Special Collections
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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| 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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