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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Eleocharis rostellata | Beaked Spikerush Leap Frog Spike Rush | |
Elymus trachycaulus | Slender Wheatgrass | |
Elymus trachycaulus ssp. trachycaulus | Slender Wheatgrass | |
Elymus virginicus | Virginia Wild Rye Virginia Wildrye | |
Elymus virginicus var. virginicus | Virginia Wildrye Virginia Wild Rye | |
Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's Daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon Tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
Ephedra aspera | Rough Jointfir | |
Epilobium coloratum | Purpleleaf Willowherb | |
Ephedra coryi | Cory's Jointfir Cory's Ephedra | |
Epipactis gigantea | Stream Orchid Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore | |
Ephedra torreyana | Torrey's Jointfir Torrey Joint-fir | |
Ephedra trifurca | Ephedra Mormon Tea Longleaf Jointfir Jointfir Longleaf Teabush Tea Weed Canutillo | |
Epixiphium wislizeni | Balloonbush Net-cup Snapdragon Vine Balloon-sepal Snapdragon Vine | |
Equisetum arvense | Field Horsetail | |
Equisetum hyemale | Scouring-rush Horsetail Horsetail Scouring Rush Canuela | |
Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouring-rush Horsetail | |
Equisetum laevigatum | Smooth Horsetail Horsetail | |
Eriogonum abertianum | Abert's Buckwheat Abert's Wild Buckwheat | |
Eriogonum annuum | Annual Buckwheat Annual Wild Buckwheat Umbrella Plant | |
Erysimum asperum | Western Wallflower | |
Erigeron bellidiastrum | Western Daisy Fleabane | |
Erysimum capitatum | Sand-dune Wallflower Western Wallflower Prairie Rocket | |
Erigeron colomexicanus | Running Fleabane Sprawling Daisy | |
Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy Lovegrass Gummy Love Grass | |
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