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Blackland Prairies
The Blackland Prairies area intermingles with the Post Oak Savannah in the southeast and has divisions known as the San Antonio and Fayette Prairies. This rolling and well-dissected prairie represents the southern extension of the true prairie that occurs from Texas to Canada. The upland blacklands are dark, calcareous shrink-swell clayey soils, changing gradually with depth to light marls or chalks. Bottomland soils are generally reddish brown to dark gray, slightly acid to calcareous, loamy to clayey and alluvial. The soils are inherently productive and fertile, but many have lost productivity through erosion and continuous cropping.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard bluestem | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge bluestem Broom-sedge | |
| Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy daisy Arkansas lazy daisy Arkansas dozedaisy | |
| Aristolochia serpentaria | Virginia snakeroot Virginia dutchmanspipe | |
| Aristolochia tomentosa | Woolly dutchman's pipe Common dutchmanspipe | |
| Astragalus crassicarpus | Groundplum milkvetch Ground plum | |
| Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony spleenwort | |
| Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
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