Southern Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 21 Texas counties. This ecoregion borders most of the southwestern portion of the Rio Grande River and extends into northern Mexico. In Texas, it encompasses much of the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s South Texas Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Southern Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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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 | |
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 | |
Cabomba caroliniana | Carolina Fanwort Green Cabomba Fish-grass Washington-grass Carolina Watershield Washington-plant | |
Calliandra conferta | Rio Grande Stickpea Fairy Duster | |
Carex edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Sedge | |
Calliandra eriophylla | Pink Fairyduster Fairyduster Mesquitilla Mock Mesquite | |
Castela erecta | Goatbush | |
Castela erecta ssp. texana | Texan Goatbush Goat-bush Allthorn Goatbush Amargoso | |
Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's Sundrops Western Primrose | |
Calylophus hartwegii ssp. filifolius | Hartweg's Sundrops | |
Calylophus hartwegii ssp. maccartii | Maccart's Sundrops | |
Calylophus hartwegii ssp. pubescens | Hartweg's Sundrops Grand Prairie Evening Primrose | |
Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
Castilleja indivisa | Texas Indian Paintbrush Entireleaf Indian Paintbrush Texas Paintbrush Indian Paintbrush Scarlet Paintbrush | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Cakile lanceolata | Coastal Searocket | |
Castilleja lanata | Sierra Woolly Indian Paintbrush Woolly Paintbrush | |
Callirhoe leiocarpa | Tall Poppymallow Annual Winecup Tall Poppy-mallow Tall Poppy Mallow | |
Carex leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Sedge | |
Cardamine macrocarpa var. texana | Texas Bittercress | |
Callisia micrantha | Cherisse Little-flower Roseling Southern Coastal Roseling Little-flower Spiderwort | |
Carex microdonta | Littletooth Sedge | |
Carex muehlenbergii | Muhlenberg's Sedge | |
Carex muehlenbergii var. muehlenbergii | Muhlenberg's Sedge | |
Carlowrightia parviflora | Smallflower Wrightwort | |
Callitriche peploides | Matted Water-starwort | |
Callirhoe pedata | Palmleaf Poppymallow Standing Winecup Finger Poppymallow Palmleaf Poppy Mallow | |
Carex perdentata | Sand Sedge Meadow Sedge | |
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 | |
Castilleja rigida | Rigid Indian Paintbrush | |
Calylophus serrulatus | Yellow Sundrops Yellow Evening Primrose Plains Evening Primrose | |
Castilleja sessiliflora | Downy Painted Cup Downy Paintbrush Great Plains Paintbrush Great Plains Indian-paintbrush | |
Carlowrightia texana | Texas Wrightwort | |
Carex tetrastachya | Britton's Sedge | |
Carlowrightia torreyana | Torrey's Wrightwort | |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
Centaurium calycosum | Arizona Centaury Shortflower Centaury Rosita Buckley Centaury | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican Redbud | |
Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas Redbud | |
Cenchrus echinatus | Southern Sandbur | |
Celtis ehrenbergiana | Desert Hackberry Spiny Hackberry Shiny Hackberry Granjeno Huasteco | |
Centella erecta | Erect Centella Erect Spadeleaf | |
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 | |
Celtis lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Hackberry Lindheimer Hackberry | |
Cercocarpus montanus | Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany Mountain Mahogany | |
Cercocarpus montanus var. argenteus | Silver Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany True Mountain Mahogany Mountain Mahogany | |
Celosia nitida | West Indian Cock's Comb | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Cephalanthus salicifolius | Mexican Buttonbush | |
Cevallia sinuata | Stinging Serpent Stinging Cevallia | |
Cenchrus spinifex | Grass Bur Coastal Sandbur Field Sandspur Southern Sandbur Spiny Burrgrass | |
Centrosema virginianum | Spurred Butterfly Pea Butterfly Pea | |
Chamaesyce acuta | Pointed Sandmat | |
Chamaesyce albomarginata | Whitemargin Sandmat Rattlesnake-weed | |
Cheilanthes alabamensis | Alabama Lipfern | |
Chenopodium album | Lambsquarters | |
Chiococca alba | Snowberry West Indian Milkberry David's Milkberry Cahinca West Indian Snowberry Milkberry | |
Chloris andropogonoides | Slimspike Windmill Grass | |
Chamaesyce angusta | Blackfoot Sandmat Narrow-leaf Spurge | |
Chaetopappa asteroides | Arkansas Leastdaisy Least Daisy | |
Chaetopappa bellidifolia | Whiteray Leastdaisy Dwarf White Aster Edwards Lazy Daisy | |
Chaetopappa bellioides | Manyflower Leastdaisy | |
Chenopodium berlandieri | Pitseed Goosefoot Lambs Quarters | |
Chamaesyce bombensis | Dixie Sandmat | |
Chamaecrista calycioides | Woodland Sensitive Pea | |
Chamaesyce cinerascens | Ashy Sandmat | |
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 effusa | Spreading Leastdaisy | |
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 | |
Chamaecrista flexuosa var. texana | Texas Sensitive Pea | |
Chamaesyce glyptosperma | Ribseed Sandmat Rib-seeded Sand Mat | |
Chamaecrista greggii | Gregg's Sensitive Pea | |
Cheilanthes horridula | Rough Lipfern | |
Chamaesyce hypericifolia | Graceful Sandmat Graceful Spurge Chickenweed Large-spotted Spurge Garden Spurge Fluxweed Baby's-breath Euphorbia | |
Chamaesyce hyssopifolia | Hyssopleaf Sandmat | |
Chaetopappa imberbis | Awnless Leastdaisy | |
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 | |
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