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| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acacia constricta | Whitethorn acacia White-thorn acacia Mescat acacia Mescat wattle Whitethorn Vara Prieta Chaparro Prieto | |
| Acacia farnesiana | Huisache Sweet acacia Mealy wattle | |
| Acacia greggii | Catclaw acacia Gregg acacia Long-flower catclaw Una de gato | |
| Acacia roemeriana | Roundflower catclaw Round-flower catclaw Roemer acacia Catclaw Roemer’s acacia Catclaw acacia | |
| Agave americana | American century plant Century plant | |
| Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla | |
| Agave parryi ssp. neomexicana | Parry's agave New Mexico agave | |
| Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant amorpha Prairie shoestring | |
| Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache daisy Butterfly daisy Honey daisy | |
| Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's golden columbine Yellow columbine Hinckley columbine Capote columbine | |
| Artemisia filifolia | Sand sagebrush Silver sagebrush Silvery wormwood Sand sage | |
| Arbutus xalapensis | Texas madrone Madrone Naked indian Manzanita | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing saltbush Fourwing saltbush Wingscale | |
| Baileya multiradiata | Desert marigold Showy desert marigold Paper daisy Desert baileya | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo grass | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| Bouteloua ramosa | Chino grama | |
| Bouvardia ternifolia | Scarlet bouvardia Firecracker bush Trompetilla Clavillo | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Centaurea americana | American star-thistle Basket-Flower Star thistle Shaving brush American basket-flower | |
| Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican redbud | |
| Cercis canadensis var. texensis | Texas redbud | |
| Ceanothus fendleri | Fendler ceanothus Fendler's ceanothus | |
| Ceanothus greggii | Desert ceanothus | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf hackberry Netleaf sugar hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| Cercocarpus montanus | Alderleaf mountain mahogany Alder-leaf mountain-mahogany Mountain mahogany Silverleaf mountain mahogany | |
| Chilopsis linearis | Desert willow Flowering willow Willow-leaved catalpa Trumpet flower | |
| Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
| Cosmos parviflorus | Southwest cosmos Southwestern cosmos | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains coreopsis Golden tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata | Cane cactus Cholla Teddy-bear cholla Tree cholla Walkingstick cholla | |
| Dalea formosa | Feather dalea Featherplume | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black dalea Black prairie clover | |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg dalea Gregg's prairie clover Trailing indigo bush Indigo bush | |
| Dasylirion leiophyllum | Green sotol Sotol Desert candle | |
| Dasylirion wheeleri | Common sotol Sotol Desert Spoon Desert candle | |
| Echinocereus coccineus var. coccineus | Scarlet hedgehog cactus | |
| Echinocereus dasyacanthus | Spiny hedgehog cactus Texas rainbow cactus Golden rainbow hedgehog Yellow Pitaya | |
| Echinocereus enneacanthus | Pitaya Strawberry cactus | |
| Echinocereus pectinatus | Rainbow cactus | |
| Echinocereus stramineus | Strawberry hedgehog cactus | |
| Echinocereus triglochidiatus | Claret cup Hedgehog cactus Kingcup cactus Mojave mound | |
| Echinocereus viridiflorus | Green Pitaya Nylon hedgehog cactus | |
| Engelmannia peristenia | Engelmann's daisy Engelmann Daisy Cutleaf Daisy | |
| Ephedra trifurca | Ephedra Mormon tea Longleaf jointfir Jointfir Longleaf teabush Tea weed Canutillo | |
| Ericameria laricifolia | Turpentine bush Larchleaf goldenweed Turpentine brush | |
| Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa | Chamisa Rabbitbrush Rubber rabbitbrush | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache plume Ponil | |
| Fendlera rupicola | Cliff fendlerbush Cliff fendlerbush. False mock orange | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Stretchberry Elbow bush Spring herald | |
| Fouquieria splendens | Ocotillo Devil’s walking stick Candlewood | |
| Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's ash Littleleaf ash Escobilla | |
