Southern Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 21 Texas counties. This ecoregion borders most of the southwestern portion of the Rio Grande River and extends into northern Mexico. In Texas, it encompasses much of the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s South Texas Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Southern Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Cheilanthes lindheimeri | Fairy-swords | |
Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
Chamaesyce maculata | Spotted Spurge Spotted Euphorbia Spotted Sandmat Milk Purslane Prostrate Spurge | |
Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
Chamaesyce missurica | Prairie Sandmat Missouri Spurge | |
Chamaecrista nictitans | Sensitive Partridge Pea Partridge-pea Sensitive Pea | |
Chamaecrista nictitans ssp. nictitans | Sensitive Partridge Pea Partridge Pea | |
Chamaesyce nutans | Nodding Spurge Eyebane | |
Chromolaena odorata | Blue Mistflower Fragrant Mistflower Blue Boneset Fragrant Boneset Jack In The Bush Crucita Siam Weed Common Flossflower Christmas Bush Devilweed | |
Chamaesaracha pallida | Pale Five Eyes False Nightshade Averett Pale Five Eyes | |
Chrysopsis pilosa | Soft Goldenaster Soft Golden-aster | |
Chenopodium pratericola | Desert Goosefoot | |
Chamaesyce prostrata | Prostrate Spurge Prostrate Sandmat Ground Spurge | |
Chamaesyce serpens | Matted Sandmat Prostrate Spurge Creeping Spurge | |
Chamaesyce serrula | Sawtooth Sandmat | |
Chamaesaracha sordida | Hairy Five Eyes False Nightshade | |
Chloracantha spinosa | Spiny Chloracantha Mexican Devil-weed | |
Chaerophyllum tainturieri | Hairyfruit Chervil Southern Chervil | |
Chaptalia texana | Texas Silverpuff Silverpuff Nodding Lettuce Silver Puff | |
Cheilanthes tomentosa | Woolly Lipfern | |
Chloris verticillata | Tumble Windmill Grass Windmillgrass | |
Chamaesyce villifera | Hairy Sandmat | |
Chloris virgata | Feather Fingergrass Showy Chloris | |
Chamaesaracha villosa | Transpecos Five Eyes Woolly False Nightshade | |
Cirsium altissimum | Tall Thistle | |
Citharexylum berlandieri | Berlandier's Fiddlewood Berlandier Fiddlewood Fiddlewood | |
Cienfuegosia drummondii | Yellow Flymallow | |
Cicuta maculata | Spotted Water Hemlock Water-hemlock Beaver Poison | |
Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle | |
Cissus trifoliata | Cow-itch Vine Cow Itch Vine Sorrelvine Grape Ivy Possum Grape Arizona Grape Ivy | |
Cirsium turneri | Cliff Thistle | |
Cirsium undulatum | Wavyleaf Thistle Plumed Thistle | |
Clinopodium brownei | Browne's Savory St. John's Mint Creeping Charlie Lornatee | |
Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
Clematis pitcheri | Purple Leatherflower Purple Clematis Leatherflower Bluebill Bellflower Clematis Pitcher's Clematis | |
Claytonia virginica | Virginia Springbeauty Springbeauty | |
Cnidoscolus texanus | Texas Bullnettle Bull Nettle Tread-softly Spurge Nettle | |
Corispermum americanum | American Bugseed | |
Coursetia axillaris | Texas Babybonnets | |
Coreopsis basalis | Goldenmane Tickseed Golden-wave | |
Conoclinium betonicifolium | Betonyleaf Thoroughwort Betony-leaf Mistflower | |
Cordia boissieri | Mexican Olive Texas Wild Olive Anacahuita Anacahuite | |
Cocculus carolinus | Carolina Snailseed Carolina Coralbead Carolina Moonseed Red Berried Moonseed Carolina Red Berried Moonseed | |
Conyza canadensis | Horseweed Canadian Horseweed | |
Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort Scrambled Eggs Golden Smoke Curvepod | |
Corydalis curvisiliqua ssp. curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort | |
Coelorachis cylindrica | Cylinder Jointtail Grass Carolina Joint-tail | |
Cocculus diversifolius | Correhuela Snailseed | |
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