Special Collections
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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Melica nitens | Three-flower Melic Tall Melicgrass Threeflower Melicgrass Melicgrass | |
| Mentzelia oligosperma | Stick-leaf Chickenthief | |
| Melothria pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber Meloncito Speckled Gourd | |
| Melothria pendula var. pendula | Guadeloupe Cucumber | |
| Melica porteri | Porter's Melicgrass | |
| Mecardonia procumbens | Baby Jump-up | |
| Melochia pyramidata | Pyramidflower Broom-wood Pyramid Flower | |
| Mentzelia reverchonii | Reverchon's Blazingstar Reverchon's Stick-leaf Prairie Stickleaf | |
| Menodora scabra | Rough Menodora | |
| Mentzelia strictissima | Grassland Blazingstar | |
| Mimosa aculeaticarpa | Catclaw Mimosa | |
| Mimosa aculeaticarpa var. biuncifera | Catclaw Mimosa Cat's-claw Mimosa Wait-a-bit | |
| Mirabilis albida | White Four O'clock Dwarf Four O'clock | |
| Mimosa borealis | Fragrant Mimosa Pink Mimosa | |
| Mimosa dysocarpa | Velvetpod Mimosa Velvet-pod Mimosa Gatuno | |
| Mimulus glabratus | Roundleaf Monkeyflower Yellow Monkeyflower | |
| Mirabilis linearis | Narrowleaf Four O'Clock | |
| Mirabilis longiflora | Sweet Four O'Clock Long-flowered Four O'Clock | |
| Mirabilis multiflora | Colorado Four O'Clock | |
| Mirabilis oxybaphoides | Smooth Spreading Four O'Clock | |
| Mitreola petiolata | Lax Hornpod | |
| Mimosa roemeriana | Roemer's Mimosa Sensitive Briar | |
| Mimosa rupertiana | Eastern Sensitive Plant | |
| Mimosa texana | Texas Mimosa Wherry Mimosa | |
| Modiola caroliniana | Carolina Bristlemallow Carolina Modiola | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Monotropa hypopitys | Pinesap | |
| Morus microphylla | Texas Mulberry Littleleaf Mulberry Mountain Mulberry Mexican Mulberry Dwarf Mulberry | |
| Monolepis nuttalliana | Nuttall's Povertyweed | |
| Monarda pectinata | Pony Beebalm | |
| Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
| Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
| Mortonia scabrella | Rio Grande Saddlebush | |
| Mortonia sempervirens | Rio Grande Saddlebush | |
| Mollugo verticillata | Green Carpetweed | |
| Muhlenbergia arenacea | Ear Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia arenicola | Sand Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia dubia | Pine Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia emersleyi | Bullgrass Bull Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Muhly Lindheimer Muhly Big Muhly Blue Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia montana | Mountain Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia porteri | Bush Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia rigens | Deergrass Meadow Muhly Deer Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia rigida | Purple Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia spiciformis | Longawn Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia tenuifolia | Slender Muhly Slimflower Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia torreyi | Ring Muhly Torrey Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia utilis | Aparejo Grass Aparejo Muhly | |
| Muhlenbergia wrightii | Spike Muhly | |
| Najas guadalupensis | Common Water Nymph Southern Water Nymph Najas | |
| Nama havardii | Havard's Fiddleleaf | |
| Nama hispidum | Sand Bells Bristly Nama Sand-bell | |
| Nama jamaicense | Jamaicanweed Jamaican Weed Fiddleleaf Nama | |
| Nassella leucotricha | Texas Wintergrass Texas Speargrass Wintergrass | |
| Nama parvifolium | Small-leaf Fiddleleaf | |
| Nassella tenuissima | Mexican Feathergrass Mexican Wiregrass Finestem Needlegrass Ponytail Grass Texas Tussock | |
| Nama torynophyllum | Matted Fiddleleaf | |
| Nama xylopodum | Yellowseed Fiddleleaf | |
| Nerisyrenia camporum | Bicolor Fanmustard Mesa Greggia | |
| Neolloydia conoidea | Chihuahuan Beehive Cactus Chihuahuan Beehive Cone Cactus | |
| Nerisyrenia linearifolia | White Sands Fanmustard | |
| Neptunia pubescens | Tropical Puff | |
| Neptunia pubescens var. microcarpa | Tropical Puff | |
| Nemastylis tenuis | Southwestern Pleatleaf | |
| Nicolletia edwardsii | Edwards' Hole-in-the-sand Plant | |
| Nicotiana obtusifolia | Desert Tobacco Little Tobacco Tabaquillo Punche | |
| Nicotiana obtusifolia var. obtusifolia | Desert Tobacco Little Tobacco Tabaquillo Punche | |
| Nicotiana repanda | Fiddleleaf Tobacco Fiddle-leaf Tobacco | |
| Nothoscordum bivalve | Crowpoison False Garlic Crow Poison | |
| Notholaena copelandii | Copeland's Cloakfern | |
| Nolina erumpens | Foothill Beargrass Mesa Sacahuista | |
| Notholaena standleyi | Star Cloak Fern Northern Desert Star Cloakfern | |
| Nolina texana | Texas Sacahuista Texas Beargrass Basket Grass Sacahuista Bunchgrass Texas Bear-grass | |
| Nuphar lutea | Yellow Pond Lily Yellow Cow Lily Cow Lily Spatter Dock Wakas | |
| Nuphar lutea ssp. advena | Common Spatterdock Spatterdock Yellow Cow-lily Cow-lily Yellow Pond-lily Brandy-bottle | |
| Nuttallanthus texanus | Texas Toadflax Texas Toad-flax Toadflax | |
| Nyctaginia capitata | Devil's Bouquet Scarlet Muskflower | |
| Oenothera albicaulis | Whitest Evening-primrose White-stem Evening-primrose Pale Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera brachycarpa | Shortfruit Evening-primrose Short-fruit Evening-primrose Shortfruit Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera calcicola | Texas Beeblossom Limestone Gaura | |
| Oenothera cinerea | Woolly Beeblossom High Plains Beeblossom Woolly Gaura High Plains Gaura | |
| Oenothera curtiflora | Velvetweed Velvetleaf Gaura Lizard-tail Gaura Willow Gaura | |
| Oenothera elata | Hooker's Evening-primrose Hooker's Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera elata ssp. hirsutissima | Hooker's Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera engelmannii | Engelmann's Evening-primrose Engelmann Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera grandis | Showy Evening-primrose Largeflower Eveningprimrose Showy Eveningprimrose | |
| Oenothera kunthiana | Kunth's Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera pallida | Pale Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera pallida ssp. runcinata | White Sands Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera primiveris | Desert Evening-primrose Yellow-flower Desert Evening-primrose Bottle Evening Primrose Large Yellow Desert Primrose | |
| Oenothera rhombipetala | Fourpoint Evening-primrose Four-point Evening Primrose Diamond Petal Primrose Greater Four-point Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups | |
| Oenothera suffrutescens | Scarlet Beeblossom Scarlet Gaura | |
| Oenothera suffulta | Kisses Wild Honeysuckle Beeblossom Roadside Gaura | |
| Oenothera triloba | Stemless Evening-primrose Stemless Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera xerogaura | Drummond's Beeblossom Drummond's Gaura | |
| Oligomeris linifolia | Lineleaf Whitepuff | |
| Omphalodes aliena | Mexican Navelwort | |
| Opuntia atrispina | Border Pricklypear | |
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