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 |
| Symphyotrichum lanceolatum var. lanceolatum | White Panicle Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum lanceolatum ssp. lanceolatum | White Panicle Aster Panicled Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. lateriflorum | Calico Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum oolentangiense | Skyblue Aster Sky Blue American-aster Azure Aster Blue Devils | |
| Symphoricarpos orbiculatus | Coralberry Indian Currant Buckbrush | |
| Symphyotrichum patens | Late Purple Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum patens var. patens | Spreading Aster Late Purple Aster Spread-leaf Aster Sky-drop Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum praealtum | Willowleaf Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum pratense | Barrens Silky Aster Meadow Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum puniceum | Purplestem Aster Purple-stemmed Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum sericeum | Western Silver Aster Western Silver American-aster Silky Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum subulatum | Eastern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Baby's Breath Aster Annual Aster Blackland Aster Hierba Del Marrano | |
| Symplocos tinctoria | Horse Sugar Common Sweetleaf Sweetleaf Yellowwood Wild Laurel | |
| Taxodium distichum | Bald Cypress Baldcypress Common Bald Cypress Southern Bald Cypress Deciduous Cypress Southern Cypress Swamp Cypress Red Cypress White Cypress Yellow Cypress Gulf Cypress Tidewater Red Cypress | |
| Taenidia integerrima | Yellow Pimpernel | |
| Tauschia texana | Texas Umbrellawort | |
| Teucrium canadense | American Germander Canada Germander Canadian Germander Germander Hairy Germander Wood Sage | |
| Tetraclea coulteri | Coulter's Wrinklefruit | |
| Teucrium cubense | Small Coastal Germander Coast Germander | |
| Tetraneuris linearifolia | Fineleaf Fournerved Daisy Slender-leaf Hymenoxys Bitterweed | |
| Tetragonotheca ludoviciana | Louisiana Nerveray | |
| Tephrosia onobrychoides | Multibloom Hoarypea Multibloom Tephrosia | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa var. scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tecoma stans | Yellow Bells Yellowbells Esperanza Yellow Trumpetbush Yellow Trumpetflower Trumpetbush Trumpetflower Yellow Elder Hardy Yellow Trumpet Yellow Trumpet Bush | |
| Tetragonotheca texana | Squarebud Daisy Nerve-ray Square-bud Daisy | |
| Tephrosia virginiana | Goat's Rue Virginia Tephrosia Devil's Shoestring | |
| Thymophylla acerosa | Prickly-leaf Dogweed Texas Dogweed Shrubby Dogweed Prickleleaf Dogweed Prickleaf Dogweed Fetid Marigold Scrubby Dogweed | |
| Thelesperma ambiguum | Colorado Greenthread | |
| Thaspium barbinode | Hairy-jointed Meadowparsnip | |
| Thalictrum dasycarpum | Purple Meadow-rue Tall Meadow-rue Meadow Rue | |
| Thalia dealbata | Powdery Alligator-flag Powdery Thalia Water Canna | |
| Thelesperma filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Showy Navajo Tea Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma flavodiscum | East Texas Greenthread Greenthread | |
| Thelypteris kunthii | Wood Fern River Fern Southern Shield Fern Kunth's Maiden Fern Normal Shield Fern | |
| Thymophylla micropoides | Woolly Pricklyleaf | |
| Thelypteris ovata var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Marsh Fern Lindheimer's Maiden Fern | |
| Thelypteris palustris | Eastern Marsh Fern Marsh Fern | |
| Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens | Eastern Marsh Fern | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Five-needle Fetid Marigold | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta var. pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Dogweed Dyssodia | |
| Thalictrum revolutum | Waxyleaf Meadow-rue | |
