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Blackland Prairies
The Blackland Prairie ecoregion spans approximately 6.1 million hectares from the Red River on the north to near San Antonio in south Texas. It is part of a tallgrass prairie continuum that stretches from Manitoba to the Texas Coast.The Blackland Prairies is named for the deep, fertile black soils that characterize the area. Blackland Prairie soils once supported a tallgrass prairie dominated by tall-growing grasses such as big bluestem, little bluestem, indiangrass, and switchgrass. Because of the fertile soils, much of the original prairie has been plowed to produce food and forage crops.
Dirty Dozen Terrestrial Invasive Species
These plants have been identified as particularly worrisome terrestrial invasive species in the Blackland Prairies ecoregion. Click on their scientific names to go to the Invasive Plant Database and learn more.
Bastard cabbage -
Rapistrum rugosum
Giant reed -
Arundo donax
Johnson grass -
Sorghum halepense
Chinese tallow tree -
Triadica sebifera
King Ranch bluestem -
Bothriochloa ischaemum var. songarica
Field bindweed -
Convolvulus arvensis
Bermudagrass -
Cynodon dactylon
Chinaberry tree -
Melia azedarach
Redtip photinia -
Photinia x fraseri
Heavenly bamboo -
Nandina domestica
Pincushions -
Scabiosa atropurpurea
Chinese privet -
Ligustrum sinense
