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
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Crataegus tracyi | Tracy's Hawthorn Tracy Hawthorn Mountain Hawthorn | |
Crataegus turnerorum | Turner's Hawthorn | |
Cuscuta cuspidata | Cusp Dodder Dodder Angel Hair | |
Cuscuta exaltata | Tree Dodder Tall Dodder | |
Cucurbita foetidissima | Stinking Gourd Buffalo Gourd Missouri Gourd Stink Gourd Wild Gourd | |
Cuscuta indecora | Bigseed Alfalfa Dodder Largeseed Dodder Pretty Dodder | |
Cuscuta leptantha | Slender Dodder | |
Cuscuta pentagona | Fiveangled Dodder | |
Cuscuta runyonii | Runyon's Dodder | |
Cuscuta umbellata | Flatglobe Dodder Santa Fe Dodder | |
Cyperus acuminatus | Tapertip Flatsedge | |
Cyperus articulatus | Jointed Flatsedge Chintul | |
Cynanchum barbigerum | Bearded Swallow-wort Thicket Threadvine | |
Cyperus croceus | Baldwin's Flatsedge | |
Cyperus elegans | Royal Flatsedge | |
Cyperus erythrorhizos | Redroot Flatsedge | |
Cyperus esculentus | Yellow Nutsedge Chufa Sedge Yellow Nut-grass | |
Cyphomeris gypsophiloides | Red Cyphomeris | |
Cyperus hystricinus | Bristly Flatsedge | |
Cynanchum laeve | Honeyvine | |
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Tasajillo Christmas Cactus Pencil Cactus Christmas Cholla Desert Christmas Cactus | |
Cynanchum maccartii | Maccart's Swallow-wort | |
Cyclanthera naudiniana | Hill Country Cyclanthera Naudin's Cyclanthera Central Texas Cyclanthera | |
Cyperus ochraceus | Pond Flatsedge Yellow Sedge | |
Cyperus odoratus | Fragrant Flatsedge Fragrant Sedge | |
Cyperus oxylepis | Sharp-scale Flat Sedge | |
Cyperus polystachyos | Manyspike Flatsedge Bunchy Sedge | |
Cyperus pseudovegetus | Marsh Flatsedge Marsh Flat Sedge | |
Cynanchum racemosum | Talayote | |
Cynanchum racemosum var. unifarium | Talayote | |
Cyperus retroflexus | Oneflower Flatsedge | |
Cyperus retrorsus | Pine Barren Flatsedge | |
Cyperus setigerus | Lean Flatsedge | |
Cyperus squarrosus | Bearded Flatsedge | |
Cyperus strigosus | Straw-colored Flatsedge | |
Cyperus surinamensis | Tropical Flatsedge | |
Cystopteris utahensis | Utah Bladderfern | |
Cyperus virens | Green Flatsedge | |
Dalea aurea | Golden Dalea Golden Prairie Clover | |
Dalea bicolor var. argyrea | Silver Prairie Clover Silver Dalea Silver Bush Dalea | |
Dalea emarginata | Wedgeleaf 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 lasiathera | Purple Dalea | |
Daucosma laciniata | Meadow Parasol Daucosma | |
Dalea multiflora | Roundhead Prairie Clover White Prairie Clover Round Headed Dalea Round Headed Clover | |
Dalea nana | Dwarf Prairie Clover Dwarf Dalea | |
Dalea nana var. carnescens | Dwarf Prairie Clover | |
Dalea obovata | Pussyfoot | |
Dalea phleoides | Slimspike Prairie Clover | |
Dalea phleoides var. microphylla | Slimspike Prairie Clover | |
Dalea pogonathera | Bearded Prairie Clover Bearded Dalea | |
Daucus pusillus | American Wild Carrot Rattlesnake-weed Wild Carrot | |
Dasyochloa pulchella | Desert Fluffgrass Low Woollygrass Low Tridens Fluff Grass Fluffgrass Desert Fluff-grass | |
Dasylirion texanum | Texas Sotol Sotol | |
Dalea wrightii | Wright's 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 | |
Delphinium carolinianum ssp. vimineum | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur | |
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 | |
Desmanthus obtusus | Bluntpod Bundleflower | |
Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine | |
Descurainia pinnata | Western Tansymustard Tansy-mustard | |
Desmanthus reticulatus | Netleaf Bundleflower | |
Desmodium sessilifolium | Sessileleaf Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium tweedyi | Tweedy's Ticktrefoil | |
Desmanthus velutinus | Velvet Bundleflower | |
Desmanthus virgatus | Prostrate Bundleflower Wild Tantan Slender Mimosa | |
Dichanthelium aciculare | Needleleaf Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum | Tapered Rosette Grass | |
Digitaria bicornis | Asian Crabgrass Finger Grass Southern Crabgrass | |
Dicliptera brachiata | Branched Foldwing Branched Dicliptera | |
Dichondra carolinensis | Carolina Ponyfoot Ponyfoot | |
Digitaria californica | Arizona Cottontop California Cottontop California Crab Grass Cottontop | |
Digitaria ciliaris | Southern Crabgrass | |
Dichanthelium dichotomum | Cypress Panicgrass | |
Digitaria insularis | Sourgrass | |
Dichanthelium nodatum | Sarita Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Digitaria patens | Texas Cottontop | |
Dichanthelium pedicellatum | Cedar Rosette Grass Corm-based Panicgrass | |
Digitaria pubiflora | Carolina Crabgrass | |
Dicliptera sexangularis | Sixangle Foldwing | |
Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon | Roundseed Panicgrass | |
Diodia teres | Poorjoe | |
Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
Drosera brevifolia | Dwarf Sundew Spatulate-leaved Sundew | |
Draba cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba Whitlow-grass | |
Draba platycarpa | Broadpod Draba Broad-pod Draba Broadpod Whitlowgrass Broadpod Whitlow-grass | |
Dyschoriste crenulata | Wavyleaf Snakeherb | |
Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
Dyssodia papposa | Dogweed Fetid Marigold | |
Ebenopsis ebano | Texas Ebony Black-bead Ebony Ebony Ape's-earring Ebano | |
Echinodorus berteroi | Upright Burrhead | |
Echinocereus coccineus | Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus Claret Cup | |
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