Special Collections
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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Eleocharis flavescens | Yellow Spikerush Pale Spike-rush Wrinkle-sheathed Spike-rush | |
| Eleocharis interstincta | Knotted Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis macrostachya | Pale Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis microcarpa | Smallfruit Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis minima | Small Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis montevidensis | Sand Spikerush Spike Rush | |
| Eleocharis obtusa | Blunt Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis olivacea | Bright Green Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis olivacea var. olivacea | Bright Green Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis palustris | Common Spikerush Common Spike-rush Creeping Spikesedge | |
| Eleocharis parvula | Dwarf Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis quadrangulata | Squarestem Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis reverchonii | Reverchon's Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked Spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
| Eleocharis tenuis | Slender Spikerush | |
| Eleocharis tortilis | Twisted Spikerush | |
| Elephantopus tomentosus | Elephant's-foot Common Elephant's-foot Devil's Grandmother | |
| Elionurus tripsacoides | Pan American Balsamscale Balsamscale | |
| Eleocharis tuberculosa | Cone-cup Spikerush Tubercled Spikerush Long-tubercled Spikerush | |
| Elymus virginicus | Virginia Wild Rye Virginia Wildrye | |
| Eleocharis vivipara | Viviparous Spikerush | |
| Elymus virginicus var. virginicus | Virginia Wildrye Virginia Wild Rye | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon Tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
| Epipactis gigantea | Stream Orchid Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore | |
| Epithelantha micromeris | Pingpong Ball Cactus Button Cactus | |
| Ephedra pedunculata | Vine Jointfir | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
| Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouring-rush Horsetail | |
| Equisetum laevigatum | Smooth Horsetail Horsetail | |
| Eriogonum abertianum | Abert's Buckwheat Abert's Wild Buckwheat | |
| Erythronium albidum | White Troutlily White Dogtooth-violet White Fawnlily Adder's-tongue | |
| Erigeron annuus | Eastern Daisy Fleabane Daisy Fleabane | |
| Eriogonum annuum | Annual Buckwheat Annual Wild Buckwheat Umbrella Plant | |
| Erysimum asperum | Western Wallflower | |
| Eragrostis capillaris | Lace Grass Lace Lovegrass Lace Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy Lovegrass Gummy Love Grass | |
| Eriocaulon decangulare | Ten-angle Pipewort Pipewort | |
| Eriastrum diffusum | Miniature Woollystar | |
| Eryngium diffusum | Spreading Eryngo | |
| Eragrostis elliottii | Field Lovegrass Field Love Grass | |
| Erigeron geiseri | Geiser's Fleabane | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal | |
| Eragrostis hirsuta | Bigtop Lovegrass Bigtop Love Grass | |
| Eryngium hookeri | Hooker's Eryngo | |
| Eragrostis hypnoides | Teal Lovegrass Teal Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis intermedia | Plains Lovegrass Plains Love Grass | |
| Eryngium integrifolium | Blueflower Eryngo Blue-flower Coyote-thistle | |
| Eriogonum jamesii | James' Buckwheat James' Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eriocaulon koernickianum | Gulf Pipewort | |
| Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Eryngo Eryngo False Purple Thistle | |
| Eriogonum longifolium | Longleaf Buckwheat Longleaf Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eriogonum longifolium var. longifolium | Longleaf Buckwheat | |
| Eragrostis lugens | Mourning Lovegrass Mourning Love Grass | |
| Erigeron modestus | Plains Fleabane Prairie Fleabane | |
| Eriogonum multiflorum | Wild Buckwheat Heart-sepal Buckwheat Heart-sepal Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eragrostis pectinacea | Tufted Lovegrass Tufted Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis pectinacea var. pectinacea | Tufted Lovegrass Tufted Love Grass | |
| Erigeron philadelphicus | Philadelphia Fleabane Fleabane Daisy | |
| Erigeron philadelphicus var. philadelphicus | Philadelphia Fleabane | |
| Erioneuron pilosum | Hairy Woollygrass Hairy Tridens | |
| Erigeron procumbens | Corpus Christi Fleabane | |
| Eryngium prostratum | Creeping Eryngo | |
| Erigeron pulchellus | Robin's Plantain Poor Robin's Plantain Rose Petty Robert's Plantain Blue Spring-daisy | |
| Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus | Robin's Plantain | |
| Eragrostis refracta | Coastal Lovegrass Coastal Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis secundiflora | Red Lovegrass Red Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis sessilispica | Tumble Lovegrass Tumble Love Grass | |
| Eriochloa sericea | Texas Cupgrass | |
| Eragrostis secundiflora ssp. oxylepis | Red Lovegrass Red Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple Lovegrass Purple Love Grass Purple Plains Lovegrass Tumblegrass Petticoat Climber | |
| Erigeron strigosus | Prairie Fleabane Daisy Fleabane Common Eastern Fleabane | |
| Erodium texanum | Texas Stork's Bill Stork's Bill Pine Needle Fillaree | |
| Erigeron tenuis | Slenderleaf Fleabane | |
| Eriocaulon texense | Texas Pipewort | |
| Eragrostis trichodes | Sand Lovegrass Sand Love Grass | |
| Eriogonum wrightii | Wright's Buckwheat Bastard-sage Wild Buckwheat Perennial Buckwheat Shrubby Buckwheat Shrubby Bastard-sage | |
| Eriogonum wrightii var. wrightii | Wright's Buckwheat Wright's Bastard-sage Bastard-sage Shrubby Buckwheat | |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master Button Eryngo Button Snakeroot Beargrass Bear's Grass | |
| Eryngium yuccifolium var. yuccifolium | Button Eryngo Rattlesnake-master Button Snake-root | |
| Eschscholzia californica | California Poppy California Gold Poppy | |
| Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana | Mexican Gold Poppy California Poppy | |
| Escobaria missouriensis | Missouri Foxtail Cactus Plains Nipple Cactus | |
| Eupatorium altissimum | Tall Thoroughwort Tall Boneset | |
| Euonymus americanus | American Strawberry Bush Strawberry Bush Brook Euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting Heart Wahoo | |
| Euonymus atropurpureus | Burningbush Eastern Wahoo Burning Bush Wahoo Waahoo Whahoo Spindle Tree | |
| Euonymus atropurpureus var. atropurpureus | Eastern Wahoo | |
| Euphorbia bicolor | Snow On The Prairie Snow-on-the-prairie | |
| Eupatorium capillifolium | Dogfennel Dog Fennel | |
| Euphorbia corollata | Flowering Spurge | |
| Eupatorium compositifolium | Yankeeweed | |
| Euphorbia cyathophora | Wild Poinsettia Poinsettia Fire On The Mountain | |
| Euphorbia dentata | Toothed Spurge Toothed-leaf Poinsettia | |
| Eustoma exaltatum | Catchfly Prairie Gentian Bluebell Gentian Western Blue Gentian Blue Marsh Lily Small Bluebell Catchfly Gentian Seaside Gentian | |
| Eustoma exaltatum ssp. russellianum | Texas Bluebells Texas Bluebell Bluebell Showy Prairie Gentian Prairie Gentian | |
| Eutrochium fistulosum | Joe-pye Weed Trumpetweed Queen Of The Meadow Hollow Joe-pye Weed | |
| Eupatorium glaucescens | Waxy Thoroughwort | |
| Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top Goldentop Grass-leaved Goldenrod | |
| Euthamia graminifolia var. graminifolia | Flat-top Goldentop | |
| Euthamia gymnospermoides | Texas Goldentop | |
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