East Central Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 56 Texas counties. This ecoregion separates the two bands of the Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion and extends just across the Oklahoma border. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Post Oak Savannah vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Delphinium carolinianum ssp. vimineum | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur | |
Delphinium carolinianum ssp. virescens | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur Plains Larkspur | |
Desmodium ciliare | Hairy Small-leaf Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium ciliare var. ciliare | Hairy Small-leaf Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium cuspidatum | Largebract Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium glutinosum | Pointedleaf Ticktrefoil | |
Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa | |
Desmanthus leptolobus | Slenderlobe Bundleflower | |
Desmodium marilandicum | Smooth Small-leaf Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium nudiflorum | Nakedflower Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium nuttallii | Nuttall's Ticktrefoil | |
Desmanthus obtusus | Bluntpod Bundleflower | |
Desmodium obtusum | Stiff Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine | |
Descurainia pinnata | Western Tansymustard Tansy-mustard | |
Desmanthus reticulatus | Netleaf Bundleflower | |
Desmodium rotundifolium | Prostrate Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium sessilifolium | Sessileleaf Ticktrefoil | |
Desmodium tweedyi | Tweedy's Ticktrefoil | |
Decodon verticillatus | Swamp Loosestrife Swamp-loosestrife Water Willow | |
Desmanthus velutinus | Velvet Bundleflower | |
Desmanthus virgatus | Prostrate Bundleflower Wild Tantan Slender Mimosa | |
Dichanthelium aciculare | Needleleaf Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum | Tapered Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. acuminatum | Tapered Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer Panicgrass Lindheimer's Rosettegrass | |
Digitaria bicornis | Asian Crabgrass Finger Grass Southern Crabgrass | |
Dicliptera brachiata | Branched Foldwing Branched Dicliptera | |
Dichondra carolinensis | Carolina Ponyfoot Ponyfoot | |
Digitaria californica | Arizona Cottontop California Cottontop California Crab Grass Cottontop | |
Digitaria ciliaris | Southern Crabgrass | |
Dichanthelium clandestinum | Deertongue Deer-tongue | |
Dichanthelium commutatum | Variable Panicgrass | |
Digitaria cognata | Carolina Crabgrass Fall Witchgrass | |
Dichanthelium depauperatum | Starved Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium dichotomum | Cypress Panicgrass | |
Digitaria filiformis | Slender Crabgrass | |
Digitaria insularis | Sourgrass | |
Dichanthelium laxiflorum | Openflower Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium linearifolium | Slimleaf Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium nodatum | Sarita Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes var. oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium ovale | Eggleaf Rosette Grass | |
Digitaria patens | Texas Cottontop | |
Dichanthelium pedicellatum | Cedar Rosette Grass Corm-based Panicgrass | |
Digitaria pubiflora | Carolina Crabgrass | |
Dioscorea quaternata | Fourleaf Yam Wild Yam Colic Root Yam Root | |
Dichanthelium ravenelii | Ravenel's Rosette Grass | |
Dichondra recurvata | Oakwoods Ponysfoot Oakwoods Ponyfoot | |
Dichanthelium sabulorum | Hemlock Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium sabulorum var. thinium | Hemlock Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium scabriusculum | Woolly Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium scoparium | Velvet Panicum | |
Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon | Roundseed Panicgrass | |
Diodia teres | Poorjoe | |
Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
Diodia virginiana | Virginia Buttonweed Buttonweed | |
Dioscorea villosa | Wild Yam | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
Doellingeria sericocarpoides | Southern Whitetop | |
Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower | |
Draba brachycarpa | Shortpod Draba | |
Drosera brevifolia | Dwarf Sundew Spatulate-leaved Sundew | |
Drosera capillaris | Pink Sundew | |
Dryopteris celsa | Log Fern | |
Draba cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba Whitlow-grass | |
Draba cuneifolia var. cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba | |
Draba platycarpa | Broadpod Draba Broad-pod Draba Broadpod Whitlowgrass Broadpod Whitlow-grass | |
Dulichium arundinaceum | Threeway Sedge Three-sided Sedge | |
Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
Dyssodia papposa | Dogweed Fetid Marigold | |
Dysodiopsis tagetoides | False Dogfennel Dogweed | |
Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
Echinacea atrorubens | Topeka Purple Coneflower | |
Echinodorus berteroi | Upright Burrhead | |
Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping Burhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword Burhead Creeping Water-plantain | |
Echinocereus coccineus | Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus Claret Cup | |
Echinocereus coccineus var. paucispinus | Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus Claret Cup | |
Echinochloa crus-pavonis var. macera | Gulf Cockspur Grass | |
Echinochloa muricata | American Barnyard Grass Rough Barnyard Grass Barnyard Grass American Cockspur Grass Wild Millet | |
Echinacea pallida | Pale Purple Coneflower Pale Coneflower | |
Eclipta prostrata | Pie Plant False Daisy Eclipta | |
Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus Lace Hedgehog Purple Candle | |
Echinacea sanguinea | Sanguine Purple Coneflower | |
Echinocactus texensis | Horse Crippler Horse Crippler Cactus Devil's Head Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog | |
Echinodorus tenellus | Mudbabies | |
Echinochloa walteri | Coast Cockspur Grass | |
Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate | |
Eleocharis acicularis | Needle Spikerush | |
Eleocharis atropurpurea | Purple Spikerush | |
Elephantopus carolinianus | Carolina Elephantsfoot | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Eleocharis cellulosa | Gulf Coast Spikerush | |
Eleocharis compressa var. acutisquamata | Sharpscale Spikerush | |
Eleocharis engelmannii | Engelmann's Spikerush | |
Eleocharis equisetoides | Jointed Spikesedge | |
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