Special Collections
East Central Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 56 Texas counties. This ecoregion separates the two bands of the Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion and extends just across the Oklahoma border. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Post Oak Savannah vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| 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 pulcher | Spotted Pondweed | |
| Potamogeton pusillus | Small Pondweed | |
| Polygala ramosa | Low Pinebarren Milkwort Yellow Savanna Milkwort | |
| 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 | |
| Proserpinaca pectinata | Comb-leaf 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 | |
| Prunella vulgaris ssp. vulgaris | Common Selfheal | |
| Psilostrophe gnaphalioides | Dudweed | |
| Pseudognaphalium helleri | Heller's Cudweed | |
| 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 | |
| Pteridium aquilinum var. pseudocaudatum | Bracken Fern Bracken Western Bracken Fern Western 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 | |
| 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 hemisphaerica | Coast Laurel Oak Darlington Oak Laurel Oak | |
| Quercus incana | Bluejack Oak Sandjack Oak Upland Willow Oak Cinnamon Oak Shin Oak Turkey Oak | |
| Quercus laurifolia | Laurel Oak Swamp Laurel Oak Darlington Oak Diamond-leaf Oak Laurel-leaf Oak Water Oak Obtusa Oak | |
| Quincula lobata | Purple Groundcherry Chinese Lantern Purple Ground Cherry | |
| 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 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 pagoda | Cherrybark 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 similis | Bottomland Post Oak Delta Post Oak Mississippi Valley Oak Yellow 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 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 | |
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