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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Carex leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Sedge | |
Carex longii | Long's Sedge | |
Carex louisianica | Louisiana Sedge | |
Carex lupuliformis | False Hop Sedge | |
Carex lupulina | Hop Sedge | |
Carex lurida | Shallow Sedge Sallow Sedge Lurid Sedge | |
Carex meadii | Mead's Sedge | |
Callisia micrantha | Cherisse Little-flower Roseling Southern Coastal Roseling Little-flower Spiderwort | |
Carex microdonta | Littletooth Sedge | |
Carex microrhyncha | Littlesnout Sedge | |
Carex muehlenbergii | Muhlenberg's Sedge | |
Carex muehlenbergii var. muehlenbergii | Muhlenberg's Sedge | |
Carex oklahomensis | Oklahoma Sedge | |
Calopogon oklahomensis | Oklahoma Grasspink Prairie Grasspink | |
Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
Cardamine parviflora | Sand Bittercress | |
Callirhoe papaver | Woodland Poppymallow Woodland Poppy-mallow Woodland Poppy Mallow | |
Carlowrightia parviflora | Smallflower Wrightwort | |
Cardamine parviflora var. arenicola | Sand Bittercress | |
Callitriche peploides | Matted Water-starwort | |
Cardamine pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Bittercress | |
Callitriche pedunculosa | Nuttall's Water-starwort | |
Carex planostachys | Cedar Sedge | |
Castilleja purpurea | Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush Purple Paintbrush Lemon Paintbrush Purple Painted Cup | |
Castanea pumila | Allegheny Chinquapin Allegheny Chinkapin Chinquapin Chinkapin | |
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