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Texas

Texas, United States of America: 12 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Twelve ecoregions reach Texas, more than any other state in the lower forty-eight, and they cross five biomes. The Chihuahuan desert and Tamaulipan mezquital cover the west and the south, the Piney Woods and East Central Texas forests the east, and a broad band of grasslands runs through the middle: the Western shortgrass prairie, Central-Southern US mixed grasslands, Cross-Timbers savanna-woodland, Edwards Plateau savanna and Texas blackland prairies. The Western Gulf coastal grasslands hold the coast, the Arizona Mountains forests reach the far west mountains, and the Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests come up from Mexico. Six are in the Nature Imperiled tier. No statewide plant list is meaningful here. East Texas is humid pine forest and West Texas is desert.

Native plants of Texas

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Texas, each with its climate-fit grade and planting guidance.

Adam's needle American basswood American beautyberry American elderberry American holly American hophornbeam American persimmon American sweetgum American sycamore Aromatic aster Arrowwood viburnum Bald cypress Big bluestem Black cherry Black oak Black tupelo (black gum)Black walnut Black willow Black-eyed Susan Blackhaw viburnum Bloodroot Blue elderberry Blue false indigo Blue grama Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed California poppy Canada goldenrod Cardinal flower Chinkapin oak Chokecherry Christmas fern Common blue violet Common hackberry Common sunflower Common witch hazel Common yarrow Cutleaf coneflower Douglas fir Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Flowering dogwood Foxglove beardtongue Fremont cottonwood Garden pepper Golden alexanders Golden currant Gray dogwood Green hawthorn Groundnut Hardy hibiscus Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass Indian pink Inkberry Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Largeflower tickseed Little bluestem Loblolly pine Mapleleaf viburnum Mayapple Maypop (purple passionflower)Narrow-leaved coneflower New Jersey tea Northern spicebush Ohio buckeye Orange coneflower Pale purple coneflower Parry's agave Pawpaw Pecan Plains coreopsis Ponderosa pine Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Purple coneflower Quaking aspen Red maple Red mulberry River birch River oats Rocky Mountain juniper Sassafras Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Side-oats grama Smooth blue aster Soapweed yucca Southern live oak Southern magnolia Southern red oak Stiff goldenrod Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp sunflower Sweetbay magnolia Switchgrass Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)Virginia iris Virginia sweetspire White oak Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild columbine Wild lupine Wild strawberry Willow oak Winterberry Yaupon

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Ecoregions here

Arizona Mountains forests Central-Southern US mixed grasslands Chihuahuan desert Cross-Timbers savanna-woodland East Central Texas forests Edwards Plateau savanna Piney Woods Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests Tamaulipan mezquital Texas blackland prairies Western Gulf coastal grasslands Western shortgrass prairie