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
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Hypericum setosum | Hairy St. John's-wort | |
Hypericum sphaerocarpum | Roundseed St. John's-wort | |
Hymenopappus tenuifolius | Chalk Hill Hymenopappus Chalkhill Woolywhite | |
Hymenoxys texana | Texas Prairie Dawn Prairie Dawn Prairiedawn Texas Prairie Dawn-flower | |
Hydrocotyle umbellata | Manyflower Marsh-pennywort Many-flowered Marsh-pennywort Marsh Pennywort Water Pennywort Money Plant | |
Hybanthus verticillatus | Babyslippers Nodding Green Violet Green Violet | |
Hydrocotyle verticillata | Whorled Marshpennywort | |
Hypoxis wrightii | Wright's Star-grass | |
Ibervillea lindheimeri | Balsam Gourd Lindheimer's Globeberry Globe Berry Snake-apple Balsam-apple | |
Ibervillea tenuisecta | Slimlobe Globeberry Cutleaf Globe Berry | |
Ilex ambigua | Carolina Holly Sand Holly Possum Holly | |
Ilex coriacea | Baygall Bush Large Gallberry Gallberry Tall Inkberry Holly Inkberry Holly Shining Inkberry Inkberry | |
Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Meadow Holly Prairie Holly Swamp Holly Welk Holly Deciduous Yaupon Bearberry Winterberry | |
Ilex opaca | American Holly White Holly Prickly Holly Evergreen Holly Christmas Holly Yule Holly | |
Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon Holly Cassina | |
Impatiens capensis | Jewelweed Orange Jewelweed Spotted Touch-me-not | |
Indigofera lindheimeriana | Lindheimer's Indigo | |
Indigofera miniata | Scarlet Pea Coastal Indigo Texas Indigo Western Indigo | |
Indigofera suffruticosa | Anil De Pasto | |
Ionactis linariifolius | Flaxleaf Whitetop Aster Stiff Aster Flaxleaf Aster | |
Ipomoea alba | Moonflower Moon Vine Tropical White Morning Glory | |
Ipomoea cordatotriloba | Tievine Purple Bindweed Morning Glory | |
Ipomoea cordatotriloba var. cordatotriloba | Tievine Sharp-pod Morning Glory Purple Bindweed Tie Vine | |
Ipomoea cordatotriloba var. torreyana | Torrey's Tievine | |
Ipomoea lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Morning-glory Blue Morning Glory | |
Ipomoea pandurata | Man Of The Earth Wild Potato Wild Sweet Potato Manroot | |
Ipomopsis rubra | Standing Cypress Texas Plume Red Texas Star Red Gilia | |
Ipomoea sagittata | Saltmarsh Morning-glory Salt-marsh Morning Glory | |
Iris brevicaulis | Zigzag Iris | |
Iris hexagona | Dixie Iris | |
Iresine rhizomatosa | Judas Bush | |
Iris virginica | Virginia Iris Great Blue Flag Southern Blue Flag | |
Isolepis carinata | Keeled Bulrush | |
Isoetes melanopoda | Blackfoot Quillwort | |
Isolepis molesta | Gulf Coast Bulrush | |
Isotria verticillata | Large Whorled Pogonia Purple Fiveleaf Orchid | |
Itea virginica | Virginia Sweetspire Tassel-white Virginia Willow | |
Iva angustifolia | Narrowleaf Marshelder Narrow-leaf Sumpweed Narrowleaf Marsh Elder | |
Iva annua | Annual Marshelder Marshelder Sumpweed Annual Marsh Elder Marsh Elder | |
Iva frutescens | Jesuit's Bark High-tide Bush High-water Shrub Marsh Elder Bigleaf Marsh Elder | |
Jatropha dioica | Leatherstem Leather Stem Rubber Plant | |
Jatropha dioica var. dioica | Leatherstem | |
Jacquemontia tamnifolia | Hairy Clustervine Hairy Cluster-vine | |
Juncus acuminatus | Tapertip Rush | |
Justicia americana | American Water-willow Water-willow | |
