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South Texas Plains
The South Texas Plains lie south of a line from San Antonio to Del Rio. This area is the western extension of the Gulf Coastal Plains merging with the Mexico Plains on the west. The area is a nearly level to rolling, slightly to moderately dissected plain. Upland soils are of three groups: dark, clayey soils over firm clayey subsoils; grayish to reddish brown, loamy to sandy soils; and brown loamy soils. Gray, clayey, saline, and sodic soils are extensive on the coastal fringe, along with Galveston deep sands. Bottomlands are typically brown to gray, calcareous silt loams to clayey alluvial soils.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Senegalia roemeriana | Roemer Acacia Roemer's Acacia Roundflower Catclaw Round-flowered Catclaw Catclaw Acacia Catclaw | |
| Setaria texana | Texas Bristlegrass | |
| Setaria vulpiseta | Plains Bristlegrass | |
| Sideroxylon celastrinum | Saffron Plum Coma Saffron Plum La Coma Coma Milk Buckthorn Tropical Buckthorn Downward Plum Antswood | |
| Sisyrinchium langloisii | Roadside Blue-eyed Grass Dotted Blue-eyed Grass Southern Blue-eyed Grass | |
| Sisyrinchium sagittiferum | Spearbract Blue-eyed Grass Blue-eyed Grass | |
| Solidago altissima | Tall Goldenrod Late Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Canada Goldenrod | |
| Solidago canadensis | Canada Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Tall Goldenrod Giant Goldenrod | |
| Solanum elaeagnifolium | Silverleaf Nightshade Silver-leaf Nightshade White Horse Nettle Trompillo Tomato Weed Bull Nettle | |
| Solidago nemoralis | Gray Goldenrod Prairie Goldenrod Oldfield Goldenrod Grayleaf Goldenrod Gray-leaved Goldenrod Dyersweed Goldenrod Dwarf Goldenrod Field Goldenrod | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
| Sporobolus compositus var. compositus | Composite Dropseed Tall Dropseed | |
| Sporobolus cryptandrus | Sand Dropseed | |
| Spartina spartinae | Gulf Cordgrass | |
| Sporobolus wrightii | Big Sacaton Sacaton Alkali Sacaton | |
| Symphyotrichum subulatum | Eastern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Baby's Breath Aster Annual Aster Blackland Aster Hierba Del Marrano | |
| Taxodium mucronatum | Montezuma Bald Cypress Montezuma Cypress Mexican Cypress Ahuehuete Sabino | |
| Tephrosia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Hoarypea Hoary Pea Lindheimer Tephrosia | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Thalia dealbata | Powdery Alligator-flag Powdery Thalia Water Canna | |
| Thelypteris kunthii | Wood Fern River Fern Southern Shield Fern Kunth's Maiden Fern Normal Shield Fern | |
| Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
| Tradescantia gigantea | Giant Spiderwort | |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort Bluejacket | |
| Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
| Trichloris pluriflora | Multi-flowered False-rhodesgrass Multiflower False Rhodes Grass Showy Chloris | |
| Triplasis purpurea | Purple Sandgrass Purple Triplasis | |
| Ulmus crassifolia | Cedar Elm Fall Elm Basket Elm Scrub Elm Lime Elm Texas Elm Southern Rock Elm Olmo | |
| Utricularia radiata | Little Floating Bladderwort Floating Bladderwort | |
| Vachellia bravoensis | Huisachillo Dwarf Huisache Bravo Acacia Schaffner's Acacia Schaffner's Wattle Twisted Acacia | |
| Vachellia farnesiana | Huisache Texas Huisache Sweet Acacia Perfume Acacia Mealy Acacia Mealy Wattle Cassie | |
| Vachellia rigidula | Blackbrush Acacia Blackbrush Chaparro Prieto Gavia | |
| Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
| Verbesina virginica | Frostweed White Crownbeard Iceplant Iceweed Virginia Crownbeard Indian Tobacco Richweed Squawweed | |
| Vitis acerifolia | Mapleleaf Grape Panhandle Grape Bush Grape | |
| Vitis mustangensis | Mustang Grape | |
| Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry | |
| Viguiera stenoloba | Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Resinbush | |
| Woodwardia virginica | Virginia Chainfern Virginia Chain Fern | |
| Xylosma flexuosa | Brush Holly Brushholly | |
| Yucca treculeana | Spanish Dagger Spanish Bayonet Don Quixote's Lance Palma Pita Palma De Datil Palmito | |
| Zanthoxylum clava-herculis | Hercules Club Pepperbark Toothache Tree Tickle Tongue Prickly Ash | |
| Zanthoxylum fagara | Lime Prickly Ash Colima | |
| Zanthoxylum hirsutum | Texas Hercules' Club Texas Prickly Ash Limetone Prickly Ash Toothache Tree Tickle-tongue Tingle-tongue | |
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