Trans-Pecos
The Trans-Pecos area in Far West Texas is traversed by the eastern chain of the Rocky Mountains into the Basin and Range Province and is typical of the southwestern United States. Guadalupe Peak, having an elevation of 8,751 feet, of the Guadalupe Mountains, is the highest point in Texas. Surrounding peaks are El Capitan, Shumard, Bartlett, and Pine Top, all exceeding 8,000 feet. Mount Emory in the Chisos Mountains and Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains are 7,825 feet and 8,382 feet high, respectively. Notable canyons and gorges are Santa Elena, Boquillas, and Mariscal on the Big Bend of the Rio Grande; and McKittrick in the Guadalupe Mountains. Uplands soils are mostly light reddish brown to brown clay loams, clays, and sands over reddish, loamy to clayey, calcareous, gypsic or saline subsoils. These include many areas of shallow soils and rocklands. Sizeable areas of deep sands exist. Drainage is rapid in the mountains, slow in the basins, and absent in the bolsons.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Juniperus deppeana | Alligator Juniper Checkerbark Juniper Western Juniper Oakbark Cedar Thickbark Cedar Mountain Cedar Tascate Tacate Tlascal | |
Juniperus flaccida | Weeping Juniper Drooping Juniper Mexican Weeping Juniper Mexican Drooping Juniper Weeping Cedar Drooping Cedar Tascate | |
Juglans major | Arizona Walnut Arizona Black Walnut River Walnut Mountain Walnut Nogal Silvestre | |
Juglans microcarpa | Little Walnut Texas Walnut Texas Black Walnut River Walnut Nogalito Nogalillo Namboca | |
Juniperus monosperma | Oneseed Juniper One-seed Juniper Cherrystone Juniper New Mexico Juniper West Texas Juniper | |
Justicia pilosella | Hairy Tube-tongue Gregg's Tube-tongue False Honeysuckle | |
Karwinskia humboldtiana | Coyotillo Humboldt Coyotillo | |
Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis | |
Leucophyllum candidum | Brewster County Barometerbush Violet Silverleaf Boquillas Silverleaf Purple Ceniza Cenizo | |
Lesquerella fendleri | Fendler's Bladderpod Popweed | |
Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
Lepidium montanum | Mountain Peppergrass Western Peppergrass Mountain Pepperweed Mountain Pepperwort Montana Pepperweed | |
Leucaena retusa | Goldenball Leadtree Littleleaf Leadtree Little Leucaena Lemonball Wahoo Tree | |
Lippia graveolens | Mexican Oregano Redbrush Lippia | |
Linum hudsonioides | Texas Flax Yellow Flax Hudson Flax | |
Lithospermum incisum | Fringed Puccoon Golden Puccoon Narrowleaf Puccoon Narrow-leaved Puccoon Puccoon Narrowleaf Gromwell Fringed Gromwell Narrowleaf Stoneseed | |
Linum lewisii var. lewisii | Prairie Flax Blue Flax | |
Linum pratense | Meadow Flax | |
Lonicera albiflora | Western White Honeysuckle White Shrub Honeysuckle White Bush Honeysuckle White Limestone Honeysuckle Texas Honeysuckle White Honeysuckle | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Lupinus havardii | Big Bend Bluebonnet Big Bend Lupine Havard Bluebonnet Chisos Bluebonnet | |
Lycium berlandieri | Berlandier's Wolfberry Wolfberry | |
Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving Sailor Climbing Snapdragon Little Snapdragon Vine | |
Marsilea vestita | Hairy Water-clover Hairy Waterclover Hairy Water Clover Clover Fern | |
Menodora longiflora | Showy Menodora Twinpod | |
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