Juniperus ashei | Ashe Juniper Ashe's Juniper Mountain Cedar Rock Cedar Post Cedar Texas Cedar Brake Cedar Mexican Juniper Blueberry Juniper Ozark White Cedar Sabino Enebro | |
Juncus brachycarpus | Whiteroot Rush | |
Juncus bufonius | Toad Rush | |
Juncus coriaceus | Leathery Rush | |
Juncus dichotomus | Forked Rush | |
Juncus diffusissimus | Slimpod Rush | |
Juncus dudleyi | Dudley's Rush | |
Juncus effusus | Common Rush Soft Rush | |
Juncus interior | Inland Rush | |
Juncus interior var. interior | Inland Rush | |
Juncus marginatus | Grassleaf Rush Grass Leaf Rush | |
Juglans microcarpa | Little Walnut Texas Walnut Texas Black Walnut River Walnut Nogalito Nogalillo Namboca | |
Juglans nigra | Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut | |
Juncus nodatus | Stout Rush | |
Juniperus pinchotii | Pinchot's Juniper Pinchot Juniper Redberry Juniper Texas Juniper Christmasberry Juniper | |
Justicia pilosella | Hairy Tube-tongue Gregg's Tube-tongue False Honeysuckle | |
Juncus polycephalos | Manyhead Rush | |
Juncus roemerianus | Needlegrass Rush Black Needlerush | |
Juncus scirpoides | Needlepod Rush | |
Juncus tenuis | Poverty Rush Path Rush | |
Juncus texanus | Texas Rush | |
Juncus torreyi | Torrey's Rush | |
Juncus trigonocarpus | Redpod Rush | |
Juncus validus | Roundhead Rush | |
Juncus validus var. validus | Roundhead Rush | |
Juniperus virginiana | Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin | |
Kallstroemia hirsutissima | Hairy Caltrop Hairy Carpetweed | |
Karwinskia humboldtiana | Coyotillo Humboldt Coyotillo | |
Kallstroemia maxima | Big Caltrop | |
Kallstroemia parviflora | Warty Caltrop Small-flowered Carpetweed | |
Kallstroemia perennans | Perennial Caltrop | |
Koeberlinia spinosa | Crown Of Thorns Spiny Allthorn | |
Kosteletzkya virginica | Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow Virginia Fen-rose Saltmarsh Mallow Seashore Mallow | |
Krigia caespitosa | Weedy Dwarfdandelion Dwarf Dandelion | |
Krigia dandelion | Potato Dwarf Dandelion Potato Dandelion | |
Krameria erecta | Littleleaf Ratany Range Ratany | |
Krameria grayi | White Ratany Crimson Beak Chacati Cosahui | |
Krameria lanceolata | Trailing Krameria Ratany Crameria Prairie Sandbur Trailing Ratany | |
Krigia occidentalis | Western Dwarfdandelion | |
Krameria ramosissima | Manystem Ratany Calderona | |
Krigia virginica | Virginia Dwarfdandelion Virginia Dwarf-dandelion Virginia Dwarf Dandelion Dwarf Dandelion | |
Krigia wrightii | Wright's Dwarfdandelion | |
Kyllinga brevifolia | Shortleaf Spikesedge | |
Kyllinga odorata | Fragrant Spikesedge | |
Lantana achyranthifolia | Brushland Shrubverbena Mexican Marjoram Veinyleaf Lantana | |
Lactuca canadensis | Canada Lettuce Wild Lettuce | |
Lactuca floridana | Woodland Lettuce Florida Lettuce | |
Lactuca hirsuta | Hairy Lettuce | |
Lactuca ludoviciana | Western Wild Lettuce Louisiana Wild Lettuce Prairie Lettuce Prairie Wild Lettuce Biannual Lettuce | |
Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis | |
Lantana urticoides | Texas Lantana Calico Bush | |
Lathyrus venosus | Veiny Pea Veiny Vetchling Wild Sweet Pea Bushy Vetch | |
Lemna aequinoctialis | Lesser Duckweed | |
Lesquerella argyraea | Silver Bladderpod | |
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