Western Gulf Coastal Plain
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. As its name suggests, it is comprised of the coastal plain of Texas, extending along the Gulf Coast south into Mexico and east over portions of the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Gulf Marshes and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Western Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Abutilon abutiloides | Shrubby Indian Mallow | |
Abronia ameliae | Amelia's Sand-verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abronia fragrans | Fragrant Sand-verbena Snowball Sand Verbena Sweet Sand-verbena Prairie Snowball Sand Verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abutilon fruticosum | Indian Mallow Texas Indian Mallow | |
Abutilon hypoleucum | Whiteleaf Indian Mallow White-leaf Indian-mallow Rio Grande Abutilon | |
Abutilon trisulcatum | Anglestem Indian Mallow | |
Abutilon wrightii | Wright's Indian Mallow | |
Acaciella angustissima | Prairie Acacia Fern Acacia Whiteball Acacia Prairie Wattle White-ball Acacia | |
Acaciella angustissima var. hirta | Prairie Acacia Texas Prairie Acacia Texas Fern Acacia Prairie Wattle | |
Acalypha gracilens | Slender Threeseed Mercury | |
Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acalypha monostachya | Round Copperleaf | |
Acalypha monococca | Slender Threeseed Mercury | |
Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
Acleisanthes obtusa | Berlandier's Trumpets Vine Four O'Clock | |
Acmella oppositifolia | Oppositeleaf Spotflower | |
Acmella oppositifolia var. repens | Oppositeleaf Spotflower Opposite-leaf Spotflower | |
Acalypha ostryifolia | Pineland Threeseed Mercury Hop-hornbeam Copperleaf | |
Acalypha radians | Cardinal's Feather Cardinal Feather | |
Acalypha rhomboidea | Common Threeseed Mercury Virginia Threeseed Mercury | |
Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
Acourtia runcinata | Featherleaf Desertpeony Peonia | |
Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
Acanthocereus tetragonus | Triangle Cactus Barbed-wire Cactus Chaco | |
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