Special Collections
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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Cyperus odoratus | Fragrant Flatsedge Fragrant Sedge | |
Cyperus onerosus | Plains Flatsedge | |
Cypripedium parviflorum | Yellow Lady's-slipper Orchid Lesser Yellow Lady's Slipper | |
Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens | Greater Yellow Lady's Slipper Large Yellow Lady's Slipper | |
Cyperus retroflexus | Oneflower Flatsedge | |
Cyperus schweinitzii | Schweinitz's Flatsedge | |
Cyperus setigerus | Lean Flatsedge | |
Cyperus squarrosus | Bearded Flatsedge | |
Cyperus strigosus | Straw-colored Flatsedge | |
Dalea aurea | Golden Dalea Golden Prairie Clover | |
Dalea candida | White Prairie Clover | |
Dalea candida var. oligophylla | Fewleaf White Prairie Clover White Prairie Clover Western White Prairie Clover | |
Dalea enneandra | Nine-anther Prairie Clover | |
Dalea formosa | Featherplume Feather Dalea Indigobush | |
Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover | |
Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush | |
Dalea jamesii | James's Prairie Clover | |
Dalea lanata | Woolly Prairie Clover | |
Dalea nana | Dwarf Prairie Clover Dwarf Dalea | |
Dalea nana var. carnescens | Dwarf Prairie Clover | |
Dalea pogonathera | Bearded Prairie Clover Bearded Dalea | |
Daucus pusillus | American Wild Carrot Rattlesnake-weed Wild Carrot | |
Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover | |
Dasyochloa pulchella | Desert Fluffgrass Low Woollygrass Low Tridens Fluff Grass Fluffgrass Desert Fluff-grass | |
Datura quercifolia | Chinese Thorn-apple Oak-leaf Thorn Apple Oak Leaved Angel's Trumpet | |
Dalea villosa | Silky Prairie Clover | |
Dalea villosa var. villosa | Silky Prairie Clover | |
Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
Delphinium carolinianum | Prairie Larkspur Carolina Larkspur Blue Larkspur | |
Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
Delphinium carolinianum ssp. vimineum | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur | |
Delphinium carolinianum ssp. virescens | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur Plains Larkspur | |
Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa | |
Desmodium illinoense | Illinois Ticktrefoil Illinois Tick-trefoil | |
Desmanthus obtusus | Bluntpod Bundleflower | |
Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine | |
Descurainia pinnata | Western Tansymustard Tansy-mustard | |
Desmodium sessilifolium | Sessileleaf Ticktrefoil | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum | Tapered Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. fasciculatum | Western Panicgrass Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer Panicgrass Lindheimer's Rosettegrass | |
Digitaria californica | Arizona Cottontop California Cottontop California Crab Grass Cottontop | |
Digitaria ciliaris | Southern Crabgrass | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Digitaria pubiflora | Carolina Crabgrass | |
Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon | Roundseed Panicgrass | |
Diospyros virginiana | Eastern Persimmon Common Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Draba cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba Whitlow-grass | |
Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal Woodfern Marginal Fern Marginal Shieldfern | |
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