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
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| Morus microphylla | Texas Mulberry Littleleaf Mulberry Mountain Mulberry Mexican Mulberry Dwarf Mulberry | |
| Monolepis nuttalliana | Nuttall's Povertyweed | |
| Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
| Monarda punctata var. lasiodonta | Spotted Beebalm | |
| Monarda russeliana | Redpurple Beebalm | |
| Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
| Monarda stanfieldii | Stanfield's Beebalm Stanfield's Monarda | |
| Mollugo verticillata | Green Carpetweed | |
| Monarda viridissima | Green Beebalm | |
| Muhlenbergia capillaris | Gulf Muhly Hair-awn Muhly Hairy-awn Muhly Hair Grass Pink Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia frondosa | Wirestem Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Muhly Lindheimer Muhly Big Muhly Blue Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia reverchonii | Seep Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia rigens | Deergrass Meadow Muhly Deer Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia schreberi | Nimblewill | |
| Muhlenbergia utilis | Aparejo Grass Aparejo Muhly | |
| Myriophyllum heterophyllum | Twoleaf Watermilfoil | |
| Myosotis macrosperma | Largeseed Forget-me-not | |
| Myriophyllum pinnatum | Cutleaf Watermilfoil | |
| Myosotis verna | Spring Forget-me-not | |
| 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 | |
| Nama parvifolium | Small-leaf Fiddleleaf | |
| Nemophila aphylla | Smallflower Baby Blue Eyes | |
| Nekemias arborea | Peppervine | |
| Nephrolepis exaltata | Boston Swordfern | |
| Nephrolepis exaltata ssp. exaltata | Boston Fern Sword Fern Wild Boston Fern | |
| Nemastylis geminiflora | Prairie Celestials Celestials Prairie Pleatleaf | |
| Nelumbo lutea | American Lotus Yellow Water Lotus Yellow Lotus | |
| Neptunia lutea | Yellow Sensitive Briar Yellow Puff | |
| Nemophila phacelioides | Texas Baby Blue Eyes Large-flower Baby-blue-eyes Baby Blue-eyes Flannel Breeches | |
| Neptunia pubescens | Tropical Puff | |
| Neeragrostis reptans | Creeping Lovegrass | |
| 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 | |
| Nolina lindheimeriana | Devil's Shoestring Devil's-shoestring Ribbon Grass | |
| Nolina texana | Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass | |
| Nuttallanthus canadensis | Canada Toadflax Blue Toadflax Old-field Toadflax | |
| Nuphar lutea | Yellow Pond Lily Yellow Cow Lily Cow Lily Spatter Dock Wakas | |
| Nuphar lutea ssp. advena | Common Spatterdock Spatterdock Yellow Cow-lily Cow-lily Yellow Pond-lily Brandy-bottle | |
| Nuttallanthus texanus | Texas Toadflax Texas Toad-flax Toadflax | |
| Nyssa aquatica | Water Tupelo Blackgum Sourgum Cotton Gum Swamp Tupelo Water Gum | |
| Nyssa biflora | Swamp Tupelo Swamp Blackgum | |
| Nyctaginia capitata | Devil's Bouquet Scarlet Muskflower | |
| Nymphaea elegans | Tropical Royalblue Waterlily | |
| Nymphaea mexicana | Yellow Waterlily Yellow Water-lily Banana Lily Banana Waterlily Sun Lotus | |
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