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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil | |
| Ferocactus hamatacanthus | Turk's Head Turk's Head Cactus Texas Barrel Cactus Giant Fishhook Cactus | |
| Ferocactus hamatacanthus var. hamatacanthus | Turk's Head | |
| Fendlera rupicola | Cliff Fendlerbush False Mock-orange | |
| Festuca versuta | Texas Fescue | |
| Fendlera wrightii | Wright's Fendlerbush | |
| Fimbristylis autumnalis | Slender Fimbry | |
| Fimbristylis castanea | Marsh Fimbry Saltmarsh Fimbristylis | |
| Fimbristylis puberula | Hairy Fimbry | |
| Fimbristylis vahlii | Vahl's Fimbry | |
| Flourensia cernua | American Tarwort | |
| Fleischmannia incarnata | Pink Thoroughwort | |
| Flyriella parryi | Chisos Mountain Brickellbush | |
| Flaveria trinervia | Clustered Yellowtops | |
| Florestina tripteris | Sticky Florestina | |
| Forestiera angustifolia | Narrow-leaf Forestiera Tanglewood Desert Olive Texas Swamp-privet Panalero Elbow Bush | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
| Forestiera reticulata | Netleaf Swampprivet Net-leaf Forestiera | |
| Fouquieria splendens | Ocotillo Devil's Walking Stick Candlewood | |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash | |
| Fraxinus berlandieriana | Mexican Ash Berlandier Ash Berlandier's Ash Plumero | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood | |
| Froelichia drummondii | Drummond's Snakecotton | |
| Froelichia floridana | Plains Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's Ash Gregg Ash Littleleaf Ash Dogleg Ash Escobilla Barreta China | |
| Froelichia gracilis | Slender Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Funastrum clausum | White Twinevine | |
| Funastrum crispum | Wavyleaf Twinevine Wavy-leaf Milkweed Vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine Climbing Milkweed Vine Twine-vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides ssp. cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine | |
| Fuirena simplex | Western Umbrella-sedge Umbrellagrass Western Umbrella Sedge | |
| Fuirena squarrosa | Hairy Umbrella Sedge | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Winkler Gaillardia | |
| Gaillardia amblyodon | Maroon Blanketflower Red Gaillardia Red Indian Blanket | |
| Galphimia angustifolia | Narrowleaf Goldshower Thryallis Narrow-leaf Goldshower | |
| Galium aparine | Stickywilly Catchweed Bedstraw Cleavers Common Bedstraw Sticky Weed Goose Grass | |
| Galactia canescens | Hoary Milkpea | |
| Gamochaeta falcata | Narrowleaf Purple Everlasting | |
| Galactia heterophylla | Gray's Milkpea Milkpea | |
| Galactia marginalis | Edible Milkpea | |
| Garrya ovata | Eggleaf Silktassel Mexican Silktassel Eggleaf Garrya Zumaque Cuauchichic Cuauchichi Guachichi | |
| Garrya ovata ssp. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Silktassel Lindheimer Silktassel Lindheimer's Garrya Lindheimer Garrya Mexican Silktassel Mexican Garrya Eggleaf Silktassel Eggleaf Garrya | |
| Gamochaeta pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Everlasting | |
| Galium pilosum | Hairy Bedstraw | |
| Galium proliferum | Limestone Bedstraw | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Gamochaeta purpurea | Spoonleaf Purple Everlasting Early Cudweed | |
| Gaillardia pulchella var. pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel | |
| Gaillardia suavis | Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs | |
| Galactia texana | Texas Milkpea | |
| Galium texense | Texas Bedstraw | |
| Galium uncinulatum | Bristly Bedstraw | |
| Galium virgatum | Southwestern Bedstraw Southwest Bedstraw | |
| Geranium carolinianum | Carolina Geranium Wild Geranium Carolina Cranesbill | |
| Geranium texanum | Texas Geranium | |
| Giliastrum acerosum | Bluebowls Prickleleaf Gilia | |
| Giliastrum incisum | Splitleaf Gilia Split-leaf Gilia Cut-leaf Gilia | |
| Giliastrum ludens | Rio Grande Gilia | |
| Giliastrum rigidulum | Bluebowls Blue Gilia | |
| Gillenia stipulata | American Ipecac | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Moradilla Alfombrilla | |
| 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 | |
| Glandularia canadensis | Rose Vervain Sweet William Rose Mock Vervain | |
| Glandularia polyantha | Rio Grande Mock Vervain | |
| Glandularia pumila | Dwarf Vervain Low Verbena Pink Mock Vervain Pink Verbena Wild Vervain | |
| Glandularia quandrangulata | Beaked Mock Vervain Pale Mock Vervain Chihuahuan Mock Vervain | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
| Glandularia tumidula | Plains Mock Vervain | |
| Glandulicactus uncinatus | Chihuahuan Fishhook Cactus | |
| Glandulicactus uncinatus var. wrightii | Chihuahuan Fishhook Cactus Brown-flowered Hedgehog Cactus Catclaw Cactus | |
| Gomphrena haageana | Rio Grande Globe Amaranth | |
| Gochnatia hypoleuca | Shrubby Bullseye | |
| Gossypianthus lanuginosus | Woolly Cottonflower | |
| Gomphrena nealleyi | Nealley's Globe Amaranth | |
| Grindelia grandiflora | Manyray Gumweed | |
| Grindelia microcephala | Littlehead Gumweed Gumweed | |
| Grindelia oolepis | Plains Gumweed | |
| Grusonia schottii | Dog Cholla Big Bend Pricklypear | |
| Guaiacum angustifolium | Texas Lignum-vitae Soapbush Guayacan | |
| Gutierrezia microcephala | Threadleaf Snakeweed Threadleaf Broomweed Smallhead Snakeweed Littlehead Snakeweed | |
| Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom Snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas Snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine Weed Matchweed | |
| Gutierrezia sphaerocephala | Roundleaf Snakeweed | |
| Gutierrezia texana | Texas Snakeweed | |
| Gymnosperma glutinosum | Gumhead Tatalencho | |
| Haploesthes greggii | False Broomweed | |
| Haploesthes greggii var. texana | Texas False Broomweed | |
| Havardia pallens | Tenaza Huajillo Ape's Ear-ring | |
| Habranthus tubispathus | Rio Grande Copperlily Copper Lily Rio Grande Copper-lily | |
| Hedeoma acinoides | Slender False Pennyroyal Annual Pennyroyal Slender Hedeoma | |
| 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 | |
| Heliotropium angiospermum | Scorpion's-tail Scorpion-tail | |
| Helianthus argophyllus | Silverleaf Sunflower | |
| Heterotheca canescens | Hoary False Goldenaster Gray Golden-aster | |
| Helianthus ciliaris | Texas Blueweed | |
| Heteropogon contortus | Tanglehead | |
| Heliotropium confertifolium | Leafy Heliotrope | |
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