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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Nerisyrenia camporum | Bicolor Fanmustard Mesa Greggia | |
Nerisyrenia linearifolia | White Sands Fanmustard | |
Nelumbo lutea | American Lotus Yellow Water Lotus Yellow Lotus | |
Nicotiana obtusifolia | Desert Tobacco Little Tobacco Tabaquillo Punche | |
Nicotiana obtusifolia var. obtusifolia | Desert Tobacco Little Tobacco Tabaquillo Punche | |
Nicotiana repanda | Fiddleleaf Tobacco Fiddle-leaf Tobacco | |
Nothoscordum bivalve | Crowpoison False Garlic Crow Poison | |
Nothocalais cuspidata | Sharppoint Prairie-dandelion Wavy-leaf Prairie-dandelion Prairie Dandelion | |
Nolina texana | Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass | |
Nuttallanthus texanus | Texas Toadflax Texas Toad-flax Toadflax | |
Nyctaginia capitata | Devil's Bouquet Scarlet Muskflower | |
Oenothera albicaulis | Whitest Evening-primrose White-stem Evening-primrose Pale Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera canescens | Spotted Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera cinerea | Woolly Beeblossom High Plains Beeblossom Woolly Gaura High Plains Gaura | |
Oenothera curtiflora | Velvetweed Velvetleaf Gaura Lizard-tail Gaura Willow Gaura | |
Oenothera elata | Hooker's Evening-primrose Hooker's Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera elata ssp. hirsutissima | Hooker's Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera engelmannii | Engelmann's Evening-primrose Engelmann Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera grandis | Showy Evening-primrose Largeflower Eveningprimrose Showy Eveningprimrose | |
Oenothera jamesii | Trumpet Evening-primrose Trumpet Evening Primrose River Primrose | |
Oenothera kunthiana | Kunth's Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera laciniata | Cutleaf Evening-primrose Cut-leaved Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Missouri Evening-primrose Fluttermill Big-fruit Evening-primrose Missouri Primrose Bigfruit Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. incana | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Silver Leaf Primrose Bigfruit Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. macrocarpa | Bigfruit Evening-primrose Fluttermill Missouri Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera pallida | Pale Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera patriciae | Plains Beeblossom Plains Gaura | |
Oenothera pallida ssp. runcinata | White Sands Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera rhombipetala | Fourpoint Evening-primrose Four-point Evening Primrose Diamond Petal Primrose Greater Four-point Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera sinuosa | Wavyleaf Beeblossom Wavyleaf Gaura | |
Oenothera speciosa | Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups | |
Oenothera suffrutescens | Scarlet Beeblossom Scarlet Gaura | |
Oenothera suffulta | Kisses Wild Honeysuckle Beeblossom Roadside Gaura | |
Oenothera triloba | Stemless Evening-primrose Stemless Evening Primrose | |
Oligoneuron rigidum | Stiff Goldenrod Hard-leaf Goldenrod | |
Oligoneuron rigidum var. rigidum | Stiff Goldenrod | |
Ophioglossum engelmannii | Limestone Adder's-tongue Limestone Adderstongue | |
Opuntia fragilis | Brittle Prickly Pear Fragile Prickly Pear Pygmy Prickly Pear Brittle Cactus | |
Opuntia macrorhiza | Bigroot Prickly Pear Twist-spine Prickly Pear Common Prickly Pear Plains Prickly Pear | |
Opuntia macrocentra | Purple Pricklypear Purple Prickly Pear Long-spined Prickly Pear Black Spine Prickly Pear | |
Opuntia macrocentra var. macrocentra | Purple Pricklypear Purple Prickly Pear | |
Opuntia phaeacantha | Tulip Prickly Pear Brownspine Prickly Pear Cactus Purple-fruited Prickly Pear Brown-spined Prickly Pear New Mexico Prickly Pear Desert Prickly Pear | |
Opuntia polyacantha | Plains Prickly Pear Hair-spine Prickly Pear Nopal Peludito | |
Opuntia polyacantha var. polyacantha | Hairspine Pricklypear Utah Grizzlybear Pricklypear | |
Opuntia strigil | Marblefruit Pricklypear Marblefruit Prickly Pear | |
Orobanche ludoviciana | Louisiana Broomrape | |
Orobanche ludoviciana ssp. multiflora | Manyflower Broomrape | |
Orobanche uniflora | One-flowered Broomrape One-flower Cancer Root | |
Oxalis dichondrifolia | Peonyleaf Woodsorrel | |
Oxalis dillenii | Slender Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Wood Sorrel Yellow Woodsorrel | |
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