Chihuahuan Desert
This EPA Level III ecoregion encompasses all or part of 16 counties in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. The Chihuahuan Desert extends across southern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona and northern Mexico. In Texas, this ecoregion covers roughly the same area as the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Trans-Pecos vegetative region. This collection lists only those taxa found in the Texas portion of the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Abronia angustifolia | Purple Sand Verbena Narrow-leaf Sand-verbena | |
Abronia fragrans | Fragrant Sand-verbena Snowball Sand Verbena Sweet Sand-verbena Prairie Snowball Sand Verbena Heart's Delight | |
Abutilon fruticosum | Indian Mallow Texas Indian Mallow | |
Abutilon malacum | Yellow Indian Mallow | |
Abutilon parvulum | Dwarf Indian Mallow | |
Abutilon wrightii | Wright's Indian Mallow | |
Acleisanthes acutifolia | Needletip Trumpets | |
Acaciella angustissima | Prairie Acacia Fern Acacia Whiteball Acacia Prairie Wattle White-ball Acacia | |
Acaciella angustissima var. chisosiana | Chisos Prairie Acacia | |
Acaciella angustissima var. hirta | Prairie Acacia Texas Prairie Acacia Texas Fern Acacia Prairie Wattle | |
Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth Maple Big-toothed Maple Uvalde Bigtooth Maple Southwestern Bigtooth Maple Canyon Maple Sabinal Maple Western Sugar Maple | |
Achnatherum hymenoides | Indian Ricegrass Indian Millet Sandgrass | |
Acleisanthes longiflora | Angel's Trumpets Angel Trumpets | |
Achnatherum lobatum | Lobed Needlegrass Littleawn Needlegrass | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acalypha monostachya | Round Copperleaf | |
Acourtia nana | Dwarf Desertpeony | |
Acalypha ostryifolia | Pineland Threeseed Mercury Hop-hornbeam Copperleaf | |
Acalypha phleoides | Shrubby Copperleaf Three-seeded Mercury | |
Acourtia runcinata | Featherleaf Desertpeony Peonia | |
Acleisanthes wrightii | Wright's Trumpets | |
Acourtia wrightii | Brownfoot Pink Perezia | |
Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
Adolphia infesta | Junco | |
Agave americana | American Century Plant Century Plant | |
Agrostis exarata | Spike Bentgrass Spiked Bent Spike Red Top | |
Agave glomeruliflora | Chisos Agave Chisos Mountains Century Plant | |
Agave gracilipes | Slimfoot Century Plant | |
Agave havardiana | Havard's Century Plant Havard Agave | |
Ageratina havanensis | Shrubby Boneset White Mistflower White Shrub Mistflower Havana Snakeroot | |
Agrostis hyemalis | Winter Bentgrass | |
Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla Tula Ixtle Maguey Lechuguilla Shindagger | |
Agastache micrantha | White Giant Hyssop | |
Agastache pallidiflora | Mountain Giant Hyssop | |
Agave parryi | Parry's Agave Century Plant Parry Agave | |
Agave parryi ssp. neomexicana | Parry's Agave New Mexico Agave | |
Agave parryi ssp. parryi | Parry's Agave Rough Agave Century Plant Mescal | |
Ageratina wrightii | White Mistflower Wright's Snakeroot White Boneset White Ageratum | |
Allium cernuum | Nodding Onion | |
Allionia choisyi | Smooth Trailing Four O'Clock Trailing Four O'Clock Annual Windmills Umbrellawort Garapatilla | |
Allium coryi | Yellowflower Onion Yellow-flowered Onion | |
Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
Allium geyeri | Geyer's Onion | |
Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
Allowissadula holosericea | Velvet-leaf Mallow Chisos Mountain False Indianmallow | |
Allionia incarnata | Trailing Windmills Trailing Four O'Clock Pink Windmills Trailing Allionia | |
Allium kunthii | Kunth's Onion | |
