Special Collections
South Central Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. It extends from the Western Gulf Coastal Plain east across much of Louisiana and north into southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Pineywoods vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the South Central Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Flyriella parryi | Chisos Mountain Brickellbush | |
| Flaveria trinervia | Clustered Yellowtops | |
| Forestiera acuminata | Eastern Swamp Privet Swamp Privet Texas Privet | |
| Forestiera angustifolia | Narrow-leaf Forestiera Tanglewood Desert Olive Texas Swamp-privet Panalero Elbow Bush | |
| Forestiera ligustrina | Upland Swampprivet | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
| Forestiera reticulata | Netleaf Swampprivet Net-leaf Forestiera | |
| Fouquieria splendens | Ocotillo Devil's Walking Stick Candlewood | |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Fraxinus berlandieriana | Mexican Ash Berlandier Ash Berlandier's Ash Plumero | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood | |
| Fraxinus caroliniana | Carolina Ash Pop Ash Water Ash Swamp Ash Florida Ash Poppy Ash | |
| Froelichia floridana | Plains Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's Ash Gregg Ash Littleleaf Ash Dogleg Ash Escobilla Barreta China | |
| Froelichia gracilis | Slender Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Virginia Strawberry Wild Strawberry | |
| Fuirena bushii | Bush's Umbrella-sedge | |
| Funastrum crispum | Wavyleaf Twinevine Wavy-leaf Milkweed Vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine Climbing Milkweed Vine Twine-vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides ssp. cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine | |
| Fuirena simplex | Western Umbrella-sedge Umbrellagrass Western Umbrella Sedge | |
| Fuirena simplex var. simplex | Western Umbrella-sedge Western Umbrella Sedge | |
| Fuirena squarrosa | Hairy Umbrella Sedge | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Winkler Gaillardia | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis var. aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Prairie Gaillardia | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis var. winkleri | Winkler's Blanketflower | |
| Gaillardia amblyodon | Maroon Blanketflower Red Gaillardia Red Indian Blanket | |
| Galphimia angustifolia | Narrowleaf Goldshower Thryallis Narrow-leaf Goldshower | |
| Galium aparine | Stickywilly Catchweed Bedstraw Cleavers Common Bedstraw Sticky Weed Goose Grass | |
| Gamochaeta argyrinea | Silver Cudweed Silvery Everlasting | |
| Galium circaezans | Licorice Bedstraw | |
| Gamochaeta falcata | Narrowleaf Purple Everlasting | |
| Galactia marginalis | Edible Milkpea | |
| Galium obtusum | Bluntleaf Bedstraw | |
| Galium obtusum ssp. obtusum | Bluntleaf Bedstraw | |
| Gamochaeta pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Everlasting | |
| Galium pilosum | Hairy Bedstraw | |
| Galium proliferum | Limestone Bedstraw | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Gamochaeta purpurea | Spoonleaf Purple Everlasting Early Cudweed | |
| Gaillardia pulchella var. pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel | |
| Gaillardia suavis | Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs | |
| Galactia texana | Texas Milkpea | |
| Galium texense | Texas Bedstraw | |
| Galium tinctorium | Stiff Marsh Bedstraw | |
| Galium uncinulatum | Bristly Bedstraw | |
| Galium uniflorum | Oneflower Bedstraw | |
| Galium virgatum | Southwestern Bedstraw Southwest Bedstraw | |
| Galactia volubilis | Downy Milkpea | |
| Geranium carolinianum | Carolina Geranium Wild Geranium Carolina Cranesbill | |
| Geum canadense | White Avens | |
| Gentiana saponaria | Harvestbells Soapwort Gentian | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina Jessamine Yellow Jessamine Evening Trumpetflower Poor Man's Rope | |
| Geranium texanum | Texas Geranium | |
| Giliastrum acerosum | Bluebowls Prickleleaf Gilia | |
| Giliastrum incisum | Splitleaf Gilia Split-leaf Gilia Cut-leaf Gilia | |
| Giliastrum rigidulum | Bluebowls Blue Gilia | |
| Gillenia stipulata | American Ipecac | |
| Gilia tricolor | Bird's-eye Gilia Bird's-eyes | |
| Gleditsia aquatica | Water Locust Swamp Locust | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Moradilla Alfombrilla | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Mock Vervain Dakota Vervain | |
| Glandularia canadensis | Rose Vervain Sweet William Rose Mock Vervain | |
| Glandularia pumila | Dwarf Vervain Low Verbena Pink Mock Vervain Pink Verbena Wild Vervain | |
| Glandularia quandrangulata | Beaked Mock Vervain Pale Mock Vervain Chihuahuan Mock Vervain | |
| Glyceria septentrionalis | Floating Mannagrass Northern Mannagrass Eastern Mannagrass | |
| Glyceria striata | Fowl Mannagrass | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
| Glandularia tumidula | Plains Mock Vervain | |
| Glandulicactus uncinatus | Chihuahuan Fishhook Cactus | |
| Glandulicactus uncinatus var. wrightii | Chihuahuan Fishhook Cactus Brown-flowered Hedgehog Cactus Catclaw Cactus | |
| Gomphrena haageana | Rio Grande Globe Amaranth | |
| Gossypium hirsutum | Upland Cotton | |
| Gossypianthus lanuginosus | Woolly Cottonflower | |
| Gomphrena serrata | Arrasa Con Todo | |
| Gratiola brevifolia | Sticky Hedgehyssop | |
| Gratiola flava | Yellow Hedgehyssop | |
| Grindelia grandiflora | Manyray Gumweed | |
| Grindelia lanceolata | Narrowleaf Gumweed Fall Gumweed | |
| Grindelia lanceolata var. lanceolata | Narrowleaf Gumweed | |
| Gratiola neglecta | Clammy Hedgehyssop | |
| Grindelia papposa | Spanish Gold Clasping-leaved Haplopappus Saw-leaf Daisy | |
| Gratiola pilosa | Shaggy Hedgehyssop | |
| Grusonia schottii | Dog Cholla Big Bend Pricklypear | |
| Grindelia squarrosa | Curlycup Gumweed | |
| Gratiola virginiana | Roundfruit Hedgehyssop | |
| Guaiacum angustifolium | Texas Lignum-vitae Soapbush Guayacan | |
| Gutierrezia microcephala | Threadleaf Snakeweed Threadleaf Broomweed Smallhead Snakeweed Littlehead Snakeweed | |
| Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom Snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas Snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine Weed Matchweed | |
| Gutierrezia sphaerocephala | Roundleaf Snakeweed | |
| Gutierrezia texana | Texas Snakeweed | |
| Gymnopogon ambiguus | Bearded Skeletongrass | |
| Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky Coffeetree Stump Tree | |
| Gymnosperma glutinosum | Gumhead Tatalencho | |
| Halesia diptera | Two-wing Silverbell Two-winged Silverbell Silverbell American Snowdrop Tree Snowdrop Tree Snowbell Cowlicks | |
| Haploesthes greggii | False Broomweed | |
| Haploesthes greggii var. texana | Texas False Broomweed | |
| Habenaria repens | Waterspider Bog Orchid Water-spider Orchid | |
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