High Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 51 counties in western and northwestern Texas. It extends west into New Mexico and north across western Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, into southwestern South Dakota and southeastern Wyoming. In Texas, this ecoregion is commonly referred to as the Llano Estacado, a mostly flat plateau of short grass prairie. It covers approximately the same area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s High Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the High Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Cryptantha minima | Little Cryptantha | |
Croton monanthogynus | Prairie Tea One-seed Croton Doveweed Dove Weed Prairie Goatweed | |
Cryptantha palmeri | Palmer's Cryptantha | |
Croton pottsii | Leatherweed | |
Croton pottsii var. pottsii | Leatherweed | |
Crepis runcinata | Fiddleleaf Hawksbeard | |
Croton texensis | Texas Croton Doveweed Texas Goatweed | |
Cuscuta cuspidata | Cusp Dodder Dodder Angel Hair | |
Cucurbita foetidissima | Stinking Gourd Buffalo Gourd Missouri Gourd Stink Gourd Wild Gourd | |
Cuscuta gronovii | Scaldweed Dodder | |
Cuscuta indecora | Bigseed Alfalfa Dodder Largeseed Dodder Pretty Dodder | |
Cuscuta pentagona | Fiveangled Dodder | |
Cuscuta umbellata | Flatglobe Dodder Santa Fe Dodder | |
Cyperus acuminatus | Tapertip Flatsedge | |
Cycloloma atriplicifolium | Winged Pigweed | |
Cyperus croceus | Baldwin's Flatsedge | |
Cyperus esculentus | Yellow Nutsedge Chufa Sedge Yellow Nut-grass | |
Cyphomeris gypsophiloides | Red Cyphomeris | |
Cylindropuntia imbricata | Tree Cholla Walking Stick Cholla Cholla | |
Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata | Tree Cholla Teddy-bear Cholla Cholla Cane Cactus Walkingstick Cholla | |
Cylindropuntia kleiniae | Candle Cholla Klein's Pencil Cactus | |
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Tasajillo Christmas Cactus Pencil Cactus Christmas Cholla Desert Christmas Cactus | |
Cyperus lupulinus | Great Plains Flatsedge | |
Cymopterus macrorhizus | Bigroot Springparsley Big-root Cymopterus | |
Cymopterus montanus | Mountain Springparsley Montana Wavewing | |
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