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 |
| Simsia calva | Awnless Bush Sunflower Bush Sunflower | |
| Sisyrinchium chilense | Swordleaf Blue-eyed Grass Sword-leaf Blue-eyed Grass | |
| Sisyrinchium demissum | Stiff Blue-eyed Grass | |
| Silene laciniata | Cardinal Catchfly Southern Indian Pink Mexican Campion Catchfly | |
| Sideroxylon lanuginosum | Gum Bumelia Gum Bully Woollybucket Bumelia Woolly Bumelia Gum Woollybucket Woolly Buckthorn Chittamwood Shittamwood Gum Elastic Coma Black Haw | |
| Silene laciniata ssp. greggii | Cardinal Catchfly Mexican Campion Gregg's Mexican Pink | |
| Sideroxylon lanuginosum ssp. rigidum | Gum Bully Brazos Bumelia Black Haw | |
| Sida longipes | Stockflower Fanpetals | |
| Sicyos microphyllus | Small-leaf Bur Cucumber | |
| Sida neomexicana | New Mexico Fanpetals | |
| Smilax bona-nox | Sawbriar Saw Greenbriar Catbriar Bullbriar Stretchberry Vine | |
| Solidago canadensis | Canada Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Tall Goldenrod Giant Goldenrod | |
| Solidago canadensis var. gilvocanescens | Shorthair Goldenrod | |
| Solanum citrullifolium | Watermelon Nightshade Melonleaf Nightshade | |
| Solanum douglasii | Greenspot Nightshade Douglas' Nightshade | |
| Solanum elaeagnifolium | Silverleaf Nightshade Silver-leaf Nightshade White Horse Nettle Trompillo Tomato Weed Bull Nettle | |
| Solidago gigantea | Giant Goldenrod Smooth Goldenrod Tall Goldenrod Late Goldenrod Early Goldenrod | |
| Sophora gypsophila | Guadalupe Mountain Necklacepod Guadalupe Mountain Laurel | |
| Solidago juliae | Julia's Goldenrod | |
| Sophora nuttalliana | Silky Sophora | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
| Solanum rostratum | Buffalo Bur Buffalo Bur Nightshade Buffalobur Nightshade | |
| Sophora secundiflora | Texas Mountain Laurel Mountain Laurel Mescal Bean Mescal Bean Sophora Frijolillo Frijolito | |
| Solanum triquetrum | Texas Nightshade Hierba Mora | |
| Solidago velutina | Threenerve Goldenrod | |
| Solidago wrightii | Wright's Goldenrod | |
| Sporobolus airoides | Alkali Sacaton Zacate Alcalino | |
| Sphaeralcea angustifolia | Narrowleaf Globemallow Copper Globemallow Copper Mallow | |
| Sphaeralcea coccinea | Scarlet Globemallow Caliche Globemallow | |
| Sporobolus compositus | Tall Dropseed Composite Dropseed Rough Dropseed | |
| Sporobolus cryptandrus | Sand Dropseed | |
| Spermolepis echinata | Bristly Scaleseed | |
| Sphaeralcea fendleri | Fendler's Globemallow | |
| Sporobolus flexuosus | Mesa Dropseed | |
| Sporobolus giganteus | Giant Dropseed | |
| Sphaeralcea hastulata | Spear Globemallow | |
| Spigelia hedyotidea | Prairie Pinkroot Prairie Pink Root | |
| Spermolepis inermis | Red River Scaleseed Spreading Scaleseed | |
| Sphaeralcea incana | Gray Globemallow | |
| Sphenopholis intermedia | Slender Wedgescale | |
| Sphaeralcea laxa | Caliche Globemallow | |
| Spermolepis lateriflora | Western Bristly Scaleseed Rillito Valley Scaleseed Side-flowering Scaleseed Nesom's Scaleseed | |
| Sphaeralcea leptophylla | Scaly Globemallow | |
| Sphenopholis obtusata | Prairie Wedgescale | |
| Spartina pectinata | Prairie Cordgrass Freshwater Cordgrass Sloughgrass | |
| Spirodela polyrrhiza | Common Duckmeat Giant Duckweed | |
| Sporobolus pyramidatus | Whorled Dropseed Target Dropseed Madagascar Dropseed | |
| Spergularia salina | Salt Sandspurry | |
| Spigelia texana | Texas Pinkroot | |
| Sporobolus wrightii | Big Sacaton Sacaton Alkali Sacaton | |
| Stenandrium barbatum | Early Shaggytuft Shaggy Stenandrium | |
| Streptanthus carinatus | Lyreleaf Jewelflower Lyre-leaf Twist-flower | |
| Streptanthus carinatus ssp. arizonicus | Arizona Jewelflower Arizona Twistflower Lyreleaf Jewelflower | |
| Streptanthus carinatus ssp. carinatus | Lyreleaf Jewelflower | |
