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Gould's Ecoregions of Texas (1960). [1] These regions approximately correspond to the EPA's level 3 ecoregions. [2]The following is a list of widely known trees and shrubs found in Texas.
The terrestrial flora of Late Cretaceous Texas left behind plant fossils in northern Texas. [6] During the early Cenozoic, Texas was the site of significant volcanic eruptions. [4] Ostracods remained common in the Tertiary seas of Texas. Segments left by ophiuroids are also common in rocks deposited in these marine environments.
Tillandsia baileyi, commonly known as the reflexed airplant [4] or Bailey's ball moss, is a species of bromeliad that is native to southern Texas in the United States and Tamaulipas in Mexico. It is found along the Gulf of Mexico from Kingsville, Texas to Tampico, Tamaulipas .
Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 256 pp. ISBN 978-1585440597; McLeod, Claude A. (1972) The Big Thicket of Eastern Texas. Sam Houston State University Press, Huntsville. 33 pp. National Park Service (2013) A Summary of Biological Inventory Data Collected at Big Thicket National Preserve: Vertebrate and Vascular Plant Inventories.
Ebenopsis ebano is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, [2] that is native to the coastal plain of southern Texas in the United States and eastern Mexico. [3] It is commonly known as Texas ebony or ebano (in Spanish ).
Possessing an illegal plant in Texas is a Class B Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor punishable by a fine ranging from $200 to $2,000, a maximum 180-day prison sentence, or both.
The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles (480 km) from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The prairie was named after its rich, dark soil. [3] Less than 1% of the original Blackland prairie vegetation remains, scattered across Texas in parcels. [4]
The predominant vegetation of the Central Great Plains ecoregion is a rich mixture of prairie Central and Southern mixed grasslands of medium height. The ecoregion is encompassed by the tallgrass and shortgrass prairies — this region has a mix of both tallgrass and shortgrass.