South Texas Plains
The South Texas Plains lie south of a line from San Antonio to Del Rio. This area is the western extension of the Gulf Coastal Plains merging with the Mexico Plains on the west. The area is a nearly level to rolling, slightly to moderately dissected plain. Upland soils are of three groups: dark, clayey soils over firm clayey subsoils; grayish to reddish brown, loamy to sandy soils; and brown loamy soils. Gray, clayey, saline, and sodic soils are extensive on the coastal fringe, along with Galveston deep sands. Bottomlands are typically brown to gray, calcareous silt loams to clayey alluvial soils.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Abronia fragrans | Fragrant Sand-verbena Snowball Sand Verbena Sweet Sand-verbena Prairie Snowball Sand Verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abutilon fruticosum | Indian Mallow Texas Indian Mallow | |
Abutilon hypoleucum | Whiteleaf Indian Mallow White-leaf Indian-mallow Rio Grande Abutilon | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
Agave americana | American Century Plant Century Plant | |
Agave parryi ssp. parryi | Parry's Agave Rough Agave Century Plant Mescal | |
Allium canadense var. canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion Canada Onion | |
Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion | |
Allium coryi | Yellowflower Onion Yellow-flowered Onion | |
Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
Aloysia wrightii | Wright's Beebrush Wright's Lippia | |
Ampelopsis cordata | Heartleaf Peppervine Heart-leaf Ampelopsis | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
Amsonia illustris | Ozark Bluestar Showy Blue-star Missouri Blue Star Swamp Bluestar | |
Amyris texana | Texas Torchwood Chapotillo | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge Broomsedge Bluestem Yellowsedge Bluestem Whiskey Grass Popotillo Pajon | |
Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy Daisy Arkansas Lazy Daisy Arkansas Doze-daisy | |
Argemone mexicana | Mexican Prickly Poppy Mexican Prickly Poppy Yellow Prickly Poppy | |
Aristolochia pentandra | Marsh's Dutchman's Pipe | |
Argemone sanguinea | Red Pricklypoppy Rose Prickly Poppy Red Prickly Poppy | |
Avicennia germinans | Black Mangrove | |
Bauhinia lunarioides | Anacacho Orchid Tree Anacacho Bauhinia Orchid Tree Texas Plume | |
Batis maritima | Turtleweed Seaside Saltwort | |
Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
Bothriochloa barbinodis | Pinhole Bluestem Cane Bluestem Cane Beardgrass Feather Bluestem Plains Beardgrass | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
Borrichia frutescens | Bushy Seaside Tansy Ox-eye Daisy Sea Daisy Sea Ox-eye | |
Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
Bouteloua repens | Slender Grama | |
Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas Grama | |
Buddleja sessiliflora | Rio Grande Butterflybush Tepozan | |
Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum | Chile Pequin Chile Tepin Bird Pepper Turkey Pepper Cayenne Pepper | |
Calliandra conferta | Rio Grande Stickpea Fairy Duster | |
Castela erecta ssp. texana | Texan Goatbush Goat-bush Allthorn Goatbush Amargoso | |
Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's Sundrops Western Primrose | |
Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
Castilleja indivisa | Texas Indian Paintbrush Entireleaf Indian Paintbrush Texas Paintbrush Indian Paintbrush Scarlet Paintbrush | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Carex planostachys | Cedar Sedge | |
Castilleja purpurea | Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush Purple Paintbrush Lemon Paintbrush Purple Painted Cup | |
Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
Celtis ehrenbergiana | Desert Hackberry Spiny Hackberry Shiny Hackberry Granjeno Huasteco | |
Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf Hackberry Netleaf Sugar Hackberry Western Hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Chiococca alba | Snowberry West Indian Milkberry David's Milkberry Cahinca West Indian Snowberry Milkberry | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
Chromolaena odorata | Blue Mistflower Fragrant Mistflower Blue Boneset Fragrant Boneset Jack In The Bush Crucita Siam Weed Common Flossflower Christmas Bush Devilweed | |
Chloris virgata | Feather Fingergrass Showy Chloris | |
Citharexylum berlandieri | Berlandier's Fiddlewood Berlandier Fiddlewood Fiddlewood | |
Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle | |
Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
Cordia boissieri | Mexican Olive Texas Wild Olive Anacahuita Anacahuite | |
Cocculus diversifolius | Correhuela Snailseed | |
Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
Cooperia drummondii | Evening Rain Lily Evening Star Rain Lily | |
Condalia hookeri | Bluewood Condalia Brasil Brasilwood Bluewood Logwood Purple Haw Capul Negro | |
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
Croton alabamensis var. texensis | Texabama Croton Texas Alabama Croton | |
Crinum americanum | American Crinum Lily Seven Sisters Swamp Lily Southern Swamp Lily String Lily Crinum Lily | |
Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
Delphinium carolinianum ssp. vimineum | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur | |
Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa | |
Digitaria californica | Arizona Cottontop California Cottontop California Crab Grass Cottontop | |
Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower | |
Echeandia chandleri | Chandler's Craglily Lila De Los Llanos | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Elionurus tripsacoides | Pan American Balsamscale Balsamscale | |
Eriogonum annuum | Annual Buckwheat Annual Wild Buckwheat Umbrella Plant | |
Eragrostis intermedia | Plains Lovegrass Plains Love Grass | |
Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Eryngo Eryngo False Purple Thistle | |
Eriogonum multiflorum | Wild Buckwheat Heart-sepal Buckwheat Heart-sepal Wild Buckwheat | |
Eragrostis palmeri | Rio Grande Lovegrass Rio Grande Love Grass | |
Erioneuron pilosum | Hairy Woollygrass Hairy Tridens | |
Eriochloa sericea | Texas Cupgrass | |
Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple Lovegrass Purple Love Grass Purple Plains Lovegrass Tumblegrass Petticoat Climber | |
Esenbeckia berlandieri | Berlandier's Jopoy Berlandier Jopoy Jopoy Berlandier's Esenbeckia Berlandier Esenbeckia Runyon Esenbeckia | |
Euphorbia cyathophora | Wild Poinsettia Poinsettia Fire On The Mountain | |
Euphorbia marginata | Snow On The Mountain Snow-on-the-mountain | |
Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce | |
Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
Fraxinus berlandieriana | Mexican Ash Berlandier Ash Berlandier's Ash Plumero | |
Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
Gaillardia suavis | Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs | |
Geum canadense | White Avens | |
Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Mock Vervain Dakota Vervain | |
Glandularia canadensis | Rose Vervain Sweet William Rose Mock Vervain | |
Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
Guaiacum angustifolium | Texas Lignum-vitae Soapbush Guayacan | |
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