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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Symphyotrichum lanceolatum | Whitepanicle Aster Panicled Aster Lanceleaf Aster White Panicle Aster | |
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum ssp. hesperium | White Panicle Aster | |
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic Aster Aromatic American Aster Fall Aster Wild Blue Aster Shale Aster | |
Symphoricarpos occidentalis | Western Snowberry Wolfberry | |
Symphyotrichum praealtum | Willowleaf Aster | |
Symphyotrichum praealtum var. praealtum | Willowleaf Aster Tall Aster | |
Tetraneuris acaulis | Stemless Four-nerve Daisy Stemless Hymenoxys Bitterweed | |
Tetraneuris acaulis var. acaulis | Stemless Four-nerve Daisy Stemless Goldflower Stemless Rubber Weed Butte Marigold Bitterweed | |
Teucrium canadense | American Germander Canada Germander Canadian Germander Germander Hairy Germander Wood Sage | |
Teucrium canadense var. canadense | Canada Germander | |
Tetraclea coulteri | Coulter's Wrinklefruit | |
Teucrium laciniatum | Lacy Germander Cut-leaf Germander Dwarf Germander | |
Tetraneuris linearifolia | Fineleaf Fournerved Daisy Slender-leaf Hymenoxys Bitterweed | |
Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed | |
Tetraneuris scaposa var. scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Bitterweed | |
Tephrosia virginiana | Goat's Rue Virginia Tephrosia Devil's Shoestring | |
Thymophylla acerosa | Prickly-leaf Dogweed Texas Dogweed Shrubby Dogweed Prickleleaf Dogweed Prickleaf Dogweed Fetid Marigold Scrubby Dogweed | |
Thalictrum dasycarpum | Purple Meadow-rue Tall Meadow-rue Meadow Rue | |
Thelesperma filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Greenthread | |
Thelesperma filifolium var. intermedium | Stiff Greenthread | |
Thelesperma megapotamicum | Hopi Tea Greenthread Green Threads Navajo Tea Cota | |
Thymophylla pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Five-needle Fetid Marigold | |
Thymophylla pentachaeta var. pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Dogweed Dyssodia | |
Thelesperma simplicifolium | Slender Greenthread Navajo Tea Cota | |
Thamnosma texana | Texas Desert-rue Dutchman's Breeches Rue Of The Mountains Ruda Del Monte | |
Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
Thymophylla tenuiloba var. tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
Thelypodium wrightii | Wright's Thelypody Wright Thelypody | |
Tiquilia canescens | Woody Crinklemat Shrubby Coldenia Shrubby Tiquilia | |
Tiquilia canescens var. canescens | Woolly Crinklemat Woody Crinklemat Dog's Ear Oreja De Perro Rat's Ear Coldenia Woody Tiquilia Gray Tiquilia Gray Coldenia Shrubby Coldenia | |
Tiquilia greggii | Plumed Crinklemat Plume Tiquilia Plume Coldenia Gregg Coldenia Hierba Del Cenizo | |
Tiquilia hispidissima | Hairy Crinklemat Hairy Coldenia Hairy Tiquilia | |
Tidestromia lanuginosa | Woolly Tidestromia | |
Townsendia exscapa | Stemless Townsend Daisy Stemless Townsend-daisy Easter Daisy | |
Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy Poison Ivy | |
Toxicodendron rydbergii | Western Poison Ivy | |
Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
Tragia betonicifolia | Betonyleaf Noseburn | |
Trichloris crinita | Two-flowered Trichloris False Rhodes Grass | |
Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
Tridens flavus | Purpletop Tridens Redtop Tridens Tall Redtop Tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall Redtop | |
Triodanis holzingeri | Holzinger's Venus' Looking-glass | |
Trisetum interruptum | Prairie False Oat | |
Tridens muticus | Slim Tridens | |
Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort Bluejacket | |
Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
Triplasis purpurea | Purple Sandgrass Purple Triplasis | |
Tragia ramosa | Branched Noseburn | |
Typha domingensis | Southern Cattail | |
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