Southwestern Tablelands
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 49 Texas counties. Situated adjacent to the Central Great Plains ecoregion to the east and the High Plains to the west (which it bisects along the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle), the Southwestern Tablelands ecoregion encompasses much of east-central New Mexico and southeastern Colorado. It also reaches into south-central Oklahoma. In Texas, along with the Central Great Plains, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Rolling Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the the Texas portion of the Southwestern Tablelands ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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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 tenuis | Pinkglobe Prairie Clover | |
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. virescens | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur Plains Larkspur | |
Desmanthus glandulosus | Glandular Bundleflower | |
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 | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower | |
Draba cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba Whitlow-grass | |
Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal Woodfern Marginal Fern Marginal Shieldfern | |
Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
Dyssodia papposa | Dogweed Fetid Marigold | |
Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
Echinodorus berteroi | Upright Burrhead | |
Echinochloa crus-pavonis var. macera | Gulf Cockspur Grass | |
Echinochloa muricata | American Barnyard Grass Rough Barnyard Grass Barnyard Grass American Cockspur Grass Wild Millet | |
Eclipta prostrata | Pie Plant False Daisy Eclipta | |
Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus Lace Hedgehog Purple Candle | |
Echinocereus reichenbachii ssp. reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus | |
Echinocactus texensis | Horse Crippler Horse Crippler Cactus Devil's Head Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog | |
Echinodorus tenellus | Mudbabies | |
Echinocereus viridiflorus | Nylon Hedgehog Cactus Green Pitaya | |
Eleocharis acicularis | Needle Spikerush | |
Eleocharis atropurpurea | Purple Spikerush | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Elymus elymoides | Squirreltail Bottlebrush Squirreltail Squirrel-tail | |
Elymus elymoides ssp. brevifolius | Squirreltail Long-leaf Squirrel-tail | |
Eleocharis erythropoda | Bald Spikerush | |
Eleocharis macrostachya | Pale Spikerush | |
Eleocharis montevidensis | Sand Spikerush Spike Rush | |
Eleocharis obtusa | Blunt Spikerush | |
Eleocharis palustris | Common Spikerush Common Spike-rush Creeping Spikesedge | |
Eleocharis parvula | Dwarf Spikerush | |
Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked Spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
Elymus trachycaulus | Slender Wheatgrass | |
Elymus trachycaulus ssp. trachycaulus | Slender Wheatgrass | |
Elymus virginicus | Virginia Wild Rye Virginia Wildrye | |
Elymus virginicus var. virginicus | Virginia Wildrye Virginia Wild Rye | |
Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon Tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
Epilobium coloratum | Purpleleaf Willowherb | |
Ephedra coryi | Cory's Jointfir Cory's Ephedra | |
Epipactis gigantea | Stream Orchid Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore | |
Ephedra torreyana | Torrey's Jointfir Torrey Joint-fir | |
Equisetum arvense | Field Horsetail | |
Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouring-rush Horsetail | |
Equisetum laevigatum | Smooth Horsetail Horsetail | |
Eriogonum abertianum | Abert's Buckwheat Abert's Wild Buckwheat | |
Eriogonum annuum | Annual Buckwheat Annual Wild Buckwheat Umbrella Plant | |
Erysimum asperum | Western Wallflower | |
Erigeron bellidiastrum | Western Daisy Fleabane | |
Erigeron colomexicanus | Running Fleabane Sprawling Daisy | |
Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy Lovegrass Gummy Love Grass | |
Eryngium diffusum | Spreading Eryngo | |
Eragrostis elliottii | Field Lovegrass Field Love Grass | |
Erigeron flagellaris | Trailing Fleabane | |
Eragrostis intermedia | Plains Lovegrass Plains Love Grass | |
Eriogonum jamesii | James' Buckwheat James' Wild Buckwheat | |
Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Eryngo Eryngo False Purple Thistle | |
Eriogonum longifolium | Longleaf Buckwheat Longleaf Wild Buckwheat | |
Eriogonum longifolium var. longifolium | Longleaf Buckwheat | |
Erigeron modestus | Plains Fleabane Prairie Fleabane | |
Eriogonum multiflorum | Wild Buckwheat Heart-sepal Buckwheat Heart-sepal Wild Buckwheat | |
Ericameria nauseosa | Rubber Rabbitbrush Gray Rabbitbrush | |
Ericameria nauseosa var. glabrata | Rubber Rabbitbrush | |
Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa | Rubber Rabbitbrush Rabbitbrush Chamisa | |
Ericameria nauseosa var. nauseosa | Rubber Rabbitbrush Rabbitbrush | |
Eriogonum nealleyi | Irion County Buckwheat Irion County Wild Buckwheat | |
Eragrostis pectinacea | Tufted Lovegrass Tufted Love Grass | |
Eragrostis pectinacea var. pectinacea | Tufted Lovegrass Tufted Love Grass | |
Erioneuron pilosum | Hairy Woollygrass Hairy Tridens | |
Eragrostis secundiflora | Red Lovegrass Red Love Grass | |
Eragrostis sessilispica | Tumble Lovegrass Tumble Love Grass | |
Eriochloa sericea | Texas Cupgrass | |
Eragrostis secundiflora ssp. oxylepis | Red Lovegrass Red Love Grass | |
Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple Lovegrass Purple Love Grass Purple Plains Lovegrass Tumblegrass Petticoat Climber | |
Erigeron strigosus | Prairie Fleabane Daisy Fleabane Common Eastern Fleabane | |
Erodium texanum | Texas Stork's Bill Stork's Bill Pine Needle Fillaree | |
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