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Sibley Nature Center
The Sibley Nature Center celebrates the southern Llano Estacado and the region surrounding it within 150 miles. Through programs given at its site of 49 acres in Hogan Park in Midland, Texas, and at schools, meeting rooms, ranches, and personal homes through out the region, the Sibley Nature Center seeks to encourage the region’s citizens to be knowledgeable about the flora, fauna, and history of the region.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth maple Big-toothed maple Canyon maple | |
| Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel trumpets Angel's trumpets | |
| Alternanthera caracasana | Washerwoman | |
| Allium drummondii | Drummond's onion Wild Garlic Drummond wild onion | |
| Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common bee-brush Beebrush Privet lippia | |
| Allionia incarnata | Trailing windmills Trailing four o'clock Pink windmills Trailing allionia | |
| Amaranthus palmeri | Carelessweed | |
| Ammoselinum popei | Plains sandparsley | |
| Ambrosia psilostachya | Cuman ragweed Western ragweed Perennial ragweed Common ragweed | |
| Amaranthus retroflexus | Redroot amaranth | |
| Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii | Flame acanthus Hummingbird bush Wright's desert honeysuckle Wright acanthus Mexican flame Wright's Mexican flame | |
| Argemone albiflora | Bluestem pricklypoppy White pricklypoppy | |
| Artemisia filifolia | Sand sagebrush Silver sagebrush Silvery wormwood Sand sage | |
| Artemisia ludoviciana | Louisiana artemisia Louisiana sage White sage Prairie sage Silver sage White sagebrush Louisiana wormwood Silver wormwood Louisiana sagewort Gray sagewort Cudweed sagewort Mugwort wormwood | |
| Asclepias oenotheroides | Zizotes milkweed Hierba de Zizotes Longhorn milkweed Side-cluster milkweed Primrose milkweed Lindheimer's milkweed | |
| Asclepias subverticillata | Horsetail milkweed Poison Milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing saltbush Fourwing saltbush Wingscale | |
| Baccharis texana | Prairie false willow | |
| Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate daisy Chocolate flower Lyreleaf greeneyes Green-Eyed lyre leaf | |
| Bouteloua barbata | Sixweeks grama | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo grass | |
| Bouteloua eriopoda | Black grama | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| Bouvardia ternifolia | Scarlet bouvardia Firecracker bush Trompetilla Clavillo | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Carlowrightia texana | Texas wrightwort | |
| Centaurea americana | American star-thistle Basket-Flower Star thistle Shaving brush American basket-flower | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas redbud | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar hackberry Hackberry Sugarberry Texas sugarberry Palo blanco | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf hackberry Netleaf sugar hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Cercocarpus ledifolius | Curl-leaf mountain mahogany Curl-leaf mountain-mahogany | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Chenopodium berlandieri | Pitseed goosefoot Lambs quarters | |
| Chamaesaracha coronopus | Green false nightshade Greenleaf five eyes | |
| Chloris cucullata | Hooded windmill grass Hooded windmillgrass | |
| Chenopodium incanum | Mealy goosefoot | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert willow Flowering willow Willow-leaved catalpa Trumpet flower | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Chamaesaracha sordida | False Nightshade Hairy five eyes | |
| Chaerophyllum tainturieri | Hairyfruit chervil Southern chervil | |
| Chloris verticillata | Tumble windmill grass Windmillgrass | |
| Cirsium texanum | Texas thistle | |
| Corydalis aurea | Scrambled eggs Golden corydalis | |
| Conyza canadensis | Canadian horseweed Horseweed | |
| Convolvulus equitans | Bindweed Texas bindweed | |
| Commelina erecta | Whitemouth dayflower Widow's tears Day flower White-mouth dayflower | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf coreopsis Lanceleaf tickseed Lance-leaved coreopsis Sand coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains coreopsis Golden tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Cryptantha minima | Little cryptantha | |
| Croton texensis | Texas croton Doveweed | |
| Cucurbita foetidissima | Stinking gourd Buffalo gourd Missouri gourd Stink gourd Wild gourd | |
| Cyperus esculentus | Yellow nutsedge Chufa Sedge Yellow nut-grass | |
| Cyperus setigerus | Lean flatsedge | |
| Daucus pusillus | American wild carrot Rattlesnake-Weed Wild Carrot | |
| Dasylirion texanum | Texas sotol Sotol | |
| Descurainia pinnata | Tansy-mustard Western tansymustard | |
| Draba cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf draba Whitlow-grass | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake herb Polkadots Narrowleaf dyschoriste | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Cactus Lace hedgehog cactus Órgano-pequeño de colores Purple candle | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Chisos Hedgehog Devil’s head Horse crippler | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye Canadian wildrye Prairie wildrye Nodding wildrye | |
| Ephedra coryi | Cory's jointfir Cory's ephedra | |
| Ephedra torreyana | Torrey joint-fir Torrey's jointfir | |
| Eriogonum annuum | Annual buckwheat Wild Buckwheat | |
| Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy lovegrass Gummy Lovegrass | |
| Eriogonum fasciculatum | Eastern Mojave buckwheat Eastern mojave wild buckwheat California buckwheat | |
| Ericameria laricifolia | Turpentine bush Larchleaf goldenweed Turpentine brush | |
| Erigeron modestus | Plains fleabane Prairie fleabane | |
| Eragrostis sessilispica | Tumble lovegrass | |
| Erodium texanum | Fillaree Pine needle Stork’s Bill Texas stork's bill Texas stork’s bill | |
| Eragrostis trichodes | Sand love grass Sand lovegrass | |
| Euphorbia spathulata | Warty spurge | |
| Eurytaenia texana | Texas spreadwing | |
| Evolvulus nuttallianus | Shaggy dwarf morning-glory Shaggy evolvulus Silky evolvulus | |
| Evax verna | Spring pygmycudweed | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas kidneywood Kidneywood Bee-Brush Vara dulce | |
| Froelichia floridana | Plains snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Galium aparine | Catchweed Bedstraw Cleavers Stickywilly | |
| Gaura calcicola | Texas beeblossom Limestone Gaura | |
| Gaura coccinea | Scarlet beeblossom Scarlet gaura | |
| Gaillardia pinnatifida | Blanket flower Red dome blanketflower Red-dome blanket-flower Yellow gaillardia | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Firewheel Indian Blanket | |
| Gaillardia suavis | Perfumeballs Pincushion daisy Fragrant gaillardia Rayless gaillardia | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey locust Common Honey-locust Honey-locust Thornless common honey-locust Honey shucks | |
| Grindelia squarrosa | Curlycup gumweed | |
| Helianthus annuus | Common sunflower | |
| Heterotheca canescens | Gray golden-aster Hoary false goldenaster | |
| Helianthus ciliaris | Texas blueweed | |
| Helenium microcephalum | Smallhead sneezeweed | |
| Hesperostipa neomexicana | New Mexico feathergrass | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red yucca Coral yucca Red flowered false yucca Redflower false yucca Samandoque Yellow yucca | |
| Helianthus petiolaris | Prairie sunflower Plains sunflower | |
| Hilaria belangeri | Curly mesquite grass Curly mesquite | |
| Hordeum jubatum | Foxtail barley | |
| Hordeum pusillum | Little barley | |
| Hymenopappus flavescens | Yellow plainsman Collegeflower | |
| Hymenoxys odorata | Bitter rubberweed | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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