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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Capsicum annuum | Chile Tepin Chile Pequin Chiltepin Chile Petin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
Carex annectens | Yellowfruit Sedge | |
Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum | Chile Pequin Chile Tepin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
Carya aquatica | Water Hickory Bitter Water Hickory Bitter Hickory Swamp Hickory Water Pignut Hickory Water Pignut Bitter Pecan | |
Carex austrina | Southern Sedge | |
Carex basiantha | Willdenow's Sedge Basal-fruit Caric Sedge Widow Caric Sedge | |
Calylophus berlandieri | Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops | |
Calylophus berlandieri ssp. berlandieri | Berlandier's Sundrops Drummond Sundrops Square-bud Primrose | |
Calylophus berlandieri ssp. pinifolius | Berlandier's Sundrops Square-bud Primrose Sundrops Square-bud Day-primrose | |
Catalpa bignonioides | Southern Catalpa Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
Carex blanda | Eastern Woodland Sedge Creek Sedge Common Wood Sedge | |
Carex brevior | Shortbeak Sedge | |
Cardamine bulbosa | Bulbous Bittercress Spring Cress | |
Carex bulbostylis | False Hair Sedge | |
Carex bushii | Bush's Sedge | |
Cabomba caroliniana | Carolina Fanwort Green Cabomba Fish-grass Washington-grass Carolina Watershield Washington-plant | |
Carex caroliniana | Carolina Sedge Carolina Caric Sedge | |
Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
Carex cephalophora | Oval-leaf Sedge | |
Carex cherokeensis | Cherokee Sedge | |
Calliandra conferta | Rio Grande Stickpea Fairy Duster | |
Carya cordiformis | Bitternut Hickory Swamp Hickory Bitternut Pig Hickory Pignut Hickory Pignut White Hickory Red Hickory Bitter Walnut Bitter Pecan | |
Carex corrugata | Prune-fruit Sedge | |
Carex complanata | Hirsute Sedge | |
Carex crus-corvi | Ravenfoot Sedge | |
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