South Central Plains
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 42 Texas counties. It extends from the Western Gulf Coastal Plain east across much of Louisiana and north into southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas. In Texas, it covers approximately the same land area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Pineywoods vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the South Central Plains ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Chloris verticillata | Tumble Windmill Grass Windmillgrass | |
Chamaesyce villifera | Hairy Sandmat | |
Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
Chloris virgata | Feather Fingergrass Showy Chloris | |
Chamaesaracha villosa | Transpecos Five Eyes Woolly False Nightshade | |
Cirsium altissimum | Tall Thistle | |
Cinna arundinacea | Sweet Woodreed Common Woodreed | |
Cirsium carolinianum | Carolina Thistle Soft Thistle Purple Thistle Smallhead Thistle | |
Cirsium horridulum | Bristle Thistle Yellow Thistle Horrid Thistle Purple Thistle Spiny Thistle Bull Thistle | |
Cicuta maculata | Spotted Water Hemlock Water-hemlock Beaver Poison | |
Cirsium muticum | Swamp Thistle | |
Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle | |
Cissus trifoliata | Cow-itch Vine Cow Itch Vine Sorrelvine Grape Ivy Possum Grape Arizona Grape Ivy | |
Cirsium turneri | Cliff Thistle | |
Cirsium undulatum | Wavyleaf Thistle Plumed Thistle | |
Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra Clethra Summer Sweet | |
Cleomella angustifolia | Narrowleaf Rhombopod Cleomella | |
Clinopodium arkansanum | Limestone Calamint | |
Clematis crispa | Swamp Leatherflower Curly Clematis Blue-jasmine Curlflower Curly Virgin's Bower Marsh Clematis | |
Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
Cladium mariscoides | Smooth Sawgrass | |
Clitoria mariana | Atlantic Pigeonwings Butterfly Pea | |
Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
Clematis pitcheri | Purple Leatherflower Purple Clematis Leatherflower Bluebill Bellflower Clematis Pitcher's Clematis | |
Clematis reticulata | Netleaf Leather Flower | |
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