Texas Blackland Prairies
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. Lying entirely within the state of Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Blackland Prairie vegetative region. It is comprised of two parallel bands separated by the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion and extending from southern Texas north to very near the Oklahoma border.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Dichanthelium oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes var. oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium ovale | Eggleaf Rosette Grass | |
Digitaria patens | Texas Cottontop | |
Dichanthelium pedicellatum | Cedar Rosette Grass Corm-based Panicgrass | |
Digitaria pubiflora | Carolina Crabgrass | |
Dichanthelium ravenelii | Ravenel's Rosette Grass | |
Dichondra recurvata | Oakwoods Ponysfoot Oakwoods Ponyfoot | |
Dichanthelium sabulorum | Hemlock Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium sabulorum var. thinium | Hemlock Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium scabriusculum | Woolly Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium scoparium | Velvet Panicum | |
Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon | Roundseed Panicgrass | |
Diodia teres | Poorjoe | |
Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
Diodia virginiana | Virginia Buttonweed Buttonweed | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
Doellingeria sericocarpoides | Southern Whitetop | |
Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower | |
Draba brachycarpa | Shortpod Draba | |
Drosera brevifolia | Dwarf Sundew Spatulate-leaved Sundew | |
Drosera capillaris | Pink Sundew | |
Draba cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba Whitlow-grass | |
Draba cuneifolia var. cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba | |
Draba platycarpa | Broadpod Draba Broad-pod Draba Broadpod Whitlowgrass Broadpod Whitlow-grass | |
Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
Dysodiopsis tagetoides | False Dogfennel Dogweed | |
Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
Echinacea atrorubens | Topeka Purple Coneflower | |
Echinodorus berteroi | Upright Burrhead | |
Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping Burhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword Burhead Creeping Water-plantain | |
Echinocereus coccineus | Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus Claret Cup | |
Echinocereus coccineus var. paucispinus | Scarlet Hedgehog Cactus Claret Cup | |
Echinocereus enneacanthus | Pitaya Strawberry Cactus Banana Cactus Cob Cactus Purple Pitaya Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus Prostrate Hedgehog Cactus | |
Echinocereus enneacanthus var. brevispinus | Pitaya | |
Echinochloa muricata | American Barnyard Grass Rough Barnyard Grass Barnyard Grass American Cockspur Grass Wild Millet | |
Echinacea pallida | Pale Purple Coneflower Pale Coneflower | |
Eclipta prostrata | Pie Plant False Daisy Eclipta | |
Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus Lace Hedgehog Purple Candle | |
Echinacea sanguinea | Sanguine Purple Coneflower | |
Echinocactus texensis | Horse Crippler Horse Crippler Cactus Devil's Head Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog | |
Echinodorus tenellus | Mudbabies | |
Echinochloa walteri | Coast Cockspur Grass | |
Ehretia anacua | Anacua Sugarberry Anacua Anaqua Anacahuita Knockaway Knackaway Sandpaper Tree Manzanita Manzanillo Tlalahuacate | |
Eleocharis acicularis | Needle Spikerush | |
Eleocharis atropurpurea | Purple Spikerush | |
Elephantopus carolinianus | Carolina Elephantsfoot | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Eleocharis cellulosa | Gulf Coast Spikerush | |
Eleocharis compressa var. acutisquamata | Sharpscale Spikerush | |
Eleocharis engelmannii | Engelmann's Spikerush | |
Eleocharis equisetoides | Jointed Spikesedge | |
Eleocharis flavescens | Yellow Spikerush Pale Spike-rush Wrinkle-sheathed Spike-rush | |
Eleocharis interstincta | Knotted Spikerush | |
Eleocharis macrostachya | Pale Spikerush | |
Eleocharis microcarpa | Smallfruit Spikerush | |
Eleocharis minima | Small Spikerush | |
Eleocharis montevidensis | Sand Spikerush Spike Rush | |
Eleocharis obtusa | Blunt Spikerush | |
Eleocharis olivacea | Bright Green Spikerush | |
Eleocharis olivacea var. olivacea | Bright Green Spikerush | |
Eleocharis palustris | Common Spikerush Common Spike-rush Creeping Spikesedge | |
Eleocharis parvula | Dwarf Spikerush | |
Eleocharis quadrangulata | Squarestem Spikerush | |
Eleocharis reverchonii | Reverchon's Spikerush | |
Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked Spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
Eleocharis tenuis | Slender Spikerush | |
Eleocharis tortilis | Twisted Spikerush | |
Elephantopus tomentosus | Elephant's-foot Common Elephant's-foot Devil's Grandmother | |
Elionurus tripsacoides | Pan American Balsamscale Balsamscale | |
Elymus virginicus | Virginia Wild Rye Virginia Wildrye | |
Elymus virginicus var. virginicus | Virginia Wildrye Virginia Wild Rye | |
Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon Tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
Epipactis gigantea | Stream Orchid Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore | |
Epithelantha micromeris | Pingpong Ball Cactus Button Cactus | |
Ephedra pedunculata | Vine Jointfir | |
Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouring-rush Horsetail | |
Equisetum laevigatum | Smooth Horsetail Horsetail | |
Eriogonum abertianum | Abert's Buckwheat Abert's Wild Buckwheat | |
Erythronium albidum | White Troutlily White Dogtooth-violet White Fawnlily Adder's-tongue | |
Erigeron annuus | Eastern Daisy Fleabane Daisy Fleabane | |
Eriogonum annuum | Annual Buckwheat Annual Wild Buckwheat Umbrella Plant | |
Erysimum asperum | Western Wallflower | |
Eragrostis capillaris | Lace Grass Lace Lovegrass Lace Love Grass | |
Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy Lovegrass Gummy Love Grass | |
Eriocaulon decangulare | Ten-angle Pipewort Pipewort | |
Eriastrum diffusum | Miniature Woollystar | |
Eryngium diffusum | Spreading Eryngo | |
Eragrostis elliottii | Field Lovegrass Field Love Grass | |
Erigeron geiseri | Geiser's Fleabane | |
Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal | |
Eragrostis hirsuta | Bigtop Lovegrass Bigtop Love Grass | |
Eryngium hookeri | Hooker's Eryngo | |
Eragrostis hypnoides | Teal Lovegrass Teal Love Grass | |
Eragrostis intermedia | Plains Lovegrass Plains Love Grass | |
Eryngium integrifolium | Blueflower Eryngo Blue-flower Coyote-thistle | |
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