Central Great Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. The Central Great Plains extends in a great swath from west-central Texas north through central Oklahoma, Kansas and south-central Nebraska. In Texas, along with the Southwestern Tablelands, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Rolling Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Central Great Plains ecoregion.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 | |
Acaciella angustissima | Prairie Acacia Fern Acacia Whiteball Acacia Prairie Wattle White-ball Acacia | |
Acaciella angustissima var. hirta | Prairie Acacia Texas Prairie Acacia Texas Fern Acacia Prairie Wattle | |
Acalypha gracilens | Slender Threeseed Mercury | |
Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acalypha monococca | Slender Threeseed Mercury | |
Acourtia nana | Dwarf Desertpeony | |
Acalypha ostryifolia | Pineland Threeseed Mercury Hop-hornbeam Copperleaf | |
Acalypha phleoides | Shrubby Copperleaf Three-seeded Mercury | |
Acalypha virginica | Virginia Threeseed Mercury | |
Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red Buckeye Southern Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Agave americana | American Century Plant Century Plant | |
Agrostis hyemalis | Winter Bentgrass | |
Agrimonia parviflora | Harvest Lice Small-flowered Agrimony Southern Agrimony Swamp Agrimony | |
Agalinis tenuifolia | Slenderleaf False Foxglove | |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
Alopecurus carolinianus | Carolina Foxtail | |
Allium canadense var. fraseri | Fraser Meadow Garlic Fraser Meadow Garlic | |
Allium canadense var. hyacinthoides | Hyacinth Meadow Garlic | |
Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
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