Special Collections
South Central Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. It extends from the Western Gulf Coastal Plain east across much of Louisiana and north into southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Pineywoods vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the South Central Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo | |
| Baptisia bracteata | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
| Baptisia bracteata var. laevicaulis | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
| Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
| Bacopa caroliniana | Blue Waterhyssop | |
| Baccharis halimifolia | Groundseltree Sea-myrtle Consumptionweed Eastern Baccharis Groundsel Groundsel Bush Salt Marsh-elder Salt Bush Florida Groundsel Bush | |
| Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho Orchid Tree Anacacho Bauhinia Orchid Tree Texas Plume | |
| Batis maritima | Turtleweed Seaside Saltwort | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
| Baileya multiradiata | Desert Marigold Showy Desert Marigold Paper Daisy Desert Baileya | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Baptisia nuttalliana | Nuttall's Wild Indigo | |
| Bartonia paniculata | Twining Screwstem | |
| Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata | Twining Screwstem | |
| Bacopa rotundifolia | Disk Waterhyssop Disc Water-hyssop | |
| Baccharis salicina | Willow Baccharis Great Plains False Willow | |
| Baccharis salicifolia | Mule's Fat Seep Willow | |
| Baptisia sphaerocarpa | Yellow Wild Indigo Green Wild Indigo Bush Pea Yellow Wisteria | |
| Baccharis texana | Prairie False Willow Prairie Baccharis | |
| Bartonia verna | White Screwstem White Bartonia Spring Bartonia | |
| Berlandiera betonicifolia | Texas Greeneyes Broochflower | |
| Bernardia myricifolia | Mouse's Eye Mouse Ears | |
| Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
| Bernardia obovata | Desert Myrtlecroton | |
| Berlandiera pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
| Berlandiera pumila var. pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
| Berchemia scandens | Alabama Supplejack Alabama Supple-jack Rattan-vine | |
| Bifora americana | Prairie Bishop Prairie Bishop's Weed | |
| Bidens aristosa | Bearded Beggarticks Tickseed Sunflower | |
| Bidens bipinnata | Spanish Needles | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bidens discoidea | Small Beggarticks | |
| Bidens frondosa | Devil's Beggartick Spanish Needles | |
| Bidens laevis | Smooth Beggartick Smooth Bidens Smooth Bur Marigold Larger Bur Marigold | |
| Bigelowia nuttallii | Nuttall's Rayless Goldenrod | |
| Boltonia asteroides | Boltonia White Doll's Daisy | |
| Bouteloua barbata | Sixweeks Grama | |
| Bothriochloa barbinodis | Pinhole Bluestem Cane Bluestem Cane Beardgrass Feather Bluestem Plains Beardgrass | |
| Botrychium biternatum | Sparselobe Grapefern | |
| Boerhavia coccinea | Scarlet Spiderling | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Boehmeria cylindrica | Smallspike False Nettle Bog Hemp | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
| Boltonia diffusa | Doll's Daisy Smallhead Doll's Daisy | |
| Botrychium dissectum | Cutleaf Grapefern | |
| Boerhavia diffusa | Red Spiderling | |
| Boltonia diffusa var. diffusa | Smallhead Doll's Daisy | |
| Boerhavia erecta | Erect Spiderling Common Spiderling | |
| Borrichia frutescens | Bushy Seaside Tansy Ox-eye Daisy Sea Daisy Sea Ox-eye | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
| Bothriochloa hybrida | Hybrid Beardgrass | |
| Bowlesia incana | Hoary Bowlesia | |
| Bothriochloa laguroides | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass | |
| Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass Silver Beard Grass | |
| Boerhavia linearifolia | Narrowleaf Spiderling | |
| Bouchea linifolia | Groovestem Bouchea Flaxleaf Bouchea | |
| Bothriochloa longipaniculata | Longspike Beardgrass Longspike Silver Bluestem | |
| Botrychium lunarioides | Winter Grapefern | |
| Bonamia repens | Creeping Lady's Nightcap | |
| Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas Grama | |
| Bolboschoenus robustus | Sturdy Bulrush | |
| Bouteloua trifida | Red Grama | |
| Bouteloua uniflora | Oneflower Grama | |
| Botrychium virginianum | Rattlesnake Fern | |
| Brickellia dentata | Leafy Brickellbush | |
| Brachyelytrum erectum | Bearded Shorthusk Longawn Woodgrass | |
| Brickellia eupatorioides | False Boneset | |
| Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides | False Boneset | |
| Brickellia eupatorioides var. texana | Texas False Boneset | |
| Bromus inermis | Smooth Brome | |
| Brickellia laciniata | Splitleaf Brickellbush | |
| Brunnichia ovata | American Buckwheat Vine | |
| Bromus pubescens | Hairy Woodland Brome | |
| Brasenia schreberi | Watershield | |
| Brazoria truncata | Rattlesnake Flower | |
| Brazoria truncata var. pulcherrima | Centerville Brazos-mint Sand Brazoria | |
| Buchnera americana | American Bluehearts Bluehearts | |
| Burmannia biflora | Northern Bluethread | |
| Bulbostylis capillaris | Densetuft Hairsedge Hair-sedge | |
| Burmannia capitata | Southern Bluethread | |
| Bulbostylis ciliatifolia | Capillary Hairsedge | |
| Buddleja racemosa | Wand Butterflybush Wand Butterfly-bush | |
| Carex albicans | Whitetinge Sedge | |
| Carex albolutescens | Greenwhite 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 | |
| Carex annectens | Yellowfruit Sedge | |
| 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 atlantica | Prickly Bog Sedge | |
| Carex austrina | Southern Sedge | |
| Carex basiantha | Willdenow's Sedge Basal-fruit Caric Sedge Widow Caric 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 | |
| Catalpa bignonioides | Southern Catalpa Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
| Carex blanda | Eastern Woodland Sedge Creek Sedge Common Wood Sedge | |
| Carex brevior | Shortbeak Sedge | |
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