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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 |
| Quercus lyrata | Overcup Oak Swamp Post Oak Water White Oak Swamp White Oak | |
| Quercus margaretta | Sand Post Oak Runner Oak Drummond Post Oak Dwarf Post Oak Scrubby Post Oak | |
| Quercus macrocarpa | Bur Oak Burr Oak Savanna Oak Overcup Oak Prairie Oak Mossy-cup Oak Mossy-overcup Oak Blue Oak | |
| Quercus marilandica | Blackjack Oak Barren Oak Black Oak Jack Oak | |
| Quercus michauxii | Swamp Chestnut Oak Basket Oak Cow Oak Swamp Oak | |
| Quercus muehlenbergii | Chinkapin Oak Chinquapin Oak Chestnut Oak Yellow Chestnut Oak Rock Chestnut Oak Yellow Oak Rock Oak | |
| Quercus nigra | Water Oak Possum Oak Duck Oak Punk Oak Spotted Oak | |
| Quercus phellos | Willow Oak Swamp Willow Oak Pin Oak Peach Oak | |
| Quercus shumardii | Shumard Oak Shumard's Oak Shumard Red Oak Southern Red Oak Swamp Red Oak Spotted Oak | |
| Quercus sinuata | Bastard Oak Durand Oak | |
| Quercus sinuata var. breviloba | White Shin Oak Bigelow Oak Scaly-bark Oak Limestone Durand Oak Shortlobe Oak Bastard Oak | |
| Quercus sinuata var. sinuata | Durand Oak Durand White Oak Bluff Oak Bastard Oak | |
| Quercus stellata | Post Oak Iron Oak Cross Oak | |
| Quercus texana | Nuttall Oak Texas Oak | |
| Quercus turbinella | Shrub Live Oak Sonoran Scrub Oak Scrub Oak Turbinella Oak Turbinella Encino | |
| Quercus velutina | Black Oak Quercitron Oak Yellow Oak Smoothbark Oak Yellowbark Oak | |
| Quercus virginiana | Coastal Live Oak Southern Live Oak Virginia Live Oak Live Oak Encino | |
| Ranunculus abortivus | Littleleaf Buttercup Kidney-leaf Buttercup Early Wood Buttercup | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
| Ranunculus fascicularis | Early Buttercup Tufted Buttercup Prairie Buttercup | |
| Ranunculus hispidus | Bristly Buttercup | |
| Ranunculus hispidus var. nitidus | Bristly Buttercup Buttercup | |
| Ranunculus laxicaulis | Mississippi Buttercup | |
| Ranunculus macranthus | Large Buttercup | |
| Ratibida peduncularis | Naked Mexican Hat Naked Prairie Coneflower | |
| Rayjacksonia phyllocephala | Camphor Daisy | |
| Ranunculus pusillus | Low Spearwort Weakstem Buttercup | |
| Ranunculus recurvatus | Blisterwort | |
| Ranunculus sceleratus | Cursed Buttercup | |
| Ranunculus sceleratus var. sceleratus | Cursed Buttercup | |
| Rhynchosia americana | American Snoutbean | |
| Rhus aromatica | Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Lemon Sumac Polecat Bush | |
| Rhus aromatica var. aromatica | Fragrant Sumac | |
| Rhus aromatica var. serotina | Fragrant Sumac | |
| Rhynchospora capitellata | Brownish Beaksedge Small-head Beaksedge Point-beak Beaksedge | |
| Rhynchospora caduca | Anglestem Beaksedge | |
| Rhododon ciliatus | Texas Sandmint | |
| Rhus copallinum | Winged Sumac Shining Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Mountain Sumac Dwarf Sumac Wing-rib Sumac Black Sumac Upland Sumac | |
| Rhynchospora corniculata | Shortbristle Horned Beaksedge Horned Beakrush | |
| Rhynchospora colorata | Whitetop Sedge White-topped Sedge Starrush Whitetop Star Sedge Star Rush | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
| Rhynchospora globularis | Globe Beaksedge | |
| Rhynchospora glomerata | Clustered Beaksedge Cluster Beak-rush | |
| Rhynchospora gracilenta | Slender Beaksedge | |
| Rhynchospora harveyi | Harvey's Beaksedge | |
| Rhynchospora inexpansa | Nodding Beaksedge | |
