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 | |
| 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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