Shrubby Poreleaf Hierba del Venado Jarilla Pomerillo | |
| Polygonum setaceum | Bog Smartweed | |
| Poa sylvestris | Woodland Bluegrass Sylvan Bluegrass Sylvan Speargrass Old-pasture Bluegrass | |
| Polygonum tenue | Pleatleaf Knotweed | |
| Polytaenia texana | Texas Prairie Parsley Texas-parsley Texas Parsley | |
| Portulaca umbraticola | Wingpod Purslane Purslane | |
| Portulaca umbraticola ssp. umbraticola | Wingpod Purslane | |
| Polygala verticillata | Whorled Milkwort | |
| Prunus angustifolia | Chickasaw Plum Sandhill Plum | |
| Prunus caroliniana | Carolina Cherry-laurel Cherry-laurel Laurel Cherry Carolina Laurel Cherry | |
| Prenanthes carrii | Carr's Rattlesnake-root Carr's Cankerweed Carr's Gall-of-the-earth | |
| Prosopis glandulosa | Honey Mesquite Glandular Mesquite Algarroba | |
| Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa | Honey Mesquite | |
| Prunus havardii | Havard's Plum Havard’s Almond | |
| Proboscidea louisianica | Louisiana Devil's-claw Devil's claw Ram's-horn Unicorn Plant Proboscis Flower | |
| Proboscidea louisianica ssp. louisianica | Ram's Horn Devil's Claw Unicorn Plant Ram's Horn | |
| Prunus mexicana | Mexican Plum Bigtree Plum Inch Plum | |
| Prunus minutiflora | Texas Almond Texas Wild Almond Dwarf Plum | |
| Prunus munsoniana | Munson Plum Wild Goose Plum | |
| Prosopis reptans | Tornillo Dwarf Screw Bean Screw Bean Mesquite | |
| Prunus rivularis | River Plum Creek Plum Hog Plum | |
| Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
| Prunus serotina var. eximia | Escarpment Black Cherry Edwards Plateau Black Cherry Escarpment Cherry | |
| Prunus texana | Peachbush Sand Plum Peach Bush Texas Plum Texas Peach Bush | |
| Pseudognaphalium canescens ssp. canescens | Wright's Cudweed | |
| Psilostrophe gnaphalioides | Dudweed | |
| Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium | Sweet Everlasting Rabbit-tobacco Fragrant Cudweed | |
| Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium ssp. obtusifolium | Blunt-leaf Rabbit-tobacco Rabbit Tobacco Sweet Everlasting Fragrant Cudweed | |
| Pseudognaphalium stramineum | Cottonbatting Plant | |
| Psilostrophe tagetina | Woolly Paperflower Paperflower | |
| Psilostrophe tagetina var. cerifera | Woolly Paperflower Plains Paperflower Hairy Paperflower | |
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