Special Collections
East Central Texas Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 56 Texas counties. This ecoregion separates the two bands of the Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion and extends just across the Oklahoma border. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Post Oak Savannah vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Manfreda virginica | False Aloe Rattlesnake Master | |
| Mecardonia acuminata | Axilflower | |
| Mentzelia albescens | Wavyleaf Blazingstar | |
| Mentzelia albicaulis | Whitestem Blazingstar | |
| Melampodium cinereum | Hoary Blackfoot | |
| Merremia dissecta | Alamo Vine Noyau Vine Correhuela De Las Doce | |
| Meximalva filipes | Texasfan | |
| Menodora heterophylla | Low Menodora Redbud Twinpod | |
| Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica | |
| Menodora longiflora | Showy Menodora Twinpod | |
| 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 | |
| Melochia pyramidata | Pyramidflower Broom-wood Pyramid Flower | |
| Mentzelia reverchonii | Reverchon's Blazingstar Reverchon's Stick-leaf Prairie Stickleaf | |
| Menodora scabra | Rough Menodora | |
| Mimosa aculeaticarpa | Catclaw Mimosa | |
| Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera | Catclaw Mimosa Cat's-claw Mimosa Wait-a-bit | |
| Mimulus alatus | Sharpwing Monkeyflower Sharp-winged Monkeyflower | |
| Mirabilis albida | White Four O'clock Dwarf Four O'clock | |
| Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
| Minuartia drummondii | Drummond's Stitchwort Sandwort | |
| Mirabilis gigantea | Giant Four O'Clock | |
| Mimulus glabratus | Roundleaf Monkeyflower Yellow Monkeyflower | |
| Mimosa hystricina | Porcupine Mimosa | |
| Mimosa latidens | Kairn's Sensitive Briar | |
| Mirabilis linearis | Narrowleaf Four O'Clock | |
| Mirabilis multiflora | Colorado Four O'Clock | |
| Mimosa nuttallii | Nuttall's Sensitive Briar | |
| Mirabilis nyctaginea | Heartleaf Four O'Clock | |
| Mirabilis oxybaphoides | Smooth Spreading Four O'Clock | |
| Minuartia patula | Pitcher's Stitchwort Slender Sandwort Spreading Sandwort Lime Barren Sandwort Glade Sandwort | |
| Mitreola petiolata | Lax Hornpod | |
| Mitchella repens | Partridgeberry Twinberry Running Box Pigeon Plum | |
| Mimosa roemeriana | Roemer's Mimosa Sensitive Briar | |
| Mikania scandens | Climbing Hempvine Climbing Hempweed | |
| Mitreola sessilifolia | Swamp Hornpod | |
| Mimosa strigillosa | Powderpuff Sunshine Mimosa Sensitive Plant | |
| Modiola caroliniana | Carolina Bristlemallow Carolina Modiola | |
| Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
| Monarda clinopodioides | Basil Beebalm | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Monotropa hypopitys | Pinesap | |
| Monanthochloe littoralis | Shoregrass | |
| Monarda lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Beebalm Lindheimer Beebalm | |
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