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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Alophia drummondii | Propeller Flower Purple Pleat-leaf Pinewoods Lily Prairie Iris Pleatleaf Iris | |
Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
Allowissadula holosericea | Velvet-leaf Mallow Chisos Mountain False Indianmallow | |
Allionia incarnata | Trailing Windmills Trailing Four O'Clock Pink Windmills Trailing Allionia | |
Allium kunthii | Kunth's Onion | |
Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder Hazel Alder Brookside Alder Tag Alder Common Alder Black Alder | |
Allium stellatum | Autumn Onion Prairie Onion | |
Alisma subcordatum | American Water Plantain | |
Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Annual Ragweed Short Ragweed | |
Ammannia auriculata | Eared Redstem | |
Amphicarpaea bracteata | American Hogpeanut | |
Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
Ammannia coccinea | Valley Redstem Scarlet Tooth-cup | |
Ampelopsis cordata | Heartleaf Peppervine Heart-leaf Ampelopsis | |
Ambrosia confertiflora | Weakleaf Bur Ragweed Weak Leaved Burweed Slimleaf Bursage | |
Amphiachyris dracunculoides | Prairie Broomweed Broomweed | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
Amaranthus greggii | Gregg's Amaranth | |
Amaranthus hybridus | Slim Amaranth | |
Amsonia illustris | Ozark Bluestar Showy Blue-star Missouri Blue Star Swamp Bluestar | |
Amsonia longiflora | Tubular Bluestar Trumpet Slimpod | |
Amsonia longiflora var. salpignantha | Tubular Bluestar Trumpet Slimpod | |
Amaranthus palmeri | Carelessweed | |
Amorpha paniculata | Panicled False Indigo | |
Amaranthus powellii | Powell's Amaranth Green Amaranth Powell's Smooth Amaranth | |
Ammoselinum popei | Plains Sandparsley | |
Ambrosia psilostachya | Cuman Ragweed Western Ragweed Perennial Ragweed Common Ragweed | |
Amaranthus retroflexus | Redroot Amaranth | |
Amsonia repens | Creeping Bluestar | |
Amaranthus scleropoides | Bonebract Amaranth | |
Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
Amaranthus spinosus | Spiny Amaranth Thorny Pigweed | |
Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern Bluestar Blue Dogbane Willow Amsonia Woodland Bluestar | |
Ambrosia trifida | Great Ragweed Giant Ragweed | |
Amaranthus tuberculatus | Roughfruit Amaranth Water Hemp | |
Amoreuxia wrightii | Wright's Yellowshow Yellow-show | |
Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
Anemone caroliniana | Carolina Anemone Carolina Thimbleweed Southern Thimbleweed | |
Anemone edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Thimbleweed Two-flowered Anemone | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Andropogon glaucopsis | Purple Bluestem Chalky Bluestem | |
Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
Andropogon gyrans | Elliott's Bluestem | |
Anemia mexicana | Mexican Fern Mexican Flowering Fern | |
Anagallis minima | Chaffweed | |
Antennaria parlinii | Parlin's Pussytoes Ladies' Tobacco | |
Antennaria parlinii ssp. fallax | Parlin's Pussytoes | |
Antennaria plantaginifolia | Woman's Tobacco Ladies' Tobacco Everlasting Mouse Ear Plantain-leaf Pussytoes | |
Anthaenantia rufa | Purple Silkyscale | |
Ancistrocactus scheeri | Scheer's Fishhook Cactus | |
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