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 |
| Pediomelum rhombifolium | Gulf Indian Breadroot Brown-flowered Psoralea Round-leaf Scurf-pea | |
| Penthorum sedoides | Ditch Stonecrop | |
| Penstemon tenuis | Brazos Penstemon Brazos Beardtongue Gulf Penstemon Gulf Beardtongue Gulf Coast Penstemon Gulf Coast Beardtongue Sharp-sepal Penstemon Sharp-sepal Beardtongue | |
| Penstemon triflorus | Hill Country Penstemon Hill Country Beardtongue Scarlet Penstemon Scarlet Beardtongue Heller's Penstemon Heller's Beardtongue | |
| Penstemon triflorus ssp. integrifolius | Heller's Penstemon Heller's Beardtongue | |
| Peltandra virginica | Tuckahoe Green Arrow Arum Arrow Arum Green Arum | |
| Pellaea wrightiana | Wright's Cliffbrake Fern Wright's Cliffbrake | |
| Phyllanthus abnormis | Drummond's Leaf-flower | |
| Phytolacca americana | American Pokeweed Great Pokeweed Pokeweed Pokeberry Red Ink Plant Pigeonberry | |
| Physalis angulata | Cutleaf Groundcherry | |
| Physostegia angustifolia | Narrowleaf False Dragonhead False Dragon-head | |
| Phemeranthus aurantiacus | Orange Flameflower Flameflower Fameflower Talinum | |
| Phragmites australis | Common Reed Phragmites | |
| Phalaris caroliniana | Carolina Canarygrass Maygrass | |
| Phyllanthus caroliniensis | Carolina Leaf-flower | |
| Physalis cinerascens | Smallflower Groundcherry | |
| Physalis cinerascens var. cinerascens | Smallflower Groundcherry | |
| Physostegia correllii | Correll's False Dragonhead | |
| Phacelia congesta | Caterpillars Blue Curls Fiddleneck | |
| Physostegia digitalis | Finger False Dragonhead False Dragonhead | |
| Phlox drummondii | Annual Phlox Drummond Phlox Pride-of-Texas Texas Pride | |
| Phlox drummondii ssp. drummondii | Annual Phlox | |
| Phlox drummondii ssp. mcallisteri | Mcallister's Phlox Drummond Phlox | |
| Phlox drummondii ssp. wilcoxiana | Wilcox's Phlox Drummond Phlox | |
| Phegopteris hexagonoptera | Broad Beechfern Broad Beech Fern | |
| Physalis hederifolia | Ivyleaf Groundcherry Ivy-leaf Groundcherry | |
| Physalis heterophylla | Clammy Groundcherry | |
| Physalis heterophylla var. heterophylla | Clammy Groundcherry | |
| Phacelia hirsuta | Fuzzy Phacelia | |
| Physostegia intermedia | Spring Obedient Plant Marsh Obedient Plant Slender False Dragonhead Intermediate False Dragonhead | |
| Phyla lanceolata | Lanceleaf Frogfruit Lanceleaf Fogfruit | |
| Phryma leptostachya | American Lopseed Lopseed | |
| Physalis longifolia | Longleaf Groundcherry | |
| Physalis mollis | Field Groundcherry | |
| Phlox nivalis | Trailing Phlox | |
| Phyla nodiflora | Texas Frogfruit Turkey Tangle Fogfruit Frogfruit | |
| Phemeranthus parviflorus | Sunbright Dwarf Flameflower Prairie Flameflower | |
| Phacelia patuliflora | Sand Phacelia Sand Scorpionweed Blue Phacelia | |
| Phacelia patuliflora var. patuliflora | Sand Phacelia | |
| Phacelia patuliflora var. teucriifolia | Sand Phacelia | |
| Phlox pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
| Phlox pilosa ssp. pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
| Phyllanthus polygonoides | Smartweed Leaf-flower Knotweed Leafflower | |
| Philadelphus pubescens | Hoary Mock Orange | |
| Physalis pubescens | Husk Tomato Downy Ground-cherry Downy Groundcherry | |
| Physalis pumila | Dwarf Ground-cherry Yellow Ground-cherry | |
| Physostegia pulchella | Showy False Dragonhead Beautiful False Dragon-head | |
| Phlox roemeriana | Goldeneye Phlox Golden-eye Phlox | |
| Phacelia strictiflora | Prairie Phacelia | |
