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 |
| Galium pilosum | Hairy 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 virgatum | Southwestern Bedstraw Southwest Bedstraw | |
| Galactia volubilis | Downy Milkpea | |
| Geranium carolinianum | Carolina Geranium Wild Geranium Carolina Cranesbill | |
| Geum canadense | White Avens | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina Jessamine Yellow Jessamine Evening Trumpetflower Poor Man's Rope | |
| Geranium texanum | Texas Geranium | |
| Giliastrum acerosum | Bluebowls Prickleleaf Gilia | |
| Giliastrum incisum | Splitleaf Gilia Split-leaf Gilia Cut-leaf Gilia | |
| Giliastrum rigidulum | Bluebowls Blue Gilia | |
| 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 pumila | Dwarf Vervain Low Verbena Pink Mock Vervain Pink Verbena Wild Vervain | |
| Glandularia quandrangulata | Beaked Mock Vervain Pale Mock Vervain Chihuahuan Mock Vervain | |
| Glyceria striata | Fowl Mannagrass | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
| Gossypianthus lanuginosus | Woolly Cottonflower | |
| Grindelia adenodonta | Lonestar Gumweed | |
| Grindelia lanceolata | Narrowleaf Gumweed Fall Gumweed | |
| Grindelia lanceolata var. lanceolata | Narrowleaf Gumweed | |
| Grindelia nuda var. nuda | Curlytop Gumweed | |
| Grindelia papposa | Spanish Gold Clasping-leaved Haplopappus Saw-leaf Daisy | |
| Grusonia schottii | Dog Cholla Big Bend Pricklypear | |
| Grindelia squarrosa | Curlycup Gumweed | |
| Gratiola virginiana | Roundfruit Hedgehyssop | |
| Guaiacum angustifolium | Texas Lignum-vitae Soapbush Guayacan | |
| Guilleminea densa | Small Matweed | |
| Gutierrezia microcephala | Threadleaf Snakeweed Threadleaf Broomweed Smallhead Snakeweed Littlehead Snakeweed | |
| Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom Snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas Snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine Weed Matchweed | |
| Gutierrezia texana | Texas Snakeweed | |
| Gymnopogon ambiguus | Bearded Skeletongrass | |
| Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky Coffeetree Stump Tree | |
| 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 | |
| Helenium autumnale | Common Sneezeweed Fall Sneezeweed Autumn Sneezeweed | |
| Helenium autumnale var. autumnale | Common Sneezeweed | |
| Heterotheca canescens | Hoary False Goldenaster Gray Golden-aster | |
| Helianthus ciliaris | Texas Blueweed | |
| Heteropogon contortus | Tanglehead | |
| Heliotropium convolvulaceum | Phlox Heliotrope Fragrant Heliotrope | |
| Heliotropium curassavicum | Salt Heliotrope Seaside Heliotrope Quail Plant Cola De Mico Cola De Gama | |
| Helianthus debilis | Cucumberleaf Sunflower Cucumber-leaf Sunflower Beach Sunflower | |
| Helianthus debilis ssp. cucumerifolius | Cucumberleaf Sunflower | |
| Hedeoma drummondii | Drummond's False Pennyroyal Limoncillo Mock Pennyroyal | |
| Heteranthera dubia | Grassleaf Mudplantain Water Stargrass | |
| Helenium elegans | Pretty Sneezeweed | |
| Helianthemum georgianum | Georgia Frostweed Rockrose Georgia Sunrose | |
| Helianthus grosseserratus | Sawtooth Sunflower | |
| Hedeoma hispida | Rough False Pennyroyal | |
| Helianthus hirsutus | Hairy Sunflower Rough Sunflower | |
| Heteranthera limosa | Blue Mudplantain Blue Mud Plantain | |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian Sunflower Max Sunflower | |
| Helenium microcephalum | Smallhead Sneezeweed | |
| Helianthus mollis | Ashy Sunflower Downy Sunflower | |
| Hexalectris nitida | Glass Mountain Crested Coralroot Glass Mountain Crested Coral Root | |
| Helianthus pauciflorus | Stiff Sunflower Prairie Sunflower | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red Yucca Coral Yucca Red-flowered False Yucca Redflower False Yucca Yellow Yucca Hummingbird Yucca Samandoque | |
| Helianthus pauciflorus ssp. pauciflorus | Stiff Sunflower | |
| Helianthus petiolaris | Prairie Sunflower Plains Sunflower | |
| Heliotropium procumbens | Fourspike Heliotrope | |
| Hedeoma reverchonii | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal | |
| Hedeoma reverchonii var. reverchonii | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal Rock Hedeoma | |
| Hedeoma reverchonii var. serpyllifolia | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal Rock Hedeoma | |
| Helianthemum rosmarinifolium | Rosemary Frostweed Sun Rose | |
| Helianthus salicifolius | Willowleaf Sunflower Willow-leaved Sunflower | |
| Hexalectris spicata | Spiked Crested Coralroot Spiked Crested Coral Root | |
| Heterotheca stenophylla | Stiffleaf False Goldenaster Sticky Granite-daisy | |
| Heterotheca subaxillaris | Camphorweed Camphor Weed | |
| Heliotropium tenellum | Pasture Heliotrope White Heliotrope | |
| Helianthus tuberosus | Jerusalem Artichoke Sunchoke | |
| Hilaria belangeri | Curly Mesquite Grass Curly Mesquite | |
| Hilaria belangeri var. belangeri | Curly-mesquite | |
| Hieracium gronovii | Queendevil | |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf Rosemallow Halberdleaf Hibiscus Scarlet Rose Mallow Halberd-leaved Hibiscus Halberd-leaved Rose-mallow | |
| Hibiscus lasiocarpos | Woolly Rose-mallow Woolly Mallow Rose-mallow False Cotton | |
| Hibiscus striatus | Striped Rosemallow | |
| Hibiscus striatus ssp. lambertianus | Striped Rosemallow | |
| Hoffmannseggia glauca | Indian Rushpea Indian Rush-pea | |
| Houstonia humifusa | Matted Bluet | |
| Hordeum jubatum | Foxtail Barley | |
| Hordeum jubatum ssp. jubatum | Foxtail Barley Squirreltail Barley Skunktail | |
| Houstonia micrantha | Southern Bluet | |
| Hordeum pusillum | Little Barley | |
| Houstonia pusilla | Tiny Bluets Small Bluets Star Violet | |
| Houstonia rosea | Rose Bluet | |
| Hymenopappus artemisiifolius | Oldplainsman Woolly-white Old Plainsman | |
| Hymenopappus artemisiifolius var. artemisiifolius | Oldplainsman | |
| Hypericum drummondii | Nits And Lice Drummond's St. John's-wort | |
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