Special Collections
East Central Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 56 Texas counties. This ecoregion separates the two bands of the Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion and extends just across the Oklahoma border. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Post Oak Savannah vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Spiranthes parksii | Navasota Lady's Tresses Navasota Ladies'-tresses | |
| Spartina pectinata | Prairie Cordgrass Freshwater Cordgrass Sloughgrass | |
| Spirodela polyrrhiza | Common Duckmeat Giant Duckweed | |
| Spiranthes praecox | Greenvein Ladies'-tresses Greenvein Lady's Tresses | |
| Sporobolus pyramidatus | Whorled Dropseed Target Dropseed Madagascar Dropseed | |
| Spergularia salina | Salt Sandspurry | |
| Sporobolus silveanus | Silveus' Dropseed | |
| Spartina spartinae | Gulf Cordgrass | |
| Spigelia texana | Texas Pinkroot | |
| Spiranthes tuberosa | Little Ladies'-tresses Little Lady's Tresses | |
| Sporobolus vaginiflorus | Poverty Dropseed | |
| Spiranthes vernalis | Spring Ladies'-tresses Spring Lady's Tresses | |
| Sporobolus virginicus | Seashore Dropseed Beach Dropseed Seashore Rushgrass Coastal Dropseed | |
| Styphnolobium affine | Eve's Necklace Eve's Necklacepod Texas Sophora Pink Sophora Necklace Tree | |
| Stylosanthes biflora | Sidebeak Pencilflower | |
| Streptanthus bracteatus | Bracted Twistflower Bracted Jewelflower | |
| Stachys crenata | Mousesear Shade Betony Mouse's Ear | |
| Stenanthium gramineum | Eastern Featherbells Featherbells | |
| Strophostyles helvola | Trailing Fuzzybean Amberique-bean Trailing Wild Bean Trailing Fuzzy Bean | |
| Steinchisma hians | Gaping Grass | |
| Stylisma humistrata | Southern Dawnflower White Stylisma | |
| Streptanthus hyacinthoides | Smooth Jewelflower | |
| Stemodia lanata | Woolly Stemodia Gray-woolly Twintip | |
| Strophostyles leiosperma | Slickseed Fuzzybean | |
| Stenosiphon linifolius | False Gaura | |
| Stenaria nigricans | Bluets Diamond-flowers | |
| Stenaria nigricans var. nigricans | Diamondflowers Narrowleaf Bluets Baby's Breath Bluets Fine-leaf Bluets | |
| Stuckenia pectinata | Sago Pondweed | |
| Stylisma pickeringii | Pickering's Dawnflower | |
| Stylisma pickeringii var. pattersonii | Patterson's Dawnflower | |
| Styrax platanifolius | Sycamore-leaf Snowbell | |
| Styrax platanifolius ssp. platanifolius | Sycamoreleaf Snowbell | |
| Styrax platanifolius ssp. stellatus | Sycamoreleaf Snowbell Hairy Sycamore-leaf Snow-bell | |
| Stellaria prostrata | Prostrate Starwort Prostrate Chickweed | |
| Stillingia sylvatica | Queen's-delight | |
| Stachys tenuifolia | Smooth Hedgenettle Slender Betony | |
| Stillingia texana | Texas Queen's Delight Queen's Delight Texas Toothleaf | |
| Stillingia treculiana | Trecul's Toothleaf | |
| Strophostyles umbellata | Pink Fuzzybean | |
| Stylisma villosa | Hairy Dawnflower | |
| Symphyotrichum divaricatum | Southern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Lawn American-aster White Wood Aster Saltmarsh Aster Slender Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum drummondii | Drummond's Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum drummondii var. texanum | Drummond's Aster Texas Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum dumosum | Rice Button Aster White Bushy Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum dumosum var. dumosum | Rice Button Aster Bushy Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum ericoides var. ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster White Aster White Prairie Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum falcatum | White Prairie Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum lateriflorum | Calico Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum lanceolatum | Whitepanicle Aster Panicled Aster Lanceleaf Aster White Panicle Aster | |
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