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.scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Digitaria cognata | Carolina Crabgrass Fall Witchgrass | |
Dichanthelium depauperatum | Starved Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium meridionale | Matting Rosette Grass | |
Elymus hystrix | Eastern Bottlebrush Grass Bottlebrush Grass | |
Euphorbia corollata | Flowering Spurge | |
Eutrochium fistulosum | Joe-pye Weed Trumpetweed Queen Of The Meadow Hollow Joe-pye Weed | |
Eurybia macrophylla | Bigleaf Aster Large-leaf Wood-aster | |
Fragaria virginiana | Virginia Strawberry Wild Strawberry | |
Gaylussacia baccata | Black Huckleberry | |
Helianthus divaricatus | Woodland Sunflower Rough Sunflower | |
Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth Oxeye Oxeye Sunflower False Sunflower | |
Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian Sunflower Max Sunflower | |
Helianthus occidentalis | Fewleaf Sunflower Western Sunflower | |
Helianthus strumosus | Paleleaf Woodland Sunflower Paleleaf Sunflower Woodland Sunflower | |
Helianthus tuberosus | Jerusalem Artichoke Sunchoke | |
Houstonia longifolia | Longleaf Summer Bluet Pale Bluets | |
Hypoxis hirsuta | Common Goldstar Yellow Star-grass Eastern Yellow Star-grass | |
Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
Ionactis linariifolius | Flaxleaf Whitetop Aster Stiff Aster Flaxleaf Aster | |
Lespedeza capitata | Roundhead Lespedeza Roundhead Bush-clover Round-headed Lespedeza Round-headed Bush-clover | |
Lespedeza hirta | Hairy Lespedeza | |
Lithospermum canescens | Hoary Puccoon | |
Lilium philadelphicum | Wood Lily | |
Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Prairie Gayfeather Prairie Liatris Kansas Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Kansas Liatris Cat-tail Blazing Star Cat-tail Gayfeather Cat-tail Liatris Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
Linum virginianum | Woodland Flax | |
Lobelia spicata | Pale-spike Lobelia | |
Lupinus perennis | Sundial Lupine Wild Lupine | |
Mirabilis linearis | Narrowleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mirabilis nyctaginea | Heartleaf Four O'Clock | |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf Muhly Hair-awn Muhly Hairy-awn Muhly Hair Grass Pink Muhly | |
Oclemena acuminata | Whorled Wood Aster | |
Oenothera fruticosa ssp. tetragona | Narrowleaf Evening-primrose Sundrops | |
Oligoneuron rigidum | Stiff Goldenrod Hard-leaf Goldenrod | |
Oligoneuron rigidum var. rigidum | Stiff Goldenrod | |
Opuntia humifusa | Low Prickly Pear Smooth Prickly Pear Devil's Tongue | |
Oxalis stricta | Common Yellow Oxalis Yellow Wood-sorrel Upright Yellow Wood-sorrel Yellow Woodsorrel | |
Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
Parthenocissus vitacea | Woodbine Hiedra Creeper | |
Penstemon digitalis | Mississippi Penstemon Mississippi Beardtongue Smooth White Penstemon Smooth White Beardtongue Talus Slope Penstemon Talus Slope Beardtongue Foxglove Penstemon Foxglove Beardtongue | |
Penstemon hirsutus | Hairy Penstemon Hairy Beardtongue | |
Phlox pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
Poa pratensis | Kentucky Bluegrass | |
Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
Ptelea trifoliata | Wafer Ash Common Hoptree Hop Tree | |
Pycnanthemum incanum | Hoary Mountain Mint Silverleaf Mountain Mint | |
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium | Narrowleaf Mountain Mint Slender Mountain Mint Common Horsemint | |
Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
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