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Edwards Plateau
The Edwards Plateau area includes 1.45 million acres known as the Granitic Central Basin in Llano and Mason Counties (Table 2). The Balcones Escarpment forms the distinct boundary of the Edwards Plateau on its eastern and southern borders and outlines what is known as the Texas Hill Country. The area is a deeply dissected, rapidly drained stony plain having broad, flat to undulating divides. The original vegetation was grassland or open savannah-type plains with tree or brushy species found along rocky slopes and stream bottoms.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Abronia ameliae | Amelia's sand verbena Heart’s delight Amelia's sand-verbena Sand verbena | |
| Abronia angustifolia | Purple sand verbena Narrow-leaf sand-verbena | |
| Abronia fragrans | Fragrant verbena Sand verbena Snowball Snowball sand verbena Sweet sand-verbena | |
| Abutilon fruticosum | Indian mallow Texas Indian mallow | |
| Acacia angustissima | Prairie acacia Fern acacia Prairie wattle Whiteball acacia | |
| Acacia berlandieri | Guajillo Berlandier acacia Thornless Catclaw Mimosa Catclaw Round-flowered Catclaw Huajillla Matoral | |
| Acacia farnesiana | Huisache Sweet acacia Mealy wattle | |
| Acacia greggii | Catclaw acacia Gregg acacia Long-flower catclaw Una de gato | |
| Acacia greggii var. wrightii | Catclaw acacia Catclaw Wright acacia | |
| Achnatherum hymenoides | Indian ricegrass Indian Millet Sandgrass | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow Yarrow Milfoil Western yarrow | |
| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| Acacia rigidula | Blackbrush acacia Blackbrush Catclaw Chaparro prieto Gavia | |
| Acacia roemeriana | Roundflower catclaw Round-flower catclaw Roemer acacia Catclaw Roemer’s acacia Catclaw acacia | |
| Acacia schaffneri var. bravoensis | Huisachillo Schaffner's wattle Twisted acacia | |
| Acourtia wrightii | Brownfoot Pink perezia | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern maidenhair fern Common maidenhair fern Maidenhair fern Venus hair fern | |
| Aesculus glabra var. arguta | Ohio buckeye White buckeye Texas buckeye | |
| Aesculus pavia var. flavescens | Texas yellow buckeye Yellow woolly buckeye Pale buckeye Plateau yellow buckeye | |
| Allium canadense var. canadense | Canada onion Meadow garlic Wild onion | |
| Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow garlic Wild onion | |
| Allium coryi | Yellow-flowered onion Yellowflower 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 arborea | Peppervine | |
| Amsonia ciliata | Fringed bluestar Bluestar Blue funnel lily Texas bluestar | |
| 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 | |
| Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache daisy Butterfly daisy Honey daisy | |
| Androstephium caeruleum | Androstephium Blue funnel lily Blue Funnel-lily Fragrant lily Funnel-Flower | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge bluestem Broom-sedge | |
| Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy daisy Arkansas lazy daisy Arkansas dozedaisy | |
| Argemone mexicana | Mexican pricklypoppy Mexican prickly poppy Yellow pricklypoppy | |
| Asclepias texana | Texas milkweed White milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing saltbush Fourwing saltbush Wingscale | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Bothriochloa barbinodis | Cane bluestem | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo grass | |
| Bouteloua eriopoda | Black grama | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy grama | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta var. pectinata | Hairy grama Tall grama | |
| Bouchea linifolia | Flaxleaf bouchea Groovestem bouchea | |
| Bouteloua rigidiseta | Texas grama | |
| Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum | Chile pequin Bird pepper Turkey pepper Cayenne pepper | |
| Calylophus berlandieri ssp. pinifolius | Berlandier's sundrops Square-bud primrose Sundrops Square-bud day-primrose | |
| Calliandra conferta | Rio Grande stickpea Fairy duster | |
| Callirhoe digitata | Finger poppy-mallow Poppy mallow Standing winecup Wine cup Winecup | |
| Castela erecta ssp. texana | Allthorn goatbush Amargoso Goat-bush Texan goatbush | |
| Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's sundrops Western Primrose | |
| Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Castilleja indivisa | Entireleaf indian paintbrush Texas paintbrush Indian paintbrush Scarlet paintbrush Entire-leaf indian-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 | |
| Camassia scilloides | Atlantic camas Wild hyacinth | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea Redroot | |
| Centaurea americana | American star-thistle Basket-Flower Star thistle Shaving brush American basket-flower | |
| Centaurium beyrichii | Mountain pink Meadow pink Catchfly Quinineweed | |
| Celtis ehrenbergiana | Desert hackberry Spiny hackberry Granjeno Shiny hackberry Huasteco | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar hackberry Hackberry Sugarberry Texas sugarberry Palo blanco | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf hackberry Netleaf sugar hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Cercocarpus montanus var. argenteus | Silver mountain mahogany Mountain mahogany True mountain mahogany Silverleaf mountain mahogany | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| 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 | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Chloris virgata | Feather fingergrass Showy chloris | |
| Citharexylum berlandieri | Berlandier's fiddlewood Berlandier fiddlewood Fiddlewood | |
| Cirsium texanum | Texas thistle | |
| 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 texensis | Scarlet clematis Scarlet leatherflower Texas clematis | |
| Corydalis aurea | Scrambled eggs Golden corydalis | |
| Coreopsis basalis | Coreopsis Golden-wave Goldenmane tickseed | |
| Cocculus carolinus | Carolina snailseed Carolina coralbead Carolina moonseed Red berried moonseed Carolina red berried moonseed | |
| Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Curvepod fumewort Golden Smoke Scrambled Eggs | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf dogwood Drummond's dogwood Rough-leaf dogwood | |
| Cooperia drummondii | Evening rain lily Evening star rain lily | |
| Condalia hookeri | Bluewood condalia Brasil Brazilwood Brazilian bluewood | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf coreopsis Lanceleaf tickseed Lance-leaved coreopsis Sand coreopsis | |
| Cotinus obovatus | American smoke tree Smoke tree Texas smoke tree Chittamwood | |
| Cooperia pedunculata | Hill Country rain lily Prairie lily Rain lily | |
| Colubrina texensis | Hog-plum Texan hogplum Texas colubrina Texas snakewood | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains coreopsis Golden tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Croton alabamensis var. texensis | Texabama croton Texas Alabama croton | |
| Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur hawthorn Cockspur thorn Newcastle hawthorn Newcastle thorn | |
| Crataegus reverchonii | Reverchon hawthorn Reverchon's hawthorn | |
| Crataegus viridis | Green hawthorn Southern thorn | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black dalea Black prairie clover | |
| Dasyochloa pulchella | Fluff grass Low woollygrass | |
| Dasylirion texanum | Texas sotol Sotol | |
| Datura wrightii | Sacred thorn-apple Jimsonweed Thorn apple Datura Angel Trumpet Sacred datura | |
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