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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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 | |
Acaciella angustissima | Prairie Acacia Fern Acacia Whiteball Acacia Prairie Wattle White-ball Acacia | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acourtia wrightii | Brownfoot Pink Perezia | |
Agave lechuguilla | Lechuguilla Tula Ixtle Maguey Lechuguilla Shindagger | |
Allium canadense var. canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion Canada Onion | |
Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow Garlic Wild Onion | |
Allium coryi | Yellowflower Onion Yellow-flowered Onion | |
Allium drummondii | Drummond's Onion Wild Garlic Drummond Wild Onion | |
Aloysia gratissima | Whitebrush Bee-brush White-brush Common Bee-brush Beebrush Privet Lippia | |
Aloysia wrightii | Wright's Beebrush Wright's Lippia | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
Amblyolepis setigera | Huisache Daisy Butterfly Daisy Honey Daisy | |
Amelanchier utahensis | Utah Serviceberry | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Anisacanthus puberulus | Dwarf Desert Honeysuckle Pinky Anisacanthus Pinkie Anisacanth | |
Aphanostephus skirrhobasis | Lazy Daisy Arkansas Lazy Daisy Arkansas Doze-daisy | |
Artemisia filifolia | Sand Sagebrush Silver Sagebrush Silvery Wormwood Sand Sage | |
Argemone mexicana | Mexican Prickly Poppy Mexican Prickly Poppy Yellow Prickly Poppy | |
Argemone polyanthemos | Crested Pricklypoppy Annual Pricklepoppy Bluestem Pricklepoppy Bluestem Prickly Poppy Pricklypoppy Thistle Poppy White Prickly Poppy White Pricklypoppy | |
Asclepias texana | Texas Milkweed White Milkweed | |
Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
Baileya multiradiata | Desert Marigold Showy Desert Marigold Paper Daisy Desert Baileya | |
Baccharis neglecta | False Willow Jara Dulce Poverty Weed Roosevelt Weed | |
Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate Daisy Chocolate Flower Lyreleaf Greeneyes Green-eyed Lyre Leaf | |
Bothriochloa barbinodis | Pinhole Bluestem Cane Bluestem Cane Beardgrass Feather Bluestem Plains Beardgrass | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
Bouteloua eriopoda | Black Grama | |
Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy Grama | |
Bouvardia ternifolia | Scarlet Bouvardia Firecracker Bush Trompetilla Clavillo | |
Bromus lanatipes | Woolly Brome | |
Buddleja marrubiifolia | Woolly Butterflybush Butterfly Bush Woolly Butterfly-bush | |
Calliandra conferta | Rio Grande Stickpea Fairy Duster | |
Castela erecta ssp. texana | Texan Goatbush Goat-bush Allthorn Goatbush Amargoso | |
Calamovilfa gigantea | Giant Sandreed Prairie Sandreed | |
Calylophus hartwegii | Hartweg's Sundrops Western Primrose | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Carex planostachys | Cedar Sedge | |
Centaurea americana | American Basket-flower American Star-thistle Basket-flower Star Thistle Shaving Brush Basket Flower | |
Cercis canadensis var. mexicana | Mexican Redbud | |
Celtis ehrenbergiana | Desert Hackberry Spiny Hackberry Shiny Hackberry Granjeno Huasteco | |
Ceanothus fendleri | Fendler's Ceanothus Fendler Ceanothus | |
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 montanus var. argenteus | Silver Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany True Mountain Mahogany Mountain Mahogany | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Choisya dumosa | Mexican Orange Starleaf Mexican Orange Zorrillo Fragrant Starleaf | |
Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
Chloris virgata | Feather Fingergrass Showy Chloris | |
Citharexylum berlandieri | Berlandier's Fiddlewood Berlandier Fiddlewood Fiddlewood | |
Cirsium texanum | Texas Thistle | |
Clematis drummondii | Old Man's Beard Drummond's Clematis Texas Virgin's Bower Goat's Beard | |
Cladium mariscus ssp. jamaicense | Jamaica Swamp Sawgrass Jamaican Saw-grass Saw-grass | |
Corydalis aurea | Scrambled Eggs Golden Corydalis | |
Corydalis curvisiliqua | Curvepod Fumewort Scrambled Eggs Golden Smoke Curvepod | |
Cooperia drummondii | Evening Rain Lily Evening Star Rain Lily | |
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
Cosmos parviflorus | Southwestern Cosmos Southwest Cosmos | |
Colubrina texensis | Texas Hog Plum Texas Snakewood Texas Colubrina Hog Plum | |
Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata | Tree Cholla Teddy-bear Cholla Cholla Cane Cactus Walkingstick Cholla | |
Dalea bicolor var. argyrea | Silver Prairie Clover Silver Dalea Silver Bush Dalea | |
Dalea formosa | Featherplume Feather Dalea Indigobush | |
Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover | |
Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush | |
Dasylirion leiophyllum | Green Sotol Smooth-leaved Sotol Smooth-leaf Sotol Sotol Desert Candle | |
Dasyochloa pulchella | Desert Fluffgrass Low Woollygrass Low Tridens Fluff Grass Fluffgrass Desert Fluff-grass | |
Dasylirion texanum | Texas Sotol Sotol | |
Dasylirion wheeleri | Common Sotol Sotol Desert Spoon Desert Candle | |
Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
Dichondra argentea | Silver Ponysfoot Silver Ponyfoot | |
Digitaria californica | Arizona Cottontop California Cottontop California Crab Grass Cottontop | |
Diospyros texana | Texas Persimmon Mexican Persimmon Black Persimmon Chapote Chapote Prieto | |
Elionurus barbiculmis | Woolyspike Balsamscale Woolspike Balsamscale | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Elymus elymoides ssp. brevifolius | Squirreltail Long-leaf Squirrel-tail | |
Ephedra antisyphilitica | Mormon Tea Joint-fir Clapweed Popote | |
Epipactis gigantea | Stream Orchid Chatterbox Orchid Giant Hellebore | |
Ephedra torreyana | Torrey's Jointfir Torrey Joint-fir | |
Ephedra trifurca | Ephedra Mormon Tea Longleaf Jointfir Jointfir Longleaf Teabush Tea Weed Canutillo | |
Eriogonum annuum | Annual Buckwheat Annual Wild Buckwheat Umbrella Plant | |
Eragrostis intermedia | Plains Lovegrass Plains Love Grass | |
Ericameria laricifolia | Larchleaf Goldenweed Turpentine Bush Turpentine Brush Hierba De Conejo | |
Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa | Rubber Rabbitbrush Rabbitbrush Chamisa | |
Erioneuron pilosum | Hairy Woollygrass Hairy Tridens | |
Eriogonum wrightii | Wright's Buckwheat Bastard-sage Wild Buckwheat Perennial Buckwheat Shrubby Buckwheat Shrubby Bastard-sage | |
Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Candelilla Wax Plant | |
Eucnide bartonioides | Yellow Rocknettle Rocknettle Yellow Stingbush | |
Euphorbia cyathophora | Wild Poinsettia Poinsettia Fire On The Mountain | |
Euphorbia marginata | Snow On The Mountain Snow-on-the-mountain | |
Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce | |
Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil | |
Fendlera rupicola | Cliff Fendlerbush False Mock-orange | |
Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens | Stretchberry Elbowbush Stretch-berry Downy Forestiera Desert Olive Elbow-bush | |
Fouquieria splendens | Ocotillo Devil's Walking Stick Candlewood | |
Fraxinus cuspidata | Fragrant Ash Flowering Ash | |
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