Special Collections
Central Great Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. The Central Great Plains extends in a great swath from west-central Texas north through central Oklahoma, Kansas and south-central Nebraska. In Texas, along with the Southwestern Tablelands, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Rolling Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Central Great Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Teucrium laciniatum | Lacy Germander Cut-leaf Germander Dwarf Germander | |
| Tephrosia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Hoarypea Hoary Pea Lindheimer Tephrosia | |
| Tetraneuris linearifolia | Fineleaf Fournerved Daisy Slender-leaf Hymenoxys Bitterweed | |
| Tephrosia onobrychoides | Multibloom Hoarypea Multibloom Tephrosia | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa var. scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tephrosia virginiana | Goat's Rue Virginia Tephrosia Devil's Shoestring | |
| Thymophylla acerosa | Prickly-leaf Dogweed Texas Dogweed Shrubby Dogweed Prickleleaf Dogweed Prickleaf Dogweed Fetid Marigold Scrubby Dogweed | |
| Thelesperma ambiguum | Colorado Greenthread | |
| Thalictrum dasycarpum | Purple Meadow-rue Tall Meadow-rue Meadow Rue | |
| Thelesperma filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Showy Navajo Tea Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma filifolium var. intermedium | Stiff Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma megapotamicum | Hopi Tea Greenthread Green Threads Navajo Tea Cota | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Five-needle Fetid Marigold | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta var. pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Dogweed Dyssodia | |
| Thelesperma simplicifolium | Slender Greenthread Navajo Tea Cota | |
| Thamnosma texana | Texas Desert-rue Dutchman's Breeches Rue Of The Mountains Ruda Del Monte | |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba var. tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
| Tiquilia canescens | Woody Crinklemat Shrubby Coldenia Shrubby Tiquilia | |
| Tiquilia canescens var. canescens | Woolly Crinklemat Woody Crinklemat Dog's Ear Oreja De Perro Rat's Ear Coldenia Woody Tiquilia Gray Tiquilia Gray Coldenia Shrubby Coldenia | |
| Tidestromia lanuginosa | Woolly Tidestromia | |
| Tillandsia recurvata | Small Ball Moss Ball Moss | |
| Townsendia exscapa | Stemless Townsend Daisy Stemless Townsend-daisy Easter Daisy | |
| Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy Poison Ivy | |
| Toxicodendron rydbergii | Western Poison Ivy | |
| Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
| Tragia betonicifolia | Betonyleaf Noseburn | |
| Triodanis biflora | Small Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Tragia brevispica | Shortspike Noseburn | |
| Trichostema brachiatum | Fluxweed False Pennyroyal | |
| Tridens congestus | Pink Fluffgrass Pink Tridens | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
| Tridens eragrostoides | Lovegrass Tridens | |
| Tridens flavus | Purpletop Tridens Redtop Tridens Tall Redtop Tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall Redtop | |
| Tridens flavus var. flavus | Purpletop Tridens | |
| Triodanis holzingeri | Holzinger's Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Trisetum interruptum | Prairie False Oat | |
| Triodanis leptocarpa | Slimpod Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Tridens muticus | Slim Tridens | |
| Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort Bluejacket | |
| Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
| Triplasis purpurea | Purple Sandgrass Purple Triplasis | |
| Tragia ramosa | Branched Noseburn | |
| Typha domingensis | Southern Cattail | |
| Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
| Ulmus americana | American Elm White Elm Soft Elm Water Elm Common Elm | |
| Ungnadia speciosa | Mexican Buckeye Monilla | |
| Urochloa ciliatissima | Fringed Signalgrass | |
| Urochloa fusca | Browntop Signalgrass | |
| Urochloa texana | Texas Signalgrass | |
| Utricularia gibba | Humped Bladderwort Bladderwort Conespur Bladderpod | |
| Utricularia macrorhiza | Common Bladderwort | |
| Valerianella amarella | Hairy Cornsalad | |
| Valerianella radiata | Beaked Cornsalad Woods Corn-salad | |
| Valerianella stenocarpa | Narrowcell Cornsalad | |
| Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed Baldwin's Ironweed Ironweed | |
| Verbena bracteata | Bigbract Verbena Carpet Vervain Prostrate Vervain | |
| Verbena canescens | Gray Vervain | |
| Verbena cloverae | Clover's Vervain | |
| Verbesina encelioides | Cowpen Daisy Golden Crownbeard Butter Daisy | |
| Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
| Verbena hastata | Swamp Verbena Blue Verbena Blue Vervain Simpler's Joy | |
| Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly Ironweed | |
| Vernonia marginata | Plains Ironweed | |
| Veronica peregrina | American Speedwell Purslane Speedwell Neckweed | |
| Veronica peregrina ssp. xalapensis | Hairy Purslane Speedwell | |
| Verbena plicata | Fanleaf Vervain | |
| Verbena stricta | Hoary Verbena Hoary Vervain Tall Vervain Woolly Verbena | |
| Verbena urticifolia | White Vervain White Verbena | |
| Vitis acerifolia | Mapleleaf Grape Panhandle Grape Bush Grape | |
| Vicia americana | American Vetch American Deervetch | |
| Vicia americana ssp. americana | American Vetch | |
| Vicia americana ssp. minor | Mat Vetch | |
| Viola bicolor | Field Pansy Wild Pansy | |
| Vicia ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
| Vicia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
| Vicia ludoviciana ssp. leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Vetch | |
| Vicia minutiflora | Pygmyflower Vetch | |
| Viola missouriensis | Missouri Violet | |
| Vitis monticola | Sweet Mountain Grape Champin Grape | |
| Viola nephrophylla | Northern Bog Violet Wanderer Violet Entire-leaved Prairie Violet Small Mottled Blue Violet | |
| Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry | |
| Vitis rupestris | Sand Grape | |
| Vitis vulpina | Frost Grape Fox Grape | |
| Vulpia octoflora | Sixweeks Fescue Common Sixweeks Grass | |
| Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida | Zexmenia Orange Zexmenia Hairy Wedelia Wedelia Texas Creeping-oxeye | |
| Wolffia columbiana | Columbian Watermeal | |
| Woodsia obtusa | Bluntlobe Cliff Fern Blunt Cliff Fern | |
| Xanthium strumarium | Rough Cocklebur | |
| Xanthisma texanum | Texas Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Star of Texas Texas Sleepy-daisy Texas Sleepydaisy | |
| Xanthisma texanum var. drummondii | Drummond's Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Drummond's Sleepy-daisy Drummond's Sleepydaisy | |
| Yucca arkansana | Arkansas Yucca Softleaf Yucca | |
| Yucca constricta | Buckley Yucca Buckley's Yucca | |
| Yucca glauca | Soapweed Yucca Narrowleaf Yucca Plains Yucca Beargrass Great Plains Yucca | |
| Yucca glauca var. glauca | Soapweed Yucca Narrow-leaf Yucca | |
| Yucca pallida | Pale-leaf Yucca | |
| Yucca reverchonii | San Angelo Yucca | |
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