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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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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