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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Quercus margaretta | Sand Post Oak Runner Oak Drummond Post Oak Dwarf Post Oak Scrubby Post Oak | |
Quercus macrocarpa | Bur Oak Burr Oak Savanna Oak Overcup Oak Prairie Oak Mossy-cup Oak Mossy-overcup Oak Blue Oak | |
Quercus marilandica | Blackjack Oak Barren Oak Black Oak Jack Oak | |
Quercus michauxii | Swamp Chestnut Oak Basket Oak Cow Oak Swamp Oak | |
Quercus mohriana | Mohr Oak Shin Oak Scrub Oak | |
Quercus muehlenbergii | Chinkapin Oak Chinquapin Oak Chestnut Oak Yellow Chestnut Oak Rock Chestnut Oak Yellow Oak Rock Oak | |
Quercus nigra | Water Oak Possum Oak Duck Oak Punk Oak Spotted Oak | |
Quercus pagoda | Cherrybark Oak | |
Quercus phellos | Willow Oak Swamp Willow Oak Pin Oak Peach Oak | |
Quercus polymorpha | Mexican White Oak Netleaf White Oak Monterrey Oak | |
Quercus shumardii | Shumard Oak Shumard's Oak Shumard Red Oak Southern Red Oak Swamp Red Oak Spotted Oak | |
Quercus sinuata | Bastard Oak Durand Oak | |
Quercus similis | Bottomland Post Oak Delta Post Oak Mississippi Valley Oak Yellow Oak | |
Quercus sinuata var. breviloba | White Shin Oak Bigelow Oak Scaly-bark Oak Limestone Durand Oak Shortlobe Oak Bastard Oak | |
Quercus sinuata var. sinuata | Durand Oak Durand White Oak Bluff Oak Bastard Oak | |
Quercus stellata | Post Oak Iron Oak Cross Oak | |
Quercus texana | Nuttall Oak Texas Oak | |
Quercus velutina | Black Oak Quercitron Oak Yellow Oak Smoothbark Oak Yellowbark Oak | |
Quercus virginiana | Coastal Live Oak Southern Live Oak Virginia Live Oak Live Oak Encino | |
Ranunculus abortivus | Littleleaf Buttercup Kidney-leaf Buttercup Early Wood Buttercup | |
Rayjacksonia aurea | Houston Camphor-daisy Houston Tansy-aster Houston Daisy | |
Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
Ranunculus fascicularis | Early Buttercup Tufted Buttercup Prairie Buttercup | |
Ranunculus hispidus | Bristly Buttercup | |
Ranunculus hispidus var. nitidus | Bristly Buttercup Buttercup | |
Ranunculus laxicaulis | Mississippi Buttercup | |
Ranunculus macranthus | Large Buttercup | |
Rayjacksonia phyllocephala | Camphor Daisy | |
Ranunculus pusillus | Low Spearwort Weakstem Buttercup | |
Ranunculus recurvatus | Blisterwort | |
Ranunculus sceleratus | Cursed Buttercup | |
Ranunculus sceleratus var. sceleratus | Cursed Buttercup | |
Rhynchosia americana | American Snoutbean | |
Rhus aromatica | Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Lemon Sumac Polecat Bush | |
Rhus aromatica var. aromatica | Fragrant Sumac | |
Rhus aromatica var. serotina | Fragrant Sumac | |
Rhynchospora capitellata | Brownish Beaksedge Small-head Beaksedge Point-beak Beaksedge | |
Rhododendron canescens | Mountain Azalea Wild Azalea Honeysuckle Azalea Piedmont Azalea Sweet Azalea Hoary Azalea Southern Pinxterflower | |
Rhynchospora caduca | Anglestem Beaksedge | |
Rhynchospora cephalantha | Bunched Beaksedge | |
Rhododon ciliatus | Texas Sandmint | |
Rhus copallinum | Winged Sumac Shining Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Mountain Sumac Dwarf Sumac Wing-rib Sumac Black Sumac Upland Sumac | |
Rhynchospora corniculata | Shortbristle Horned Beaksedge Horned Beakrush | |
Rhynchospora colorata | Whitetop Sedge White-topped Sedge Starrush Whitetop Star Sedge Star Rush | |
