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Pineywoods
The Pineywoods area lies entirely within the Gulf Coastal Plains, which extend into Texas for 75 to 125 miles west of the Louisiana border. The area is a nearly level to gently undulating, locally hilly, forested plain. Upland soils are generally acid, sandy loams and sands over gray, yellow, red, or mottled sandy loam to clay subsoils. Bottomland soils are generally light brown to dark gray, acid to calcareous, loamy to clayey alluvial. Acid loamy soils are extensive in the flood plains of minor streams. The dominant vegetation type is a mixed pine-hardwood forest on the uplands and a mixed hardwood forest on the lowlands.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acer barbatum | Southern sugar maple Florida maple Caddo maple Rock maple | |
| Acer leucoderme | Chalk maple | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow Yarrow Milfoil Western yarrow | |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Aesculus pavia var. pavia | Scarlet buckeye Red buckeye Southern buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge bluestem Broom-sedge | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walkingstick Devil’s walking-stick Prickly Ash Hercules club Angelica tree | |
| Asimina parviflora | Smallflower pawpaw Small-flower pawpaw Dwarf pawpaw | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Betula nigra | River birch Red birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam Blue beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Catalpa speciosa | Northern catalpa Catawba tree Cigar tree Indian bean | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea Redroot | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas redbud | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Clematis pitcheri | Purple clematis Purple leatherflower Leatherflower Bluebill | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf dogwood Drummond's dogwood Rough-leaf dogwood | |
| Cooperia drummondii | Evening rain lily Evening star rain lily | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley hawthorn | |
| Crataegus viridis | Green hawthorn Southern thorn | |
| Cyrilla racemiflora | Swamp titi Titi Leatherwood Swamp cyrilla Palo colorado | |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie bundle flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie mimosa | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common persimmon Eastern persimmon | |
| Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping coneflower Clasping-leaf coneflower | |
| Echinacea pallida | Pale purple coneflower Pale coneflower | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern purple coneflower Purple coneflower | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye Canadian wildrye Prairie wildrye Nodding wildrye | |
| Eriogonum annuum | Annual buckwheat Wild Buckwheat | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee bean Red cardinal | |
| Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's eryngo Eryngo | |
| Eriogonum multiflorum | Wild buckwheat Heartsepal buckwheat Heart-sepal wild buckwheat | |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple lovegrass Purple love grass Purple plains lovegrass Tumblegrass Petticoat climber | |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Button eryngo Button snakeroot Rattlesnake master Beargrass Bear's grass | |
| Euphorbia marginata | Snow on the mountain Snow-on-the-mountain | |
| Eubotrys racemosa | Fetter-bush Leucothoe Swamp doghobble Sweet-bells Leucothe Sweetbells | |
| Eupatorium serotinum | Lateflowering thoroughwort White boneset Late boneset Late-flowering boneset | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American beech | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash Red ash | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Firewheel Indian Blanket | |
| Geum canadense | White avens | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina jessamine Yellow jessamine Evening trumpetflower Poor man's rope | |
| 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 Honey-locust Thornless common honey-locust Honey shucks | |
| Halesia diptera | Two-wing silverbell Silver bell Two-winged silverbell Snowdrop tree American snowdrop tree | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel American witch hazel | |
| Helenium amarum | Yellow Sneezeweed Bitterweed Yellow bitterweed Yellowdicks Slender-leaved sneezeweed Fine-leaved sneezweed Yellow dog-fennel | |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp sunflower | |
| Herbertia lahue | Prairie nymph Herbertia | |
| Hibiscus aculeatus | Comfortroot Big thicket hibiscus Pineland hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet rose-mallow Scarlet rosemallow Texas star hibiscus Wild red mallow | |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf rosemallow Halberdleaf hibiscus Scarlet rose mallow | |
| Hymenopappus artemisiifolius | Old plainsman Oldplainsman Woolly-white | |
| Hymenocallis liriosme | Spider Lily Spring Spider Lily Spring spiderlily | |
| Hydrolea ovata | Blue Water Leaf Hairy Hydrolea Ovate false fiddleleaf | |
| Hydrangea quercifolia | Oakleaf hydrangea Oak-leaf hydrangea | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Winterberry Deciduous yaupon | |
| Ilex opaca | American holly Christmas holly | |
| Ilex verticillata | Common winterberry Michigan holly Black alder | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon holly Cassina | |
| Ipomopsis rubra | Standing cypress Texas plume Red Texas star Red gilia | |
| Iris brevicaulis | Zigzag iris | |
| Iris virginica | Virginia iris Great Blue Flag Southern blueflag | |
| Itea virginica | Virginia sweetspire Tassel-white | |
| Justicia americana | American water-willow Water-willow | |
| Juglans nigra | Black walnut Eastern black walnut | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern red cedar Eastern redcedar Virginia juniper | |
| Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola | Southern red-cedar Southern redcedar | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern spicebush Spicebush | |
| Liatris elegans | Blazing star Gay feather Pink-scale gayfeather Pinkscale blazing star | |
| Lithospermum incisum | Narrowleaf stoneseed Puccoon Fringed puccoon Narrowleaf gromwell Fringed gromwell Narrow-leaved puccoon | |
| Liatris mucronata | Cusp gayfeather Gayfeather Blazing star Narrow-leaf gayfeather Texas gayfeather Cusp blazing star | |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Cat-tail Gayfeather Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American sweetgum | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral honeysuckle Trumpet honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving sailor Climbing snapdragon Little snapdragon vine | |
| Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's-buttons Puffballs White Barbara’s-buttons | |
| Magnolia grandiflora | Southern magnolia Evergreen magnolia Bull bay | |
| Maclura pomifera | Osage orange Bois d’ arc Bodark Horse apple Hedge apple | |
| Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay magnolia Swampbay Swamp magnolia Small magnolia | |
| Mitchella repens | Partridgeberry Twinberry Running box | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon beebalm Horsemint Purple horsemint Lemon mint Plains horsemint Lemon horsemint | |
| Morus rubra | Red mulberry Moral | |
| Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf muhly Hair-awn muhly Hairy-awn muhly Hair grass Pink muhly | |
| Nelumbo lutea | American lotus Yellow water lotus Yellow lotus | |
| Nemophila phacelioides | Baby blue-eyes Flannel breeches Large-flower baby-blue-eyes Largeflower baby blue eyes Texas baby blue eyes | |
| Nuphar lutea | Yellow pond-lily Cow lily Spatter dock Yellow cow lily | |
| Nuphar lutea ssp. advena | Common spatterdock Yellow cow lily Yellow pond lily Spatterdock | |
| Nuttallanthus texanus | Texas Toad-Flax Texas toadflax Toadflax | |
| Nymphaea odorata | American white waterlily American white water-lily Fragrant white water lily White water lily Fragrant water lily White water lily | |
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