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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Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
Ulmus americana | American Elm White Elm Soft Elm Water Elm Common Elm | |
Ungnadia speciosa | Mexican Buckeye Monilla | |
Urtica chamaedryoides | Heart-leaf Stinging Nettle Heart-leaf Nettle Stinging Nettle | |
Urochloa ciliatissima | Fringed Signalgrass | |
Urochloa fusca | Browntop Signalgrass | |
Urochloa texana | Texas Signalgrass | |
Utricularia gibba | Humped Bladderwort Bladderwort Conespur Bladderpod | |
Utricularia macrorhiza | Common Bladderwort | |
Valerianella amarella | Hairy Cornsalad | |
Vachellia constricta | Whitethorn Acacia White-thorn Acacia Mescat Acacia Mescat Wattle Whitethorn Vara Prieta Chaparro Prieto | |
Veronica anagallis-aquatica | Water Speedwell | |
Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed Baldwin's Ironweed Ironweed | |
Verbena bracteata | Bigbract Verbena Carpet Vervain Prostrate Vervain | |
Verbena canescens | Gray Vervain | |
Verbesina encelioides | Cowpen Daisy Golden Crownbeard Butter Daisy | |
Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
Verbena hastata | Swamp Verbena Blue Verbena Blue Vervain Simpler's Joy | |
Vernonia marginata | Plains Ironweed | |
Verbesina nana | Dwarf Crownbeard | |
Veronica peregrina | American Speedwell Purslane Speedwell Neckweed | |
Veronica peregrina ssp. xalapensis | Hairy Purslane Speedwell | |
Verbena plicata | Fanleaf Vervain | |
Verbena stricta | Hoary Verbena Hoary Vervain Tall Vervain Woolly Verbena | |
Verbena urticifolia | White Vervain White Verbena | |
Vitis acerifolia | Mapleleaf Grape Panhandle Grape Bush Grape | |
Vicia americana | American Vetch American Deervetch | |
Vicia americana ssp. americana | American Vetch | |
Vicia americana ssp. minor | Mat Vetch | |
Vitis cinerea var. helleri | Winter Grape Heller's Grape Gray-leaf Grape Smooth-leaf Grape Sweet Grape Spanish Grape | |
Vicia ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
Vicia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
Viola missouriensis | Missouri Violet | |
Vitis mustangensis | Mustang Grape | |
Viola nephrophylla | Northern Bog Violet Wanderer Violet Entire-leaved Prairie Violet Small Mottled Blue Violet | |
Viola sororia | Missouri Violet Common Blue Violet Hooded Blue Violet Florida Violet Meadow Violet Confederate Violet Dooryard Violet Purple Violet Woolly Blue Violet Wood Violet Hooded Violet | |
Viguiera stenoloba | Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Resinbush | |
Vitis vulpina | Frost Grape Fox Grape | |
Vulpia octoflora | Sixweeks Fescue Common Sixweeks Grass | |
Warnockia scutellarioides | Prairie Brazosmint Prairie Brazoria | |
Wolffia columbiana | Columbian Watermeal | |
Xanthium strumarium | Rough Cocklebur | |
Xanthisma texanum | Texas Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Star of Texas Texas Sleepy-daisy Texas Sleepydaisy | |
Xanthisma texanum var. drummondii | Drummond's Sleepy Daisy Yellow Sleepy Daisy Drummond's Sleepy-daisy Drummond's Sleepydaisy | |
Yucca glauca | Soapweed Yucca Narrowleaf Yucca Plains Yucca Beargrass Great Plains Yucca | |
Yucca glauca var. glauca | Soapweed Yucca Narrow-leaf Yucca | |
Yucca reverchonii | San Angelo Yucca | |
Yucca thompsoniana | Thompson's Yucca Thompson Yucca Beaked Yucca Big Bend Yucca Soyate Palmita Trans-Pecos Yucca | |
Yucca torreyi | Torrey Yucca Torrey's Yucca Spanish Bayonet Spanish Dagger Old Shag Palma | |
Zannichellia palustris | Horned Pondweed Horned Poolmat Horned-pondweed | |
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