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
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Silene antirrhina | Sleepy Silene Sleepy Catchfly | |
Sisyrinchium biforme | Wiry Blue-eyed Grass | |
Simsia calva | Awnless Bush Sunflower Bush Sunflower | |
Sideroxylon celastrinum | Saffron Plum Coma Saffron Plum La Coma Coma Milk Buckthorn Tropical Buckthorn Downward Plum Antswood | |
Sisyrinchium chilense | Swordleaf Blue-eyed Grass Sword-leaf Blue-eyed Grass | |
Sida ciliaris | Bracted Fanpetals Bracted Sida | |
Sideroxylon lanuginosum | Gum Bumelia Gum Bully Woollybucket Bumelia Woolly Bumelia Gum Woollybucket Woolly Buckthorn Chittamwood Shittamwood Gum Elastic Coma Black Haw | |
Sisyrinchium langloisii | Roadside Blue-eyed Grass Dotted Blue-eyed Grass Southern Blue-eyed Grass | |
Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. rigidum | Gum Bully Brazos Bumelia Black Haw | |
Sida lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Sida Showy Fanpetals | |
Sida longipes | Stockflower Fanpetals | |
Sisyrinchium minus | Dwarf Blue-eyed-grass Pink-eyed-grass Pink Blue-eyed-grass | |
Silphium radula | Roughstem Rosinweed | |
Sida spinosa | Prickly Fanpetals | |
Sibara virginica | Virginia Winged Rockcress | |
Smilax bona-nox | Sawbriar Saw Greenbriar Catbriar Bullbriar Stretchberry Vine | |
Solidago altissima | Tall Goldenrod Late Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Canada Goldenrod | |
Solanum campechiense | Redberry Nightshade | |
Solanum carolinense | Carolina Horsenettle Carolina Horse-nettle | |
Solanum dimidiatum | Western Horsenettle Western Horse-nettle | |
Solanum douglasii | Greenspot Nightshade Douglas' Nightshade | |
Solanum elaeagnifolium | Silverleaf Nightshade Silver-leaf Nightshade White Horse Nettle Trompillo Tomato Weed Bull Nettle | |
Solidago gigantea | Giant Goldenrod Smooth Goldenrod Tall Goldenrod Late Goldenrod Early Goldenrod | |
Solidago juliae | Julia's Goldenrod | |
Solidago nemoralis | Gray Goldenrod Prairie Goldenrod Oldfield Goldenrod Grayleaf Goldenrod Gray-leaved Goldenrod Dyersweed Goldenrod Dwarf Goldenrod Field Goldenrod | |
Solidago odora | Anisescented Goldenrod Anise-scented Goldenrod Sweet Goldenrod | |
Solidago odora var. odora | Anisescented Goldenrod | |
Solanum rostratum | Buffalo Bur Buffalo Bur Nightshade Buffalobur Nightshade | |
Sophora secundiflora | Texas Mountain Laurel Mountain Laurel Mescal Bean Mescal Bean Sophora Frijolillo Frijolito | |
Solanum triquetrum | Texas Nightshade Hierba Mora | |
Sporobolus airoides | Alkali Sacaton Zacate Alcalino | |
Spartina alterniflora | Saltmarsh Cordgrass Saltwater Cordgrass Salt Cordgrass Smooth Cordgrass | |
Sphaeralcea angustifolia | Narrowleaf Globemallow Copper Globemallow Copper Mallow | |
Sporobolus clandestinus | Hidden Dropseed Rough Dropseed | |
Sporobolus compositus | Tall Dropseed Composite Dropseed Rough Dropseed | |
Sporobolus compositus var. compositus | Composite Dropseed Tall Dropseed | |
Sporobolus cryptandrus | Sand Dropseed | |
Spermolepis divaricata | Roughfruit Scaleseed | |
Spermolepis echinata | Bristly Scaleseed | |
Sphaeralcea fendleri | Fendler's Globemallow | |
Sphaeralcea hastulata | Spear Globemallow | |
Spigelia hedyotidea | Prairie Pinkroot Prairie Pink Root | |
Spermolepis inermis | Red River Scaleseed Spreading Scaleseed | |
Sporobolus junceus | Pineywoods Dropseed | |
Sphaeralcea lindheimeri | Woolly Globemallow | |
Sphenopholis obtusata | Prairie Wedgescale | |
Spartina patens | Saltmeadow Cordgrass Salt-meadow Cordgrass Marsh-hay Cordgrass | |
Sporobolus pyramidatus | Whorled Dropseed Target Dropseed Madagascar Dropseed | |
Spergularia salina | Salt Sandspurry | |
