Special Collections
South Central Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. It extends from the Western Gulf Coastal Plain east across much of Louisiana and north into southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Pineywoods vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the South Central Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Habranthus tubispathus | Rio Grande Copperlily Copper Lily Rio Grande Copper-lily | |
| Hamamelis vernalis | Ozark Witch-hazel Vernal Witch-hazel | |
| Hackelia virginiana | Beggarslice Beggar's-lice Stickseed Sticktight Wild Comfrey Virginia Stickseed | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
| Hedeoma acinoides | Slender False Pennyroyal Annual Pennyroyal Slender Hedeoma | |
| Helenium amarum | Yellow Sneezeweed Bitterweed Yellow Bitterweed Yellowdicks Slender-leaved Sneezeweed Fine-leaved Sneezweed Yellow Dog-fennel | |
| Helenium amarum var. amarum | Yellow Bitterweed Yellowdicks | |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp Sunflower Narrowleaf Sunflower Narrow-leaved Sunflower | |
| Helianthus annuus | Common Sunflower Annual Sunflower | |
| Helianthemum carolinianum | Carolina Frostweed | |
| Helianthus ciliaris | Texas Blueweed | |
| Heteropogon contortus | Tanglehead | |
| Heliotropium confertifolium | Leafy Heliotrope | |
| Heliotropium convolvulaceum | Phlox Heliotrope Fragrant Heliotrope | |
| Heliotropium curassavicum | Salt Heliotrope Seaside Heliotrope Quail Plant Cola De Mico Cola De Gama | |
| Helianthus debilis | Cucumberleaf Sunflower Cucumber-leaf Sunflower Beach Sunflower | |
| Hedeoma drummondii | Drummond's False Pennyroyal Limoncillo Mock Pennyroyal | |
| Helenium drummondii | Fringed Sneezeweed | |
| Heteranthera dubia | Grassleaf Mudplantain Water Stargrass | |
| Helenium elegans | Pretty Sneezeweed | |
| Helenium flexuosum | Purplehead Sneezeweed Purple-head Sneezeweed | |
| Hesperaloe funifera | Giant Hesperaloe New Mexico False Yucca Samandoce | |
| Heterotheca fulcrata | Rockyscree False Goldenaster | |
| Helianthemum georgianum | Georgia Frostweed Rockrose Georgia Sunrose | |
| Helianthus grosseserratus | Sawtooth Sunflower | |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth Oxeye Oxeye Sunflower False Sunflower | |
| Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra | Smooth Oxeye | |
| Hedeoma hispida | Rough False Pennyroyal | |
| Helianthus hirsutus | Hairy Sunflower Rough Sunflower | |
| Herbertia lahue | Prairie Nymph Herbertia | |
| Herbertia lahue ssp. caerulea | Prairie Nymph Herbertia | |
| Heteranthera limosa | Blue Mudplantain Blue Mud Plantain | |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian Sunflower Max Sunflower | |
| Helenium microcephalum | Smallhead Sneezeweed | |
| Helianthus mollis | Ashy Sunflower Downy Sunflower | |
| Helianthus occidentalis | Fewleaf Sunflower Western Sunflower | |
| Helianthus pauciflorus | Stiff Sunflower Prairie Sunflower | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red Yucca Coral Yucca Red-flowered False Yucca Redflower False Yucca Yellow Yucca Hummingbird Yucca Samandoque | |
| Helianthus pauciflorus ssp. pauciflorus | Stiff Sunflower | |
| Heliotropium procumbens | Fourspike Heliotrope | |
| Hedeoma reverchonii | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal | |
| Hedeoma reverchonii var. reverchonii | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal Rock Hedeoma | |
| Hedeoma reverchonii var. serpyllifolia | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal Rock Hedeoma | |
| Helianthemum rosmarinifolium | Rosemary Frostweed Sun Rose | |
