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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Machaeranthera pinnatifida var. pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
Maclura pomifera | Osage Orange Bois d' Arc Bodark Horse Apple Hedge Apple Bowwood Yellowwood Naranjo Chino Monkey Brains | |
Malvella sagittifolia | Arrow-leaf Mallow Arrowleaf Mallow | |
Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster | |
Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo Mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate Barberry Wild Currant | |
Marsilea vestita | Hairy Water-clover Hairy Waterclover Hairy Water Clover Clover Fern | |
Mentha arvensis | Wild Mint | |
Mentzelia decapetala | Tenpetal Blazingstar Ten-petal Western Star Gumbo-lily | |
Menodora heterophylla | Low Menodora Redbud Twinpod | |
Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica | |
Mentzelia multiflora | Adonis Blazingstar Prairie Stickleaf Blazingstar | |
Melica nitens | Three-flower Melic Tall Melicgrass Threeflower Melicgrass Melicgrass | |
Mentzelia nuda | Bractless Blazingstar Sand Lily | |
Mentzelia oligosperma | Stick-leaf Chickenthief | |
Melothria pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber Meloncito Speckled Gourd | |
Melothria pendula var. pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber | |
Mecardonia procumbens | Baby Jump-up | |
Mentzelia reverchonii | Reverchon's Blazingstar Reverchon's Stick-leaf Prairie Stickleaf | |
Menodora scabra | Rough Menodora | |
Mentzelia strictissima | Grassland Blazingstar | |
Mimosa aculeaticarpa | Catclaw Mimosa | |
Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera | Catclaw Mimosa Cat's-claw Mimosa Wait-a-bit | |
Mirabilis albida | White Four O'clock Dwarf Four O'clock | |
Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
Mimulus glabratus | Roundleaf Monkeyflower Yellow Monkeyflower | |
Mirabilis linearis | Narrowleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mimosa nuttallii | Nuttall's Sensitive Briar | |
Mirabilis nyctaginea | Heartleaf Four O'Clock | |
Mimosa rupertiana | Eastern Sensitive Plant | |
Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
Monarda clinopodioides | Basil Beebalm | |
Morus microphylla | Texas Mulberry Littleleaf Mulberry Mountain Mulberry Mexican Mulberry Dwarf Mulberry | |
Monolepis nuttalliana | Nuttall's Povertyweed | |
Monarda pectinata | Pony Beebalm | |
Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
Monarda punctata var. lasiodonta | Spotted Beebalm | |
Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
Mollugo verticillata | Green Carpetweed | |
Muhlenbergia arenacea | Ear Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia arenicola | Sand Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf Muhly Hair-awn Muhly Hairy-awn Muhly Hair Grass Pink Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia porteri | Bush Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia racemosa | Marsh Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia spiciformis | Longawn Muhly | |
Muhlenbergia torreyi | Ring Muhly Torrey Muhly | |
Najas guadalupensis | Common Water Nymph Southern Water Nymph Najas | |
Nama hispidum | Sand Bells Bristly Nama Sand-bell | |
Nama jamaicense | Jamaicanweed Jamaican Weed Fiddleleaf Nama | |
Nassella leucotricha | Texas Wintergrass Texas Speargrass Wintergrass | |
Nekemias arborea | Peppervine | |
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