High Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 51 counties in western and northwestern Texas. It extends west into New Mexico and north across western Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, into southwestern South Dakota and southeastern Wyoming. In Texas, this ecoregion is commonly referred to as the Llano Estacado, a mostly flat plateau of short grass prairie. It covers approximately the same area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s High Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the High Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Lechea mucronata | Hairy Pinweed | |
Lepidium oblongum | Veiny Pepperweed | |
Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass | |
Lesquerella ovalifolia | Roundleaf Bladderpod | |
Leptochloa panicea | Mucronate Sprangletop Red Sprangletop Needle Sprangletop | |
Lespedeza stuevei | Tall Bush-clover Tall Lespedeza | |
Lepidium virginicum | Virginia Peppergrass Virginia Pepperweed Peppergrass Poor Man's Pepper | |
Limnodea arkansana | Ozark Grass Ozarkgrass | |
Linum aristatum | Bristle Flax | |
Linum berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax | |
Linum berlandieri var. berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax Yellow Flax Stiff-stem Flax | |
Lithospermum caroliniense | Carolina Puccoon Hairy Puccoon Hispid Gromwell | |
Lindernia dubia | Yellowseed False Pimpernel | |
Linum hudsonioides | Texas Flax Yellow Flax Hudson Flax | |
Lithospermum incisum | Fringed Puccoon Golden Puccoon Narrowleaf Puccoon Narrow-leaved Puccoon Puccoon Narrowleaf Gromwell Fringed Gromwell Narrowleaf Stoneseed | |
Linum lewisii | Wild Blue Flax Prairie Flax Lewis Flax Lewis's Flax | |
Linum lewisii var. lewisii | Prairie Flax Blue Flax | |
Limonium limbatum | Transpecos Sealavender | |
Linum pratense | Meadow Flax | |
Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
Linum puberulum | Plains Flax | |
Linum rigidum | Stiffstem Flax Large-flower Yellow Flax Yellow Flax | |
Linum rigidum var. rigidum | Stiffstem Flax | |
Linum rupestre | Rock Flax | |
Liatris squarrosa | Scaly Blazing Star Scaly Gayfeather Scaly Liatris | |
Liatris squarrosa var. glabrata | Scaly Blazing Star Scaly Gayfeather Scaly Liatris | |
Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar | |
Lindheimera texana | Texas Yellowstar Texas Star Texas Yellow-star Lindheimer Daisy | |
Lonicera albiflora | Western White Honeysuckle White Shrub Honeysuckle White Bush Honeysuckle White Limestone Honeysuckle Texas Honeysuckle White Honeysuckle | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Lomatium foeniculaceum ssp. daucifolium | Desert Biscuitroot | |
Loeflingia squarrosa | Spreading Pygmyleaf | |
Lupinus argenteus | Silvery Lupine Silver-stem Lupine | |
Lupinus caudatus | Tailcup Lupine | |
Lupinus plattensis | Nebraska Lupine Dune Bluebonnet | |
Ludwigia repens | Creeping Primrose-willow Floating Primrose-willow Water Primrose | |
Lycopus americanus | American Water Horehound Water Horehound | |
Lycium berlandieri | Berlandier's Wolfberry Wolfberry | |
Lythrum californicum | California Loosestrife | |
Lygodesmia juncea | Rush Skeletonplant | |
Lycurus setosus | Bristly Wolfstail | |
Lygodesmia texana | Texas Skeleton Plant Texas Skeleton Weed Skeleton-plant Purple Dandelion Flowering Straw | |
Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving Sailor Climbing Snapdragon Little Snapdragon Vine | |
Matelea biflora | Star Milkvine Purple Milkweed Vine | |
Machaeranthera canescens | Hoary Tansyaster | |
Mammillaria heyderi | Little Nipple Cactus Heyder Pincushion Cactus | |
Malvella lepidota | Scurfymallow Malvalla | |
Malvella leprosa | Alkali Mallow | |
Machaeranthera pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
Machaeranthera pinnatifida ssp. pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
Machaeranthera pinnatifida var. pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
Maclura pomifera | Osage Orange Bois d' Arc Bodark Horse Apple Hedge Apple Bowwood Yellowwood Naranjo Chino Monkey Brains | |
Malvella sagittifolia | Arrow-leaf Mallow Arrowleaf Mallow | |
Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster | |
Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo Mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate Barberry Wild Currant | |
Marsilea vestita | Hairy Water-clover Hairy Waterclover Hairy Water Clover Clover Fern | |
Mentha arvensis | Wild Mint | |
Mentzelia decapetala | Tenpetal Blazingstar Ten-petal Western Star Gumbo-lily | |
Menodora heterophylla | Low Menodora Redbud Twinpod | |
Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica | |
Mentzelia multiflora | Adonis Blazingstar Prairie Stickleaf Blazingstar | |
Melica nitens | Three-flower Melic Tall Melicgrass Threeflower Melicgrass Melicgrass | |
Mentzelia nuda | Bractless Blazingstar Sand Lily | |
Mentzelia oligosperma | Stick-leaf Chickenthief | |
Melothria pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber Meloncito Speckled Gourd | |
Melothria pendula var. pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber | |
Mecardonia procumbens | Baby Jump-up | |
Mentzelia reverchonii | Reverchon's Blazingstar Reverchon's Stick-leaf Prairie Stickleaf | |
Menodora scabra | Rough Menodora | |
Mentzelia strictissima | Grassland Blazingstar | |
Mimosa aculeaticarpa | Catclaw Mimosa | |
Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera | Catclaw Mimosa Cat's-claw Mimosa Wait-a-bit | |
Mirabilis albida | White Four O'clock Dwarf Four O'clock | |
Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
Mimulus glabratus | Roundleaf Monkeyflower Yellow Monkeyflower | |
Mirabilis linearis | Narrowleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mimosa nuttallii | Nuttall's Sensitive Briar | |
Mirabilis nyctaginea | Heartleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mimosa rupertiana | Eastern Sensitive Plant | |
Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
Monarda clinopodioides | Basil Beebalm | |
Morus microphylla | Texas Mulberry Littleleaf Mulberry Mountain Mulberry Mexican Mulberry Dwarf Mulberry | |
Monolepis nuttalliana | Nuttall's Povertyweed | |
Monarda pectinata | Pony Beebalm | |
Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
Monarda punctata var. lasiodonta | Spotted Beebalm | |
Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
Mollugo verticillata | Green Carpetweed | |
Muhlenbergia arenacea | Ear Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia arenicola | Sand Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf Muhly Hair-awn Muhly Hairy-awn Muhly Hair Grass Pink Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia porteri | Bush Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia racemosa | Marsh Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia spiciformis | Longawn Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia torreyi | Ring Muhly Torrey Muhly | |
Najas guadalupensis | Common Water Nymph Southern Water Nymph Najas | |
Nama hispidum | Sand Bells Bristly Nama Sand-bell | |
Nama jamaicense | Jamaicanweed Jamaican Weed Fiddleleaf Nama | |
Nassella leucotricha | Texas Wintergrass Texas Speargrass Wintergrass | |
Nekemias arborea | Peppervine | |
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