Western Gulf Coastal Plain
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. As its name suggests, it is comprised of the coastal plain of Texas, extending along the Gulf Coast south into Mexico and east over portions of the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Gulf Marshes and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Western Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Stachys tenuifolia | Smooth Hedgenettle Slender Betony | |
Stillingia treculiana | Trecul's Toothleaf | |
Strophostyles umbellata | Pink Fuzzybean | |
Stylisma villosa | Hairy Dawnflower | |
Suaeda calceoliformis | Pursh Seepweed | |
Suaeda linearis | Annual Seepweed | |
Symphyotrichum divaricatum | Southern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Lawn American-aster White Wood Aster Saltmarsh Aster Slender Aster | |
Symphyotrichum drummondii | Drummond's Aster | |
Symphyotrichum drummondii var. texanum | Drummond's Aster Texas Aster | |
Symphyotrichum dumosum | Rice Button Aster White Bushy Aster | |
Symphyotrichum ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster | |
Symphyotrichum ericoides var. ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster White Aster White Prairie Aster | |
Symphyotrichum falcatum | White Prairie Aster | |
Synthlipsis greggii | Gregg's Keelpod | |
Symphyotrichum laeve | Smooth Blue Aster | |
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum | Calico Aster | |
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum | Whitepanicle Aster Panicled Aster Lanceleaf Aster White Panicle Aster | |
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum ssp. hesperium | White Panicle Aster | |
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum var. lanceolatum | White Panicle Aster | |
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum ssp. lanceolatum | White Panicle Aster Panicled Aster | |
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense | Skyblue Aster Sky Blue American-aster Azure Aster Blue Devils | |
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus | Coralberry Indian Currant Buckbrush | |
Symphyotrichum patens | Late Purple Aster | |
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens | Spreading Aster Late Purple Aster Spread-leaf Aster Sky-drop Aster | |
Symphyotrichum praealtum | Willowleaf Aster | |
Symphyotrichum pratense | Barrens Silky Aster Meadow Aster | |
Symphyotrichum racemosum | Smooth White Oldfield Aster Small-flower White Aster | |
Symphyotrichum sericeum | Western Silver Aster Western Silver American-aster Silky Aster | |
Symphyotrichum subulatum | Eastern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Baby's Breath Aster Annual Aster Blackland Aster Hierba Del Marrano | |
Symphyotrichum tenuifolium | Perennial Saltmarsh Aster Saltmarsh Aster | |
Symplocos tinctoria | Horse Sugar Common Sweetleaf Sweetleaf Yellowwood Wild Laurel | |
Tamaulipa azurea | Blue Boneset Blue Mistflower | |
Taxodium distichum | Bald Cypress Baldcypress Common Bald Cypress Southern Bald Cypress Deciduous Cypress Southern Cypress Swamp Cypress Red Cypress White Cypress Yellow Cypress Gulf Cypress Tidewater Red Cypress | |
Taxodium mucronatum | Montezuma Bald Cypress Montezuma Cypress Mexican Cypress Ahuehuete Sabino | |
Tauschia texana | Texas Umbrellawort | |
Teucrium canadense | American Germander Canada Germander Canadian Germander Germander Hairy Germander Wood Sage | |
Teucrium canadense var. canadense | Canada Germander | |
Tetraclea coulteri | Coulter's Wrinklefruit | |
Teucrium cubense | Small Coastal Germander Coast Germander | |
Teucrium cubense var. cubense | Small Coastal Germander | |
Tephrosia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Hoarypea Hoary Pea Lindheimer Tephrosia | |
Tetraneuris linearifolia | Fineleaf Fournerved Daisy Slender-leaf Hymenoxys Bitterweed | |
Tephrosia onobrychoides | Multibloom Hoarypea Multibloom Tephrosia | |
