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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Polygonum punctatum | Dotted Smartweed | |
Potamogeton pusillus | Small Pondweed | |
Polygonum ramosissimum | Bushy Knotweed | |
Polygonum scandens | Climbing False Buckwheat | |
Polygonum tenue | Pleatleaf Knotweed | |
Portulaca umbraticola | Wingpod Purslane Purslane | |
Portulaca umbraticola ssp. umbraticola | Wingpod Purslane | |
Prunus angustifolia | Chickasaw Plum Sandhill Plum | |
Prosopis glandulosa | Honey Mesquite Glandular Mesquite Algarroba | |
Prunus gracilis | Oklahoma Plum | |
Proboscidea louisianica | Louisiana Devil's-claw Devil's claw Ram's-horn Unicorn Plant Proboscis Flower | |
Proboscidea louisianica ssp. louisianica | Ram's Horn Devil's Claw Unicorn Plant Ram's Horn | |
Prunus mexicana | Mexican Plum Bigtree Plum Inch Plum | |
Prunus rivularis | River Plum Creek Plum Hog Plum | |
Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
Prunus virginiana var. demissa | Western Chokecherry | |
Psilostrophe gnaphalioides | Dudweed | |
Psoralidium lanceolatum | Lemon Scurfpea | |
Pseudognaphalium stramineum | Cottonbatting Plant | |
Psilostrophe tagetina | Woolly Paperflower Paperflower | |
Psilostrophe tagetina var. cerifera | Woolly Paperflower Plains Paperflower Hairy Paperflower | |
Psoralidium tenuiflorum | Slimflower Scurfpea Scurfy Pea | |
Ptelea trifoliata | Wafer Ash Common Hoptree Hop Tree | |
Ptelea trifoliata ssp. trifoliata | Common Hoptree Baldwin Hop-tree | |
Pyrrhopappus grandiflorus | Tuberous Desert-chicory | |
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