Special Collections
Cross Timbers
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. With most of this ecoregion occurring in a swath from central Texas north, its northern reaches extend into southeastern Oklahoma. In Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Cross Timbers and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Cross Timbers ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass Silver Beard Grass | |
| Boerhavia linearifolia | Narrowleaf Spiderling | |
| Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas Grama | |
| Bolboschoenus robustus | Sturdy Bulrush | |
| Bouteloua trifida | Red Grama | |
| Bouteloua uniflora | Oneflower Grama | |
| Botrychium virginianum | Rattlesnake Fern | |
| Brickellia cylindracea | Gravel-bar Brickellbush | |
| Brickellia dentata | Leafy Brickellbush | |
| Brickellia eupatorioides | False Boneset | |
| Brickellia eupatorioides var. texana | Texas False Boneset | |
| Bromus pubescens | Hairy Woodland Brome | |
| Brazoria truncata | Rattlesnake Flower | |
| Buchnera americana | American Bluehearts Bluehearts | |
| Bulbostylis capillaris | Densetuft Hairsedge Hair-sedge | |
| Bulbostylis ciliatifolia | Capillary Hairsedge | |
| Callirhoe alcaeoides | Light Poppymallow Plains Poppy-mallow Light Poppy-mallow Pink Poppy-mallow Light Poppy Mallow | |
| Carex albicans | Whitetinge Sedge | |
| Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
| Carex amphibola | Eastern Narrowleaf Sedge Creek Sedge | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile Tepin Chile Pequin Chiltepin Chile Petin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
| Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum | Chile Pequin Chile Tepin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
| Carya aquatica | Water Hickory Bitter Water Hickory Bitter Hickory Swamp Hickory Water Pignut Hickory Water Pignut Bitter Pecan | |
| Carex austrina | Southern Sedge | |
| Calylophus berlandieri | Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops | |
| Calylophus berlandieri ssp. berlandieri | Berlandier's Sundrops Drummond Sundrops Square-bud Primrose | |
| Calylophus berlandieri ssp. pinifolius | Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops Square-bud Day-primrose | |
| Carex blanda | Eastern Woodland Sedge Creek Sedge Common Wood Sedge | |
| Carex brevior | Shortbeak Sedge | |
| Cardamine bulbosa | Bulbous Bittercress Spring Cress | |
| Carex bulbostylis | False Hair Sedge | |
| Carex bushii | Bush's Sedge | |
| Carex cherokeensis | Cherokee Sedge | |
| Carex corrugata | Prune-fruit Sedge | |
| Carex crinita | Fringed Sedge | |
| Carex crus-corvi | Ravenfoot Sedge | |
| Carex edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Sedge | |
| Carex emoryi | Emory's Sedge Emory Sedge | |
| Castela erecta | Goatbush | |
| Castela erecta ssp. texana | Texan Goatbush Goat-bush Allthorn Goatbush Amargoso | |
| Carex frankii | Frank's Sedge | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut Hickory Sweet Pignut Hickory Coast Pignut Hickory Pignut Sweet Pignut Smoothbark Hickory Broom Hickory Red Hickory Swamp Hickory Switch Hickory Switchbud Hickory | |
| Carex grisea | Inflated Narrow-leaf Sedge | |
| Carex gravida | Heavy Sedge | |
| Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's Sundrops Western Primrose | |
| Calylophus hartwegii ssp. pubescens | Hartweg's Sundrops Grand Prairie Evening Primrose | |
| Callitriche heterophylla | Two-headed Water-starwort | |
| Callitriche heterophylla ssp. heterophylla | Two-headed Water-starwort Varied-leaved Water-starwort Diverse-leaved Water-starwort | |
| Carex hyalinolepis | Shoreline Sedge | |
| Carex hystericina | Bottlebrush Sedge | |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Castilleja indivisa | Texas Indian Paintbrush Entireleaf Indian Paintbrush Texas Paintbrush Indian Paintbrush Scarlet Paintbrush | |
| Castilleja integra | Wholeleaf Indian Paintbrush Squawfeather | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
| Castilleja integra var. integra | Wholeleaf Indian Paintbrush | |
| Callirhoe involucrata var. lineariloba | White Poppymallow Winecup Poppy Mallow White Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
| Callirhoe leiocarpa | Tall Poppymallow Annual Winecup Tall Poppy-mallow Tall Poppy Mallow | |
| Carex leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Sedge | |
| Carex longii | Long's Sedge | |
| Carex lurida | Shallow Sedge Sallow Sedge Lurid Sedge | |
| Calystegia macounii | Macoun's False Bindweed Hedge Bindweed | |
| Carex meadii | Mead's Sedge | |
| Carex microdonta | Littletooth Sedge | |
| Carex microrhyncha | Littlesnout Sedge | |
| Carex muehlenbergii | Muhlenberg's Sedge | |
| Carex muehlenbergii var. muehlenbergii | Muhlenberg's Sedge | |
| Cardamine parviflora | Sand Bittercress | |
| Cardamine parviflora var. arenicola | Sand Bittercress | |
| Callitriche peploides | Matted Water-starwort | |
| Callirhoe pedata | Palmleaf Poppymallow Standing Winecup Finger Poppymallow Palmleaf Poppy Mallow | |
| Carex perdentata | Sand Sedge Meadow Sedge | |
| Callitriche pedunculosa | Nuttall's Water-starwort | |
| Carex planostachys | Cedar Sedge | |
| Castilleja purpurea | Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush Purple Paintbrush Lemon Paintbrush Purple Painted Cup | |
| Castilleja purpurea var. citrina | Lemon Paintbrush Yellow Paintbrush Yellow Prairie Paintbrush Citron Paintbrush Prairie Paintbrush Prairie Indian Paintbrush | |
| Castilleja purpurea var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Paintbrush Lindheimer's Prairie Paintbrush Lindheimer's Indian Paintbrush Prairie Paintbrush | |
| Castilleja purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Paintbrush Purple Prairie Painbrush Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Carex reniformis | Kidneyshape Sedge | |
| Campanula reverchonii | Basin Bellflower Texas Bluebell | |
| Carex retroflexa | Reflexed Sedge | |
| Camassia scilloides | Atlantic Camas Wild Hyacinth | |
| Calylophus serrulatus | Yellow Sundrops Yellow Evening Primrose Plains Evening Primrose | |
| Calystegia sepium | Hedge False Bindweed Hedge Bindweed | |
| Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
| Carlowrightia texana | Texas Wrightwort | |
| Callitriche terrestris | Terrestrial Water-starwort | |
| Carex tetrastachya | Britton's Sedge | |
| Carex texensis | Texas Sedge | |
| Carya texana | Black Hickory Buckley Hickory Pignut Hickory | |
| Carex vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge Brown Fox Sedge | |
| Carex vulpinoidea var. vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
| Centaurium beyrichii | Mountain Pink Meadow Pink Catchfly Quinineweed | |
| 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 | |
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