Special Collections
Southern Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 21 Texas counties. This ecoregion borders most of the southwestern portion of the Rio Grande River and extends into northern Mexico. In Texas, it encompasses much of the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s South Texas Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Southern Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Juncus scirpoides | Needlepod Rush | |
| Juncus torreyi | Torrey's Rush | |
| Juncus validus | Roundhead Rush | |
| Juncus validus var. validus | Roundhead Rush | |
| Kallstroemia hirsutissima | Hairy Caltrop Hairy Carpetweed | |
| Karwinskia humboldtiana | Coyotillo Humboldt Coyotillo | |
| Kallstroemia parviflora | Warty Caltrop Small-flowered Carpetweed | |
| Kallstroemia perennans | Perennial Caltrop | |
| Koeberlinia spinosa | Crown Of Thorns Spiny Allthorn | |
| Krigia caespitosa | Weedy Dwarfdandelion Dwarf Dandelion | |
| Krameria erecta | Littleleaf Ratany Range Ratany | |
| Krameria grayi | White Ratany Crimson Beak Chacati Cosahui | |
| Krameria lanceolata | Trailing Krameria Ratany Crameria Prairie Sandbur Trailing Ratany | |
| Krigia occidentalis | Western Dwarfdandelion | |
| Krameria ramosissima | Manystem Ratany Calderona | |
| Krigia wrightii | Wright's Dwarfdandelion | |
| Lantana achyranthifolia | Brushland Shrubverbena Mexican Marjoram Veinyleaf Lantana | |
| Lantana canescens | Hammock Shrubverbena | |
| Laennecia coulteri | Conyza Coulter's Horseweed Coulter's Woolwort Annual Horsetail | |
| Lactuca floridana | Woodland Lettuce Florida Lettuce | |
| Lappula occidentalis var. cupulata | Flatspine Stickseed Western Stickseed | |
| Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis | |
| Lantana urticoides | Texas Lantana Calico Bush | |
| Lemna aequinoctialis | Lesser Duckweed | |
| Lesquerella argyraea | Silver Bladderpod | |
| Lepidium austrinum | Southern Peppergrass Southern Pepperwort | |
| Lepidium densiflorum | Common Pepperweed | |
| Leptochloa dubia | Green Sprangletop | |
| Lesquerella fendleri | Fendler's Bladderpod Popweed | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
| Leptochloa fusca | Malabar Sprangletop | |
| Leptochloa fusca ssp. fascicularis | Bearded Sprangletop | |
| Lesquerella gordonii | Gordon's Bladderpod | |
| Lesquerella grandiflora | Bigflower Bladderpod | |
| Leersia hexandra | Southern Cutgrass | |
| Lepidium lasiocarpum | Shaggyfruit Pepperweed | |
| Lesquerella lasiocarpa | Roughpod Bladderpod | |
| Lesquerella lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Bladderpod | |
| Leucophyllum minus | Big Bend Barometerbush Big Bend Silverleaf | |
| Leersia monandra | Cut Rice Grass Bunch Cutgrass | |
| Leucospora multifida | Narrowleaf Paleseed | |
| Lechea mucronata | Hairy Pinweed | |
| Lemna obscura | Little Duckweed | |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass | |
| Leptochloa panicea | Mucronate Sprangletop Red Sprangletop Needle Sprangletop | |
| Lesquerella purpurea | Rose Bladderpod Purple Bladderpod | |
| Leucaena pulverulenta | Great Leadtree Mexican Leadtree Great Leucaena Tepeguaje | |
| Lesquerella recurvata | Gaslight Bladderpod Slender Bladderpod | |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball Leadtree Littleleaf Leadtree Little Leucaena Lemonball Wahoo Tree | |
| Lechea san-sabeana | San Saba Pinweed | |
| Lesquerella sessilis | Sessile Bladderpod | |
| Lespedeza stuevei | Tall Bush-clover Tall Lespedeza | |
| Lespedeza texana | Texas Lespedeza Texas Bush-clover | |
| Lemna valdiviana | Valdivia Duckweed | |
| Lepidium virginicum | Virginia Peppergrass Virginia Pepperweed Peppergrass Poor Man's Pepper | |
| Lippia alba | Bushy Lippia | |
| Linum alatum | Winged Flax | |
| Limnodea arkansana | Ozark Grass Ozarkgrass | |
| Liatris aspera | Tall Blazing Star Tall Gayfeather Tall Liatris Rough Blazing Star Rough Gayfeather Rough Liatris Button Snakeroot | |
| Linum berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
| Linum berlandieri var. berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax Yellow Flax Stiff-stem Flax | |
| Linum berlandieri var. filifolium | Berlandier's Yellow Flax | |
| Liatris bracteata | Bracted Blazing Star Bracted Gayfeather Bracted Liatris | |
| Limonium carolinianum | Carolina Sealavender Sea Lavender | |
| Lindernia dubia | Yellowseed False Pimpernel | |
| Liatris elegans | Pink-scale Blazing Star Pink-scale Gayfeather Pink-scale Liatris | |
| Liatris elegans var. carizzana | Pink-scale Blazing Star Pink-scale Gayfeather Pink-scale Liatris | |
| Lippia graveolens | Mexican Oregano Redbrush Lippia | |
| Linum hudsonioides | Texas Flax Yellow Flax Hudson Flax | |
| Linum imbricatum | Tufted Flax | |
| Lithospermum incisum | Fringed Puccoon Golden Puccoon Narrowleaf Puccoon Narrow-leaved Puccoon Puccoon Narrowleaf Gromwell Fringed Gromwell Narrowleaf Stoneseed | |
| Lithospermum matamorense | Rough Stoneseed | |
| Linum medium | Stiff Yellow Flax | |
| Linum medium var. texanum | Stiff Yellow Flax | |
| Lithospermum mirabile | San Antonio Stoneseed | |
| Limnosciadium pinnatum | Tansy Dogshade | |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Prairie Gayfeather Prairie Liatris Kansas Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Kansas Liatris Cat-tail Blazing Star Cat-tail Gayfeather Cat-tail Liatris Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
| Linum rupestre | Rock Flax | |
| Linum sulcatum | Grooved Flax Yellow Prairie Flax | |
| Lindheimera texana | Texas Yellowstar Texas Star Texas Yellow-star Lindheimer Daisy | |
| Lonicera albiflora | Western White Honeysuckle White Shrub Honeysuckle White Bush Honeysuckle White Limestone Honeysuckle Texas Honeysuckle White Honeysuckle | |
| Lobelia berlandieri var. brachypoda | Berlandier's Lobelia Blue Lobelia | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Loeflingia squarrosa | Spreading Pygmyleaf | |
| Lophophora williamsii | Peyote | |
| Ludwigia alternifolia | Seedbox | |
| Ludwigia decurrens | Wingleaf Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia glandulosa | Cylindric-fruit Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia linearis | Narrowleaf Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis ssp. octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia palustris | Marsh Seedbox Water Purslane | |
| Ludwigia peploides | Floating Primrose-willow Water-primrose Creeping Water-primrose | |
| Ludwigia repens | Creeping Primrose-willow Floating Primrose-willow Water Primrose | |
| Lupinus subcarnosus | Texas Bluebonnet Sandyland Bluebonnet | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas Bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas Lupine Buffalo Clover Wolf Flower | |
| Lythrum alatum | Winged Lythrum | |
| Lythrum alatum var. lanceolatum | Winged Lythrum Lance-leaf Loosestrife | |
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