Special Collections
Central Great Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. The Central Great Plains extends in a great swath from west-central Texas north through central Oklahoma, Kansas and south-central Nebraska. In Texas, along with the Southwestern Tablelands, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Rolling Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Central Great Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Mock Vervain Dakota Vervain | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. ciliata | Davis Mountains Mock Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Wright's Verbena | |
| Glycyrrhiza lepidota | American Licorice Wild Licorice | |
| Glandularia pumila | Dwarf Vervain Low Verbena Pink Mock Vervain Pink Verbena Wild Vervain | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
| Gossypium hirsutum | Upland Cotton | |
| Gossypianthus lanuginosus | Woolly Cottonflower | |
| Grindelia lanceolata | Narrowleaf Gumweed Fall Gumweed | |
| Grindelia nuda var. nuda | Curlytop Gumweed | |
| Grindelia papposa | Spanish Gold Clasping-leaved Haplopappus Saw-leaf Daisy | |
| Grindelia squarrosa | Curlycup Gumweed | |
| Guilleminea densa | Small Matweed | |
| Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom Snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas Snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine Weed Matchweed | |
| Gutierrezia sphaerocephala | Roundleaf Snakeweed | |
| Gutierrezia texana | Texas Snakeweed | |
| Gymnopogon ambiguus | Bearded Skeletongrass | |
| Gymnosperma glutinosum | Gumhead Tatalencho | |
| Haploesthes greggii | False Broomweed | |
| Haploesthes greggii var. texana | Texas False Broomweed | |
| Hackelia virginiana | Beggarslice Beggar's-lice Stickseed Sticktight Wild Comfrey Virginia Stickseed | |
| Helenium amarum | Yellow Sneezeweed Bitterweed Yellow Bitterweed Yellowdicks Slender-leaved Sneezeweed Fine-leaved Sneezweed Yellow Dog-fennel | |
| Helenium amarum var. amarum | Yellow Bitterweed Yellowdicks | |
| Helenium amarum var. badium | Brown Bitterweed Basin Sneezeweed | |
| Helianthus annuus | Common Sunflower Annual Sunflower | |
| Helenium autumnale | Common Sneezeweed Fall Sneezeweed Autumn Sneezeweed | |
| Helenium autumnale var. autumnale | Common Sneezeweed | |
| Heterotheca canescens | Hoary False Goldenaster Gray Golden-aster | |
| Helianthus ciliaris | Texas Blueweed | |
| Hesperostipa comata | Needle And Thread Needle-and-thread | |
| Heliotropium convolvulaceum | Phlox Heliotrope Fragrant Heliotrope | |
| Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata | Needle And Thread | |
| Heliotropium curassavicum | Salt Heliotrope Seaside Heliotrope Quail Plant Cola De Mico Cola De Gama | |
| Hedeoma drummondii | Drummond's False Pennyroyal Limoncillo Mock Pennyroyal | |
| Heteranthera dubia | Grassleaf Mudplantain Water Stargrass | |
| Helenium elegans | Pretty Sneezeweed | |
| Helianthemum georgianum | Georgia Frostweed Rockrose Georgia Sunrose | |
| Heliotropium greggii | Fragrant Heliotrope | |
| Hedeoma hispida | Rough False Pennyroyal | |
| Heteranthera limosa | Blue Mudplantain Blue Mud Plantain | |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian Sunflower Max Sunflower | |
| Helenium microcephalum | Smallhead Sneezeweed | |
| Hesperostipa neomexicana | New Mexico Feathergrass | |
| Hexalectris nitida | Glass Mountain Crested Coralroot Glass Mountain Crested Coral Root | |
| Helianthus pauciflorus | Stiff Sunflower Prairie Sunflower | |
| Helianthus pauciflorus ssp. pauciflorus | Stiff Sunflower | |
| Helianthus petiolaris | Prairie Sunflower Plains Sunflower | |
| Hedeoma reverchonii | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal | |
| Hedeoma reverchonii var. serpyllifolia | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal Rock Hedeoma | |
