Special Collections
Texas Blackland Prairies
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. Lying entirely within the state of Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Blackland Prairie vegetative region. It is comprised of two parallel bands separated by the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion and extending from southern Texas north to very near the Oklahoma border.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Polygala cruciata | Drumheads Candy Root Crossleaf Milkwort Cross-leaved Milkwort | |
| Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
| Populus deltoides ssp. deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Southern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Eastern Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
| Populus deltoides ssp. monilifera | Plains Cottonwood Great Plains Cottonwood Texas Cottonwood Northern Cottonwood | |
| Populus deltoides ssp. wislizeni | Rio Grande Cottonwood Valley Cottonwood Wislizenus Cottonwood Alamo Guerigo | |
| Potamogeton diversifolius | Waterthread Pondweed Threadleaf Pondweed | |
| Polanisia dodecandra | Redwhisker Clammyweed Clammyweed | |
| Polanisia dodecandra ssp. trachysperma | Sandyseed Clammyweed Clammy-weed Clammyweed | |
| Polanisia erosa | Large Clammyweed | |
| Polanisia erosa ssp. erosa | Large Clammyweed | |
| Potamogeton foliosus | Leafy Pondweed | |
| Potamogeton foliosus ssp. foliosus | Leafy Pondweed | |
| Populus fremontii | Fremont Cottonwood Western Cottonwood Gila Cottonwood Alamo | |
| Populus fremontii ssp. mesetae | Fremont Cottonwood Meseta Cottonwood Arizona Cottonwood | |
| Polygonum glabrum | Denseflower Knotweed | |
| Portulaca halimoides | Silkcotton Purslane | |
| Polygonum hydropiperoides | Swamp Smartweed | |
| Potamogeton illinoensis | Illinois Pondweed | |
| Poliomintha incana | Frosted Mint Hoary Rosemary-mint Mintbush | |
| Polygala incarnata | Procession Flower Pink Milkwort | |
| Polygonum lapathifolium | Curlytop Knotweed Curl-top Smartweed Pale Smartweed | |
| Polygala lindheimeri | Shrubby Milkwort Purple Milkwort | |
| Polygala lindheimeri var. lindheimeri | Shrubby Milkwort Purple Milkwort | |
| Polygala macradenia | Glandleaf Milkwort | |
| Potamogeton nodosus | Longleaf Pondweed Knotty Pondweed | |
| Polytaenia nuttallii | Nuttall's Prairie Parsley Prairie Parsley Wild Dill Prairie Parsnip | |
| Pogonia ophioglossoides | Rose Pogonia Snake-mouth Orchid Beard Flower | |
| Polygala ovatifolia | Eggleaf Milkwort | |
| Polygonella parksii | Parks' Jointweed | |
| Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian Apple Wild Mandrake Pomme De Mai Podophylle Pelt | |
| Polygonum pensylvanicum | Pennsylvania Smartweed Pink Smartweed | |
| Portulaca pilosa | Kiss Me Quick Chisme | |
| Polygala polygama | Racemed Milkwort Pink Milkwort | |
| Poa pratensis | Kentucky Bluegrass | |
| Polypremum procumbens | Juniper Leaf Rustweed | |
| Polygonum punctatum | Dotted Smartweed | |
| Potamogeton pusillus | Small Pondweed | |
| Polygonum ramosissimum | Bushy Knotweed | |
| Polygala sanguinea | Purple Milkwort | |
| Polygonum sagittatum | Arrowleaf Tearthumb | |
| Polygonum scandens | Climbing False Buckwheat | |
| Polygonum scandens var. cristatum | Crested False Buckwheat | |
| Polygonum setaceum | Bog Smartweed | |
| Potentilla simplex | Common Cinquefoil Oldfield Cinquefoil | |
| Poa sylvestris | Woodland Bluegrass Sylvan Bluegrass Sylvan Speargrass Old-pasture Bluegrass | |
| Polygonum tenue | Pleatleaf Knotweed | |
| Polytaenia texana | Texas Prairie Parsley Texas-parsley Texas Parsley | |
| Portulaca umbraticola | Wingpod Purslane Purslane | |
| Portulaca umbraticola ssp. umbraticola | Wingpod Purslane | |
| Polygala verticillata | Whorled Milkwort | |