| Hexalectris spicata | Spiked Crested Coralroot Spiked Crested Coral Root | |
| Heterotheca subaxillaris | Camphorweed Camphor Weed | |
| Heliotropium tenellum | Pasture Heliotrope White Heliotrope | |
| Hermannia texana | Texas Burstwort Mexican Mallow | |
| Heliotropium torreyi | Slimleaf Heliotrope | |
| Heterotheca villosa | Hairy False Goldenaster Hairy Golden-aster | |
| Hibiscus aculeatus | Comfortroot Big Thicket Hibiscus Pineland Hibiscus | |
| Hilaria belangeri | Curly Mesquite Grass Curly Mesquite | |
| Hilaria belangeri var. belangeri | Curly-mesquite | |
| Hibiscus coulteri | Desert Rosemallow Desert Rose-mallow Coulter Hibiscus | |
| Hieracium gronovii | Queendevil | |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf Rosemallow Halberdleaf Hibiscus Scarlet Rose Mallow Halberd-leaved Hibiscus Halberd-leaved Rose-mallow | |
| Hibiscus lasiocarpos | Woolly Rose-mallow Woolly Mallow Rose-mallow False Cotton | |
| Hieracium longipilum | Hairy Hawkweed | |
| Hibiscus martianus | Heartleaf Rosemallow Tulipan Del Monte Heartleaf Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus striatus | Striped Rosemallow | |
| Hibiscus striatus ssp. lambertianus | Striped Rosemallow | |
| Houstonia acerosa | Needleleaf Bluet | |
| Hoffmannseggia glauca | Indian Rushpea Indian Rush-pea | |
| Hottonia inflata | American Featherfoil Featherfoil | |
| Hordeum jubatum | Foxtail Barley | |
| Hordeum jubatum ssp. jubatum | Foxtail Barley Squirreltail Barley Skunktail | |
| Houstonia micrantha | Southern Bluet | |
| Hoffmannseggia oxycarpa | Sharppod Rushpea | |
| Hordeum pusillum | Little Barley | |
| Houstonia purpurea | Venus's Pride Large Houstonia Woodland Bluets Purple Bluets Mountain Bluets | |
| Houstonia pusilla | Tiny Bluets Small Bluets Star Violet | |
| Houstonia rosea | Rose Bluet | |
| Hunzikeria texana | Texas Cupflower | |
| Hyptis alata | Clustered Bushmint | |
| Hymenopappus artemisiifolius | Oldplainsman Woolly-white Old Plainsman | |
| Hymenopappus artemisiifolius var. artemisiifolius | Oldplainsman | |
| Hydrocotyle bonariensis | Largeleaf Pennywort Salt Pennywort | |
| Hymenopappus carrizoanus | Carrizo Sands Woollywhite | |
| Hypericum cistifolium | Roundpod St. John's-wort | |
| Hypericum crux-andreae | St. Peter's-wort Atlantic St. Peter's-wort St. Peter's Cross St. John's-wort | |
| Hypoxis curtissii | Curtis' Star-grass | |
| Hypericum drummondii | Nits And Lice Drummond's St. John's-wort | |
| Hypericum frondosum | Cedarglade St. John's-wort Golden St. John's-wort | |
| Hypericum gentianoides | Orangegrass Pineweed | |
| Hypericum gymnanthum | Claspingleaf St. John's-wort | |
| Hypoxis hirsuta | Common Goldstar Yellow Star-grass Eastern Yellow Star-grass | |
| Hypericum hypericoides | St. Andrew's-cross | |
| Hygrophila lacustris | Gulf Swampweed | |
| Hymenocallis liriosme | Texas Spiderlily Spring Spiderlily Spiderlily Louisiana Spiderlily Western Marsh Spiderlily | |
| Hymenoclea monogyra | Singlewhorl Burrobrush | |
| Hypericum mutilum | Dwarf St. John's-wort | |
| Hypericum nudiflorum | Early St. John's-wort | |
| Hymenoxys odorata | Bitter Rubberweed | |
| Hydrolea ovata | Blue Waterleaf Ovate False Fiddleleaf Hairy Hydrolea | |
| Hypericum prolificum | Shrubby St. John's-wort | |
| Hypericum punctatum | Spotted St. John's-wort | |
| Hydrocotyle ranunculoides | Floating Marshpennywort Floating Marsh-Pennywort Floating Marsh Pennywort Floating Pennyroyal | |
| Hymenopappus scabiosaeus | Carolina Woollywhite Woolly-white Old Plainsman | |
| Hymenopappus scabiosaeus var. corymbosus | Carolina Woollywhite Old Plainsman | |
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