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Echeandia texensis
Echeandia texensis, also known as the Green Island echeandia or the Texas craglily, is an endangered species of flowering plant in the asparagus family, Asparagaceae, that is endemic to South Texas in the United States and adjacent Tamaulipas, Mexico. The majority of specimens have been found in Texas, with only one specimen reported from Tamaulipas.
It is found in open areas on mildly saline clay soils of clay dunes, arroyos, llanos, and lomas along the Gulf Coast at or near the mouth of the Rio Grande. Its habitat overlaps with that of Echeandia chandleri. It grows in habitat with scattered brush and stunted trees, grassy openings in subtropical thorn shrub, and mixed thornscrub-halophyte communities. Within South Texas, it is known only from Cameron County. A 1939 collection from Villa Juárez, Mexico identified later as Echeandia texensis constitutes the only known record of this species outside of Cameron County.
Chandler's craglily · Torrey's craglily · Echeandia mexicana · Reflexed craglily · Echeandia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echeandia texensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
