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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Lechea mucronata | Hairy Pinweed | |
Lepidium oblongum | Veiny Pepperweed | |
Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass | |
Lesquerella ovalifolia | Roundleaf Bladderpod | |
Leptochloa panicea | Mucronate Sprangletop Red Sprangletop Needle Sprangletop | |
Lespedeza stuevei | Tall Bush-clover Tall Lespedeza | |
Lepidium virginicum | Virginia Peppergrass Virginia Pepperweed Peppergrass Poor Man's Pepper | |
Limnodea arkansana | Ozark Grass Ozarkgrass | |
Linum aristatum | Bristle Flax | |
Linum berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax | |
Linum berlandieri var. berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax Yellow Flax Stiff-stem Flax | |
Lithospermum caroliniense | Carolina Puccoon Hairy Puccoon Hispid Gromwell | |
Lindernia dubia | Yellowseed False Pimpernel | |
Linum hudsonioides | Texas Flax Yellow Flax Hudson Flax | |
Lithospermum incisum | Fringed Puccoon Golden Puccoon Narrowleaf Puccoon Narrow-leaved Puccoon Puccoon Narrowleaf Gromwell Fringed Gromwell Narrowleaf Stoneseed | |
Linum lewisii | Wild Blue Flax Prairie Flax Lewis Flax Lewis's Flax | |
Linum lewisii var. lewisii | Prairie Flax Blue Flax | |
Limonium limbatum | Transpecos Sealavender | |
Linum pratense | Meadow Flax | |
Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
Linum puberulum | Plains Flax | |
Linum rigidum | Stiffstem Flax Large-flower Yellow Flax Yellow Flax | |
Linum rigidum var. rigidum | Stiffstem Flax | |
Linum rupestre | Rock Flax | |
Liatris squarrosa | Scaly Blazing Star Scaly Gayfeather Scaly Liatris | |
Liatris squarrosa var. glabrata | Scaly Blazing Star Scaly Gayfeather Scaly Liatris | |
Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar | |
Lindheimera texana | Texas Yellowstar Texas Star Texas Yellow-star Lindheimer Daisy | |
Lonicera albiflora | Western White Honeysuckle White Shrub Honeysuckle White Bush Honeysuckle White Limestone Honeysuckle Texas Honeysuckle White Honeysuckle | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Lomatium foeniculaceum ssp. daucifolium | Desert Biscuitroot | |
Loeflingia squarrosa | Spreading Pygmyleaf | |
Lupinus argenteus | Silvery Lupine Silver-stem Lupine | |
Lupinus caudatus | Tailcup Lupine | |
Lupinus plattensis | Nebraska Lupine Dune Bluebonnet | |
Ludwigia repens | Creeping Primrose-willow Floating Primrose-willow Water Primrose | |
Lycopus americanus | American Water Horehound Water Horehound | |
Lycium berlandieri | Berlandier's Wolfberry Wolfberry | |
Lythrum californicum | California Loosestrife | |
Lygodesmia juncea | Rush Skeletonplant | |
Lycurus setosus | Bristly Wolfstail | |
Lygodesmia texana | Texas Skeleton Plant Texas Skeleton Weed Skeleton-plant Purple Dandelion Flowering Straw | |
Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving Sailor Climbing Snapdragon Little Snapdragon Vine | |
Matelea biflora | Star Milkvine Purple Milkweed Vine | |
Machaeranthera canescens | Hoary Tansyaster | |
Mammillaria heyderi | Little Nipple Cactus Heyder Pincushion Cactus | |
Malvella lepidota | Scurfymallow Malvalla | |
Malvella leprosa | Alkali Mallow | |
Machaeranthera pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
Machaeranthera pinnatifida ssp. pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
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