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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
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| Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth Maple Big-toothed Maple Uvalde Bigtooth Maple Southwestern Bigtooth Maple Canyon Maple Sabinal Maple Western Sugar Maple | |
| Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
| 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 White Prickly Poppy | |
| 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 Side-cluster Milkweed Longhorn Milkweed Primrose Milkweed Lindheimer's Milkweed | |
| Asclepias subverticillata | Horsetail Milkweed Poison Milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
| Baccharis texana | Prairie False Willow Prairie Baccharis | |
| Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate Daisy Chocolate Flower Lyreleaf Greeneyes Green-eyed Lyre Leaf | |
| Bouteloua barbata | Sixweeks Grama | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| 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 Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Carlowrightia texana | Texas Wrightwort | |
| Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas Redbud | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf Hackberry Netleaf Sugar Hackberry Western 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 Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
| Chenopodium berlandieri | Pitseed Goosefoot Lambs Quarters | |
| Chamaesaracha coronopus | Greenleaf Five Eyes Green False Nightshade | |
| Chloris cucullata | Hooded Windmill Grass Hooded Windmillgrass | |
| Chenopodium incanum | Mealy Goosefoot | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Chamaesaracha sordida | Hairy Five Eyes False Nightshade | |
| Chaerophyllum tainturieri | Hairyfruit Chervil Southern Chervil | |
| Chloris verticillata | Tumble Windmill Grass Windmillgrass | |
| Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle | |
| Corydalis aurea | Scrambled Eggs Golden Corydalis | |
| Conyza canadensis | Horseweed Canadian Horseweed | |
| Convolvulus equitans | Texas Bindweed Bindweed | |
| Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Cryptantha minima | Little Cryptantha | |
| Croton texensis | Texas Croton Doveweed Texas Goatweed | |
| 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 | Western Tansymustard Tansy-mustard | |
| Draba cuneifolia | Wedgeleaf Draba Whitlow-grass | |
| Dyschoriste linearis | Snake Herb Polkadots Narrowleaf Dyschoriste | |
| Echinocereus reichenbachii | Lace Hedgehog Cactus Lace Cactus Lace Hedgehog Purple Candle | |
| Echinocactus texensis | Horse Crippler Horse Crippler Cactus Devil's Head Chisos Hedgehog Cactus Chisos Hedgehog | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
| Ephedra coryi | Cory's Jointfir Cory's Ephedra | |
| Ephedra torreyana | Torrey's Jointfir Torrey Joint-fir | |
| Eriogonum annuum | Annual Buckwheat Annual Wild Buckwheat Umbrella Plant | |
| Eragrostis curtipedicellata | Gummy Lovegrass Gummy Love Grass | |
| Eriogonum fasciculatum | Eastern Mojave Buckwheat Eastern Mojave Wild Buckwheat California Buckwheat Flattop Buckwheat Flat-top Buckwheat | |
| Ericameria laricifolia | Larchleaf Goldenweed Turpentine Bush Turpentine Brush Hierba De Conejo | |
| Erigeron modestus | Plains Fleabane Prairie Fleabane | |
| Eragrostis sessilispica | Tumble Lovegrass Tumble Love Grass | |
| Erodium texanum | Texas Stork's Bill Stork's Bill Pine Needle Fillaree | |
| Eragrostis trichodes | Sand Lovegrass Sand Love Grass | |
| Euphorbia spathulata | Warty Spurge | |
| Eurytaenia texana | Texas Spreadwing | |
| Evolvulus nuttallianus | Shaggy Dwarf Morning-glory Silky Evolvulus Shaggy Evolvulus | |
| Evax verna | Spring Pygmycudweed | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce | |
| Froelichia floridana | Plains Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Galium aparine | Stickywilly Catchweed Bedstraw Cleavers Common Bedstraw Sticky Weed Goose Grass | |
| Gaillardia pinnatifida | Red Dome Blanketflower Yellow Gaillardia Blanket Flower | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Gaillardia suavis | Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
| Grindelia squarrosa | Curlycup Gumweed | |
| Helianthus annuus | Common Sunflower Annual Sunflower | |
| Heterotheca canescens | Hoary False Goldenaster Gray Golden-aster | |
| 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 Yellow Yucca Hummingbird Yucca Samandoque | |
| 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 | |
| Hybanthus verticillatus | Babyslippers Nodding Green Violet Green Violet | |
| Ibervillea tenuisecta | Slimlobe Globeberry Cutleaf Globe Berry | |
| Ipomopsis longiflora | Flaxflowered Ipomopsis Pale Trumpets Paleflower Gilia White-flower Skyrocket White-flowered Gilia | |
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