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
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| Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly Ironweed | |
| Verbesina microptera | Texas Crownbeard | |
| Veronica peregrina | American Speedwell Purslane Speedwell Neckweed | |
| Verbena plicata | Fanleaf Vervain | |
| Verbena runyonii | Rio Grande Vervain | |
| Verbena scabra | Sandpaper Vervain | |
| Verbena urticifolia | White Vervain White Verbena | |
| Verbesina virginica | Frostweed White Crownbeard Iceplant Iceweed Virginia Crownbeard Indian Tobacco Richweed Squawweed | |
| Verbesina virginica var. virginica | Frostweed White Crownbeard | |
| Vitis aestivalis | Summer Grape Pigeon Grape | |
| Vitis aestivalis var. lincecumii | Long Grape | |
| Viola bicolor | Field Pansy Wild Pansy | |
| Vitis cinerea var. helleri | Winter Grape Heller's Grape Gray-leaf Grape Smooth-leaf Grape Sweet Grape Spanish Grape | |
| Viguiera dentata | Plateau Goldeneye Sunflower Goldeneye Toothleaf Goldeneye Chimalacate | |
| Vicia ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
| Vigna luteola | Hairypod Cowpea Yellow Vigna | |
| Vicia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
| Vicia ludoviciana ssp. leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Vetch | |
| Vitis monticola | Sweet Mountain Grape Champin Grape | |
| Vitis mustangensis | Mustang Grape | |
| Viola pubescens | Downy Yellow Violet Downy Violet Hairy Yellow Violet Yellow Violet Common Yellow Violet | |
| Viola pubescens var. pubescens | Downy Yellow Violet Downy Violet Hairy Violet Yellow Violet Common Yellow Violet | |
| Vitis rupestris | Sand Grape | |
| Viola sagittata | Arrowleaf Violet Arrow-leaved Violet Upland Violet | |
| Viola sagittata var. sagittata | Arrowleaf Violet Triangle-leafed Violet | |
| Viola sororia | Missouri Violet Common Blue Violet Hooded Blue Violet Florida Violet Meadow Violet Confederate Violet Dooryard Violet Purple Violet Woolly Blue Violet Wood Violet Hooded Violet | |
| Viguiera stenoloba | Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Resinbush | |
| Vulpia octoflora | Sixweeks Fescue Common Sixweeks Grass | |
| Waltheria indica | Sleepy Morning Velvet Leaf Boaterbush Buff-coat Leather-coat Monkeybush Uhaloa | |
| Warnockia scutellarioides | Prairie Brazosmint Prairie Brazoria | |
| Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida | Zexmenia Orange Zexmenia Hairy Wedelia Wedelia Texas Creeping-oxeye | |
| Willkommia texana | Texas Willkommia | |
| Wolffia columbiana | Columbian Watermeal | |
| Xanthium strumarium | Rough Cocklebur | |
| Xanthisma texanum | Texas Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Star Of Texas | |
| Xyris jupicai | Richard's Yelloweyed Grass | |
| Yeatesia platystegia | Montell Bractspike Wild Shrimp Plant | |
| Yucca arkansana | Arkansas Yucca Softleaf Yucca | |
| Yucca constricta | Buckley Yucca Buckley's Yucca | |
| Yucca reverchonii | San Angelo Yucca | |
| Yucca rupicola | Twistleaf Yucca Twisted-leaf Yucca Texas Yucca Spanish Dagger | |
| Yucca thompsoniana | Thompson's Yucca Thompson Yucca Beaked Yucca Big Bend Yucca Soyate Palmita Trans-Pecos Yucca | |
| Yucca torreyi | Torrey Yucca Torrey's Yucca Spanish Bayonet Spanish Dagger Old Shag Palma | |
| Yucca treculeana | Spanish Dagger Spanish Bayonet Don Quixote's Lance Palma Pita Palma De Datil Palmito | |
| Zanthoxylum fagara | Lime Prickly Ash Colima | |
| Zannichellia palustris | Horned Pondweed Horned Poolmat Horned-pondweed | |
| Zephyranthes pulchella | Showy Zephyrlily | |
| Zinnia acerosa | Desert Zinnia Dwarf Zinnia Dwarf White Zinnia Shrubby Zinnia Southern Zinnia | |
| Zinnia anomala | Shortray Zinnia | |
| Zizaniopsis miliacea | Giant Cutgrass | |
| Ziziphus obtusifolia | Lotebush Lote-bush Condalia Graythorn | |
| Ziziphus obtusifolia var. obtusifolia | Lotebush | |
| Zornia bracteata | Viperina | |
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