Western Gulf Coastal Plain
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. As its name suggests, it is comprised of the coastal plain of Texas, extending along the Gulf Coast south into Mexico and east over portions of the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Gulf Marshes and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Western Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Warnockia scutellarioides | Prairie Brazosmint Prairie Brazoria | |
Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida | Zexmenia Orange Zexmenia Hairy Wedelia Wedelia Texas Creeping-oxeye | |
Wisteria frutescens | American Wisteria Texas Wisteria Kentucky Wisteria | |
Wissadula periplocifolia | White Velvetleaf | |
Willkommia texana | Texas Willkommia | |
Woodwardia areolata | Netted Chainfern Chain Fern Netted Chain Fern | |
Wolffia columbiana | Columbian Watermeal | |
Woodwardia virginica | Virginia Chainfern Virginia Chain Fern | |
Xanthium strumarium | Rough Cocklebur | |
Xanthisma texanum | Texas Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Star of Texas Texas Sleepy-daisy Texas Sleepydaisy | |
Xanthisma texanum var. drummondii | Drummond's Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Drummond's Sleepy-daisy Drummond's Sleepydaisy | |
Xyris ambigua | Coastal Plain Yelloweyed Grass Coastalplain Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris baldwiniana | Baldwin's Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris difformis | Bog Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xylosma flexuosa | Brush Holly Brushholly | |
Xyris jupicai | Richard's Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris laxifolia var. iridifolia | Irisleaf Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris louisianica | Louisiana Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris torta | Twisted Yellow-eyed Grass Slender Yellow-eyed Grass | |
Yeatesia platystegia | Montell Bractspike Wild Shrimp Plant | |
Yeatesia viridiflora | Yellow Bractspike | |
Yucca arkansana | Arkansas Yucca Softleaf Yucca | |
Yucca constricta | Buckley Yucca Buckley's Yucca | |
Yucca louisianensis | Gulf Coast Yucca | |
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 | |
Zannichellia palustris | Horned Pondweed Horned Poolmat Horned-pondweed | |
Zephyranthes pulchella | Showy Zephyrlily | |
Zinnia acerosa | Desert Zinnia Dwarf Zinnia Dwarf White Zinnia Shrubby Zinnia Southern Zinnia | |
Zizia aurea | Golden Zizia Golden Alexanders | |
Zizaniopsis miliacea | Giant Cutgrass | |
Zigadenus nuttallii | Nuttall's Death Camas Death Camas Poison-onion | |
Ziziphus obtusifolia | Lotebush Lote-bush Condalia Graythorn | |
Ziziphus obtusifolia var. obtusifolia | Lotebush | |
Zornia bracteata | Viperina | |
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