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
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| 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 | |
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