Special Collections
South Central Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. It extends from the Western Gulf Coastal Plain east across much of Louisiana and north into southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Pineywoods vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the South Central Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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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 | |
Cerastium brachypodum | Shortstalk Chickweed Short-stalk Chickweed | |
Centaurium calycosum | Arizona Centaury Shortflower Centaury Rosita Buckley Centaury | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Cercis canadensis var. canadensis | Eastern Redbud | |
Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican 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 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 | |
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 acuta | Pointed Sandmat | |
Chamaesyce albomarginata | Whitemargin Sandmat Rattlesnake-weed | |
Chenopodium album | Lambsquarters | |
Chamaesyce angusta | Blackfoot Sandmat Narrow-leaf Spurge | |
Chaetopappa asteroides | Arkansas Leastdaisy Least Daisy | |
Chaetopappa bellidifolia | Whiteray Leastdaisy Dwarf White Aster Edwards Lazy Daisy | |
Chaetopappa bellioides | Manyflower Leastdaisy | |
Chenopodium berlandieri | Pitseed Goosefoot Lambs Quarters | |
Chamaesyce bombensis | Dixie Sandmat | |
Chamaesyce cinerascens | Ashy Sandmat | |
Chamaesaracha coniodes | Gray Five Eyes False Nightshade Ground Saracha Prostrate Ground-cherry | |
Chamaesyce cordifolia | Heartleaf Sandmat | |
Chloris cucullata | Hooded Windmill Grass Hooded Windmillgrass | |
Chamaesaracha edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Five Eyes | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge Pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
Chamaesyce glyptosperma | Ribseed Sandmat Rib-seeded Sand Mat | |
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 | |
Chenopodium incanum | Mealy Goosefoot | |
Chamaesyce lata | Hoary Sandmat Hoary Euphorbia | |
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 | |
Cheilanthes lindheimeri | Fairy-swords | |
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 | |
Chenopodium pratericola | Desert Goosefoot | |
Chamaesyce prostrata | Prostrate Spurge Prostrate Sandmat Ground Spurge | |
Chasmanthium sessiliflorum | Longleaf Woodoats | |
Chamaesyce serpens | Matted Sandmat Prostrate Spurge Creeping Spurge | |
Chamaesyce serrula | Sawtooth Sandmat | |
Chenopodium simplex | Mapleleaf Goosefoot | |
Chamaesaracha sordida | Hairy Five Eyes False Nightshade | |
Chloracantha spinosa | Spiny Chloracantha Mexican Devil-weed | |
Chenopodium standleyanum | Standley's Goosefoot | |
Chaerophyllum tainturieri | Hairyfruit Chervil Southern Chervil | |
Chloris texensis | Texas Windmill Grass | |
Chrysopsis texana | Texas Chrysopsis | |
Chaptalia texana | Texas Silverpuff Silverpuff Nodding Lettuce Silver Puff | |
Chaptalia tomentosa | Woolly Sunbonnets | |
Cheilanthes tomentosa | Woolly Lipfern | |
Chloris verticillata | Tumble Windmill Grass Windmillgrass | |
Chamaesyce villifera | Hairy Sandmat | |
Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
Chloris virgata | Feather Fingergrass Showy Chloris | |
Chamaesaracha villosa | Transpecos Five Eyes Woolly False Nightshade | |
Cirsium altissimum | Tall Thistle | |
Cinna arundinacea | Sweet Woodreed Common Woodreed | |
Cirsium carolinianum | Carolina Thistle Soft Thistle Purple Thistle Smallhead Thistle | |
Cirsium horridulum | Bristle Thistle Yellow Thistle Horrid Thistle Purple Thistle Spiny Thistle Bull Thistle | |
Cicuta maculata | Spotted Water Hemlock Water-hemlock Beaver Poison | |
Cirsium muticum | Swamp Thistle | |
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 | |
Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra Clethra Summer Sweet | |
Cleomella angustifolia | Narrowleaf Rhombopod Cleomella | |
Clinopodium arkansanum | Limestone Calamint | |
Clematis crispa | Swamp Leatherflower Curly Clematis Blue-jasmine Curlflower Curly Virgin's Bower Marsh Clematis | |
Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
Cladium mariscoides | Smooth Sawgrass | |
Clitoria mariana | Atlantic Pigeonwings Butterfly Pea | |
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 | |
Clematis reticulata | Netleaf Leather Flower | |
Clematis versicolor | Pale Leatherflower | |
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