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 |
Viburnum nudum var. nudum | Possumhaw | |
Viola pedata | Birdfoot Violet Bird's-foot Violet Bird-foot Violet | |
Viola pubescens | Downy Yellow Violet Downy Violet Hairy Yellow Violet Yellow Violet Common Yellow Violet | |
Viola pubescens var. pubescens | Downy Yellow Violet Downy Violet Hairy Violet Yellow Violet Common Yellow Violet | |
Vitis rotundifolia | Muscadine Scuppernong Grape | |
Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry | |
Vitis rupestris | Sand Grape | |
Viola sagittata | Arrowleaf Violet Arrow-leaved Violet Upland Violet | |
Viola sagittata var. sagittata | Arrowleaf Violet Triangle-leafed Violet | |
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 | |
Viola triloba | Three-lobe Violet | |
Viola villosa | Carolina Violet Southern Wood Violet | |
Vitis vulpina | Frost Grape Fox Grape | |
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 | |
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 | |
Xyris difformis var. difformis | Bog Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris jupicai | Richard's Yelloweyed Grass | |
Xyris laxifolia var. iridifolia | Irisleaf Yelloweyed 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 pallida | Pale-leaf Yucca | |
Yucca rupicola | Twistleaf Yucca Twisted-leaf Yucca Texas Yucca Spanish Dagger | |
Yucca torreyi | Torrey Yucca Torrey's Yucca Spanish Bayonet Spanish Dagger Old Shag Palma | |
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 | |
Zizia aurea | Golden Zizia Golden Alexanders | |
Zizaniopsis miliacea | Giant Cutgrass | |
Zigadenus nuttallii | Nuttall's Death Camas Death Camas Poison-onion | |
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