Tetragonotheca repanda | Showy Nerveray | |
Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed | |
Tecoma stans | Yellow Bells Yellowbells Esperanza Yellow Trumpetbush Yellow Trumpetflower Trumpetbush Trumpetflower Yellow Elder Hardy Yellow Trumpet Yellow Trumpet Bush | |
Tetragonotheca texana | Squarebud Daisy Nerve-ray Square-bud Daisy | |
Tetraneuris turneri | Turner's Four-nerve Daisy Bitterweed | |
Tephrosia virginiana | Goat's Rue Virginia Tephrosia Devil's Shoestring | |
Thelesperma ambiguum | Colorado Greenthread | |
Thelocactus bicolor | Glory Of Texas | |
Thelocactus bicolor var. bicolor | Glory Of Texas | |
Thalictrum dasycarpum | Purple Meadow-rue Tall Meadow-rue Meadow Rue | |
Thalia dealbata | Powdery Alligator-flag Powdery Thalia Water Canna | |
Thelesperma filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Greenthread | |
Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Showy Navajo Tea Greenthread | |
Thelypteris kunthii | Wood Fern River Fern Southern Shield Fern Kunth's Maiden Fern Normal Shield Fern | |
Thelesperma nuecense | Rio Grande Greenthread | |
Thelypteris palustris | Eastern Marsh Fern Marsh Fern | |
Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens | Eastern Marsh Fern | |
Thymophylla pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Five-needle Fetid Marigold | |
Thymophylla pentachaeta var. pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Dogweed Dyssodia | |
Thalictrum revolutum | Waxyleaf Meadow-rue | |
Thelocactus setispinus | Miniature Barrel Cactus Hedgehog Cactus | |
Thelesperma simplicifolium | Slender Greenthread Navajo Tea Cota | |
Thalictrum texanum | Houston Meadow-rue | |
Thamnosma texana | Texas Desert-rue Dutchman's Breeches Rue Of The Mountains Ruda Del Monte | |
Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
Thymophylla tephroleuca | Ashy Pricklyleaf Ashy Dogweed | |
Thymophylla tenuiloba var. tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
Thymophylla tenuiloba var. wrightii | Wright's Pricklyleaf | |
Thurovia triflora | Threeflower Snakeweed | |
Thaspium trifoliatum var. aureum | Yellow Meadow Parsnip Golden Alexanders | |
Tilia americana | American Basswood American Linden Lime Tree Bee Tree | |
Tilia americana var. caroliniana | Carolina Basswood Florida Basswood Small-leaved Basswood Downy Basswood Carolina Linden Florida Linden Small-leaved Linden Downy Linden | |
Tinantia anomala | False Dayflower Widows Tears | |
Tillandsia baileyi | Giant Ball Moss Reflexed Airplant | |
Tiquilia canescens | Woody Crinklemat Shrubby Coldenia Shrubby Tiquilia | |
Tiquilia canescens var. canescens | Woolly Crinklemat Woody Crinklemat Dog's Ear Oreja De Perro Rat's Ear Coldenia Woody Tiquilia Gray Tiquilia Gray Coldenia Shrubby Coldenia | |
Tipularia discolor | Crippled Cranefly | |
Tidestromia lanuginosa | Woolly Tidestromia | |
Tillandsia recurvata | Small Ball Moss Ball Moss | |
Tillandsia usneoides | Spanish Moss | |
Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy Poison Ivy | |
Toxicodendron radicans ssp. radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy | |
Trepocarpus aethusae | Whitenymph | |
Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
Trifolium bejariense | Bejar Clover | |
Tragia betonicifolia | Betonyleaf Noseburn | |
Triodanis biflora | Small Venus' Looking-glass | |
Tragia brevispica | Shortspike Noseburn | |
Trichostema brachiatum | Fluxweed False Pennyroyal | |
Trifolium carolinianum | Carolina Clover | |
Tridens congestus | Pink Fluffgrass Pink Tridens | |
Trichloris crinita | Two-flowered Trichloris False Rhodes Grass | |
Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
Trachelospermum difforme | Climbing Dogbane | |
Trichostema dichotomum | Forked Bluecurls Blue Curls | |
Trichoneura elegans | Silveus Grass | |
Tridens eragrostoides | Lovegrass Tridens | |
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