| Streptanthus cutleri | Cutler's Jewelflower | |
| Stephanomeria exigua | Small Wirelettuce | |
| Strophostyles leiosperma | Slickseed Fuzzybean | |
| Stephanomeria minor var. minor | Narrowleaf Wirelettuce | |
| Stenaria nigricans | Bluets Diamond-flowers | |
| Stenaria nigricans var. nigricans | Diamondflowers Narrowleaf Bluets Baby's Breath Bluets Fine-leaf Bluets | |
| Stevia ovata var. texana | Texas Candyleaf | |
| Stephanomeria pauciflora | Brownplume Wirelettuce Brown-plume Desert Straw Fewflower Wirelettuce Prairie Skeletonplant | |
| Stuckenia pectinata | Sago Pondweed | |
| Stanleya pinnata | Desert Princes' Plume Golden Princes' Plume Golden Desert Plume Sentinel Of The Plains | |
| Streptanthus platycarpus | Broadpod Jewelflower Broadpod Twistflower | |
| Styrax platanifolius | Sycamore-leaf Snowbell | |
| Styrax platanifolius ssp. texanus | Texas Snowbell Texas Snow-bell | |
| Streptanthus sparsiflorus | Sparseflower Jewelflower | |
| Stillingia sylvatica | Queen's-delight | |
| Stillingia texana | Texas Queen's Delight Queen's Delight Texas Toothleaf | |
| Stillingia treculiana | Trecul's Toothleaf | |
| Symphyotrichum divaricatum | Southern Annual Saltmarsh Aster Lawn American-aster White Wood Aster Saltmarsh Aster Slender Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum ericoides var. ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster White Aster White Prairie Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum falcatum | White Prairie Aster | |
| Synthlipsis greggii | Gregg's Keelpod | |
| Symphyotrichum laeve | Smooth Blue Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum lanceolatum | Whitepanicle Aster Panicled Aster Lanceleaf Aster White Panicle Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum lanceolatum ssp. hesperium | White Panicle Aster | |
| Symphoricarpos longiflorus | Desert Snowberry Long-flower Snowberry Fragrant Snowberry | |
| Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic Aster Aromatic American Aster Fall Aster Wild Blue Aster Shale Aster | |
| Symphoricarpos oreophilus | Mountain Snowberry | |
| Symphoricarpos palmeri | Palmer's Snowberry | |
| Symphoricarpos rotundifolius | Roundleaf Snowberry | |
| Taxodium distichum | Bald Cypress Baldcypress Common Bald Cypress Southern Bald Cypress Deciduous Cypress Southern Cypress Swamp Cypress Red Cypress White Cypress Yellow Cypress Gulf Cypress Tidewater Red Cypress | |
| Tagetes micrantha | Licorice Marigold | |
| Teucrium canadense | American Germander Canada Germander Canadian Germander Germander Hairy Germander Wood Sage | |
| Tetraclea coulteri | Coulter's Wrinklefruit | |
| Teucrium cubense | Small Coastal Germander Coast Germander | |
| Teucrium laciniatum | Lacy Germander Cut-leaf Germander Dwarf Germander | |
| Tetraneuris linearifolia | Fineleaf Fournerved Daisy Slender-leaf Hymenoxys Bitterweed | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Yellow Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tetraneuris scaposa var. scaposa | Four-nerve Daisy Hymenoxys Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Bitterweed | |
| Tecoma stans | Yellow Bells Yellowbells Esperanza Yellow Trumpetbush Yellow Trumpetflower Trumpetbush Trumpetflower Yellow Elder Hardy Yellow Trumpet Yellow Trumpet Bush | |
| Tetragonotheca texana | Squarebud Daisy Nerve-ray Square-bud Daisy | |
| Tephrosia vicioides | Red Hoarypea | |
| Thymophylla acerosa | Prickly-leaf Dogweed Texas Dogweed Shrubby Dogweed Prickleleaf Dogweed Prickleaf Dogweed Fetid Marigold Scrubby Dogweed | |
| Thelesperma ambiguum | Colorado Greenthread | |
| Thymophylla aurea var. aurea | Manyawn Pricklyleaf | |
| Thelocactus bicolor | Glory Of Texas | |
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