| Fraxinus velutina | Arizona ash Desert ash Velvet ash | |
| Gaillardia pinnatifida | Blanket flower Red dome blanketflower Red-dome blanket-flower Yellow gaillardia | |
| Garrya wrightii | Wright's silktassel | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Purple prairie verbena Prairie verbena Dacota vervain Dakota mock vervain Moradilla | |
| Hesperocyparis arizonica | Arizona cypress | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red yucca Coral yucca Red flowered false yucca Redflower false yucca Samandoque Yellow yucca | |
| Helianthus petiolaris | Prairie sunflower Plains sunflower | |
| Hibiscus denudatus | Paleface Rock hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus martianus | Heartleaf rosemallow Tulipan del Monte Heartleaf Hibiscus | |
| Holodiscus discolor | Cream bush Hillside oceanspray Mountain spray Oceanspray | |
| Juniperus deppeana | Alligator juniper Checkerbark juniper Tacate Tlascal | |
| Juglans major | Arizona walnut | |
| Juglans microcarpa | Little walnut Nogalito Texas walnut Texas black walnut River walnut | |
| Juniperus monosperma | Oneseed juniper One-seed juniper Cherrystone juniper | |
| Juniperus scopulorum | Rocky Mountain juniper Rocky Mountain red cedar | |
| Larrea tridentata | Creosote bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis | |
| Lantana urticoides | Texas lantana Calico bush West Indian shrub-verbena | |
| Leptochloa dubia | Green sprangletop | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple sage Texas ranger Texas barometer bush Texas silverleaf Texas sage | |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball leadtree Littleleaf leadtree | |
| Linum lewisii | Wild blue flax Prairie flax Lewis flax | |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted blazing star Dotted gayfeather | |
| Lupinus havardii | Big Bend bluebonnet Big Bend lupine Havard bluebonnet Chisos bluebonnet | |
| Mahonia haematocarpa | Red barberry Algerita Red Oregon-grape | |
| Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tanseyleaf tansyaster Tahoka Daisy Tansy Aster | |
| Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate barberry | |
| Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock daisy Plains blackfoot | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon beebalm Horsemint Purple horsemint Lemon mint Plains horsemint Lemon horsemint | |
| Muhlenbergia rigida | Purple muhly | |
| Nolina erumpens | Foothill beargrass Mesa sacahuista | |
| Nolina texana | Texas sacahuista Texas beargrass Basket grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass | |
| Oenothera albicaulis | Whitest evening-primrose White-stem evening-primrose Pale evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera brachycarpa | Short-fruit evening-primrose Shortfruit evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera primiveris | Bottle evening-primrose Desert evening-primrose Yellow-flower desert evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink evening primrose Showy evening primrose Mexican evening primrose Showy primrose Pink ladies Buttercups Pink buttercups | |
| Opuntia engelmannii | Cactus apple | |
| Opuntia macrorhiza | Common prickly-pear Plains prickly pear Prickly Pear Twist-spine prickly-pear Twistspine pricklypear | |
| Opuntia macrocentra | Purple Prickly Pear Purple pricklypear | |
| Opuntia phaeacantha | Tulip prickly pear Brownspine prickly pear cactus Purple-fruited prickly pear Brown-spined prickly pear New mexico prickly pear Desert prickly pear | |
| Opuntia polyacantha | Plains pricklypear Hair-spine prickly-pear Plains prickly-pear | |
| Pascopyrum smithii | Western wheatgrass | |
| Penstemon baccharifolius | Rock penstemon Cut-Leaf Penstemon Baccharis-leaf beardtongue Beard Tongue | |
| Penstemon barbatus | Beard-lip beardtongue Beardlip penstemon Red penstemon Scarlet bugler | |
| Penstemon cobaea | Wild foxglove Prairie penstemon Foxglove penstemon False foxglove Large-flowered beardtongue Large-flowered penstemon Prairie beardtongue Cobaea penstemon | |
| Penstemon fendleri | Fendler's penstemon Fendler penstemon Purple foxglove | |
| Penstemon jamesii | James's beardtongue James's penstemon James beardtongue James penstemon | |
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