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 |
Lycium berlandieri | Berlandier's Wolfberry Wolfberry | |
Lycium carolinianum | Carolina Wolfberry Carolina Desert-thorn Creeping Wolfberry Christmas Berry | |
Lythrum californicum | California Loosestrife | |
Lycium carolinianum var. quadrifidum | Carolina Wolfberry Creeping Wolfberry Carolina Desert-thorn | |
Lythrum ovalifolium | Low Loosestrife Stream Loosestrife | |
Lygodesmia texana | Texas Skeleton Plant Texas Skeleton Weed Skeleton-plant Purple Dandelion Flowering Straw | |
Malvastrum americanum | Indian Valley False Mallow | |
Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving Sailor Climbing Snapdragon Little Snapdragon Vine | |
Malvaviscus arboreus | Turkscap Wax Mallow Bleeding Hearts Mexican Apple Manzanita | |
Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii | Turk's Cap Drummond's Turk's Cap Drummond Turk's Cap Wax Mallow Drummond's Wax Mallow Drummond Wax Mallow Red Mallow Texas Mallow Mexican Apple Sleeping Hibiscus Bleeding Hearts Manzanita | |
Malvastrum aurantiacum | Wright's False Mallow | |
Matelea biflora | Star Milkvine Purple Milkweed Vine | |
Malachra capitata | Yellow Leafbract Malva De Caballo Horse Mallow | |
Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's-buttons Puffballs White Barbara's-buttons Barbara's Buttons | |
Marshallia caespitosa var. signata | Marked Barbara's-buttons Marked Barbara's Buttons Puffballs | |
Matelea cynanchoides | Prairie Milkvine | |
Matelea edwardsensis | Plateau Milkvine Plateau Milkweed Vine | |
Malpighia glabra | Barbados Cherry Wild Crapemyrtle Acerola Manzanita | |
Matelea gonocarpos | Anglepod Angularfruit Milkvine | |
Mammillaria heyderi | Little Nipple Cactus Heyder Pincushion Cactus | |
Mandevilla lanuginosa | Plateau Rocktrumpet | |
Mammillaria lasiacantha | Lacespine Nipple Cactus | |
Manfreda longiflora | Longflower Tuberose Amole De RãO Runyon's Huaco | |
Mandevilla macrosiphon | Plateau Rocktrumpet Longtube Trumpet Flower Flor De San Juan Rock Trumpet | |
Manfreda maculosa | False Aloe Spice Lily Spice-lily | |
Marsilea macropoda | Bigfoot Water-clover Water-clover Clover-fern Largefoot Pepperwort | |
Matelea parviflora | Smallflower Milkvine | |
Machaeranthera pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
Machaeranthera pinnatifida ssp. pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
Machaeranthera pinnatifida var. pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
Mammillaria prolifera var. texana | Texas Nipple Cactus | |
Matelea radiata | Farfurrias Milkvine | |
Matelea reticulata | Pearl Milkweed Vine Netted Milkvine Green Milkweed Vine Net Vein Milkvine | |
Malvella sagittifolia | Arrow-leaf Mallow Arrowleaf Mallow | |
Matelea sagittifolia | Arrowleaf Milkvine | |
Manfreda sileri | Siler's Tuberose | |
Mahonia swaseyi | Texas Barberry Texas Oregon-grape | |
Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo Mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate Barberry Wild Currant | |
Manfreda variegata | Mottled Tuberose Huaco Texas Tuberose | |
Marsilea vestita | Hairy Water-clover Hairy Waterclover Hairy Water Clover Clover Fern | |
Manihot walkerae | Walker's Manioc Walker's Manihot Texas Tapioca | |
Mentzelia albescens | Wavyleaf Blazingstar | |
Melampodium cinereum | Hoary Blackfoot | |
Melampodium cinereum var. hirtellum | Hoary Blackfoot | |
Merremia dissecta | Alamo Vine Noyau Vine Correhuela De Las Doce | |
Meximalva filipes | Texasfan | |
Menodora heterophylla | Low Menodora Redbud Twinpod | |
Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica | |
Menodora longiflora | Showy Menodora Twinpod | |
Mentzelia multiflora | Adonis Blazingstar Prairie Stickleaf Blazingstar | |
Melica nitens | Three-flower Melic Tall Melicgrass Threeflower Melicgrass Melicgrass | |
Mentzelia nuda | Bractless Blazingstar Sand Lily | |
Mentzelia oligosperma | Stick-leaf Chickenthief | |
Melothria pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber Meloncito Speckled Gourd | |
Melothria pendula var. pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber | |
Mecardonia procumbens | Baby Jump-up | |
Melochia pyramidata | Pyramidflower Broom-wood Pyramid Flower | |
Mentzelia reverchonii | Reverchon's Blazingstar Reverchon's Stick-leaf Prairie Stickleaf | |
Menodora scabra | Rough Menodora | |
Melochia tomentosa | Pyramid Bush Teabush Red Rope Velvety Melochia Kidney Bush Woolly Pyramidflower | |
Mimosa aculeaticarpa | Catclaw Mimosa | |
Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera | Catclaw Mimosa Cat's-claw Mimosa Wait-a-bit | |
Mimulus alatus | Sharpwing Monkeyflower Sharp-winged Monkeyflower | |
Mirabilis albida | White Four O'clock Dwarf Four O'clock | |
Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
Mimulus glabratus | Roundleaf Monkeyflower Yellow Monkeyflower | |
Mimosa latidens | Kairn's Sensitive Briar | |
Mirabilis linearis | Narrowleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mirabilis nyctaginea | Heartleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mitreola petiolata | Lax Hornpod | |
Mimosa roemeriana | Roemer's Mimosa Sensitive Briar | |
Mikania scandens | Climbing Hempvine Climbing Hempweed | |
Mimosa strigillosa | Powderpuff Sunshine Mimosa Sensitive Plant | |
Mimosa texana | Texas Mimosa Wherry Mimosa | |
Modiola caroliniana | Carolina Bristlemallow Carolina Modiola | |
Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
Monarda clinopodioides | Basil Beebalm | |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
Monarda fruticulosa | Shrubby Beebalm Shrubby Horsemint Spotted Beebalm | |
Mortonia greggii | Gregg's Saddlebush Afinador | |
Monotropa hypopitys | Pinesap | |
Monanthochloe littoralis | Shoregrass | |
Morus microphylla | Texas Mulberry Littleleaf Mulberry Mountain Mulberry Mexican Mulberry Dwarf Mulberry | |
Monolepis nuttalliana | Nuttall's Povertyweed | |
Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
Monarda punctata var. lasiodonta | Spotted Beebalm | |
Monarda russeliana | Redpurple Beebalm | |
Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
Mortonia sempervirens | Rio Grande Saddlebush | |
Mollugo verticillata | Green Carpetweed | |
Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf Muhly Hair-awn Muhly Hairy-awn Muhly Hair Grass Pink Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Muhly Lindheimer Muhly Big Muhly Blue Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia porteri | Bush Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia spiciformis | Longawn Muhly | |
Najas guadalupensis | Common Water Nymph Southern Water Nymph Najas | |
Nama havardii | Havard's Fiddleleaf | |
Nama hispidum | Sand Bells Bristly Nama Sand-bell | |
Nama jamaicense | Jamaicanweed Jamaican Weed Fiddleleaf Nama | |
Nassella leucotricha | Texas Wintergrass Texas Speargrass Wintergrass | |
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