Cross Timbers
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. With most of this ecoregion occurring in a swath from central Texas north, its northern reaches extend into southeastern Oklahoma. In Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Cross Timbers and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Cross Timbers ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Asclepias stenophylla | Slimleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Green Milkweed | |
Asclepias subverticillata | Horsetail Milkweed Poison Milkweed | |
Asclepias texana | Texas Milkweed White Milkweed | |
Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
Asclepias viridiflora | Green Comet Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Green Milkweed Wand Milkweed | |
Asclepias viridis | Green Milkweed Spider Milkweed | |
Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
Azolla caroliniana | Carolina Mosquitofern | |
Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo Wild Blue Indigo Blue False Indigo | |
Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata var. laevicaulis | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
Baptisia nuttalliana | Nuttall's Wild Indigo | |
Bacopa rotundifolia | Disk Waterhyssop Disc Water-hyssop | |
Baccharis salicina | Willow Baccharis Great Plains False Willow | |
Baptisia sphaerocarpa | Yellow Wild Indigo Green Wild Indigo Bush Pea Yellow Wisteria | |
Baccharis texana | Prairie False Willow Prairie Baccharis | |
Berlandiera betonicifolia | Texas Greeneyes Broochflower | |
Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate Daisy Chocolate Flower Lyreleaf Greeneyes Green-eyed Lyre Leaf | |
Berlandiera pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
Berlandiera pumila var. pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
Berchemia scandens | Alabama Supplejack Alabama Supple-jack Rattan-vine | |
Bifora americana | Prairie Bishop Prairie Bishop's Weed | |
Bidens bipinnata | Spanish Needles | |
Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
Bidens frondosa | Devil's Beggartick Spanish Needles | |
Bidens laevis | Smooth Beggartick Smooth Bidens Smooth Bur Marigold Larger Bur Marigold | |
Blutaparon vermiculare | Silverhead | |
Bouteloua barbata | Sixweeks Grama | |
Bothriochloa barbinodis | Pinhole Bluestem Cane Bluestem Cane Beardgrass Feather Bluestem Plains Beardgrass | |
Boerhavia coccinea | Scarlet Spiderling | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Boehmeria cylindrica | Smallspike False Nettle Bog Hemp | |
Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
Boltonia diffusa | Doll's Daisy Smallhead Doll's Daisy | |
Boerhavia diffusa | Red Spiderling | |
Boerhavia erecta | Erect Spiderling Common Spiderling | |
Bouchetia erecta | Erect Bouchetia Painted-tongue Paintedtongue Painted Tongue | |
Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
Bouteloua hirsuta var. pectinata | Tall Grama Hairy Grama | |
Bothriochloa hybrida | Hybrid Beardgrass | |
Bowlesia incana | Hoary Bowlesia | |
Bothriochloa laguroides | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass | |
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