| Polygonum virginianum | Jumpseed | |
| Proboscidea althaeifolia | Desert Unicorn-plant Devil's Claw | |
| Prunus angustifolia | Chickasaw Plum Sandhill Plum | |
| Prenanthes barbata | Barbed Rattlesnake-root | |
| Prunus caroliniana | Carolina Cherry-laurel Cherry-laurel Laurel Cherry Carolina Laurel Cherry | |
| Prosopis glandulosa | Honey Mesquite Glandular Mesquite Algarroba | |
| Prosopis glandulosa var. glandulosa | Honey Mesquite | |
| Prunus gracilis | Oklahoma Plum | |
| Proboscidea louisianica | Louisiana Devil's-claw Devil's claw Ram's-horn Unicorn Plant Proboscis Flower | |
| Proboscidea louisianica ssp. louisianica | Ram's Horn Devil's Claw Unicorn Plant Ram's Horn | |
| Prunus mexicana | Mexican Plum Bigtree Plum Inch Plum | |
| Prunus minutiflora | Texas Almond Texas Wild Almond Dwarf Plum | |
| Proboscidea parviflora | Doubleclaw Devil's Claw | |
| Proserpinaca palustris | Marsh Mermaidweed | |
| Prosopis reptans | Tornillo Dwarf Screw Bean Screw Bean Mesquite | |
| Prunus rivularis | River Plum Creek Plum Hog Plum | |
| Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
| Prunus serotina var. eximia | Escarpment Black Cherry Edwards Plateau Black Cherry Escarpment Cherry | |
| Prunus serotina var. serotina | Eastern Black Cherry Black Cherry | |
| Prunus texana | Peachbush Sand Plum Peach Bush Texas Plum Texas Peach Bush | |
| Prunus umbellata | Flatwoods Plum Hog Plum Black Sloe | |
| Prunella vulgaris | Common Selfheal | |
| Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium | Sweet Everlasting Rabbit-tobacco Fragrant Cudweed | |
| Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium ssp. obtusifolium | Blunt-leaf Rabbit-tobacco Rabbit Tobacco Sweet Everlasting Fragrant Cudweed | |
| Psilostrophe tagetina | Woolly Paperflower Paperflower | |
| Psilostrophe tagetina var. cerifera | Woolly Paperflower Plains Paperflower Hairy Paperflower | |
| Psoralidium tenuiflorum | Slimflower Scurfpea Scurfy Pea | |
| Pteridium aquilinum | Western Bracken Fern Bracken Fern Western Bracken Bracken | |
| Ptilimnium capillaceum | Herbwilliam | |
| Ptilimnium costatum | Ribbed Mock Bishopweed | |
| Ptilimnium nuttallii | Laceflower Mock Bishop's-weed | |
| Ptelea trifoliata | Wafer Ash Common Hoptree Hop Tree | |
| Ptelea trifoliata ssp. trifoliata | Common Hoptree Baldwin Hop-tree | |
| Pterocaulon virgatum | Wand Blackroot | |
| Pycnanthemum albescens | Whiteleaf Mountain Mint | |
| Pyrrhopappus carolinianus | Carolina Desert-chicory Texas Dandelion False Dandelion | |
| Pyrrhopappus grandiflorus | Tuberous Desert-chicory | |
| Pycnanthemum muticum | Clustered Mountainmint | |
| Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus | Smallflower Desert-chicory Texas Dandelion False Dandelion | |
| Pycnanthemum tenuifolium | Narrowleaf Mountain Mint Slender Mountain Mint Common Horsemint | |
| Quercus alba | White Oak Northern White Oak Eastern White Oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
| Quercus arizonica | Arizona White Oak Arizona Oak | |
| Quercus buckleyi | Texas Red Oak Buckley Oak Texas Oak Spanish Oak Spotted Oak Rock Oak | |
| Quercus falcata | Southern Red Oak Bottomland Red Oak Three-lobed Red Oak Spanish Oak | |
| Quercus fusiformis | Escarpment Live Oak Plateau Live Oak Hill Country Live Oak Texas Live Oak Scrub Live Oak Plateau Oak Encino Molino Tesmoli | |
| Quercus gambelii | Gambel Oak Rocky Mountain White Oak Utah White Oak | |
| Quercus grisea | Gray Oak Scrub Oak Shin Oak | |
| Quercus incana | Bluejack Oak Sandjack Oak Upland Willow Oak Cinnamon Oak Shin Oak Turkey Oak | |
| Quercus laceyi | Lacey Oak Texas Blue Oak Canyon Oak Smoky Oak Rock Oak | |
| Quincula lobata | Purple Groundcherry Chinese Lantern Purple Ground Cherry | |
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