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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Tetraneuris scaposa var. scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tecoma stans | Yellow Bells Yellowbells Esperanza Yellow Trumpetbush Yellow Trumpetflower Trumpetbush Trumpetflower Yellow Elder Hardy Yellow Trumpet Yellow Trumpet Bush | |
| Tetragonotheca texana | Squarebud Daisy Nerve-ray Square-bud Daisy | |
| Tetraneuris turneri | Turner's Four-nerve Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Thymophylla acerosa | Prickly-leaf Dogweed Texas Dogweed Shrubby Dogweed Prickleleaf Dogweed Prickleaf Dogweed Fetid Marigold Scrubby Dogweed | |
| Thelesperma ambiguum | Colorado Greenthread | |
| Thelocactus bicolor | Glory Of Texas | |
| Thelocactus bicolor var. bicolor | Glory Of Texas | |
| Thelesperma burridgeanum | Burridge's Greenthread Burridge Green-thread | |
| Thelesperma filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Showy Navajo Tea Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma flavodiscum | East Texas Greenthread Greenthread | |
| Thymophylla micropoides | Woolly Pricklyleaf | |
| Thelesperma nuecense | Rio Grande Greenthread | |
| Thelypteris ovata var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Marsh Fern Lindheimer's Maiden Fern | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Five-needle Fetid Marigold | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta var. pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Dogweed Dyssodia | |
| Thelocactus setispinus | Miniature Barrel Cactus Hedgehog Cactus | |
| Thelesperma simplicifolium | Slender Greenthread Navajo Tea Cota | |
| Thamnosma texana | Texas Desert-rue Dutchman's Breeches Rue Of The Mountains Ruda Del Monte | |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
| Thymophylla tephroleuca | Ashy Pricklyleaf Ashy Dogweed | |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba var. tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba var. wrightii | Wright's Pricklyleaf | |
| Tilia americana | American Basswood American Linden Lime Tree Bee Tree | |
| Tilia americana var. caroliniana | Carolina Basswood Florida Basswood Small-leaved Basswood Downy Basswood Carolina Linden Florida Linden Small-leaved Linden Downy Linden | |
| Tinantia anomala | False Dayflower Widows Tears | |
| Tillandsia baileyi | Giant Ball Moss Reflexed Airplant | |
| Tiquilia canescens | Woody Crinklemat Shrubby Coldenia Shrubby Tiquilia | |
| Tiquilia canescens var. canescens | Woolly Crinklemat Woody Crinklemat Dog's Ear Oreja De Perro Rat's Ear Coldenia Woody Tiquilia Gray Tiquilia Gray Coldenia Shrubby Coldenia | |
| Tidestromia lanuginosa | Woolly Tidestromia | |
| Tiquilia mexicana | Mexican Crinklemat | |
| Tillandsia recurvata | Small Ball Moss Ball Moss | |
| Tillandsia usneoides | Spanish Moss | |
| Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy Poison Ivy | |
| Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
| Triodanis biflora | Small Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Tragia brevispica | Shortspike Noseburn | |
| Trichostema brachiatum | Fluxweed False Pennyroyal | |
| Tradescantia brevifolia | Trans-Pecos Spiderwort | |
| Tridens buckleyanus | Buckley's Fluffgrass Buckley's Tridens | |
| Tridens congestus | Pink Fluffgrass Pink Tridens | |
| Triodanis coloradoensis | Colorado Venus' Looking-glass Western Venus' Looking Glass | |
| Trichloris crinita | Two-flowered Trichloris False Rhodes Grass | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
| Trichostema dichotomum | Forked Bluecurls Blue Curls | |
| Tradescantia edwardsiana | Plateau Spiderwort Edwards' Spiderwort | |
| Trichoneura elegans | Silveus Grass | |
| Tridens eragrostoides | Lovegrass Tridens | |
| Tridens flavus | Purpletop Tridens Redtop Tridens Tall Redtop Tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall Redtop | |
| Tradescantia hirsutiflora | Hairyflower Spiderwort | |
| Triodanis holzingeri | Holzinger's Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Tradescantia humilis | Texas Spiderwort | |
| Trisetum interruptum | Prairie False Oat | |
| Trixis inula | Tropical Threefold | |
| Triodanis leptocarpa | Slimpod Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Tridens muticus | Slim Tridens | |
| Tridens muticus var. muticus | Slim Tridens Awnless Fluffgrass | |
| Tragia nigricans | Dark Noseburn | |
| Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort Bluejacket | |
| Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
| Trichloris pluriflora | Multi-flowered False-rhodesgrass Multiflower False Rhodes Grass Showy Chloris | |
| Trianthema portulacastrum | Desert Horse-purslane Horse-purslane Black-pigweed Giant-pigweed | |
| Triplasis purpurea | Purple Sandgrass Purple Triplasis | |
| Tragia ramosa | Branched Noseburn | |
| Trichocoronis rivularis | Rio Grande Bugheal | |
| Tradescantia subacaulis | Stemless Spiderwort | |
| Tridens texanus | Texas Fluffgrass Texas Tridens | |
| Triodanis texana | Texas Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Triadenum walteri | Greater Marsh St. Johnswort | |
| Turnera diffusa | Damiana | |
| Typha domingensis | Southern Cattail | |
| Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
| Ulmus americana | American Elm White Elm Soft Elm Water Elm Common Elm | |
| Ulmus crassifolia | Cedar Elm Fall Elm Basket Elm Scrub Elm Lime Elm Texas Elm Southern Rock Elm Olmo | |
| Uniola paniculata | Sea Oats Seaoats | |
| Ungnadia speciosa | Mexican Buckeye Monilla | |
| Urtica chamaedryoides | Heart-leaf Stinging Nettle Heart-leaf Nettle Stinging Nettle | |
| Urochloa ciliatissima | Fringed Signalgrass | |
| Urochloa fusca | Browntop Signalgrass | |
| Urochloa texana | Texas Signalgrass | |
| Utricularia gibba | Humped Bladderwort Bladderwort Conespur Bladderpod | |
| Utricularia subulata | Zigzag Bladderwort | |
| Valerianella amarella | Hairy Cornsalad | |
| Vaccinium arboreum | Farkleberry Tree Sparkleberry Sparkleberry Winter Huckleberry Huckleberry | |
| Vachellia bravoensis | Huisachillo Dwarf Huisache Bravo Acacia Schaffner's Acacia Schaffner's Wattle Twisted Acacia | |
| Vachellia constricta | Whitethorn Acacia White-thorn Acacia Mescat Acacia Mescat Wattle Whitethorn Vara Prieta Chaparro Prieto | |
| Vachellia farnesiana | Huisache Texas Huisache Sweet Acacia Perfume Acacia Mealy Acacia Mealy Wattle Cassie | |
| Vaseyochloa multinervosa | Texasgrass | |
| Valerianella radiata | Beaked Cornsalad Woods Corn-salad | |
| Vachellia rigidula | Blackbrush Acacia Blackbrush Chaparro Prieto Gavia | |
| Varilla texana | Texas Varilla | |
| Vachellia vernicosa | Viscid Acacia | |
| Verbena bracteata | Bigbract Verbena Carpet Vervain Prostrate Vervain | |
| Verbena canescens | Gray Vervain | |
| Verbena cloverae | Clover's Vervain | |
| Verbesina encelioides | Cowpen Daisy Golden Crownbeard Butter Daisy | |
| Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
| Verbesina lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Crownbeard | |
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