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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Eryngium diffusum | Spreading Eryngo | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Eragrostis trichodes | Sand Lovegrass Sand Love Grass | |
| Escobaria missouriensis | Missouri Foxtail Cactus Plains Nipple Cactus | |
| Escobaria vivipara | Spinystar Common Beehive Cactus Pincushion Cactus | |
| Escobaria vivipara var. vivipara | Spinystar | |
| Euphorbia dentata | Toothed Spurge Toothed-leaf Poinsettia | |
| Eustoma exaltatum | Catchfly Prairie Gentian Bluebell Gentian Western Blue Gentian Blue Marsh Lily Small Bluebell Catchfly Gentian Seaside Gentian | |
| Eustoma exaltatum ssp. russellianum | Texas Bluebells Texas Bluebell Bluebell Showy Prairie Gentian Prairie Gentian | |
| Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top Goldentop Grass-leaved Goldenrod | |
| Euthamia graminifolia var. graminifolia | Flat-top Goldentop | |
| Euphorbia hexagona | Sixangle Spurge | |
| Euphorbia marginata | Snow On The Mountain Snow-on-the-mountain | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common Boneset | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum var. perfoliatum | Common Boneset | |
| Euphorbia spathulata | Warty Spurge | |
| Eurytaenia texana | Texas Spreadwing | |
| Evolvulus nuttallianus | Shaggy Dwarf Morning-glory Silky Evolvulus Shaggy Evolvulus | |
| Evax prolifera | Bighead Pygmycudweed Rabbit Tobacco | |
| Evax verna | Spring Pygmycudweed | |
| Evax verna var. verna | Spring Pygmycudweed | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil | |
| Ferocactus hamatacanthus | Turk's Head Turk's Head Cactus Texas Barrel Cactus Giant Fishhook Cactus | |
| Ferocactus hamatacanthus var. hamatacanthus | Turk's Head | |
| Fimbristylis puberula | Hairy Fimbry | |
| Fimbristylis vahlii | Vahl's Fimbry | |
| Flourensia cernua | American Tarwort | |
| Flaveria trinervia | Clustered Yellowtops | |
| Florestina tripteris | Sticky Florestina | |
| Forestiera angustifolia | Narrow-leaf Forestiera Tanglewood Desert Olive Texas Swamp-privet Panalero Elbow Bush | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
| Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens | Stretchberry Elbowbush Stretch-berry Downy Forestiera Desert Olive Elbow-bush | |
| Fraxinus berlandieriana | Mexican Ash Berlandier Ash Berlandier's Ash Plumero | |
| Froelichia floridana | Plains Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Froelichia gracilis | Slender Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Funastrum crispum | Wavyleaf Twinevine Wavy-leaf Milkweed Vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine Climbing Milkweed Vine Twine-vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides ssp. cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine | |
| Fuirena simplex | Western Umbrella-sedge Umbrellagrass Western Umbrella Sedge | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Winkler Gaillardia | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis var. aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Prairie Gaillardia | |
| Galium aparine | Stickywilly Catchweed Bedstraw Cleavers Common Bedstraw Sticky Weed Goose Grass | |
| Gamochaeta falcata | Narrowleaf Purple Everlasting | |
| Gaillardia multiceps | Onion Blanketflower Gyp Indian Blanket | |
| Gaillardia multiceps var. microcephala | Onion Blanketflower | |
| Garrya ovata | Eggleaf Silktassel Mexican Silktassel Eggleaf Garrya Zumaque Cuauchichic Cuauchichi Guachichi | |
| Gaillardia pinnatifida | Red Dome Blanketflower Yellow Gaillardia Blanket Flower | |
| Galium proliferum | Limestone Bedstraw | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Gaillardia pulchella var. pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel | |
| Gaillardia suavis | Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs | |
| Galium texense | Texas Bedstraw | |
| Galium virgatum | Southwestern Bedstraw Southwest Bedstraw | |
| Geum canadense | White Avens | |
| Giliastrum acerosum | Bluebowls Prickleleaf Gilia | |
| Giliastrum ludens | Rio Grande Gilia | |
| Giliastrum rigidulum | Bluebowls Blue Gilia | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Moradilla Alfombrilla | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Mock Vervain Dakota Vervain | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. ciliata | Davis Mountains Mock Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Wright's Verbena | |
| Glycyrrhiza lepidota | American Licorice Wild Licorice | |
| Glandularia pumila | Dwarf Vervain Low Verbena Pink Mock Vervain Pink Verbena Wild Vervain | |
| Glandularia quandrangulata | Beaked Mock Vervain Pale Mock Vervain Chihuahuan Mock Vervain | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
| Gossypianthus lanuginosus | Woolly Cottonflower | |
| Grindelia lanceolata | Narrowleaf Gumweed Fall Gumweed | |
| Grindelia nuda var. nuda | Curlytop Gumweed | |
| Grindelia papposa | Spanish Gold Clasping-leaved Haplopappus Saw-leaf Daisy | |
| Grindelia squarrosa | Curlycup Gumweed | |
| Guaiacum angustifolium | Texas Lignum-vitae Soapbush Guayacan | |
| Guilleminea densa | Small Matweed | |
| Gutierrezia microcephala | Threadleaf Snakeweed Threadleaf Broomweed Smallhead Snakeweed Littlehead Snakeweed | |
| Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom Snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas Snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine Weed Matchweed | |
| Gutierrezia sphaerocephala | Roundleaf Snakeweed | |
| Gutierrezia texana | Texas Snakeweed | |
| Gymnosperma glutinosum | Gumhead Tatalencho | |
| Haploesthes greggii | False Broomweed | |
| Haploesthes greggii var. texana | Texas False Broomweed | |
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