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Remarkable Riparian
A field guide to riparian plants within the Nueces River Basin of Texas. A publication of the Nueces River Authority. This user-friendly guide introduces the most commonly observed riparian vegetation in the Edward's Plateau and Rio Grande Plains. However, most of the plants presented herein occur in riparian areas all across Texas, including the Cross Timbers, Trans-Pecos and Rolling Plains.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Abutilon fruticosum | Indian mallow Texas Indian mallow | |
| Acacia greggii | Catclaw acacia Gregg acacia Long-flower catclaw Una de gato | |
| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| Acalypha phleoides | Shrubby copperleaf Three-seeded mercury | |
| Acacia rigidula | Blackbrush acacia Blackbrush Catclaw Chaparro prieto Gavia | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern maidenhair fern Common maidenhair fern Maidenhair fern Venus hair fern | |
| Ambrosia psilostachya | Cuman ragweed Western ragweed Perennial ragweed Common ragweed | |
| Ambrosia trifida var. texana | Giant Ragweed Texan great ragweed | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Anemia mexicana | Mexican fern Mexican Flowering Fern | |
| Aristida purpurea | Purple threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple three-awn Red threeawn | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Coastal Water-hyssop Herb-of-grace Water hyssop | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Boehmeria cylindrica | Smallspike false nettle Bog Hemp | |
| Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana | Silver Beard Grass Silver beardgrass Silver Bluestem | |
| Brickellia cylindracea | Brickell-Bush Brickellbush Gravelbar brickellbush | |
| Brickellia dentata | Leafy brickellbush | |
| Catalpa bignonioides | Southern catalpa Cigar tree Indian bean | |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Calyptocarpus vialis | Straggler daisy Horseherb Hierba del caballo Lawnflower | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf hackberry Netleaf sugar hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Cenchrus spinifex | Coastal sandbur Field Sandspur Southern sandbur Spiny burrgrass | |
| Chloris cucullata | Hooded windmill grass Hooded windmillgrass | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert willow Flowering willow Willow-leaved catalpa Trumpet flower | |
| Chamaesyce serpens | Matted sandmat Prostrate spurge Creeping spurge | |
| Cicuta maculata | Spotted water hemlock Water-Hemlock Beaver Poison | |
| Clematis drummondii | Drummond's clematis Old man’s beard Texas virgin’s bower Goat’s beard | |
| Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica swamp sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple clematis Purple leatherflower Leatherflower Bluebill | |
| Cocculus carolinus | Carolina snailseed Carolina coralbead Carolina moonseed Red berried moonseed Carolina red berried moonseed | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf dogwood Drummond's dogwood Rough-leaf dogwood | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains coreopsis Golden tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie bundle flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie mimosa | |
| Dichanthelium acuminatum var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer Panicgrass Lindheimer's Rosettegrass | |
| Diospyros texana | Texas persimmon Mexican persimmon Black persimmon Chapote Chapote prieto | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye Canadian wildrye Prairie wildrye Nodding wildrye | |
| Eleocharis cellulosa | Gulf Coast spikerush | |
| Eleocharis montevidensis | Sand spikerush | |
| Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
| Equisetum hyemale | Canuela Horsetail Scouring rush Scouringrush horsetail | |
| Equisetum laevigatum | Horsetail Smooth horsetail | |
| Euphorbia dentata | Toothed spurge Toothedleaf poinsettia | |
| Eustoma exaltatum | Catchfly prairie gentian Bluebell gentian Western blue gentian Blue marsh lily Small bluebell Catchfly gentian Seaside gentian | |
| Eupatorium serotinum | Lateflowering thoroughwort White boneset Late boneset Late-flowering boneset | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas kidneywood Kidneywood Bee-Brush Vara dulce | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Stretchberry Elbow bush Spring herald | |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina buckthorn Carolina false buckthorn Indian cherry | |
| Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's ash Littleleaf ash Escobilla | |
| Fuirena simplex | Umbrellagrass Western umbrella-sedge | |
| Garrya ovata | Eggleaf silktassel Mexican silktassel Eggleaf Garrya | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Firewheel Indian Blanket | |
| Galium virgatum | Southwest Bedstraw Southwestern bedstraw | |
| Hedeoma acinoides | Slender false pennyroyal Annual pennyroyal Slender hedeoma | |
| Helianthus annuus | Common sunflower | |
| Heteranthera limosa | Blue Mud Plantain Blue mudplantain | |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian sunflower Max sunflower | |
| Helenium microcephalum | Smallhead sneezeweed | |
| Heterotheca subaxillaris | Camphorweed Camphor Weed | |
| Heliotropium tenellum | Pasture heliotrope White heliotrope | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimsoneyed rosemallow Crimson-eyed rose-mallow Marshmallow hibiscus | |
| Hydrocotyle ranunculoides | Floating marshpennywort | |
| Hydrocotyle umbellata | Manyflower marshpennywort Water-pennywort Money-plant | |
| Hydrocotyle verticillata var. verticillata | Pennywort Water-Pennywort Whorled marshpennywort Money-plant | |
| Indigofera lindheimeriana | Lindheimer's indigo | |
| Ipomoea lindheimeri | Lindheimer's morning-glory Blue Morning Glory | |
| Jatropha dioica | Leatherstem Leather Stem Rubber Plant | |
| Juncus acuminatus | Tapertip rush | |
| Justicia americana | American water-willow Water-willow | |
| Juniperus ashei | Ashe juniper Ashe's juniper Mountain cedar Blueberry juniper | |
| Juncus interior | Inland rush | |
| Juncus marginatus | Grassleaf rush Grass Leaf Rush | |
| Juglans microcarpa | Little walnut Nogalito Texas walnut Texas black walnut River walnut | |
| Lantana achyranthifolia | Brushland shrubverbena Mexican marjoram Veinyleaf lantana | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple sage Texas ranger Texas barometer bush Texas silverleaf Texas sage | |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted blazing star Dotted gayfeather | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
| Ludwigia peploides | Creeping water-primrose Floating primrose-willow Water-primrose | |
| Lythrum californicum | California loosestrife Purple loosestrife | |
| Lygodesmia texana | Texas skeletonplant Texas skeleton weed Skeleton-plant Purple dandelion | |
| Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving sailor Climbing snapdragon Little snapdragon vine | |
| Matelea reticulata | Green milkweed vine Net vein milkvine Netted milkvine Pearl milkweed Vine | |
| Mecardonia procumbens | Baby jump-up | |
| Mitreola petiolata | Lax hornpod | |
| Mikania scandens | Climbing hempvine Climbing hempweed | |
| Morus rubra | Red mulberry Moral | |
| Muhlenbergia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's muhly Big muhly Lindheimer muhly | |
| Myriophyllum heterophyllum | Twoleaf watermilfoil | |
| Opuntia engelmannii | Cactus apple | |
| Palafoxia callosa | Small palafox Small palafoxia | |
| Parthenium confertum | Gray's feverfew | |
| Panicum hallii | Hall's panicgrass | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand panic grass | |
| Physalis cinerascens | Smallflower groundcherry | |
| Physostegia correllii | Correll's false dragonhead | |
| Phyla nodiflora | Texas frogfruit Turkey tangle fogfruit Frogfruit | |
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