High Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 51 counties in western and northwestern Texas. It extends west into New Mexico and north across western Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, into southwestern South Dakota and southeastern Wyoming. In Texas, this ecoregion is commonly referred to as the Llano Estacado, a mostly flat plateau of short grass prairie. It covers approximately the same area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s High Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the High Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Cercocarpus montanus var. argenteus | Silver Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany True Mountain Mahogany Mountain Mahogany | |
Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
Cevallia sinuata | Stinging Serpent Stinging Cevallia | |
Cenchrus spinifex | Grass Bur Coastal Sandbur Field Sandspur Southern Sandbur Spiny Burrgrass | |
Centaurium texense | Lady Bird's Centaury Texas Centaury | |
Chamaesyce acuta | Pointed Sandmat | |
Chamaesyce albomarginata | Whitemargin Sandmat Rattlesnake-weed | |
Cheilanthes alabamensis | Alabama Lipfern | |
Chenopodium album | Lambsquarters | |
Chaetopappa asteroides | Arkansas Leastdaisy Least Daisy | |
Chenopodium berlandieri | Pitseed Goosefoot Lambs Quarters | |
Chamaesyce cinerascens | Ashy Sandmat | |
Chamaesaracha coniodes | Gray Five Eyes False Nightshade Ground Saracha Prostrate Ground-cherry | |
Chamaesaracha coronopus | Greenleaf Five Eyes Green False Nightshade | |
Chloris cucullata | Hooded Windmill Grass Hooded Windmillgrass | |
Chaetopappa ericoides | Rose Heath Rose-heath | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge Pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
Cheilanthes feei | Slender Lipfern | |
Chamaesyce fendleri | Fendler's Sandmat Fendler's Spurge Fendler's Carpetweed Fendler's Euphorb | |
Chamaesyce glyptosperma | Ribseed Sandmat Rib-seeded Sand Mat | |
Cheilanthes horridula | Rough Lipfern | |
Chamaesyce hyssopifolia | Hyssopleaf Sandmat | |
Chenopodium incanum | Mealy Goosefoot | |
Chamaesyce lata | Hoary Sandmat Hoary Euphorbia | |
Chenopodium leptophyllum | Narrowleaf Goosefoot | |
Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
Chamaesyce maculata | Spotted Spurge Spotted Euphorbia Spotted Sandmat Milk Purslane Prostrate Spurge | |
Chamaesyce missurica | Prairie Sandmat Missouri Spurge | |
Chamaesyce nutans | Nodding Spurge Eyebane | |
Chamaesyce prostrata | Prostrate Spurge Prostrate Sandmat Ground Spurge | |
Chrysothamnus pulchellus | Southwestern Rabbitbrush Rubber Rabbit Brush | |
Chamaesyce serpens | Matted Sandmat Prostrate Spurge Creeping Spurge | |
Chamaesyce serrula | Sawtooth Sandmat | |
Chenopodium simplex | Mapleleaf Goosefoot | |
Chamaesaracha sordida | Hairy Five Eyes False Nightshade | |
Chloracantha spinosa | Spiny Chloracantha Mexican Devil-weed | |
Chaerophyllum tainturieri | Hairyfruit Chervil Southern Chervil | |
Chloris verticillata | Tumble Windmill Grass Windmillgrass | |
Chloris virgata | Feather Fingergrass Showy Chloris | |
Cicuta maculata | Spotted Water Hemlock Water-hemlock Beaver Poison | |
Cirsium ochrocentrum | Yellowspine Thistle | |
Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle | |
Cissus trifoliata | Cow-itch Vine Cow Itch Vine Sorrelvine Grape Ivy Possum Grape Arizona Grape Ivy | |
Cirsium undulatum | Wavyleaf Thistle Plumed Thistle | |
Cleomella angustifolia | Narrowleaf Rhombopod Cleomella | |
Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
Clematis pitcheri | Purple Leatherflower Purple Clematis Leatherflower Bluebill Bellflower Clematis Pitcher's Clematis | |
Cnidoscolus texanus | Texas Bullnettle Bull Nettle Tread-softly Spurge Nettle | |
Corispermum americanum | American Bugseed | |
Corydalis aurea | Scrambled Eggs Golden Corydalis | |
Conyza canadensis | Horseweed Canadian Horseweed | |
Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort Scrambled Eggs Golden Smoke Curvepod | |
Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
Cooperia drummondii | Evening Rain Lily Evening Star Rain Lily | |
Coryphantha echinus | Rhinoceros Cactus | |
Convolvulus equitans | Texas Bindweed Bindweed | |
Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
Condalia ericoides | Javelina Bush | |
Commelina erecta var. angustifolia | Whitemouth Dayflower Narrow-leaf Dayflower Widow's Tears | |
Condalia hookeri | Bluewood Condalia Brasil Brasilwood Bluewood Logwood Purple Haw Capul Negro | |
Coryphantha macromeris var. macromeris | Nipple Beehive Cactus Big Needle Cactus Big Nipple Cory-cactus Dona Ana Long Mamma | |
Corydalis micrantha | Smallflower Fumewort Southern Corydalis Golden Corydalis | |
Coryphantha sulcata | Pineapple Cactus Nipple Cactus | |
Colubrina texensis | Texas Hog Plum Texas Snakewood Texas Colubrina Hog Plum | |
Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
Comandra umbellata | Bastard Toadflax | |
Comandra umbellata ssp. pallida | Pale Bastard Toadflax | |
Condalia viridis | Green Snakewood Green Condalia | |
Cryptantha cinerea var. jamesii | James' Cryptantha James' Catseye James' Cat's-eye | |
Croton glandulosus | Tooth-leaved Croton Sand Croton Tropic Croton Vente Conmigo | |
Croton lindheimerianus | Threeseed Croton | |
Cryptantha mexicana | Mexican Cryptantha | |
Cryptantha minima | Little Cryptantha | |
Croton monanthogynus | Prairie Tea One-seed Croton Doveweed Dove Weed Prairie Goatweed | |
Cryptantha palmeri | Palmer's Cryptantha | |
Croton pottsii | Leatherweed | |
Croton pottsii var. pottsii | Leatherweed | |
Crepis runcinata | Fiddleleaf Hawksbeard | |
Croton texensis | Texas Croton Doveweed Texas Goatweed | |
Cuscuta cuspidata | Cusp Dodder Dodder Angel Hair | |
Cucurbita foetidissima | Stinking Gourd Buffalo Gourd Missouri Gourd Stink Gourd Wild Gourd | |
Cuscuta gronovii | Scaldweed Dodder | |
Cuscuta indecora | Bigseed Alfalfa Dodder Largeseed Dodder Pretty Dodder | |
Cuscuta pentagona | Fiveangled Dodder | |
Cuscuta umbellata | Flatglobe Dodder Santa Fe Dodder | |
Cyperus acuminatus | Tapertip Flatsedge | |
Cycloloma atriplicifolium | Winged Pigweed | |
Cyperus croceus | Baldwin's Flatsedge | |
Cyperus esculentus | Yellow Nutsedge Chufa Sedge Yellow Nut-grass | |
Cyphomeris gypsophiloides | Red Cyphomeris | |
Cylindropuntia imbricata | Tree Cholla Walking Stick Cholla Cholla | |
Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata | Tree Cholla Teddy-bear Cholla Cholla Cane Cactus Walkingstick Cholla | |
Cylindropuntia kleiniae | Candle Cholla Klein's Pencil Cactus | |
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Tasajillo Christmas Cactus Pencil Cactus Christmas Cholla Desert Christmas Cactus | |
Cyperus lupulinus | Great Plains Flatsedge | |
Cymopterus macrorhizus | Bigroot Springparsley Big-root Cymopterus | |
Cymopterus montanus | Mountain Springparsley Montana Wavewing | |
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