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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Hybanthus verticillatus | Babyslippers Nodding Green Violet Green Violet | |
Ibervillea lindheimeri | Balsam Gourd Lindheimer's Globeberry Globe Berry Snake-apple Balsam-apple | |
Ibervillea tenuisecta | Slimlobe Globeberry Cutleaf Globe Berry | |
Indigofera miniata | Scarlet Pea Coastal Indigo Texas Indigo Western Indigo | |
Ipomopsis aggregata | Scarlet Gilia Scarlet Standing-cypress Skyrocket Skunkflower | |
Ipomoea leptophylla | Bush Morning-glory | |
Ipomopsis longiflora | Flaxflowered Ipomopsis Pale Trumpets Paleflower Gilia White-flower Skyrocket White-flowered Gilia | |
Isocoma pluriflora | Southern Goldenbush Jimmyweed | |
Iva annua | Annual Marshelder Marshelder Sumpweed Annual Marsh Elder Marsh Elder | |
Juncus acuminatus | Tapertip Rush | |
Juncus arcticus ssp. littoralis | Baltic Rush | |
Juniperus ashei | Ashe Juniper Ashe's Juniper Mountain Cedar Rock Cedar Post Cedar Texas Cedar Brake Cedar Mexican Juniper Blueberry Juniper Ozark White Cedar Sabino Enebro | |
Juncus dudleyi | Dudley's Rush | |
Juncus interior | Inland Rush | |
Juncus interior var. interior | Inland Rush | |
Juncus marginatus | Grassleaf Rush Grass Leaf Rush | |
Juglans microcarpa | Little Walnut Texas Walnut Texas Black Walnut River Walnut Nogalito Nogalillo Namboca | |
Juniperus monosperma | Oneseed Juniper One-seed Juniper Cherrystone Juniper New Mexico Juniper West Texas Juniper | |
Juglans nigra | Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut | |
Juniperus pinchotii | Pinchot's Juniper Pinchot Juniper Redberry Juniper Texas Juniper Christmasberry Juniper | |
Justicia pilosella | Hairy Tube-tongue Gregg's Tube-tongue False Honeysuckle | |
Juncus scirpoides | Needlepod Rush | |
Juniperus scopulorum | Rocky Mountain Juniper Rocky Mountain Red Cedar Mountain Red Cedar Colorado Red Cedar Western Red Cedar River Juniper Western Juniper Cedro Rojo | |
Juncus torreyi | Torrey's Rush | |
Juniperus virginiana | Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin | |
Kallstroemia parviflora | Warty Caltrop Small-flowered Carpetweed | |
Koeberlinia spinosa | Crown Of Thorns Spiny Allthorn | |
Krameria erecta | Littleleaf Ratany Range Ratany | |
Krameria lanceolata | Trailing Krameria Ratany Crameria Prairie Sandbur Trailing Ratany | |
Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat | |
Lantana achyranthifolia | Brushland Shrubverbena Mexican Marjoram Veinyleaf Lantana | |
Laennecia coulteri | Conyza Coulter's Horseweed Coulter's Woolwort Annual Horsetail | |
Lactuca ludoviciana | Western Wild Lettuce Louisiana Wild Lettuce Prairie Lettuce Prairie Wild Lettuce Biannual Lettuce | |
Lappula occidentalis var. cupulata | Flatspine Stickseed Western Stickseed | |
Lathyrus polymorphus | Manystem Pea Hoary Vetchling | |
Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis | |
Lantana urticoides | Texas Lantana Calico Bush | |
Lepidium alyssoides | Mesa Pepperwort Mesa Pepperweed Southern Pepperweed | |
Lepidium austrinum | Southern Peppergrass Southern Pepperwort | |
Lespedeza capitata | Roundhead Lespedeza Roundhead Bush-clover Round-headed Lespedeza Round-headed Bush-clover | |
Lepidium densiflorum | Common Pepperweed | |
Leptochloa dubia | Green Sprangletop | |
Lesquerella fendleri | Fendler's Bladderpod Popweed | |
Leptochloa fusca | Malabar Sprangletop | |
Leptochloa fusca ssp. fascicularis | Bearded Sprangletop | |
Lesquerella gordonii | Gordon's Bladderpod | |
Lesquerella grandiflora | Bigflower Bladderpod | |
Lepidium lasiocarpum | Shaggyfruit Pepperweed | |
Lemna minor | Common Duckweed | |
Leucospora multifida | Narrowleaf Paleseed | |
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