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
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl | |
Asclepias arenaria | Sand Milkweed Western Sand Milkweed | |
Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
Asclepias brachystephana | Bract Milkweed Desert-rose Milkweed | |
Astragalus ceramicus | Painted Milkvetch | |
Astragalus crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch Ground Plum | |
Astragalus crassicarpus var. crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch | |
Asclepias emoryi | Emory's Milkweed | |
Asclepias engelmanniana | Engelmann's Milkweed | |
Astragalus gracilis | Slender Milkvetch | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Astrolepis integerrima | Hybrid Cloakfern | |
Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata | Swamp Milkweed | |
Asclepias latifolia | Broadleaf Milkweed | |
Astragalus lentiginosus | Freckled Milkvetch | |
Astragalus lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Milkvetch Lindheimer's Astragulus | |
Astragalus lotiflorus | Lotus Milkvetch Lotus Milk-vetch Low Milkvetch Milkvetch | |
Asclepias macrotis | Longhood Milkweed | |
Astragalus missouriensis | Missouri Milkvetch | |
Astragalus mollissimus | Woolly Locoweed Purple Locoweed Woolly Loco Woolly Milkvetch Wooly Loco Wooly Locoweed | |
Astragalus nuttallianus | Nuttall's Milkvetch Small-flowered Milkvetch | |
Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
Astragalus plattensis | Platte River Milkvetch | |
Astragalus praelongus | Stinking Milkvetch | |
Asclepias pumila | Plains Milkweed | |
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |