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 |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass | |
| Lesquerella ovalifolia | Roundleaf Bladderpod | |
| Leptochloa panicea | Mucronate Sprangletop Red Sprangletop Needle Sprangletop | |
| Leptochloa panicea ssp. brachiata | Red Sprangletop | |
| Lespedeza repens | Creeping Lespedeza Creeping Bush-clover | |
| Lesquerella recurvata | Gaslight Bladderpod Slender Bladderpod | |
| Lechea san-sabeana | San Saba Pinweed | |
| Lepuropetalon spathulatum | Petiteplant | |
| Lespedeza stuevei | Tall Bush-clover Tall Lespedeza | |
| Lechea tenuifolia | Narrowleaf Pinweed | |
| Lespedeza texana | Texas Lespedeza Texas Bush-clover | |
| Leersia virginica | Whitegrass | |
| Lepidium virginicum | Virginia Peppergrass Virginia Pepperweed Peppergrass Poor Man's Pepper | |
| Lespedeza violacea | Violet Lespedeza | |
| Lespedeza virginica | Slender Lespedeza Slender Bush-clover | |
| Liatris acidota | Sharp Blazing Star Sharp Gayfeather Sharp Liatris | |
| Liatris aestivalis | Summer Gayfeather Summer Blazing Star Summer Liatris | |
| Linum alatum | Winged Flax | |
| Limnodea arkansana | Ozark Grass Ozarkgrass | |
| Lipocarpha aristulata | Awned Halfchaff Sedge | |
| Liatris aspera | Tall Blazing Star Tall Gayfeather Tall Liatris Rough Blazing Star Rough Gayfeather Rough Liatris Button Snakeroot | |
| Linum berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
| Linum berlandieri var. berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax Yellow Flax Stiff-stem Flax | |
| Lithospermum caroliniense | Carolina Puccoon Hairy Puccoon Hispid Gromwell | |
| Limonium carolinianum | Carolina Sealavender Sea Lavender | |
| Lipocarpha drummondii | Drummond's Halfchaff Sedge | |
| Lindernia dubia | Yellowseed False Pimpernel | |
| Liatris elegans | Pink-scale Blazing Star Pink-scale Gayfeather Pink-scale Liatris | |
| Liatris elegans var. bridgesii | Pinkscale Blazingstar Pinkscale Gayfeather | |
| Linum hudsonioides | Texas Flax Yellow Flax Hudson Flax | |
| Linum imbricatum | Tufted Flax | |
| Lithospermum incisum | Fringed Puccoon Golden Puccoon Narrowleaf Puccoon Narrow-leaved Puccoon Puccoon Narrowleaf Gromwell Fringed Gromwell Narrowleaf Stoneseed | |
| Lithospermum matamorense | Rough Stoneseed | |
| Linum medium | Stiff Yellow Flax | |
| Linum medium var. texanum | Stiff Yellow Flax | |
| Limnosciadium pinnatum | Tansy Dogshade | |
| Linum pratense | Meadow Flax | |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
| Liatris punctata var. mucronata | Texas Gayfeather Texas Blazing Star Texas Liatris Cusp Liatris Cusp Blazing Star Cusp Gayfeather Narrow-leaf Blazing Star Narrow-leaf Gayfeather Purples | |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Prairie Gayfeather Prairie Liatris Kansas Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Kansas Liatris Cat-tail Blazing Star Cat-tail Gayfeather Cat-tail Liatris Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
| Linum rigidum | Stiffstem Flax Large-flower Yellow Flax Yellow Flax | |
| Linum rigidum var. rigidum | Stiffstem Flax | |
| Linum rupestre | Rock Flax | |
| Liatris squarrosa | Scaly Blazing Star Scaly Gayfeather Scaly Liatris | |
| Liatris squarrosa var. glabrata | Scaly Blazing Star Scaly Gayfeather Scaly Liatris | |
| Linum sulcatum | Grooved Flax Yellow Prairie Flax | |
| Lindheimera texana | Texas Yellowstar Texas Star Texas Yellow-star Lindheimer Daisy | |
| Lonicera albiflora | Western White Honeysuckle White Shrub Honeysuckle White Bush Honeysuckle White Limestone Honeysuckle Texas Honeysuckle White Honeysuckle | |
| Lobelia appendiculata | Pale Lobelia | |
| Lobelia appendiculata var. appendiculata | Pale Lobelia | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lobelia puberula | Downy Lobelia | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral Honeysuckle Trumpet Honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
