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High Plains

The High Plains area is part of the Southern Great Plains. It is separated from the Rolling Plains by the Llano Estacado Escarpment and dissected by the Canadian River Breaks in the northern part. Notable canyons include Tule and Palo Duro along the Caprock. This relatively level plateau contains many shallow siltation depressions, or playa lakes, which sometimes cover as much as 40 acres and contain several feet of water after heavy rains. These depressions support unique patterns of vegetation within their confines.

The upland soils are dark brown to reddish brown, mostly deep, neutral to calcareous clay and clay loams in the north to sandy loams and sands in the south. Caliche is present under many soils at various depths, especially on the Potter series. The original vegetation of the High Plains was variously classified as mixed prairie, shortgrass prairie, and in some locations on deep, sandy soils as tallgrass prairie. Blue grama, buffalograss, and galleta (Hilaria jamesii) are the principal vegetation on the clay and clay loam sites.

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Calamovilfa giganteaGiant Sandreed
Prairie Sandreed
Calylophus hartwegiiHartweg's Sundrops
Western Primrose
Callirhoe involucrataWinecup
Purple Poppy Mallow
Centaurea americanaAmerican Basket-flower
American Star-thistle
Basket-flower
Star Thistle
Shaving Brush
Basket Flower
Centaurium beyrichiiMountain Pink
Meadow Pink
Catchfly
Quinineweed
Celtis laevigataSugar Hackberry
Texas Sugarberry
Sugarberry
Southern Hackberry
Lowland Hackberry
Hackberry
Palo Blanco
Celtis laevigata var. reticulataNetleaf Hackberry
Netleaf Sugar Hackberry
Western Hackberry
Sugar Hackberry
Texas Sugarberry
Palo Blanco
Acibuche
Cercocarpus montanusAlderleaf Mountain Mahogany
Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany
Mountain Mahogany
Cercocarpus montanus var. argenteusSilver Mountain Mahogany
Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany
True Mountain Mahogany
Mountain Mahogany
Cephalanthus occidentalisCommon Buttonbush
Buttonbush
Button Willow
Honey Bells
Honeybells
Honey Balls
Honeyballs
Button-bush
Chloris virgataFeather Fingergrass
Showy Chloris
Cirsium texanumTexas Thistle
Corydalis aureaScrambled Eggs
Golden Corydalis
Corydalis curvisiliquaCurvepod Fumewort
Scrambled Eggs
Golden Smoke
Curvepod
Cooperia drummondiiEvening Rain Lily
Evening Star Rain Lily
Coreopsis lanceolataLanceleaf Coreopsis
Lance-leaved Coreopsis
Lanceleaf Tickseed
Sand Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoriaPlains Coreopsis
Golden Tickseed
Goldenwave
Calliopsis
Dasyochloa pulchellaDesert Fluffgrass
Low Woollygrass
Low Tridens
Fluff Grass
Fluffgrass
Desert Fluff-grass
Datura wrightiiJimsonweed
Sacred Thorn-apple
Thorn-apple
Angel Trumpet
Sacred Datura
Western Jimson Weed
Digitaria californicaArizona Cottontop
California Cottontop
California Crab Grass
Cottontop
Diospyros texanaTexas Persimmon
Mexican Persimmon
Black Persimmon
Chapote
Chapote Prieto
Elymus canadensisCanada Wild Rye
Canadian Wildrye
Prairie Wildrye
Nodding Wildrye
Elymus elymoides ssp. brevifoliusSquirreltail
Long-leaf Squirrel-tail
Ephedra antisyphiliticaMormon Tea
Joint-fir
Clapweed
Popote
Eriogonum annuumAnnual Buckwheat
Annual Wild Buckwheat
Umbrella Plant
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