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Blackland Prairies

The Blackland Prairies area intermingles with the Post Oak Savannah in the southeast and has divisions known as the San Antonio and Fayette Prairies. This rolling and well-dissected prairie represents the southern extension of the true prairie that occurs from Texas to Canada. The upland blacklands are dark, calcareous shrink-swell clayey soils, changing gradually with depth to light marls or chalks. Bottomland soils are generally reddish brown to dark gray, slightly acid to calcareous, loamy to clayey and alluvial. The soils are inherently productive and fertile, but many have lost productivity through erosion and continuous cropping.

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Eriophorum virginicum	Tawny Cottongrass	9 images
Eutrochium maculatum	Spotted Joe-pye Weed Joe-pye Weed Spotted Trumpetweed	23 images
Eupatorium perfoliatum	Common Boneset	18 images
Eubotrys racemosus	Swamp Sweetbells Swamp Doghobble Sweetbells Leucothoe Sweetbells Deciduous Swamp Fetterbush Coastal Fetterbush Swamp Leucothoe	8 images
Festuca rubra	Red Fescue
Forestiera acuminata	Eastern Swamp Privet Swamp Privet Texas Privet	2 images
Fraxinus pennsylvanica	Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash	15 images
Fraxinus profunda	Pumpkin Ash	4 images
Fraxinus quadrangulata	Blue Ash	12 images
Gaylussacia baccata	Black Huckleberry	7 images
Gaylussacia frondosa	Blue Huckleberry Dangleberry
Galium triflorum	Fragrant Bedstraw Sweet-scented Bedstraw	4 images
Gelsemium rankinii	Swamp Jessamine Rankin's Trumpetflower Rankin's Jessamine Swamp Yellow Jasmine	2 images
Glyceria septentrionalis	Floating Mannagrass Northern Mannagrass Eastern Mannagrass
Helianthus angustifolius	Swamp Sunflower Narrowleaf Sunflower Narrow-leaved Sunflower	44 images
Helenium autumnale var. autumnale	Common Sneezeweed	34 images
Helianthus giganteus	Giant Sunflower	4 images
Hibiscus coccineus	Scarlet Rosemallow Crimson Rosemallow Wild Red Mallow Texas Star Hibiscus	11 images
Hibiscus grandiflorus	Swamp Rose-mallow Pink Swamp Hibiscus Large-flowered Hibiscus	53 images
Hibiscus lasiocarpos	Woolly Rose-mallow Woolly Mallow Rose-mallow False Cotton	15 images
Hibiscus moscheutos	Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus	26 images
Hyptis alata	Clustered Bushmint	11 images
Hypericum densiflorum	Bushy St. John's-wort	1 images
Hymenocallis occidentalis var. occidentalis	Northern Spiderlily Carolina Spiderlily	6 images
Hydrolea ovata	Blue Waterleaf Ovate False Fiddleleaf Hairy Hydrolea	15 images
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