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Edwards Plateau
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. Lying entirely within the state, it is commonly referred to as the Texas Hill Country. This ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Edwards Plateau vegetative region.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Yeatesia platystegia | Montell Bractspike Wild Shrimp Plant | |
| Yucca arkansana | Arkansas Yucca Softleaf Yucca | |
| Yucca baccata | Banana Yucca Blue Yucca Fleshy-fruited Yucca Datil | |
| 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 pallida | Pale-leaf Yucca | |
| Yucca reverchonii | San Angelo Yucca | |
| Yucca rupicola | Twistleaf Yucca Twisted-leaf Yucca Texas Yucca Spanish Dagger | |
| Yucca thompsoniana | Thompson's Yucca Thompson Yucca Beaked Yucca Big Bend Yucca Soyate Palmita Trans-Pecos Yucca | |
| Yucca torreyi | Torrey Yucca Torrey's Yucca Spanish Bayonet Spanish Dagger Old Shag Palma | |
| Yucca treculeana | Spanish Dagger Spanish Bayonet Don Quixote's Lance Palma Pita Palma De Datil Palmito | |
| 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 | |
| Zephyranthes pulchella | Showy Zephyrlily | |
| Zinnia anomala | Shortray Zinnia | |
| 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 | |
| Zizania texana | Texas Wildrice Texas Wild Rice | |
| Zornia bracteata | Viperina | |
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