| Phoradendron tomentosum | Christmas Mistletoe Mistletoe Injerto | |
| Physalis virginiana | Virginia Groundcherry | |
| Physostegia virginiana | Fall Obedient Plant False Dragonhead Virginia Lions-heart | |
| Physostegia virginiana ssp. praemorsa | Obedient Plant Fall Obedient Plant Lionheart False Dragonhead | |
| Piptochaetium avenaceum | Blackseed Speargrass | |
| Pinus clausa | Sand Pine | |
| Pinus echinata | Shortleaf Pine Shortleaf Yellow Pine Southern Yellow Pine Yellow Pine Shortstraw Pine Arkansas Pine Longtag Pine Spruce Pine Oldfield Pine Arkansas Soft Pine | |
| Pinus elliottii | Slash Pine | |
| Pityopsis graminifolia | Narrowleaf Silkgrass Golden Aster | |
| Pistacia mexicana | Mexican Pistachio Texas Pistachio American Pistachio Copal Pistachio Wild Pistachio Lentisco Texas Pistache | |
| Pinus palustris | Longleaf Pine Georgia Pine Longleaf Yellow Pine Southern Yellow Pine Longstraw Pine Hill Pine Hard Pine Heart Pine | |
| Pilea pumila | Canadian Clearweed Clearweed | |
| Pinguicula pumila | Small Butterwort Bog Violet Dwarf Butterwort | |
| Pinus remota | Papershell Pinyon Remote Pinyon Pine | |
| Pinaropappus roseus | White Rocklettuce White Dandelion Pink Dandelion White Rock Lettuce | |
| Pistia stratiotes | Water Lettuce | |
| Pinus taeda | Loblolly Pine Oldfield Pine Bull Pine Rosemary Pine | |
| Planera aquatica | Planer Tree Water Elm | |
| Plantago aristata | Largebracted Plantain Buckthorn | |
| Pluchea camphorata | Camphor Pluchea Camphor Weed | |
| Platanthera chapmanii | Chapman's Fringed Orchid Chapman's Platanthera Chapman's Orchid | |
| Platanthera ciliaris | Orange Fringed Orchid Yellow Fringed Orchid Orange Plume Bobwhite's-mocassin Owl's-head | |
| Platanthera clavellata | Small Green Wood Orchid Small Woodland Orchid | |
| Platanthera cristata | Crested Yellow Orchid Orange Fringed Orchid | |
| Plantago elongata | Prairie Plantain | |
| Platanthera flava | Palegreen Orchid | |
| Platanthera flava var. flava | Palegreen Orchid | |
| Pluchea foetida | Stinking Camphorweed | |
| Plantago helleri | Heller's Plantain Cedar Plantain | |
| Plantago heterophylla | Slender Plantain | |
| Plantago hookeriana | California Plantain Tallow Weed | |
| Platanthera integra | Yellow Fringeless Orchid | |
| Platanthera lacera | Green Fringed Orchid Ragged Fringed Orchid | |
| Pleuraphis mutica | Tobosagrass Tobosa Grass | |
| Platanthera nivea | Snowy Orchid Frog Spear Bog Torch White Frog Arrow White Rein Orchid | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
| Pluchea odorata | Sweetscent Saltmarsh Fleabane | |
| Pluchea odorata var. odorata | Sweetscent Marsh Fleabane Southern Marsh Fleabane | |
| Plantago patagonica | Woolly Plantain Bristle-bract Plantain | |
| Pleopeltis polypodioides | Resurrection Fern | |
| Pleopeltis polypodioides ssp. michauxiana | Resurrection Fern | |
| Plantago rhodosperma | Redseed Plantain Red-seeded Plantain | |
| Pluchea rosea | Rosy Camphorweed | |
| Plantago virginica | Virginia Plantain Paleseed Indian-wheat Dwarf Plantain Paleseed Plantain Hoary Plantain Southern Plantain | |
| Plantago wrightiana | Wright's Plantain | |
| Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | |
| Polystichum acrostichoides var. acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | |
| Polygala alba | White Milkwort | |
| Polygonella americana | Southern Jointweed | |
| Polygonum amphibium | Water Knotweed Water Smartweed | |
| Polygonum amphibium var. emersum | Longroot Smartweed | |
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