| Thelocactus setispinus | Miniature Barrel Cactus Hedgehog Cactus | |
| Thelesperma simplicifolium | Slender Greenthread Navajo Tea Cota | |
| Thalictrum texanum | Houston Meadow-rue | |
| Thamnosma texana | Texas Desert-rue Dutchman's Breeches Rue Of The Mountains Ruda Del Monte | |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba var. tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
| Thurovia triflora | Threeflower Snakeweed | |
| Thaspium trifoliatum var. aureum | Yellow Meadow Parsnip Golden Alexanders | |
| Tilia americana | American Basswood American Linden Lime Tree Bee Tree | |
| Tilia americana var. caroliniana | Carolina Basswood Florida Basswood Small-leaved Basswood Downy Basswood Carolina Linden Florida Linden Small-leaved Linden Downy Linden | |
| Tinantia anomala | False Dayflower Widows Tears | |
| Tiquilia canescens | Woody Crinklemat Shrubby Coldenia Shrubby Tiquilia | |
| Tiquilia canescens var. canescens | Woolly Crinklemat Woody Crinklemat Dog's Ear Oreja De Perro Rat's Ear Coldenia Woody Tiquilia Gray Tiquilia Gray Coldenia Shrubby Coldenia | |
| Tipularia discolor | Crippled Cranefly | |
| Tidestromia lanuginosa | Woolly Tidestromia | |
| Tiquilia mexicana | Mexican Crinklemat | |
| Tillandsia recurvata | Small Ball Moss Ball Moss | |
| Tillandsia usneoides | Spanish Moss | |
| Toxicodendron pubescens | Atlantic Poison Oak | |
| Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy Poison Ivy | |
| Toxicodendron radicans ssp. radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy | |
| Toxicodendron vernix | Poison Sumac | |
| Trepocarpus aethusae | Whitenymph | |
| Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
| Triosteum angustifolium | Yellow-fruit Horse-gentian Narrow-leaved Horse-gentian Narrowleaf Horse-gentian | |
| Trifolium bejariense | Bejar Clover | |
| Tragia betonicifolia | Betonyleaf Noseburn | |
| Triodanis biflora | Small Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Tragia brevispica | Shortspike Noseburn | |
| Trichostema brachiatum | Fluxweed False Pennyroyal | |
| Tradescantia brevifolia | Trans-Pecos Spiderwort | |
| Trifolium carolinianum | Carolina Clover | |
| Tragia cordata | Heartleaf Noseburn | |
| Triodanis coloradoensis | Colorado Venus' Looking-glass Western Venus' Looking Glass | |
| Trichloris crinita | Two-flowered Trichloris False Rhodes Grass | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
| Trachelospermum difforme | Climbing Dogbane | |
| Trichostema dichotomum | Forked Bluecurls Blue Curls | |
| Tradescantia edwardsiana | Plateau Spiderwort Edwards' Spiderwort | |
| Trichoneura elegans | Silveus Grass | |
| Tridens flavus | Purpletop Tridens Redtop Tridens Tall Redtop Tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall Redtop | |
| Tridens flavus var. flavus | Purpletop Tridens | |
| Tradescantia gigantea | Giant Spiderwort | |
| Trillium gracile | Slender Trillium Slender Wake-robin Graceful Trillium Graceful Wake-robin Sabine River Trillium Sabine River Wake-robin | |
| Tradescantia hirsutiflora | Hairyflower Spiderwort | |
| Tradescantia humilis | Texas Spiderwort | |
| Trisetum interruptum | Prairie False Oat | |
| Tridens muticus | Slim Tridens | |
| Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort Bluejacket | |
| Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
| Triosteum perfoliatum | Feverwort Wild Coffee | |
| Trichloris pluriflora | Multi-flowered False-rhodesgrass Multiflower False Rhodes Grass Showy Chloris | |
| Trianthema portulacastrum | Desert Horse-purslane Horse-purslane Black-pigweed Giant-pigweed | |
| Triplasis purpurea | Purple Sandgrass Purple Triplasis | |
| Tragia ramosa | Branched Noseburn | |
| Triantha racemosa | Coastal False Asphodel | |
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