| Helianthus salicifolius | Willowleaf Sunflower Willow-leaved Sunflower | |
| Hexalectris spicata | Spiked Crested Coralroot Spiked Crested Coral Root | |
| Heterotheca stenophylla | Stiffleaf False Goldenaster Sticky Granite-daisy | |
| Heterotheca subaxillaris | Camphorweed Camphor Weed | |
| Heliotropium tenellum | Pasture Heliotrope White Heliotrope | |
| Heterotheca villosa | Hairy False Goldenaster Hairy Golden-aster | |
| Hexalectris warnockii | Texas Crested Coralroot Texas Purple Spike Texas Crested Coral Root | |
| Hilaria belangeri | Curly Mesquite Grass Curly Mesquite | |
| Hilaria belangeri var. belangeri | Curly-mesquite | |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf Rosemallow Halberdleaf Hibiscus Scarlet Rose Mallow Halberd-leaved Hibiscus Halberd-leaved Rose-mallow | |
| Hibiscus lasiocarpos | Woolly Rose-mallow Woolly Mallow Rose-mallow False Cotton | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
| Houstonia acerosa | Needleleaf Bluet | |
| Hoffmannseggia glauca | Indian Rushpea Indian Rush-pea | |
| Houstonia humifusa | Matted Bluet | |
| Hordeum jubatum | Foxtail Barley | |
| Hordeum jubatum ssp. jubatum | Foxtail Barley Squirreltail Barley Skunktail | |
| Hordeum pusillum | Little Barley | |
| Houstonia pusilla | Tiny Bluets Small Bluets Star Violet | |
| Hymenopappus filifolius | Fineleaf Hymenopappus | |
| Hymenopappus filifolius var. cinereus | Fineleaf Hymenopappus Fine-leaf Woolly-white | |
| Hymenopappus flavescens | Yellow Plainsman Collegeflower | |
| Hymenopappus flavescens var. flavescens | Collegeflower | |
| Hypoxis hirsuta | Common Goldstar Yellow Star-grass Eastern Yellow Star-grass | |
| Hymenoxys odorata | Bitter Rubberweed | |
| Hymenopappus scabiosaeus | Carolina Woollywhite Woolly-white Old Plainsman | |
| Hymenopappus scabiosaeus var. corymbosus | Carolina Woollywhite Old Plainsman | |
| Hymenopappus tenuifolius | Chalk Hill Hymenopappus Chalkhill Woolywhite | |
| Hybanthus verticillatus | Babyslippers Nodding Green Violet Green Violet | |
| Hydrocotyle verticillata | Whorled Marshpennywort | |
| Ibervillea lindheimeri | Balsam Gourd Lindheimer's Globeberry Globe Berry Snake-apple Balsam-apple | |
| Indigofera miniata | Scarlet Pea Coastal Indigo Texas Indigo Western Indigo | |
| Ipomoea leptophylla | Bush Morning-glory | |
| Ipomopsis longiflora | Flaxflowered Ipomopsis Pale Trumpets Paleflower Gilia White-flower Skyrocket White-flowered Gilia | |
| Ipomoea pandurata | Man Of The Earth Wild Potato Wild Sweet Potato Manroot | |
| Ipomopsis rubra | Standing Cypress Texas Plume Red Texas Star Red Gilia | |
| Isoetes melanopoda | Blackfoot Quillwort | |
| Iva angustifolia | Narrowleaf Marshelder Narrow-leaf Sumpweed Narrowleaf Marsh Elder | |
| Iva annua | Annual Marshelder Marshelder Sumpweed Annual Marsh Elder Marsh Elder | |
| Justicia americana | American Water-willow Water-willow | |
| Juncus arcticus ssp. littoralis | Baltic Rush | |
| Juniperus ashei | Ashe Juniper Ashe's Juniper Mountain Cedar Rock Cedar Post Cedar Texas Cedar Brake Cedar Mexican Juniper Blueberry Juniper Ozark White Cedar Sabino Enebro | |
| Juncus bufonius | Toad Rush | |
| Juncus dudleyi | Dudley's Rush | |
| Juncus filipendulus | Ringseed Rush | |
| Juncus interior | Inland Rush | |
| Juncus interior var. interior | Inland Rush | |
| Juncus marginatus | Grassleaf Rush Grass Leaf Rush | |
| Juglans microcarpa | Little Walnut Texas Walnut Texas Black Walnut River Walnut Nogalito Nogalillo Namboca | |
| Juniperus monosperma | Oneseed Juniper One-seed Juniper Cherrystone Juniper New Mexico Juniper West Texas Juniper | |
| Juglans nigra | Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut | |
| Juncus nodatus | Stout Rush | |
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