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 |
| 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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