Rhynchospora elliottii | Elliott's Beaksedge | |
Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
Rhynchospora globularis | Globe Beaksedge | |
Rhynchospora glomerata | Clustered Beaksedge Cluster Beak-rush | |
Rhynchospora gracilenta | Slender Beaksedge | |
Rhynchospora harveyi | Harvey's Beaksedge | |
Rhynchospora inexpansa | Nodding Beaksedge | |
Rhamnus lanceolata | Lanceleaf Buckthorn Lance-leaf Buckthorn | |
Rhus lanceolata | Prairie Flameleaf Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Prairie Sumac Lance-leaf Sumac Lance-leaved Sumac Texas Sumac Tree Sumac Limestone Sumac Prairie Shining Sumac | |
Rhynchosia latifolia | Prairie Snoutbean | |
Rhynchospora latifolia | Sand-swamp Whitetop Sedge Tall Whitetop Sedge Whitetop Sedge Sand-swamp Whitetop Tall Whitetop Whitetop Colorful Rush | |
Rhamnus lanceolata ssp. glabrata | Lanceleaf Buckthorn | |
Rhexia lutea | Yellow Meadow Beauty | |
Rhexia mariana | Maryland Meadow Beauty Pale Meadow Beauty | |
Rhynchospora macrostachya | Tall Horned Beaksedge | |
Rhus microphylla | Littleleaf Sumac Desert Sumac Correosa Agritos | |
Rhynchosia minima | Least Snoutbean | |
Rhynchospora nitens | Shortbeak Beaksedge | |
Rhynchospora nivea | Showy Whitetop | |
Rhododendron oblongifolium | Texas Azalea | |
Rhynchospora oligantha | Featherbristle Beaksedge | |
Rhexia petiolata | Fringed Meadow Beauty | |
Rhynchospora perplexa | Pineland Beaksedge | |
Rhynchosida physocalyx | Bladderpod Sida Buffpetal Beaked Sida | |
Rhododendron prinophyllum | Early Azalea Roseshell Azalea Woolly Azalea | |
Rhynchospora pusilla | Fairy Beaksedge | |
Rhynchospora rariflora | Fewflower Beaksedge | |
Rhynchospora recognita | Globe Beaksedge | |
Rhynchospora scirpoides | Long-beak Beaksedge | |
Rhynchosia senna | Texas Snoutbean | |
Rhynchosia senna var. texana | Texas Snoutbean Texas Snout-bean | |
Rhynchospora stenophylla | Coastal Plain Beaksedge | |
Rhus trilobata | Skunkbush Skunkbush Sumac Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Scented Sumac Ill-scented Sumac Basketbush Squawbush | |
Rhus trilobata var. pilosissima | Downy Fragrant Sumac Downy Aromatic Sumac Pubescent Skunkbush Sumac | |
Rhexia virginica | Handsome-harry Virginia Meadow Beauty Meadow-beauty | |
Rhododendron viscosum | Swamp Azalea Clammy Azalea Cory Azalea Hammock Sweet Azalea | |
Rhus virens | Evergreen Sumac Tobacco Sumac Lambrisco Lentrisco | |
Ribes curvatum | Granite Gooseberry | |
Rivina humilis | Pigeonberry Rouge Plant Baby-peppers Bloodberry | |
Richardia tricocca | Prairie Mexican Clover | |
Rosa carolina | Carolina Rose Pasture Rose | |
Rosa carolina var. carolina | Carolina Rose | |
Rosa foliolosa | White Prairie Rose Leafy Rose | |
Robinia hispida | Bristly Locust Standing Sweet Pea | |
Rorippa palustris | Bog Yellowcress | |
Robinia pseudoacacia | Black Locust | |
Rotala ramosior | Lowland Rotala | |
Rosa setigera | Climbing Prairie Rose Climbing Rose Prairie Rose | |
Rosa setigera var. tomentosa | Climbing Rose Illinois Rose | |
Rorippa teres | Southern Marsh Yellowcress | |
Rubus aboriginum | Garden Dewberry | |
Rumex altissimus | Pale Dock | |
Rubus argutus | Sawtooth Blackberry | |
Rubus arvensis | Field Blackberry | |
Ruellia caroliniensis | Carolina Wild Petunia | |
Rumex chrysocarpus | Amamastla | |
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