Spartina spartinae | Gulf Cordgrass | |
Spigelia texana | Texas Pinkroot | |
Sporobolus vaginiflorus | Poverty Dropseed | |
Spiranthes vernalis | Spring Ladies'-tresses Spring Lady's Tresses | |
Sporobolus virginicus | Seashore Dropseed Beach Dropseed Seashore Rushgrass Coastal Dropseed | |
Sporobolus wrightii | Big Sacaton Sacaton Alkali Sacaton | |
Styphnolobium affine | Eve's Necklace Eve's Necklacepod Texas Sophora Pink Sophora Necklace Tree | |
Stylosanthes biflora | Sidebeak Pencilflower | |
Streptanthus bracteatus | Bracted Twistflower Bracted Jewelflower | |
Stachys crenata | Mousesear Shade Betony Mouse's Ear | |
Stachys drummondii | Drummond's Hedgenettle Pink Mint | |
Stenandrium dulce | Sweet Shaggytuft Pineland Pinklet | |
Steinchisma hians | Gaping Grass | |
Stemodia lanata | Woolly Stemodia Gray-woolly Twintip | |
Strophostyles leiosperma | Slickseed Fuzzybean | |
Stenosiphon linifolius | False Gaura | |
Stenaria nigricans | Bluets Diamond-flowers | |
Stenaria nigricans var. nigricans | Diamondflowers Narrowleaf Bluets Baby's Breath Bluets Fine-leaf Bluets | |
Stuckenia pectinata | Sago Pondweed | |
Streptanthus platycarpus | Broadpod Jewelflower Broadpod Twistflower | |
Styrax platanifolius | Sycamore-leaf Snowbell | |
Styrax platanifolius ssp. stellatus | Sycamoreleaf Snowbell Hairy Sycamore-leaf Snow-bell | |
Styrax platanifolius ssp. texanus | Texas Snowbell Texas Snow-bell | |
Stellaria prostrata | Prostrate Starwort Prostrate Chickweed | |
Stillingia sylvatica | Queen's-delight | |
Stillingia texana | Texas Queen's Delight Queen's Delight Texas Toothleaf | |
Stillingia treculiana | Trecul's Toothleaf | |
Suaeda linearis | Annual Seepweed | |
Symphyotrichum divaricatum | Southern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Lawn American-aster White Wood Aster Saltmarsh Aster Slender Aster | |
Symphyotrichum dumosum | Rice Button Aster White Bushy Aster | |
Symphyotrichum ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster | |
Symphyotrichum ericoides var. ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster White Aster White Prairie Aster | |
Synthlipsis greggii | Gregg's Keelpod | |
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum | Calico Aster | |
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic Aster Aromatic American Aster Fall Aster Wild Blue Aster Shale Aster | |
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus | Coralberry Indian Currant Buckbrush | |
Symphyotrichum praealtum | Willowleaf Aster | |
Symphyotrichum pratense | Barrens Silky Aster Meadow Aster | |
Tamaulipa azurea | Blue Boneset Blue Mistflower | |
Taxodium distichum | Bald Cypress Baldcypress Common Bald Cypress Southern Bald Cypress Deciduous Cypress Southern Cypress Swamp Cypress Red Cypress White Cypress Yellow Cypress Gulf Cypress Tidewater Red Cypress | |
Taxodium mucronatum | Montezuma Bald Cypress Montezuma Cypress Mexican Cypress Ahuehuete Sabino | |
Teucrium canadense | American Germander Canada Germander Canadian Germander Germander Hairy Germander Wood Sage | |
Tetraclea coulteri | Coulter's Wrinklefruit | |
Teucrium cubense | Small Coastal Germander Coast Germander | |
Teucrium laciniatum | Lacy Germander Cut-leaf Germander Dwarf Germander | |
Tephrosia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Hoarypea Hoary Pea Lindheimer Tephrosia | |
Tetraneuris linearifolia | Fineleaf Fournerved Daisy Slender-leaf Hymenoxys Bitterweed | |
Tephrosia onobrychoides | Multibloom Hoarypea Multibloom Tephrosia | |
Tephrosia potosina | Edwards Plateau Hoarypea | |
Tetragonotheca repanda | Showy Nerveray | |
Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed | |
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