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Texas Blackland Prairies
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. Lying entirely within the state of Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Blackland Prairie vegetative region. It is comprised of two parallel bands separated by the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion and extending from southern Texas north to very near the Oklahoma border.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Muhlenbergia utilis | Aparejo Grass Aparejo Muhly | |
| Myriophyllum heterophyllum | Twoleaf Watermilfoil | |
| Myosotis macrosperma | Largeseed Forget-me-not | |
| Myriophyllum pinnatum | Cutleaf Watermilfoil | |
| 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 | |
| Nemophila aphylla | Smallflower Baby Blue Eyes | |
| Nekemias arborea | Peppervine | |
| 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 lindheimeriana | Devil's Shoestring Devil's-shoestring Ribbon Grass | |
| 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 | |
| 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 albicaulis | Whitest Evening-primrose White-stem Evening-primrose Pale Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera brachycarpa | Shortfruit Evening-primrose Short-fruit Evening-primrose Shortfruit Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera cinerea | Woolly Beeblossom High Plains Beeblossom Woolly Gaura High Plains Gaura | |
| Oenothera cinerea ssp. parksii | Parks' Beeblossom Woolly Butterfly-weed Parks Gaura | |
| Oenothera curtiflora | Velvetweed Velvetleaf Gaura Lizard-tail Gaura Willow Gaura | |
| Oenothera drummondii | Beach Evening-primrose Beach 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 jamesii | Trumpet Evening-primrose Trumpet Evening Primrose River 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 macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Missouri Evening-primrose Fluttermill Big-fruit Evening-primrose Missouri Primrose Bigfruit Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Fluttermill Missouri Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera mexicana | Mexican Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera pallida | Pale Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera patriciae | Plains Beeblossom Plains Gaura | |
| Oenothera pallida ssp. runcinata | White Sands Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera primiveris | Desert Evening-primrose Yellow-flower Desert Evening-primrose Bottle Evening Primrose Large Yellow Desert Primrose | |
| Oenothera rhombipetala | Fourpoint Evening-primrose Four-point Evening Primrose Diamond Petal Primrose Greater Four-point Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera sinuosa | Wavyleaf Beeblossom Wavyleaf Gaura | |
| Oenothera spachiana | Spach's Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups | |
| Oenothera suffrutescens | Scarlet Beeblossom Scarlet Gaura | |
| Oenothera suffulta | Kisses Wild Honeysuckle Beeblossom Roadside Gaura | |
| Oenothera tetraptera | Fourwing Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera triloba | Stemless Evening-primrose Stemless Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera villosa | Hairy Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera villosa ssp. villosa | Hairy Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera xerogaura | Drummond's Beeblossom Drummond's Gaura | |
| Oldenlandia boscii | Bosc's Mille Graines | |
| Oligoneuron nitidum | Shiny Goldenrod | |
| Oligoneuron rigidum | Stiff Goldenrod Hard-leaf Goldenrod | |
| Oligoneuron rigidum var. rigidum | Stiff Goldenrod | |
| Oldenlandia uniflora | Clustered Mille Graines | |
| Onosmodium bejariense | Soft-hair Marbleseed | |
| Onosmodium bejariense var. bejariense | Soft-hair Marbleseed False Gromwell | |
| Onosmodium bejariense var. occidentale | Western Marbleseed | |
| Onosmodium helleri | Heller's Marbleseed Marble-seed | |
| Onoclea sensibilis | Sensitive Fern Bead Fern Sympathy Fern | |
| Ophioglossum crotalophoroides | Bulbous Adder's-tongue | |
| Ophioglossum crotalophoroides var. crotalophoroides | Bulbous Adder's-tongue | |
| Ophioglossum engelmannii | Limestone Adder's-tongue Limestone Adderstongue | |
| Opuntia engelmannii | Cactus Apple Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri | Texas Prickly Pear Lindheimer's Prickly Pear Lindheimer Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia engelmannii var. linguiformis | Cactus Apple | |
| Oplismenus hirtellus | Basketgrass | |
| Oplismenus hirtellus ssp. setarius | Basketgrass | |
| Opuntia humifusa | Low Prickly Pear Smooth Prickly Pear Devil's Tongue | |
| Opuntia macrorhiza | Bigroot Prickly Pear Twist-spine Prickly Pear Common Prickly Pear Plains Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia macrocentra | Purple Pricklypear Purple Prickly Pear Long-spined Prickly Pear Black Spine Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia phaeacantha | Tulip Prickly Pear Brownspine Prickly Pear Cactus Purple-fruited Prickly Pear Brown-spined Prickly Pear New Mexico Prickly Pear Desert Prickly Pear | |
| Ophioglossum vulgatum | Southern Adder's-tongue Adder's-tongue Adder's-tongue Fern | |
| Orobanche fasciculata | Clustered Broomrape Yellow Broomrape | |
| Orobanche ludoviciana | Louisiana Broomrape | |
| Orobanche ludoviciana ssp. multiflora | Manyflower Broomrape | |
| Orbexilum pedunculatum | Sampson's Snakeroot | |
| Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon Fern | |
| Osmunda cinnamomea var. cinnamomea | Cinnamon Fern | |
| Osmorhiza longistylis | Longstyle Sweetroot Aniseroot Sweet-cicely Wild Licorice | |
| Osmunda regalis | Royal Fern | |
| Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis | Royal Fern | |
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