Special Collections
Cross Timbers
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. With most of this ecoregion occurring in a swath from central Texas north, its northern reaches extend into southeastern Oklahoma. In Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Cross Timbers and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Cross Timbers ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Verbesina lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Crownbeard | |
| Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly Ironweed | |
| Vernonia marginata | Plains Ironweed | |
| Vernonia missurica | Missouri Ironweed | |
| Veronica peregrina | American Speedwell Purslane Speedwell Neckweed | |
| Verbena plicata | Fanleaf Vervain | |
| Verbena stricta | Hoary Verbena Hoary Vervain Tall Vervain Woolly Verbena | |
| Vernonia texana | Texas Ironweed | |
| 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 | |
| Verbena xutha | Gulf Vervain | |
| Vitis aestivalis | Summer Grape Pigeon Grape | |
| Vitis aestivalis var. lincecumii | Long Grape | |
| Vicia americana | American Vetch American Deervetch | |
| Viola bicolor | Field Pansy Wild Pansy | |
| Vicia caroliniana | Carolina Vetch | |
| 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 Golden-eye | |
| Vicia ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
| Vicia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
| Vicia ludoviciana ssp. leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Vetch | |
| Vicia minutiflora | Pygmyflower 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 riparia | Riverbank Grape River-bank Grape | |
| Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry | |
| 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 | |
| Vitis vulpina | Frost Grape Fox Grape | |
| Vulpia elliotea | Squirreltail Fescue | |
| Vulpia octoflora | Sixweeks Fescue Common Sixweeks Grass | |
| Warnockia scutellarioides | Prairie Brazosmint Prairie Brazoria | |
| Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida | Zexmenia Orange Zexmenia Hairy Wedelia Wedelia Texas Creeping-oxeye | |
| Wolffia columbiana | Columbian Watermeal | |
| Woodsia obtusa | Bluntlobe Cliff Fern Blunt Cliff Fern | |
| Xanthium strumarium | Rough Cocklebur | |
| Xanthium strumarium var. canadense | Canada Cocklebur | |
| Xanthisma texanum | Texas Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Star of Texas Texas Sleepy-daisy Texas Sleepydaisy | |
| Xanthisma texanum var. drummondii | Drummond's Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Drummond's Sleepy-daisy Drummond's Sleepydaisy | |
| Yucca aloifolia | Spanish Dagger Spanish Bayonet Aloe Yucca | |
| Yucca arkansana | Arkansas Yucca Softleaf Yucca | |
| Yucca constricta | Buckley Yucca Buckley's Yucca | |
| Yucca glauca | Soapweed Yucca Narrowleaf Yucca Plains Yucca Beargrass Great Plains Yucca | |
| Yucca glauca var. glauca | Soapweed Yucca Narrow-leaf Yucca | |
| Yucca louisianensis | Gulf Coast Yucca | |
| Yucca pallida | Pale-leaf Yucca | |
| Yucca rupicola | Twistleaf Yucca Twisted-leaf Yucca Texas Yucca Spanish Dagger | |
| Yucca torreyi | Torrey Yucca Torrey's Yucca Spanish Bayonet Spanish Dagger Old Shag Palma | |
| Zanthoxylum clava-herculis | Hercules Club Pepperbark Toothache Tree Tickle Tongue Prickly Ash | |
| Zanthoxylum hirsutum | Texas Hercules' Club Texas Prickly Ash Limetone Prickly Ash Toothache Tree Tickle-tongue Tingle-tongue | |
| Zannichellia palustris | Horned Pondweed Horned Poolmat Horned-pondweed | |
| Zizia aurea | Golden Zizia Golden Alexanders | |
| Zinnia grandiflora | Plains Zinnia Rocky Mountain Zinnia Prairie Zinnia Little Golden Zinnia Yellow Zinnia | |
| Zizaniopsis miliacea | Giant Cutgrass | |
| Zigadenus nuttallii | Nuttall's Death Camas Death Camas Poison-onion | |
| Ziziphus obtusifolia | Lotebush Lote-bush Condalia Graythorn | |
| Ziziphus obtusifolia var. obtusifolia | Lotebush | |
| Zornia bracteata | Viperina | |
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