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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| 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 | |
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