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Texas Blackland Prairies
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. Lying entirely within the state of Texas, this ecoregion covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Blackland Prairie vegetative region. It is comprised of two parallel bands separated by the East Central Texas Plains ecoregion and extending from southern Texas north to very near the Oklahoma border.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Leptochloa panicea ssp. brachiata | Red Sprangletop | |
| Leucaena pulverulenta | Great Leadtree Mexican Leadtree Great Leucaena Tepeguaje | |
| Lespedeza repens | Creeping Lespedeza Creeping Bush-clover | |
| Lesquerella recurvata | Gaslight Bladderpod Slender Bladderpod | |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball Leadtree Littleleaf Leadtree Little Leucaena Lemonball Wahoo Tree | |
| Lechea san-sabeana | San Saba Pinweed | |
| Lesquerella sessilis | Sessile Bladderpod | |
| Lepuropetalon spathulatum | Petiteplant | |
| Lespedeza stuevei | Tall Bush-clover Tall Lespedeza | |
| Lechea tenuifolia | Narrowleaf Pinweed | |
| Lespedeza texana | Texas Lespedeza Texas Bush-clover | |
| Lemna valdiviana | Valdivia Duckweed | |
| 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 | |
| Linum aristatum | Bristle Flax | |
| Lipocarpha aristulata | Awned Halfchaff Sedge | |
| Liatris aspera | Tall Blazing Star Tall Gayfeather Tall Liatris Rough Blazing Star Rough Gayfeather Rough Liatris Button Snakeroot | |
| Listera australis | Southern Twayblade | |
| 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 | |
| Liatris bracteata | Bracted Blazing Star Bracted Gayfeather Bracted Liatris | |
| 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 | |
| Liatris elegans var. carizzana | Pink-scale Blazing Star Pink-scale Gayfeather Pink-scale Liatris | |
| 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 | |
| Lithospermum mirabile | San Antonio Stoneseed | |
| 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 rupestre | Rock Flax | |
| Liatris squarrosa | Scaly Blazing Star Scaly Gayfeather Scaly Liatris | |
| Liatris squarrosa var. glabrata | Scaly Blazing Star Scaly Gayfeather Scaly Liatris | |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar | |
| Linum sulcatum | Grooved Flax Yellow Prairie Flax | |
| Lindheimera texana | Texas Yellowstar Texas Star Texas Yellow-star Lindheimer Daisy | |
| Linum vernale | Chihuahuan Flax Chihuahua Flax | |
| 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 berlandieri var. brachypoda | Berlandier's Lobelia Blue Lobelia | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lobelia puberula | Downy Lobelia | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral Honeysuckle Trumpet Honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
| Lobelia spicata | Pale-spike Lobelia | |
| Loeflingia squarrosa | Spreading Pygmyleaf | |
| Lotus unifoliolatus | American Bird's-foot Trefoil | |
| Ludwigia alternifolia | Seedbox | |
| Ludwigia decurrens | Wingleaf Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia glandulosa | Cylindric-fruit Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia hirtella | Spindleroot | |
| Ludwigia leptocarpa | Anglestem Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia linearis | Narrowleaf 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 subcarnosus | Texas Bluebonnet Sandyland Bluebonnet | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas Bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas Lupine Buffalo Clover Wolf Flower | |
| Lythrum alatum | Winged Lythrum | |
| Lycopodiella alopecuroides | Foxtail Clubmoss | |
| 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 | |
| Lysimachia ciliata | Fringed Loosestrife Fringed Yellow Loosestrife | |
| Lysimachia lanceolata | Lanceleaf Loosestrife Lance-leaved Loosestrife | |
| Lyonia mariana | Piedmont Staggerbush Staggerbush | |
| Lythrum ovalifolium | Low Loosestrife Stream Loosestrife | |
| Lycopus rubellus | Taperleaf Water Horehound | |
| Lygodesmia texana | Texas Skeleton Plant Texas Skeleton Weed Skeleton-plant Purple Dandelion Flowering Straw | |
| Lycium torreyi | Torrey Wolfberry Desert-thorn Box-thorn Squawberry Rabbit-thorn Tomatillo Garambullo | |
| 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 | |
| Malus angustifolia | Southern Crabapple Narrowleaf Crabapple Wild Crabapple Southern Crab Narrowleaf Crab Wild Crab | |
| 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 | |
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