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Post Oak Savannah
The Post Oak Savannah lies just to the west of the Pineywoods and mixes considerably with the Blackland Prairies area in the south. This area includes the entire Claypan land resource area of Texas, which is part of the Southern Coastal Plains. The Post Oak Savannah, a gently rolling, moderately dissected wooded plain, is the home biota of Texas A&M University. Upland soils are gray, slightly acid sandy loams, commonly shallow over gray, mottled or red, firm clayey subsoils. They are generally droughty and have claypans at varying depths, restricting moisture percolation. The bottomland soils are reddish brown to dark gray, slightly acid to calcareous, loamy to clayey alluvial.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Allium drummondii | Drummond's onion Wild Garlic Drummond wild onion | |
| Alophia drummondii | Propeller flower Purple pleat-leaf Pinewoods lily Prairie iris Pleatleaf iris | |
| Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common bee-brush Beebrush Privet lippia | |
| Ampelopsis arborea | Peppervine | |
| 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 | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard bluestem | |
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