Special Collections
Cross Timbers
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. With most of this ecoregion occurring in a swath from central Texas north, its northern reaches extend into southeastern Oklahoma. In Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Cross Timbers and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Cross Timbers ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
| Desmanthus acuminatus | Sharp Pod Bundleflower Wild Tantan | |
| Delphinium carolinianum | Prairie Larkspur Carolina Larkspur Blue Larkspur | |
| Desmodium canescens | Hoary Ticktrefoil | |
| Delphinium carolinianum ssp. carolinianum | Carolina Larkspur Blue Larkspur | |
| Delphinium carolinianum ssp. vimineum | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur | |
| Delphinium carolinianum ssp. virescens | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur Plains Larkspur | |
| Desmodium ciliare | Hairy Small-leaf Ticktrefoil | |
| Desmodium ciliare var. ciliare | Hairy Small-leaf Ticktrefoil | |
| Desmodium glutinosum | Pointedleaf Ticktrefoil | |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa | |
| Desmanthus leptolobus | Slenderlobe Bundleflower | |
| Desmodium marilandicum | Smooth Small-leaf Ticktrefoil | |
| Desmanthus obtusus | Bluntpod Bundleflower | |
| Desmodium obtusum | Stiff Ticktrefoil | |
| Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine | |
| Descurainia pinnata | Western Tansymustard Tansy-mustard | |
| Desmodium psilophyllum | Simpleleaf Ticktrefoil Wright's Tickclover Beggar's Ticks Sticktights | |
| Desmodium sessilifolium | Sessileleaf Ticktrefoil | |
| Desmodium tweedyi | Tweedy's Ticktrefoil | |
| Desmanthus velutinus | Velvet Bundleflower | |
| Dichanthelium aciculare | Needleleaf Rosette Grass | |
| Dichanthelium acuminatum | Tapered Rosette Grass | |
| Dichanthelium acuminatum var. acuminatum | Tapered Rosette Grass | |
| Dichanthelium acuminatum var. fasciculatum | Western Panicgrass Rosette Grass | |
| Dichanthelium acuminatum var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer Panicgrass Lindheimer's Rosettegrass | |
| 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 | |
| Digitaria cognata | Carolina Crabgrass Fall Witchgrass | |
| Dichanthelium depauperatum | Starved Panicgrass | |
| Dichanthelium dichotomum | Cypress Panicgrass | |
| Digitaria filiformis | Slender Crabgrass | |
| Digitaria insularis | Sourgrass | |
| Dichanthelium laxiflorum | Openflower Rosette Grass | |
| Dichanthelium linearifolium | Slimleaf Panicgrass | |
| Dichanthelium oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
| Dichanthelium oligosanthes var. oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
| Dichanthelium pedicellatum | Cedar Rosette Grass Corm-based Panicgrass | |
| Digitaria pubiflora | Carolina Crabgrass | |
| Dichondra recurvata | Oakwoods Ponysfoot Oakwoods Ponyfoot | |
| 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 | |
| Diodia virginiana | Virginia Buttonweed Buttonweed | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
| Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
| Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower | |
| Draba brachycarpa | Shortpod Draba | |
| Draba cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba Whitlow-grass | |
| Draba platycarpa | Broadpod Draba Broad-pod Draba Broadpod Whitlowgrass Broadpod Whitlow-grass | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
| Dysodiopsis tagetoides | False Dogfennel Dogweed | |
| Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
| Echinacea atrorubens | Topeka Purple Coneflower | |
| Echinodorus berteroi | Upright Burrhead | |
| Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping Burhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword Burhead Creeping Water-plantain | |
| Echinocereus coccineus | Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus Claret Cup | |
| Echinocereus coccineus var. paucispinus | Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus Claret Cup | |
| Echinochloa muricata | American Barnyard Grass Rough Barnyard Grass Barnyard Grass American Cockspur Grass Wild Millet | |
| Echinacea pallida | Pale Purple Coneflower Pale Coneflower | |
| Eclipta prostrata | Pie Plant False Daisy Eclipta | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus Lace Hedgehog Purple Candle | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii ssp. reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Horse Crippler Horse Crippler Cactus Devil's Head Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog | |
| Echinochloa walteri | Coast Cockspur Grass | |
| Eleocharis acicularis | Needle Spikerush | |
| Elatine brachysperma | Shortseed Waterwort | |
| Elephantopus carolinianus | Carolina Elephantsfoot | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
| Eleocharis cellulosa | Gulf Coast Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis compressa var. acutisquamata | Sharpscale Spikerush | |
| Elymus elymoides | Squirreltail Bottlebrush Squirreltail Squirrel-tail | |
| Elymus elymoides ssp. brevifolius | Squirreltail Long-leaf Squirrel-tail | |
| Eleocharis engelmannii | Engelmann's Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis flavescens | Yellow Spikerush Pale Spike-rush Wrinkle-sheathed Spike-rush | |
| Eleocharis macrostachya | Pale Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis montevidensis | Sand Spikerush Spike Rush | |
| Eleocharis obtusa | Blunt Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis palustris | Common Spikerush Common Spike-rush Creeping Spikesedge | |
| Eleocharis parvula | Dwarf Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis quadrangulata | Squarestem Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked Spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
| Elymus virginicus | Virginia Wild Rye Virginia Wildrye | |
| Elymus virginicus var. virginicus | Virginia Wildrye Virginia Wild Rye | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon Tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
| Epipactis gigantea | Stream Orchid Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
| Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouring-rush Horsetail | |
| Equisetum laevigatum | Smooth Horsetail Horsetail | |
| Erythronium albidum | White Troutlily White Dogtooth-violet White Fawnlily Adder's-tongue | |
| Erigeron annuus | Eastern Daisy Fleabane Daisy Fleabane | |
| Eriogonum annuum | Annual Buckwheat Annual Wild Buckwheat Umbrella Plant | |
| Erysimum asperum | Western Wallflower | |
| Eragrostis capillaris | Lace Grass Lace Lovegrass Lace Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy Lovegrass Gummy Love Grass | |
| Eryngium diffusum | Spreading Eryngo | |
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