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
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Artemisia filifolia | Sand Sagebrush Silver Sagebrush Silvery Wormwood Sand Sage | |
Argythamnia humilis | Low Silverbush | |
Aristida lanosa | Woollysheath Threeawn Woolly Three-awn | |
Aristida longespica | Slimspike Threeawn Kearney's Three-awn Red Three-awn Slender Three-awn | |
Argythamnia mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wildmercury | |
Argythamnia mercurialina var. mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wild Mercury Tall Ditaxis | |
Aristida oligantha | Prairie Threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield Threeawn | |
Argemone polyanthemos | Crested Pricklypoppy Annual Pricklepoppy Bluestem Pricklepoppy Bluestem Prickly Poppy Pricklypoppy Thistle Poppy White Prickly Poppy White Pricklypoppy | |
Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea var. longiseta | Red Three-awn Fendler Three-awn Purple Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi | Blue Threeawn | |
Aristolochia reticulata | Texas Dutchman's Pipe | |
Argythamnia simulans | Plateau Silverbush Tall Wild-mercury | |
Argemone squarrosa | Hedgehog Pricklypoppy Hedgehog Prickly Poppy | |
Asclepias arenaria | Sand Milkweed Western Sand Milkweed | |
Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
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 | |
Astranthium integrifolium | Entireleaf Western Daisy | |
Astranthium integrifolium ssp. ciliatum | Entireleaf Western Daisy | |
Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata | Swamp Milkweed | |
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