Cross Timbers
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 35 Texas counties. With most of this ecoregion occurring in a swath from central Texas north, its northern reaches extend into southeastern Oklahoma. In Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Cross Timbers and Prairies vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Cross Timbers ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Aristida desmantha | Curly Threeawn | |
Argyrochosma dealbata | Powdery False Cloak Fern Powdery Cloak Fern False Cloak Fern | |
Aristida dichotoma | Churchmouse Threeawn | |
Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
Arundinaria gigantea | Giant Cane River Cane Switch Cane American Bamboo | |
Argythamnia humilis | Low Silverbush | |
Aristida lanosa | Woollysheath Threeawn Woolly Three-awn | |
Aristida longespica | Slimspike Threeawn Kearney's Three-awn Red Three-awn Slender Three-awn | |
Artemisia ludoviciana ssp. mexicana | White Sagebrush Louisiana Wormwood Cudweed Sagewort Gray Sagewort Mugwort Wormwood Prairie Sage | |
Argythamnia mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wildmercury | |
Argythamnia mercurialina var. mercurialina | Tall Silverbush Tall Wild Mercury Tall Ditaxis | |
Aristida oligantha | Prairie Threeawn Oldfield (Prairie) 3-awn Oldfield Threeawn | |
Arabis petiolaris | Brazos Rockcress Rock-cress Brazos Rock-cress | |
Arnoglossum plantagineum | Groovestem Indian Plantain Indian Plantain Prairie Plantain Prairie Indian Plantain | |
Argemone polyanthemos | Crested Pricklypoppy Annual Pricklepoppy Bluestem Pricklepoppy Bluestem Prickly Poppy Pricklypoppy Thistle Poppy White Prickly Poppy White Pricklypoppy | |
Aristida purpurascens | Arrowfeather Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea var. longiseta | Red Three-awn Fendler Three-awn Purple Threeawn | |
Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi | Blue Threeawn | |
Aristolochia reticulata | Texas Dutchman's Pipe | |
Argemone sanguinea | Red Pricklypoppy Rose Prickly Poppy Red Prickly Poppy | |
Aristolochia serpentaria | Virginia Snakeroot Virginia Dutchmanspipe | |
Argythamnia simulans | Plateau Silverbush Tall Wild-mercury | |
Aristolochia tomentosa | Woolly Dutchman's Pipe Common Dutchman's Pipe | |
Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
Arbutus xalapensis | Texas Madrone Madrone Texas Arbutus Manzanita Xoxocote Amazaquitl | |
Asclepias amplexicaulis | Clasping Milkweed Bluntleaf Milkweed | |
Asclepias asperula | Antelope-horns Spider Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Spider Antelope-horns Antelope Horns | |
Astragalus canadensis | Canadian Milkvetch Canada Milkvetch Milk Vetch | |
Astragalus crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch Ground Plum | |
Astragalus crassicarpus var. berlandieri | Berlandier's Groundplum Groundplum Milkvetch Groundplum | |
Astragalus crassicarpus var. crassicarpus | Groundplum Milkvetch | |
Astragalus distortus | Ozark Milkvetch Bent Milk Vetch Bentpod Milkvetch | |
Asclepias emoryi | Emory's Milkweed | |
Asclepias engelmanniana | Engelmann's Milkweed | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Astrolepis integerrima | Hybrid Cloakfern | |
Astranthium integrifolium | Entireleaf Western Daisy | |
Astranthium integrifolium ssp. ciliatum | Entireleaf Western Daisy | |
Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata | Swamp Milkweed | |
Astragalus leptocarpus | Rare Loco Milkvetch Slimpod Milkvetch | |
Astragalus lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Milkvetch Lindheimer's Astragulus | |
Astragalus lotiflorus | Lotus Milkvetch Lotus Milk-vetch Low Milkvetch Milkvetch | |
Astragalus missouriensis | Missouri Milkvetch | |
Astragalus nuttallianus | Nuttall's Milkvetch Small-flowered Milkvetch | |
Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes Milkweed Hierba De Zizotes Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony Spleenwort | |
Astragalus plattensis | Platte River Milkvetch | |
Astragalus pleianthus | Edwards Plateau Milkvetch | |
Asplenium resiliens | Blackstem Spleenwort | |
Asclepias stenophylla | Slimleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Milkweed Narrowleaf Green Milkweed | |
Asclepias subverticillata | Horsetail Milkweed Poison Milkweed | |
Asclepias texana | Texas Milkweed White Milkweed | |
Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
Asclepias viridiflora | Green Comet Milkweed Green-flowered Milkweed Green Milkweed Wand Milkweed | |
Asclepias viridis | Green Milkweed Spider Milkweed | |
Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
Azolla caroliniana | Carolina Mosquitofern | |
Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo Wild Blue Indigo Blue False Indigo | |
Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata var. laevicaulis | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
Bacopa monnieri | Herb-of-grace Water Hyssop Coastal Water-hyssop | |
Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
Baptisia nuttalliana | Nuttall's Wild Indigo | |
Bacopa rotundifolia | Disk Waterhyssop Disc Water-hyssop | |
Baccharis salicina | Willow Baccharis Great Plains False Willow | |
Baptisia sphaerocarpa | Yellow Wild Indigo Green Wild Indigo Bush Pea Yellow Wisteria | |
Baccharis texana | Prairie False Willow Prairie Baccharis | |
Berlandiera betonicifolia | Texas Greeneyes Broochflower | |
Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate Daisy Chocolate Flower Lyreleaf Greeneyes Green-eyed Lyre Leaf | |
Berlandiera pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
Berlandiera pumila var. pumila | Soft Greeneyes | |
Berchemia scandens | Alabama Supplejack Alabama Supple-jack Rattan-vine | |
Bifora americana | Prairie Bishop Prairie Bishop's Weed | |
Bidens bipinnata | Spanish Needles | |
Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
Bidens frondosa | Devil's Beggartick Spanish Needles | |
Bidens laevis | Smooth Beggartick Smooth Bidens Smooth Bur Marigold Larger Bur Marigold | |
Blutaparon vermiculare | Silverhead | |
Bouteloua barbata | Sixweeks Grama | |
Bothriochloa barbinodis | Pinhole Bluestem Cane Bluestem Cane Beardgrass Feather Bluestem Plains Beardgrass | |
Boerhavia coccinea | Scarlet Spiderling | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Boehmeria cylindrica | Smallspike False Nettle Bog Hemp | |
Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
Boltonia diffusa | Doll's Daisy Smallhead Doll's Daisy | |
Boerhavia diffusa | Red Spiderling | |
Boerhavia erecta | Erect Spiderling Common Spiderling | |
Bouchetia erecta | Erect Bouchetia Painted-tongue Paintedtongue Painted Tongue | |
Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
Bouteloua hirsuta var. pectinata | Tall Grama Hairy Grama | |
Bothriochloa hybrida | Hybrid Beardgrass | |
Bowlesia incana | Hoary Bowlesia | |
Bothriochloa laguroides | Silver Bluestem Silver Beardgrass | |
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