Special Collections
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 |
| Eragrostis elliottii | Field Lovegrass Field Love Grass | |
| Erigeron flagellaris | Trailing Fleabane | |
| Erigeron geiseri | Geiser's Fleabane | |
| Eragrostis hirsuta | Bigtop Lovegrass Bigtop Love Grass | |
| Eryngium hookeri | Hooker's Eryngo | |
| Eragrostis hypnoides | Teal Lovegrass Teal Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis intermedia | Plains Lovegrass Plains Love Grass | |
| Eryngium leavenworthii | Leavenworth's Eryngo Eryngo False Purple Thistle | |
| Eriogonum longifolium | Longleaf Buckwheat Longleaf Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eriogonum longifolium var. longifolium | Longleaf Buckwheat | |
| Eragrostis lugens | Mourning Lovegrass Mourning Love Grass | |
| Erythronium mesochoreum | Midland Fawnlily | |
| Erigeron modestus | Plains Fleabane Prairie Fleabane | |
| Eriogonum multiflorum | Wild Buckwheat Heart-sepal Buckwheat Heart-sepal Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eragrostis pectinacea | Tufted Lovegrass Tufted Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis pectinacea var. pectinacea | Tufted Lovegrass Tufted Love Grass | |
| Erigeron philadelphicus | Philadelphia Fleabane Fleabane Daisy | |
| Erigeron philadelphicus var. philadelphicus | Philadelphia Fleabane | |
| Erioneuron pilosum | Hairy Woollygrass Hairy Tridens | |
| Eragrostis secundiflora | Red Lovegrass Red Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis sessilispica | Tumble Lovegrass Tumble Love Grass | |
| Eriochloa sericea | Texas Cupgrass | |
| Eragrostis secundiflora ssp. oxylepis | Red Lovegrass Red Love Grass | |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple Lovegrass Purple Love Grass Purple Plains Lovegrass Tumblegrass Petticoat Climber | |
| Erigeron strigosus | Prairie Fleabane Daisy Fleabane Common Eastern Fleabane | |
| Erodium texanum | Texas Stork's Bill Stork's Bill Pine Needle Fillaree | |
| Erigeron tenuis | Slenderleaf Fleabane | |
| Eriogonum tenellum var. ramosissimum | Tall Buckwheat Granite Mountain Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eragrostis trichodes | Sand Lovegrass Sand Love Grass | |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master Button Eryngo Button Snakeroot Beargrass Bear's Grass | |
| Eschscholzia californica | California Poppy California Gold Poppy | |
| Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana | Mexican Gold Poppy California Poppy | |
| Escobaria missouriensis | Missouri Foxtail Cactus Plains Nipple Cactus | |
| Escobaria vivipara | Spinystar Common Beehive Cactus Pincushion Cactus | |
| Escobaria vivipara var. radiosa | Spinystar | |
| Escobaria vivipara var. vivipara | Spinystar | |
| Eupatorium altissimum | Tall Thoroughwort Tall Boneset | |
| Euonymus atropurpureus | Burningbush Eastern Wahoo Burning Bush Wahoo Waahoo Whahoo Spindle Tree | |
| Euphorbia bicolor | Snow On The Prairie Snow-on-the-prairie | |
| Eupatorium capillifolium | Dogfennel Dog Fennel | |
| Euphorbia corollata | Flowering Spurge | |
| Euphorbia cyathophora | Wild Poinsettia Poinsettia Fire On The Mountain | |
| Euphorbia dentata | Toothed Spurge Toothed-leaf Poinsettia | |
| Eustoma exaltatum | Catchfly Prairie Gentian Bluebell Gentian Western Blue Gentian Blue Marsh Lily Small Bluebell Catchfly Gentian Seaside Gentian | |
| Eustoma exaltatum ssp. russellianum | Texas Bluebells Texas Bluebell Bluebell Showy Prairie Gentian Prairie Gentian | |
| Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top Goldentop Grass-leaved Goldenrod | |
| Euthamia graminifolia var. graminifolia | Flat-top Goldentop | |
| Euphorbia hexagona | Sixangle Spurge | |
| Euphorbia longicruris | Wedgeleaf Spurge | |
| Euphorbia marginata | Snow On The Mountain Snow-on-the-mountain | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common Boneset | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum var. perfoliatum | Common Boneset | |
| Eupatorium rotundifolium | Roundleaf Thoroughwort | |
| Euphorbia roemeriana | Roemer's Spurge | |
| Eupatorium serotinum | White Boneset Lateflowering Thoroughwort Late Boneset Late-flowering Boneset | |
| Euphorbia spathulata | Warty Spurge | |
| Euphorbia tetrapora | Weak Spurge | |
| Eurytaenia texana | Texas Spreadwing | |
| Evax candida | Silver Pygmycudweed | |
| Evolvulus nuttallianus | Shaggy Dwarf Morning-glory Silky Evolvulus Shaggy Evolvulus | |
| Evax prolifera | Bighead Pygmycudweed Rabbit Tobacco | |
| Evolvulus sericeus | Silver Dwarf Morning-glory White Evolvulus | |
| Evolvulus sericeus var. sericeus | Silver Dwarf Morning-glory White Evolvulus | |
| Evax verna | Spring Pygmycudweed | |
| Evax verna var. verna | Spring Pygmycudweed | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce | |
| Festuca subverticillata | Nodding Fescue | |
| Festuca versuta | Texas Fescue | |
| Fimbristylis autumnalis | Slender Fimbry | |
| Fimbristylis puberula | Hairy Fimbry | |
| Fimbristylis vahlii | Vahl's Fimbry | |
| Fleischmannia incarnata | Pink Thoroughwort | |
| Forestiera angustifolia | Narrow-leaf Forestiera Tanglewood Desert Olive Texas Swamp-privet Panalero Elbow Bush | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
| Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens | Stretchberry Elbowbush Stretch-berry Downy Forestiera Desert Olive Elbow-bush | |
| Fraxinus albicans | Texas Ash Mountain Ash | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Fraxinus berlandieriana | Mexican Ash Berlandier Ash Berlandier's Ash Plumero | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood | |
| Froelichia floridana | Plains Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Froelichia gracilis | Slender Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Virginia Strawberry Wild Strawberry | |
| Funastrum crispum | Wavyleaf Twinevine Wavy-leaf Milkweed Vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine Climbing Milkweed Vine Twine-vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides ssp. cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine | |
| Fuirena simplex | Western Umbrella-sedge Umbrellagrass Western Umbrella Sedge | |
| Fuirena simplex var. aristulata | Western Umbrella-sedge Western Umbrella Sedge | |
| Fuirena simplex var. simplex | Western Umbrella-sedge Western Umbrella Sedge | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Winkler Gaillardia | |
| Gaillardia aestivalis var. aestivalis | Lanceleaf Blanketflower Prairie Gaillardia | |
| Gaillardia amblyodon | Maroon Blanketflower Red Gaillardia Red Indian Blanket | |
| Galium aparine | Stickywilly Catchweed Bedstraw Cleavers Common Bedstraw Sticky Weed Goose Grass | |
| Gamochaeta argyrinea | Silver Cudweed Silvery Everlasting | |
| Galactia canescens | Hoary Milkpea | |
| Galium circaezans | Licorice Bedstraw | |
| Gamochaeta falcata | Narrowleaf Purple Everlasting | |
| Galactia heterophylla | Gray's Milkpea Milkpea | |
| Gaga kaulfussii | Glandular Lipfern Kaulfuss Lipfern Kaulfuss' Lipfern | |
| Gamochaeta pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Everlasting | |
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