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
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Menodora longiflora | Showy Menodora Twinpod | |
Melica nitens | Three-flower Melic Tall Melicgrass Threeflower Melicgrass Melicgrass | |
Mentzelia nuda | Bractless Blazingstar Sand Lily | |
Mentzelia oligosperma | Stick-leaf Chickenthief | |
Melothria pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber Meloncito Speckled Gourd | |
Melothria pendula var. pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber | |
Mentzelia reverchonii | Reverchon's Blazingstar Reverchon's Stick-leaf Prairie Stickleaf | |
Mimosa aculeaticarpa | Catclaw Mimosa | |
Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera | Catclaw Mimosa Cat's-claw Mimosa Wait-a-bit | |
Mirabilis albida | White Four O'clock Dwarf Four O'clock | |
Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
Mirabilis gigantea | Giant Four O'Clock | |
Mimulus glabratus | Roundleaf Monkeyflower Yellow Monkeyflower | |
Mirabilis linearis | Narrowleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mimosa nuttallii | Nuttall's Sensitive Briar | |
Mirabilis nyctaginea | Heartleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mimosa roemeriana | Roemer's Mimosa Sensitive Briar | |
Mimosa rupertiana | Eastern Sensitive Plant | |
Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
Monarda clinopodioides | Basil Beebalm | |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
Morus microphylla | Texas Mulberry Littleleaf Mulberry Mountain Mulberry Mexican Mulberry Dwarf Mulberry | |
Monolepis nuttalliana | Nuttall's Povertyweed | |
Monarda pectinata | Pony Beebalm | |
Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
Mollugo verticillata | Green Carpetweed | |
Muhlenbergia arenicola | Sand Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf Muhly Hair-awn Muhly Hairy-awn Muhly Hair Grass Pink Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia racemosa | Marsh Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia schreberi | Nimblewill | |
Najas guadalupensis | Common Water Nymph Southern Water Nymph Najas | |
Nama hispidum | Sand Bells Bristly Nama Sand-bell | |
Nassella leucotricha | Texas Wintergrass Texas Speargrass Wintergrass | |
Nekemias arborea | Peppervine | |
Nemastylis geminiflora | Prairie Celestials Celestials Prairie Pleatleaf | |
Neptunia lutea | Yellow Sensitive Briar Yellow Puff | |
Neeragrostis reptans | Creeping Lovegrass | |
Nothoscordum bivalve | Crowpoison False Garlic Crow Poison | |
Nolina texana | Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass | |
Nuphar lutea | Yellow Pond Lily Yellow Cow Lily Cow Lily Spatter Dock Wakas | |
Nuphar lutea ssp. advena | Common Spatterdock Spatterdock Yellow Cow-lily Cow-lily Yellow Pond-lily Brandy-bottle | |
Nuttallanthus texanus | Texas Toadflax Texas Toad-flax Toadflax | |
Nyctaginia capitata | Devil's Bouquet Scarlet Muskflower | |
Oenothera albicaulis | Whitest Evening-primrose White-stem Evening-primrose Pale Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera canescens | Spotted Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera calcicola | Texas Beeblossom Limestone Gaura | |
Oenothera cinerea | Woolly Beeblossom High Plains Beeblossom Woolly Gaura High Plains Gaura | |
Oenothera curtiflora | Velvetweed Velvetleaf Gaura Lizard-tail Gaura Willow Gaura | |
Oenothera engelmannii | Engelmann's Evening-primrose Engelmann Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera grandis | Showy Evening-primrose Largeflower Eveningprimrose Showy Eveningprimrose | |
Oenothera jamesii | Trumpet Evening-primrose Trumpet Evening Primrose River Primrose | |
Oenothera laciniata | Cutleaf Evening-primrose Cut-leaved Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Missouri Evening-primrose Fluttermill Big-fruit Evening-primrose Missouri Primrose Bigfruit Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. incana | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Silver Leaf Primrose Bigfruit Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Fluttermill Missouri Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera patriciae | Plains Beeblossom Plains Gaura | |
Oenothera rhombipetala | Fourpoint Evening-primrose Four-point Evening Primrose Diamond Petal Primrose Greater Four-point Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera sinuosa | Wavyleaf Beeblossom Wavyleaf Gaura | |
Oenothera speciosa | Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups | |
Oenothera suffrutescens | Scarlet Beeblossom Scarlet Gaura | |
Oenothera suffulta | Kisses Wild Honeysuckle Beeblossom Roadside Gaura | |
Oenothera triloba | Stemless Evening-primrose Stemless Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera villosa | Hairy Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera villosa ssp. villosa | Hairy Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera xerogaura | Drummond's Beeblossom Drummond's Gaura | |
Oligoneuron nitidum | Shiny Goldenrod | |
Onosmodium bejariense | Soft-hair Marbleseed | |
Onosmodium bejariense var. bejariense | Soft-hair Marbleseed False Gromwell | |
Onosmodium bejariense var. occidentale | Western Marbleseed | |
Ophioglossum engelmannii | Limestone Adder's-tongue Limestone Adderstongue | |
Opuntia engelmannii | Cactus Apple Prickly Pear | |
Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri | Texas Prickly Pear Lindheimer's Prickly Pear Lindheimer Prickly Pear | |
Opuntia humifusa | Low Prickly Pear Smooth Prickly Pear Devil's Tongue | |
Opuntia macrorhiza | Bigroot Prickly Pear Twist-spine Prickly Pear Common Prickly Pear Plains Prickly Pear | |
Opuntia phaeacantha | Tulip Prickly Pear Brownspine Prickly Pear Cactus Purple-fruited Prickly Pear Brown-spined Prickly Pear New Mexico Prickly Pear Desert Prickly Pear | |
Opuntia strigil | Marblefruit Pricklypear Marblefruit Prickly Pear | |
Orobanche ludoviciana | Louisiana Broomrape | |
Orobanche ludoviciana ssp. multiflora | Manyflower Broomrape | |
Oxalis albicans | Radishroot Woodsorrel | |
Oxalis dillenii | Slender Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Woodsorrel | |
Oxytropis lambertii | Purple Locoweed | |
Oxalis violacea | Violet Woodsorrel Violet Wood-sorrel | |
Pappophorum bicolor | Pink Pappasgrass Pink Pappusgrass | |
Palafoxia callosa | Small Palafox Small Palafoxia | |
Panicum capillare | Witchgrass | |
Parthenium confertum | Gray's Feverfew | |
Panicum dichotomiflorum | Fall Panicgrass Fall Panic Grass | |
Paspalum distichum | Knotgrass | |
Panicum diffusum | Spreading Witchgrass West Indian Panicgrass West Indian Panic Grass | |
Paspalidium geminatum | Egyptian Panicgrass | |
Panicum hallii | Hall's Panicgrass Hall's Panic Grass | |
Parthenocissus heptaphylla | Sevenleaf Creeper Seven-leaf Creeper | |
Paronychia jamesii | James' Nailwort | |
Paronychia lindheimeri | Forked Nailwort | |
Panicum obtusum | Vine Mesquite | |
Parietaria pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Pellitory Pennsylvania Cucumber Plant | |
Packera plattensis | Prairie Groundsel Prairie Ragwort | |
Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia Creeper | |
Palafoxia rosea | Rosy Palafox Rose Palafoxia | |
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