High Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 51 counties in western and northwestern Texas. It extends west into New Mexico and north across western Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, into southwestern South Dakota and southeastern Wyoming. In Texas, this ecoregion is commonly referred to as the Llano Estacado, a mostly flat plateau of short grass prairie. It covers approximately the same area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s High Plains vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the High Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Datura quercifolia | Chinese Thorn-apple Oak-leaf Thorn Apple Oak Leaved Angel's Trumpet | |
Dalea villosa | Silky Prairie Clover | |
Dalea villosa var. villosa | Silky Prairie Clover | |
Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
Delphinium carolinianum | Prairie Larkspur Carolina Larkspur Blue Larkspur | |
Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
Delphinium carolinianum ssp. vimineum | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur | |
Delphinium carolinianum ssp. virescens | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur Plains Larkspur | |
Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa | |
Desmodium illinoense | Illinois Ticktrefoil Illinois Tick-trefoil | |
Desmanthus obtusus | Bluntpod Bundleflower | |
Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine | |
Descurainia pinnata | Western Tansymustard Tansy-mustard | |
Desmodium sessilifolium | Sessileleaf Ticktrefoil | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum | Tapered Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. fasciculatum | Western Panicgrass Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer Panicgrass Lindheimer's Rosettegrass | |
Digitaria californica | Arizona Cottontop California Cottontop California Crab Grass Cottontop | |
Digitaria ciliaris | Southern Crabgrass | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Digitaria pubiflora | Carolina Crabgrass | |
Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon | Roundseed Panicgrass | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Draba cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba Whitlow-grass | |
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