Allium macropetalum | Largeflower Onion Large-petal Onion Desert Onion Desert Onion Lily | |
Allenrolfea occidentalis | Iodinebush Pickleweed | |
Aloysia wrightii | Wright's Beebrush Wright's Lippia | |
Amphiachyris amoena | Texas Broomweed | |
Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Annual Ragweed Short Ragweed | |
Amsonia ciliata | Fringed Bluestar Bluestar Texas Bluestar | |
Ammannia coccinea | Valley Redstem Scarlet Tooth-cup | |
Ambrosia confertiflora | Weakleaf Bur Ragweed Weak Leaved Burweed Slimleaf Bursage | |
Amphiachyris dracunculoides | Prairie Broomweed Broomweed | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
Amsonia longiflora | Tubular Bluestar Trumpet Slimpod | |
Amsonia longiflora var. longiflora | Tubular Bluestar Trumpet Slimpod | |
Amsonia longiflora var. salpignantha | Tubular Bluestar Trumpet Slimpod | |
Amsinckia menziesii var. intermedia | Common Fiddleneck Intermediate Fiddleneck | |
Amaranthus palmeri | Carelessweed | |
Amaranthus polygonoides | Tropical Amaranth | |
Amaranthus powellii | Powell's Amaranth Green Amaranth Powell's Smooth Amaranth | |
Ammoselinum popei | Plains Sandparsley | |
Ambrosia psilostachya | Cuman Ragweed Western Ragweed Perennial Ragweed Common Ragweed | |
Amaranthus retroflexus | Redroot Amaranth | |
Amaranthus scleropoides | Bonebract Amaranth | |
Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
Amsonia tharpii | Feltleaf Bluestar | |
Ambrosia trifida | Great Ragweed Giant Ragweed | |
Amelanchier utahensis | Utah Serviceberry | |
Amoreuxia wrightii | Wright's Yellowshow Yellow-show | |
Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal Anemone Tenpetal Thimbleweed Windflower Southern Anemone Granny's Nightcap | |
Anemopsis californica | Yerba Mansa Yerba-mansa Lizard Tail | |
Anoda cristata | Crested Anoda | |
Anemone edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Thimbleweed Two-flowered Anemone | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
Anulocaulis leiosolenus | Southwestern Ringstem | |
Anisacanthus linearis | Big Bend Anisacanthus Narrowleaf Desert Honeysuckle Dwarf Anisacanthus Chisos Anisacanthus | |
Anemia mexicana | Mexican Fern Mexican Flowering Fern | |
Antennaria parvifolia | Small-leaf Pussytoes Low Everlasting Nuttall's Pussytoes | |
Anisacanthus puberulus | Dwarf Desert Honeysuckle Pinky Anisacanthus Pinkie Anisacanth | |
Ancistrocactus scheeri | Scheer's Fishhook Cactus | |
Androsace septentrionalis | Pygmyflower Rockjasmine Northern Fairy Candelabra | |
Ancistrocactus tobuschii | Tobusch Fishhook Cactus Shorthook Fishhook Cactus | |
Anemone tuberosa | Tuber Anemone Desert Anemone | |
Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading Dogbane Bitterroot Flytrap Dogbane | |
Apocynum cannabinum | Indian Hemp Prairie Dogbane Hemp Dogbane Dogbane | |
Aphanostephus ramosissimus | Plains Dozedaisy Lazy Daisy | |
Aphanostephus ramosissimus var. ramosissimus | Plains Dozedaisy | |
Aphanostephus riddellii | Riddell's Dozedaisy Lazy Daisy | |
Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy Daisy Arkansas Lazy Daisy Arkansas Doze-daisy | |
Apodanthera undulata | Melon Loco | |
Aquilegia chrysantha | Golden Columbine Yellow Columbine Southwestern Yellow Columbine | |
Aquilegia chrysantha var. chaplinei | Chaplin's Yellow Columbine Chaplin's Golden Columbine Chaplin's Columbine Chapline Columbine Guadalupe Mountain Columbine | |
Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana | Hinckley's Golden Columbine Yellow Columbine Hinckley Columbine Capote Columbine | |
Aquilegia longissima | Longspur Columbine Longspur Yellow Columbine | |
Argemone aenea | Golden Pricklypoppy Golden Prickly Poppy | |
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