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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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Menodora longiflora | Showy Menodora Twinpod | |
| 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 | |
| Mentzelia reverchonii | Reverchon's Blazingstar Reverchon's Stick-leaf Prairie Stickleaf | |
| 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 | |
| Mirabilis gigantea | Giant Four O'Clock | |
| 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 roemeriana | Roemer's Mimosa Sensitive Briar | |
| 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 | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot 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 | |
| Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
| Mollugo verticillata | Green Carpetweed | |
| Muhlenbergia arenicola | Sand Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf Muhly Hair-awn Muhly Hairy-awn Muhly Hair Grass Pink Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia racemosa | Marsh Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia schreberi | Nimblewill | |
| Najas guadalupensis | Common Water Nymph Southern Water Nymph Najas | |
| Nama hispidum | Sand Bells Bristly Nama Sand-bell | |
| Nassella leucotricha | Texas Wintergrass Texas Speargrass Wintergrass | |
| Nekemias arborea | Peppervine | |
| Nemastylis geminiflora | Prairie Celestials Celestials Prairie Pleatleaf | |
| Neptunia lutea | Yellow Sensitive Briar Yellow Puff | |
| Neeragrostis reptans | Creeping Lovegrass | |
| Nothoscordum bivalve | Crowpoison False Garlic Crow Poison | |
| Nolina texana | Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass | |
| Nuphar lutea | Yellow Pond Lily Yellow Cow Lily Cow Lily Spatter Dock Wakas | |
| Nuphar lutea ssp. advena | Common Spatterdock Spatterdock Yellow Cow-lily Cow-lily Yellow Pond-lily Brandy-bottle | |
| Nuttallanthus texanus | Texas Toadflax Texas Toad-flax Toadflax | |
| Nyctaginia capitata | Devil's Bouquet Scarlet Muskflower | |
| Oenothera albicaulis | Whitest Evening-primrose White-stem Evening-primrose Pale Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera canescens | Spotted Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera calcicola | Texas Beeblossom Limestone Gaura | |
| Oenothera cinerea | Woolly Beeblossom High Plains Beeblossom Woolly Gaura High Plains Gaura | |
| Oenothera curtiflora | Velvetweed Velvetleaf Gaura Lizard-tail Gaura Willow Gaura | |
| Oenothera engelmannii | Engelmann's Evening-primrose Engelmann Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera grandis | Showy Evening-primrose Largeflower Eveningprimrose Showy Eveningprimrose | |
| Oenothera jamesii | Trumpet Evening-primrose Trumpet Evening Primrose River Primrose | |
| Oenothera laciniata | Cutleaf Evening-primrose Cut-leaved Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Missouri Evening-primrose Fluttermill Big-fruit Evening-primrose Missouri Primrose Bigfruit Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. incana | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Silver Leaf Primrose Bigfruit Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Fluttermill Missouri Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera patriciae | Plains Beeblossom Plains Gaura | |
| Oenothera rhombipetala | Fourpoint Evening-primrose Four-point Evening Primrose Diamond Petal Primrose Greater Four-point Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera sinuosa | Wavyleaf Beeblossom Wavyleaf Gaura | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups | |
| Oenothera suffrutescens | Scarlet Beeblossom Scarlet Gaura | |
| Oenothera suffulta | Kisses Wild Honeysuckle Beeblossom Roadside Gaura | |
| Oenothera triloba | Stemless Evening-primrose Stemless Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera villosa | Hairy Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera villosa ssp. villosa | Hairy Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera xerogaura | Drummond's Beeblossom Drummond's Gaura | |
| Oligoneuron nitidum | Shiny Goldenrod | |
| Onosmodium bejariense | Soft-hair Marbleseed | |
| Onosmodium bejariense var. bejariense | Soft-hair Marbleseed False Gromwell | |
| Onosmodium bejariense var. occidentale | Western Marbleseed | |
| Ophioglossum engelmannii | Limestone Adder's-tongue Limestone Adderstongue | |
| Opuntia engelmannii | Cactus Apple Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri | Texas Prickly Pear Lindheimer's Prickly Pear Lindheimer Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia humifusa | Low Prickly Pear Smooth Prickly Pear Devil's Tongue | |
| Opuntia macrorhiza | Bigroot Prickly Pear Twist-spine Prickly Pear Common Prickly Pear Plains Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia phaeacantha | Tulip Prickly Pear Brownspine Prickly Pear Cactus Purple-fruited Prickly Pear Brown-spined Prickly Pear New Mexico Prickly Pear Desert Prickly Pear | |
| Opuntia strigil | Marblefruit Pricklypear Marblefruit Prickly Pear | |
| Orobanche ludoviciana | Louisiana Broomrape | |
| Orobanche ludoviciana ssp. multiflora | Manyflower Broomrape | |
| Oxalis albicans | Radishroot Woodsorrel | |
| Oxalis dillenii | Slender Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Woodsorrel | |
| Oxytropis lambertii | Purple Locoweed | |
| Oxalis violacea | Violet Woodsorrel Violet Wood-sorrel | |
| Pappophorum bicolor | Pink Pappasgrass Pink Pappusgrass | |
| Palafoxia callosa | Small Palafox Small Palafoxia | |
| Panicum capillare | Witchgrass | |
| Parthenium confertum | Gray's Feverfew | |
| Panicum dichotomiflorum | Fall Panicgrass Fall Panic Grass | |
| Paspalum distichum | Knotgrass | |
| Panicum diffusum | Spreading Witchgrass West Indian Panicgrass West Indian Panic Grass | |
| Paspalidium geminatum | Egyptian Panicgrass | |
| Panicum hallii | Hall's Panicgrass Hall's Panic Grass | |
| Parthenocissus heptaphylla | Sevenleaf Creeper Seven-leaf Creeper | |
| Paronychia jamesii | James' Nailwort | |
| Paronychia lindheimeri | Forked Nailwort | |
| Panicum obtusum | Vine Mesquite | |
| Parietaria pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Pellitory Pennsylvania Cucumber Plant | |
| Packera plattensis | Prairie Groundsel Prairie Ragwort | |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia Creeper | |
| Palafoxia rosea | Rosy Palafox Rose Palafoxia | |
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