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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