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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| Echinocereus coccineus var. paucispinus | Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus Claret Cup | |
| Echinocereus enneacanthus | Pitaya Strawberry Cactus Banana Cactus Cob Cactus Purple Pitaya Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus Prostrate Hedgehog Cactus | |
| Echinocereus enneacanthus var. brevispinus | Pitaya | |
| Echinocactus horizonthalonius | Devilshead Eagle Claws Turk's Head Devil's Head | |
| Echinocactus horizonthalonius var. horizonthalonius | Devilshead Turk's Head Devil's Head Manca Caballo Bluebarrel Cactus Visnaga Meloncillo | |
| Echinochloa muricata | American Barnyard Grass Rough Barnyard Grass Barnyard Grass American Cockspur Grass Wild Millet | |
| Echinocereus pectinatus | Rainbow Cactus | |
| Echinocereus pentalophus | Ladyfinger Cactus Alicoche Dog Tail Devil's Fingers | |
| Echinocereus poselgeri | Dahlia Hedgehog Cactus | |
| Eclipta prostrata | Pie Plant False Daisy Eclipta | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus Lace Hedgehog Purple Candle | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Horse Crippler Horse Crippler Cactus Devil's Head Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog | |
| Echinochloa walteri | Coast Cockspur Grass | |
| Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate | |
| Eleocharis atropurpurea | Purple Spikerush | |
| 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 flavescens | Yellow Spikerush Pale Spike-rush Wrinkle-sheathed Spike-rush | |
| Eleocharis interstincta | Knotted Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis macrostachya | Pale Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis minima | Small Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis montevidensis | Sand Spikerush Spike Rush | |
| 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 | |
| Elionurus tripsacoides | Pan American Balsamscale Balsamscale | |
| 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 | |
| Ephedra aspera | Rough Jointfir | |
| Epipactis gigantea | Stream Orchid Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore | |
| Epithelantha micromeris | Pingpong Ball Cactus Button Cactus | |
| Ephedra pedunculata | Vine Jointfir | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
| Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouring-rush Horsetail | |
| Equisetum laevigatum | Smooth Horsetail Horsetail | |
| Eriogonum abertianum | Abert's Buckwheat Abert's Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eriogonum annuum | Annual Buckwheat Annual Wild Buckwheat Umbrella Plant | |
| Erigeron colomexicanus | Running Fleabane Sprawling Daisy | |
| Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy Lovegrass Gummy Love Grass | |
| Eryngium diffusum | Spreading Eryngo | |
| Eragrostis elliottii | Field Lovegrass Field Love Grass | |
| Erigeron flagellaris | Trailing Fleabane | |
| Erigeron geiseri | Geiser's Fleabane | |
| Eragrostis hirsuta | Bigtop Lovegrass Bigtop Love Grass | |
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