Cross Timbers and Prairies
The Cross Timbers and Prairies area in North Central Texas includes the Cross Timbers, Grand Prairie, and North Central Prairies land resource areas. This area represents the southern extension of the Central Lowlands and the western extreme of the Coastal Plains. The wide variances in geologic formations bring about sharp contrasts in topography, soils, and vegetation. Upland soils of both the East and West Cross Timbers are light, slightly acid loamy sands and sandy loams with yellowish brown to red clayey subsoils. Bottomland soils have small, dark, neutral to calcareous clayey areas, and loamy alluvial soils occur along the minor streams. Upland soils are dark, deep to shallow, and stony calcareous clays with subsoils of lighter, limy earths and limestone fragments. Bottomland soils are reddish brown, loamy to clayey calcareous alluvial. The North Central Prairies are interspersed with rapidly drained sandstone and shaley ridges and hills occupied by scrub live oak, juniper, and mesquite. Uplands are brown, sandy loam to silt loam, slightly acid soils over red to gray, neutral to alkaline clayey subsoils. Bottomland soils are brown to dark gray, loamy and clayey, neutral to calcareous, and alluvial.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Euphorbia marginata | Snow On The Mountain Snow-on-the-mountain | |
Eupatorium serotinum | White Boneset Lateflowering Thoroughwort Late Boneset Late-flowering Boneset | |
Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce | |
Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens | Stretchberry Elbowbush Stretch-berry Downy Forestiera Desert Olive Elbow-bush | |
Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash | |
Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
Funastrum cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine Climbing Milkweed Vine Twine-vine | |
Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
Gaillardia suavis | Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs | |
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