Western Gulf Coastal Plain
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. As its name suggests, it is comprised of the coastal plain of Texas, extending along the Gulf Coast south into Mexico and east over portions of the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Gulf Marshes and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Western Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Astragalus lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Milkvetch Lindheimer's Astragulus | |
Asclepias longifolia | Longleaf Milkweed | |
Astragalus nuttallianus | Nuttall's Milkvetch Small-flowered Milkvetch | |
Asclepias obovata | Pineland Milkweed | |
Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
Asimina parviflora | Smallflower Pawpaw Small-flower Pawpaw Dwarf Pawpaw | |
Asclepias perennis | White Swamp Milkweed Aquatic Milkweed | |
Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony Spleenwort | |
Astragalus pleianthus | Edwards Plateau Milkvetch | |
Asclepias prostrata | Prostrate Milkweed | |
Asplenium resiliens | Blackstem Spleenwort | |
Asclepias stenophylla | Slimleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Green 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 variegata | Redring Milkweed White-flowered Milkweed | |
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 | |
Athyrium filix-femina ssp. asplenioides | Southern Lady Fern | |
Atriplex matamorensis | Matamoros Saltbush | |
Aureolaria grandiflora | Largeflower Yellow False Foxglove False Foxglove | |
Avicennia germinans | Black Mangrove | |
Axonopus compressus | Broadleaf Carpetgrass | |
Axonopus fissifolius | Common Carpetgrass | |
Axonopus furcatus | Big Carpetgrass | |
Azolla caroliniana | Carolina Mosquitofern | |
Bahia absinthifolia | Hairyseed Bahia Hairy-seed False Goldfields Bahia Yerba Raton | |
Baptisia alba | White Wild Indigo White Baptisia | |
Baptisia alba var. macrophylla | Largeleaf Wild Indigo White 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 caroliniana | Blue Waterhyssop | |
Baccharis halimifolia | Groundseltree Sea-myrtle Consumptionweed Eastern Baccharis Groundsel Groundsel Bush Salt Marsh-elder Salt Bush Florida Groundsel Bush | |
Batis maritima | Turtleweed Seaside Saltwort | |
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 salicifolia | Mule's Fat Seep Willow | |
Baptisia sphaerocarpa | Yellow Wild Indigo Green Wild Indigo Bush Pea Yellow Wisteria | |
Baccharis texana | Prairie False Willow Prairie Baccharis | |
Bastardia viscosa | Viscid Mallow Bastardia | |
Berlandiera betonicifolia | Texas Greeneyes Broochflower | |
Bernardia myricifolia | Mouse's Eye Mouse Ears | |
Berlandiera pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
Berlandiera pumila var. pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
Berchemia scandens | Alabama Supplejack Alabama Supple-jack Rattan-vine | |
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