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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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 Texas Sleepy-daisy Texas Sleepydaisy | |
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 | |
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