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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Convolvulus equitans | Texas Bindweed Bindweed | |
Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
Conocarpus erectus | Button Mangrove Buttonwood | |
Commelina erecta var. angustifolia | Whitemouth Dayflower Narrow-leaf Dayflower Widow's Tears | |
Commelina erecta var. erecta | Whitemouth Dayflower Day Flower Widow's Tears | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Cornus foemina | Stiff Dogwood Swamp Dogwood | |
Conoclinium greggii | Gregg's Mistflower Palmleaf Thoroughwort Palm-leaf Mistflower Palm-leaf Thoroughwort Purple Palmleaf Mistflower Purple Palmleaf Eupatorium | |
Coreopsis grandiflora | Largeflower Tickseed Large-flower Tickseed Common Coreopsis | |
Condalia hookeri | Bluewood Condalia Brasil Brasilwood Bluewood Logwood Purple Haw Capul Negro | |
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
Corydalis micrantha | Smallflower Fumewort Southern Corydalis Golden Corydalis | |
Coreopsis nuecensis | Crown Tickseed Crown Coreopsis | |
Coreopsis nuecensoides | Rio Grande Tickseed Crown Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country Rain Lily Prairie Lily Rain Lily Flor De Mayo | |
Cordia podocephala | Texas Manjack White Cordia | |
Cornus racemosa | Gray Dogwood | |
Condalia spathulata | Knifeleaf Condalia | |
Coryphantha sulcata | Pineapple Cactus Nipple Cactus | |
Colubrina texensis | Texas Hog Plum Texas Snakewood Texas Colubrina Hog Plum | |
Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
Coreopsis tinctoria var. tinctoria | Golden Tickseed Golden-wave | |
Commelina virginica | Virginia Dayflower | |
Corallorhiza wisteriana | Spring Coral-root Spring Coral Root Early Southern Coral-root Wister's Coral-root Yellow Coral-root Arousing Coral-root Spring Coralroot | |
Crinum americanum | American Crinum Lily Seven Sisters Swamp Lily Southern Swamp Lily String Lily Crinum Lily | |
Crassula aquatica | Water Pygmyweed | |
Croton argyranthemus | Healing Croton | |
Croton capitatus | Hogwort Texas Goatweed | |
Croton capitatus var. lindheimeri | Woolly Croton Lindheimer's Hogwort Woolly Texas Goatweed Woolly Doveweed | |
Croton coryi | Cory's Croton | |
Croton cortesianus | Cortez's Croton | |
Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
Croptilon divaricatum | Slender Scratchdaisy Scratch Daisy Granite Daisy | |
Croton glandulosus | Tooth-leaved Croton Sand Croton Tropic Croton Vente Conmigo | |
Croptilon hookerianum var. hookerianum | Hooker's Scratchdaisy | |
Croton humilis | Pepperbush | |
Croton incanus | Torrey's Croton | |
Croton leucophyllus | Twocolor Croton | |
Croton lindheimerianus | Threeseed Croton | |
Crassula longipes | Smallseed Pygmyweed | |
Crataegus marshallii | Parsley Hawthorn Parsleyleaf Hawthorn | |
Cryptantha mexicana | Mexican Cryptantha | |
Croton michauxii | Michaux's Croton | |
Croton michauxii var. ellipticus | Michaux's Croton | |
Crataegus mollis | Downy Hawthorn White Thorn Whitethorn Scarlet Hawthorn Scarlet Haw Red Haw Downy Thorn | |
Croton monanthogynus | Prairie Tea One-seed Croton Doveweed Dove Weed Prairie Goatweed | |
Crataegus opaca | Mayhaw Western Mayhaw May Hawthorn Riverflat Hawthorn Applehaw May Haw | |
Croton parksii | Parks' Croton | |
Croton pottsii | Leatherweed | |
Croton pottsii var. pottsii | Leatherweed | |
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