| Rhus lanceolata | Prairie Flameleaf Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Prairie Sumac Lance-leaf Sumac Lance-leaved Sumac Texas Sumac Tree Sumac Limestone Sumac Prairie Shining Sumac | |
| Rhynchosia latifolia | Prairie Snoutbean | |
| Rhexia mariana | Maryland Meadow Beauty Pale Meadow Beauty | |
| Rhynchospora macrostachya | Tall Horned Beaksedge | |
| Rhus microphylla | Littleleaf Sumac Desert Sumac Correosa Agritos | |
| Rhynchosia minima | Least Snoutbean | |
| Rhynchospora nitens | Shortbeak Beaksedge | |
| Rhynchospora nivea | Showy Whitetop | |
| Rhynchospora oligantha | Featherbristle Beaksedge | |
| Rhynchospora perplexa | Pineland Beaksedge | |
| Rhynchosida physocalyx | Bladderpod Sida Buffpetal Beaked Sida | |
| Rhynchospora rariflora | Fewflower Beaksedge | |
| Rhynchospora recognita | Globe Beaksedge | |
| Rhynchosia senna | Texas Snoutbean | |
| Rhynchosia senna var. texana | Texas Snoutbean Texas Snout-bean | |
| Rhus trilobata | Skunkbush Skunkbush Sumac Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Scented Sumac Ill-scented Sumac Basketbush Squawbush | |
| Rhus trilobata var. trilobata | Skunkbush Sumac | |
| Rhus virens | Evergreen Sumac Tobacco Sumac Lambrisco Lentrisco | |
| Richardia brasiliensis | Tropical Mexican Clover Brazil Pusley | |
| Rivina humilis | Pigeonberry Rouge Plant Baby-peppers Bloodberry | |
| Richardia tricocca | Prairie Mexican Clover | |
| Rosa carolina | Carolina Rose Pasture Rose | |
| Rosa carolina var. carolina | Carolina Rose | |
| Rosa foliolosa | White Prairie Rose Leafy Rose | |
| Robinia hispida | Bristly Locust Standing Sweet Pea | |
| Rorippa palustris | Bog Yellowcress | |
| Robinia pseudoacacia | Black Locust | |
| Rotala ramosior | Lowland Rotala | |
| Rosa setigera | Climbing Prairie Rose Climbing Rose Prairie Rose | |
| Rorippa teres | Southern Marsh Yellowcress | |
| Rubus aboriginum | Garden Dewberry | |
| Rumex altissimus | Pale Dock | |
| Rubus argutus | Sawtooth Blackberry | |
| Ruellia caroliniensis | Carolina Wild Petunia | |
| Rumex chrysocarpus | Amamastla | |
| Ruellia drummondiana | Drummond's Ruellia Drummond's Wild Petunia | |
| Rubus flagellaris | Northern Dewberry | |
| Rudbeckia grandiflora | Rough Coneflower Tall Coneflower Largeflower Coneflower | |
| Rumex hastatulus | Heartwing Sorrel Heart-wing Sorrel | |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
| Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima | Black-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Pinewoods Coneflower | |
| Ruellia humilis | Prairie Petunia Fringeleaf Wild Petunia Hairy Ruellia Low Wild Petunia Low Ruellia Fringeleaf Ruellia Fringe-leaf Wild Petunia | |
| Rumex hymenosepalus | Canaigre Dock Canaigre Desert Rhubarb | |
| Rudbeckia maxima | Giant Coneflower Great Coneflower Giant Brown-eyed Susan Cabbage Coneflower | |
| Rumex maritimus | Golden Dock | |
| Ruellia metziae | White Ruellia Metz's Wild Petunia Metz Wild Petunia Wild White Petunia | |
| Ruellia nudiflora | Violet Ruellia Common Wild Petunia Violet Wild Petunia Wild Petunia Hierba De La Calentura | |
| Ruellia nudiflora var. nudiflora | Violet Wild Petunia | |
| Ruellia nudiflora var. runyonii | Runyon's Wild Petunia | |
| Ruellia occidentalis | Western Wild Petunia | |
| Ruellia pedunculata | Stalked Wild Petunia | |
| Rumex spiralis | Winged Dock | |
| Ruellia strepens | Limestone Ruellia Limestone Wild Petunia | |
| Rubus trivialis | Southern Dewberry Dewberry | |
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