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 |
Viola sororia | Missouri Violet Common Blue Violet Hooded Blue Violet Florida Violet Meadow Violet Confederate Violet Dooryard Violet Purple Violet Woolly Blue Violet Wood Violet Hooded Violet | |
Viguiera stenoloba | Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Resinbush | |
Viola triloba | Three-lobe Violet | |
Vitis vulpina | Frost Grape Fox Grape | |
Viola walteri | Walter's Violet Prostrate Blue Violet | |
Vulpia elliotea | Squirreltail Fescue | |
Vulpia octoflora | Sixweeks Fescue Common Sixweeks Grass | |
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 | |
Willkommia texana | Texas Willkommia | |
Woodwardia areolata | Netted Chainfern Chain Fern Netted Chain Fern | |
Wolffia columbiana | Columbian Watermeal | |
Woodsia obtusa | Bluntlobe Cliff Fern Blunt Cliff Fern | |
Woodwardia virginica | Virginia Chainfern Virginia Chain Fern | |
Xanthorhiza simplicissima | Yellowroot Shrub Yellowroot | |
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 caroliniana | Carolina Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris difformis | Bog Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris fimbriata | Fringed Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris jupicai | Richard's Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris laxifolia var. iridifolia | Irisleaf Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris louisianica | Louisiana Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris platylepis | Tall Yelloweyed Grass Broad-scale Yellow-eyed Grass | |
Xyris torta | Twisted Yellow-eyed Grass Slender Yellow-eyed Grass | |
Yeatesia viridiflora | Yellow Bractspike | |
Yucca arkansana | Arkansas Yucca Softleaf Yucca | |
Yucca constricta | Buckley Yucca Buckley's Yucca | |
Yucca filamentosa | Adam's Needle | |
Yucca louisianensis | Gulf Coast Yucca | |
Yucca reverchonii | San Angelo Yucca | |
Yucca thompsoniana | Thompson's Yucca Thompson Yucca Beaked Yucca Big Bend Yucca Soyate Palmita Trans-Pecos Yucca | |
Yucca torreyi | Torrey Yucca Torrey's Yucca Spanish Bayonet Spanish Dagger Old Shag Palma | |
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis | Hercules Club Pepperbark Toothache Tree Tickle Tongue Prickly Ash | |
Zannichellia palustris | Horned Pondweed Horned Poolmat Horned-pondweed | |
Zephyranthes pulchella | Showy Zephyrlily | |
Zinnia anomala | Shortray 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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