Special Collections
East Central Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 56 Texas counties. This ecoregion separates the two bands of the Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion and extends just across the Oklahoma border. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Post Oak Savannah vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Castanea pumila | Allegheny Chinquapin Allegheny Chinkapin Chinquapin Chinkapin | |
| Castilleja purpurea var. citrina | Lemon Paintbrush Yellow Paintbrush Yellow Prairie Paintbrush Citron Paintbrush Prairie Paintbrush Prairie Indian Paintbrush | |
| Castilleja purpurea var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Paintbrush Lindheimer's Prairie Paintbrush Lindheimer's Indian Paintbrush Prairie Paintbrush | |
| Castanea pumila var. pumila | Chinquapin Chinkapin Allegheny Chinquapin American Chinquapin Dwarf Chestnut | |
| Castilleja purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Paintbrush Purple Prairie Painbrush Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Carex reniformis | Kidneyshape Sedge | |
| Campanula reverchonii | Basin Bellflower Texas Bluebell | |
| Carex retroflexa | Reflexed Sedge | |
| Camassia scilloides | Atlantic Camas Wild Hyacinth | |
| Calylophus serrulatus | Yellow Sundrops Yellow Evening Primrose Plains Evening Primrose | |
| Calystegia sepium | Hedge False Bindweed Hedge Bindweed | |
| Calystegia silvatica | Shortstalk False Bindweed | |
| Calystegia silvatica ssp. fraterniflora | Shortstalk False Bindweed | |
| Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
| Carex striatula | Lined Sedge | |
| Carex stricta | Upright Sedge Uptight Sedge Tussock Sedge | |
| Carlowrightia texana | Texas Wrightwort | |
| Callitriche terrestris | Terrestrial Water-starwort | |
| Carex tetrastachya | Britton's Sedge | |
| Carex texensis | Texas Sedge | |
| Carya texana | Black Hickory Buckley Hickory Pignut Hickory | |
| Carlowrightia torreyana | Torrey's Wrightwort | |
| Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory Mockernut Hickory Big Bud Hickory Mockernut White Hickory Whiteheart Hickory Fragrant Hickory Bigbud Hickory Hardbark Hickory Hognut Bullnut | |
| Carex triangularis | Eastern Fox Sedge | |
| Carex tribuloides | Blunt Broom Sedge | |
| Calopogon tuberosus | Tuberous Grasspink Grass Pink | |
| Calopogon tuberosus var. tuberosus | Tuberous Grasspink Grass Pink Swamp Pink | |
| Carex vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge Brown Fox Sedge | |
| Carex vulpinoidea var. vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
| Centaurium beyrichii | Mountain Pink Meadow Pink Catchfly Quinineweed | |
| Cerastium brachypodum | Short-stalk Chickweed Shortstalk Chickweed | |
| Centaurium calycosum | Arizona Centaury Shortflower Centaury Rosita Buckley Centaury | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
| Cercis canadensis var. canadensis | Eastern Redbud | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas Redbud | |
| Ceratophyllum demersum | Coon's Tail | |
| Cenchrus echinatus | Southern Sandbur | |
| Ceratophyllum echinatum | Spineless Hornwort | |
| Celtis ehrenbergiana | Desert Hackberry Spiny Hackberry Shiny Hackberry Granjeno Huasteco | |
| Centella erecta | Erect Centella Erect Spadeleaf | |
| Ceanothus greggii | Desert Ceanothus | |
| Ceanothus herbaceus | Prairie Redroot Smaller Redroot Small Redroot Inland Ceanothus Fuzzy Ceanothus Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf Hackberry Netleaf Sugar Hackberry Western Hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Celtis lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Hackberry Lindheimer Hackberry | |
| Cercocarpus montanus | Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany Mountain Mahogany | |
| Celosia nitida | West Indian Cock's Comb | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
| Cevallia sinuata | Stinging Serpent Stinging Cevallia | |
| Cenchrus spinifex | Grass Bur Coastal Sandbur Field Sandspur Southern Sandbur Spiny Burrgrass | |
| Centaurium texense | Lady Bird's Centaury Texas Centaury | |
| Centrosema virginianum | Spurred Butterfly Pea Butterfly Pea | |
| Chamaesyce albomarginata | Whitemargin Sandmat Rattlesnake-weed | |
| Cheilanthes alabamensis | Alabama Lipfern | |
| Chenopodium album | Lambsquarters | |
| Chloris andropogonoides | Slimspike Windmill Grass | |
| Chamaesyce angusta | Blackfoot Sandmat Narrow-leaf Spurge | |
| Chaetopappa asteroides | Arkansas Leastdaisy Least Daisy | |
| Chaetopappa bellidifolia | Whiteray Leastdaisy Dwarf White Aster Edwards Lazy Daisy | |
| Chenopodium berlandieri | Pitseed Goosefoot Lambs Quarters | |
| Chamaesyce bombensis | Dixie Sandmat | |
| Chamaecrista calycioides | Woodland Sensitive Pea | |
| Chamaesaracha coniodes | Gray Five Eyes False Nightshade Ground Saracha Prostrate Ground-cherry | |
| Chamaesyce cordifolia | Heartleaf Sandmat | |
| Chamaesaracha coronopus | Greenleaf Five Eyes Green False Nightshade | |
| Chloris cucullata | Hooded Windmill Grass Hooded Windmillgrass | |
| Chamaesaracha edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Five Eyes | |
| Chaetopappa effusa | Spreading Leastdaisy | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge Pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
| Cheilanthes feei | Slender Lipfern | |
| Chamaesyce fendleri | Fendler's Sandmat Fendler's Spurge Fendler's Carpetweed Fendler's Euphorb | |
| Chamaecrista flexuosa var. texana | Texas Sensitive Pea | |
| Chamaesyce glyptosperma | Ribseed Sandmat Rib-seeded Sand Mat | |
| Chamaecrista greggii | Gregg's Sensitive Pea | |
| Cheilanthes horridula | Rough Lipfern | |
| Chamaesyce hypericifolia | Graceful Sandmat Graceful Spurge Chickenweed Large-spotted Spurge Garden Spurge Fluxweed Baby's-breath Euphorbia | |
| Chamaesyce hyssopifolia | Hyssopleaf Sandmat | |
| Chaetopappa imberbis | Awnless Leastdaisy | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chasmanthium laxum | Slender Woodoats Slender Chasmanthium | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland Goldenaster Maryland Golden-aster | |
| 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 | |
| Chamaesyce prostrata | Prostrate Spurge Prostrate Sandmat Ground Spurge | |
| Chasmanthium sessiliflorum | Longleaf Woodoats | |
| Chamaesyce serpens | Matted Sandmat Prostrate Spurge Creeping Spurge | |
| Chenopodium simplex | Mapleleaf Goosefoot | |
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