Central Great Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. The Central Great Plains extends in a great swath from west-central Texas north through central Oklahoma, Kansas and south-central Nebraska. In Texas, along with the Southwestern Tablelands, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Rolling Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Central Great Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Carex tetrastachya | Britton's Sedge | |
Carex triangularis | Eastern Fox Sedge | |
Carex vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge Brown Fox Sedge | |
Carex vulpinoidea var. vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge | |
Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
Cerastium brachypodum | Short-stalk Chickweed Shortstalk Chickweed | |
Centaurium calycosum | Arizona Centaury Shortflower Centaury Rosita Buckley Centaury | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas Redbud | |
Ceratophyllum demersum | Coon's Tail | |
Ceanothus fendleri | Fendler's Ceanothus Fendler Ceanothus | |
Ceanothus herbaceus | Prairie Redroot Smaller Redroot Small Redroot Inland Ceanothus Fuzzy Ceanothus Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf Hackberry Netleaf Sugar Hackberry Western Hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
Cercocarpus montanus | Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf 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 | |
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 | |
Chloris andropogonoides | Slimspike Windmill Grass | |
Chaetopappa asteroides | Arkansas Leastdaisy Least Daisy | |
Chenopodium berlandieri | Pitseed Goosefoot Lambs Quarters | |
Chamaesaracha coniodes | Gray Five Eyes False Nightshade Ground Saracha Prostrate Ground-cherry | |
Chamaesyce cordifolia | Heartleaf Sandmat | |
Chamaesaracha coronopus | Greenleaf Five Eyes Green False Nightshade | |
Chloris cucullata | Hooded Windmill Grass Hooded Windmillgrass | |
Chamaesaracha edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Five Eyes | |
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 | |
Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
Chenopodium leptophyllum | Narrowleaf Goosefoot | |
Cheilanthes lindheimeri | Fairy-swords | |
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 | |
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 | |
Cheilanthes tomentosa | Woolly Lipfern | |
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 | |
Clitoria mariana | Atlantic Pigeonwings Butterfly Pea | |
Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
Clematis pitcheri | Purple Leatherflower Purple Clematis Leatherflower Bluebill Bellflower Clematis Pitcher's Clematis | |
Claytonia virginica | Virginia Springbeauty Springbeauty | |
Cnidoscolus texanus | Texas Bullnettle Bull Nettle Tread-softly Spurge Nettle | |
Corispermum americanum | American Bugseed | |
Cocculus carolinus | Carolina Snailseed Carolina Coralbead Carolina Moonseed Red Berried Moonseed Carolina Red Berried Moonseed | |
Conyza canadensis | Horseweed Canadian Horseweed | |
Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort Scrambled Eggs Golden Smoke Curvepod | |
Corydalis curvisiliqua ssp. curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort | |
Coelorachis cylindrica | Cylinder Jointtail Grass Carolina Joint-tail | |
Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
Cooperia drummondii | Evening Rain Lily Evening Star Rain Lily | |
Convolvulus equitans | Texas Bindweed Bindweed | |
Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
Commelina erecta var. angustifolia | Whitemouth Dayflower Narrow-leaf Dayflower Widow's Tears | |
Cornus foemina | Stiff Dogwood Swamp Dogwood | |
Coreopsis grandiflora | Largeflower Tickseed Large-flower Tickseed Common Coreopsis | |
Coreopsis grandiflora var. grandiflora | Largeflower Tickseed | |
Coryphantha sulcata | Pineapple Cactus Nipple Cactus | |
Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
Comandra umbellata | Bastard Toadflax | |
Comandra umbellata ssp. pallida | Pale Bastard Toadflax | |
Corallorhiza wisteriana | Spring Coral-root Spring Coral Root Early Southern Coral-root Wister's Coral-root Yellow Coral-root Arousing Coral-root Spring Coralroot | |
Coreopsis wrightii | Rock Tickseed Golden-wave | |
Croton capitatus | Hogwort Texas Goatweed | |
Cryptantha cinerea var. jamesii | James' Cryptantha James' Catseye James' Cat's-eye | |
Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
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 | |
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