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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| 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 | |
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