| Loeflingia squarrosa | Spreading Pygmyleaf | |
| Lotus unifoliolatus | American Bird's-foot Trefoil | |
| Ludwigia alternifolia | Seedbox | |
| Ludwigia glandulosa | Cylindric-fruit Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia leptocarpa | Anglestem Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis ssp. octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia palustris | Marsh Seedbox Water Purslane | |
| Ludwigia peploides | Floating Primrose-willow Water-primrose Creeping Water-primrose | |
| Ludwigia repens | Creeping Primrose-willow Floating Primrose-willow Water Primrose | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas Bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas Lupine Buffalo Clover Wolf Flower | |
| Lythrum alatum | Winged Lythrum | |
| Lythrum alatum var. lanceolatum | Winged Lythrum Lance-leaf Loosestrife | |
| Lycopus americanus | American Water Horehound Water Horehound | |
| Lycium berlandieri | Berlandier's Wolfberry Wolfberry | |
| Lycium carolinianum | Carolina Wolfberry Carolina Desert-thorn Creeping Wolfberry Christmas Berry | |
| Lythrum californicum | California Loosestrife | |
| Lycium carolinianum var. quadrifidum | Carolina Wolfberry Creeping Wolfberry Carolina Desert-thorn | |
| Lythrum ovalifolium | Low Loosestrife Stream Loosestrife | |
| Lygodesmia texana | Texas Skeleton Plant Texas Skeleton Weed Skeleton-plant Purple Dandelion Flowering Straw | |
| Lycopus virginicus | Virginia Water Horehound Virginia Bugleweed American Water Horehound Sweet Bugleweed Water Bugle Carpenter's Herb Greeen Archangle Purple Archangle Paul's Betony Wood-betony Wolf-foot Egyptian's Herb | |
| Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving Sailor Climbing Snapdragon Little Snapdragon Vine | |
| Malvaviscus arboreus | Turkscap Wax Mallow Bleeding Hearts Mexican Apple Manzanita | |
| Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii | Turk's Cap Drummond's Turk's Cap Drummond Turk's Cap Wax Mallow Drummond's Wax Mallow Drummond Wax Mallow Red Mallow Texas Mallow Mexican Apple Sleeping Hibiscus Bleeding Hearts Manzanita | |
| Malvastrum aurantiacum | Wright's False Mallow | |
| Matelea biflora | Star Milkvine Purple Milkweed Vine | |
| Malachra capitata | Yellow Leafbract Malva De Caballo Horse Mallow | |
| Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's-buttons Puffballs White Barbara's-buttons Barbara's Buttons | |
| Marshallia caespitosa var. caespitosa | Barbara's Buttons Puffballs | |
| Marshallia caespitosa var. signata | Marked Barbara's-buttons Marked Barbara's Buttons Puffballs | |
| Matelea cynanchoides | Prairie Milkvine | |
| Matelea decipiens | Oldfield Milkvine Deceptive Milkvine Deceptive Spinypod | |
| Matelea edwardsensis | Plateau Milkvine Plateau Milkweed Vine | |
| Malpighia glabra | Barbados Cherry Wild Crapemyrtle Acerola Manzanita | |
| Matelea gonocarpos | Anglepod Angularfruit Milkvine | |
| Mammillaria heyderi | Little Nipple Cactus Heyder Pincushion Cactus | |
| Marsilea macropoda | Bigfoot Water-clover Water-clover Clover-fern Largefoot Pepperwort | |
| Machaeranthera pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
| Machaeranthera pinnatifida ssp. pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
| Machaeranthera pinnatifida var. pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
| Maclura pomifera | Osage Orange Bois d' Arc Bodark Horse Apple Hedge Apple Bowwood Yellowwood Naranjo Chino Monkey Brains | |
| Matelea reticulata | Pearl Milkweed Vine Netted Milkvine Green Milkweed Vine Net Vein Milkvine | |
| Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster | |
| Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo Mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate Barberry Wild Currant | |
| Marsilea vestita | Hairy Water-clover Hairy Waterclover Hairy Water Clover Clover Fern | |
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