High Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 51 counties in western and northwestern Texas. It extends west into New Mexico and north across western Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, into southwestern South Dakota and southeastern Wyoming. In Texas, this ecoregion is commonly referred to as the Llano Estacado, a mostly flat plateau of short grass prairie. It covers approximately the same area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s High Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the High Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Sporobolus giganteus | Giant Dropseed | |
Sphaeralcea hastulata | Spear Globemallow | |
Spermolepis inermis | Red River Scaleseed Spreading Scaleseed | |
Sphenopholis intermedia | Slender Wedgescale | |
Sphenopholis obtusata | Prairie Wedgescale | |
Spartina pectinata | Prairie Cordgrass Freshwater Cordgrass Sloughgrass | |
Spirodela polyrrhiza | Common Duckmeat Giant Duckweed | |
Sporobolus pyramidatus | Whorled Dropseed Target Dropseed Madagascar Dropseed | |
Sporobolus vaginiflorus | Poverty Dropseed | |
Spiranthes vernalis | Spring Ladies'-tresses Spring Lady's Tresses | |
Sporobolus wrightii | Big Sacaton Sacaton Alkali Sacaton | |
Strophostyles helvola | Trailing Fuzzybean Amberique-bean Trailing Wild Bean Trailing Fuzzy Bean | |
Strophostyles leiosperma | Slickseed Fuzzybean | |
Stenosiphon linifolius | False Gaura | |
Stenaria nigricans | Bluets Diamond-flowers | |
Stenaria nigricans var. nigricans | Diamondflowers Narrowleaf Bluets Baby's Breath Bluets Fine-leaf Bluets | |
Stephanomeria pauciflora | Brownplume Wirelettuce Brown-plume Desert Straw Fewflower Wirelettuce Prairie Skeletonplant | |
Stuckenia pectinata | Sago Pondweed | |
Stillingia sylvatica | Queen's-delight | |
Stillingia treculiana | Trecul's Toothleaf | |
Suaeda calceoliformis | Pursh Seepweed | |
Symphyotrichum divaricatum | Southern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Lawn American-aster White Wood Aster Saltmarsh Aster Slender Aster | |
Symphyotrichum ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster | |
Symphyotrichum ericoides var. ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster White Aster White Prairie Aster | |
Symphyotrichum falcatum | White Prairie Aster | |
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