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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| Thelocactus bicolor var. bicolor | Glory Of Texas | |
| Thalictrum fendleri | Fendler's Meadow-rue | |
| Thelesperma filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma filifolium var. filifolium | Stiff Greenthread Showy Navajo Tea Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma filifolium var. intermedium | Stiff Greenthread | |
| Thelesperma megapotamicum | Hopi Tea Greenthread Green Threads Navajo Tea Cota | |
| Thymophylla micropoides | Woolly Pricklyleaf | |
| Thelypteris ovata var. lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Marsh Fern Lindheimer's Maiden Fern | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Five-needle Fetid Marigold | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta var. belenidium | Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf | |
| Thymophylla pentachaeta var. pentachaeta | Parralena Fiveneedle Pricklyleaf Dogweed Dyssodia | |
| Thelocactus setispinus | Miniature Barrel Cactus Hedgehog Cactus | |
| Thelesperma simplicifolium | Slender Greenthread Navajo Tea Cota | |
| Thamnosma texana | Texas Desert-rue Dutchman's Breeches Rue Of The Mountains Ruda Del Monte | |
| Thelypodium texanum | Texas Thelypody | |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
| Thymophylla tenuiloba var. tenuiloba | Bristleleaf Pricklyleaf | |
| Thelypodium wrightii | Wright's Thelypody Wright Thelypody | |
| Tinantia anomala | False Dayflower Widows Tears | |
| Tidestromia carnosa | Fleshy Honeysweet | |
| Tiquilia canescens | Woody Crinklemat Shrubby Coldenia Shrubby Tiquilia | |
| Tiquilia canescens var. canescens | Woolly Crinklemat Woody Crinklemat Dog's Ear Oreja De Perro Rat's Ear Coldenia Woody Tiquilia Gray Tiquilia Gray Coldenia Shrubby Coldenia | |
| Tiquilia gossypina | Texas Crinklemat | |
| Tiquilia greggii | Plumed Crinklemat Plume Tiquilia Plume Coldenia Gregg Coldenia Hierba Del Cenizo | |
| Tiquilia hispidissima | Hairy Crinklemat Hairy Coldenia Hairy Tiquilia | |
| Tidestromia lanuginosa | Woolly Tidestromia | |
| Tiquilia mexicana | Mexican Crinklemat | |
| Tillandsia recurvata | Small Ball Moss Ball Moss | |
| Tidestromia suffruticosa | Shrubby Honeysweet | |
| Townsendia annua | Annual Townsend Daisy | |
| Townsendia exscapa | Stemless Townsend Daisy Stemless Townsend-daisy Easter Daisy | |
| Toxicodendron radicans | Eastern Poison Ivy Poison Ivy | |
| Tridens albescens | White Tridens White Top | |
| Triodanis biflora | Small Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Tradescantia brevifolia | Trans-Pecos Spiderwort | |
| Trixis californica | American Threefold Trixis | |
| Triodanis coloradoensis | Colorado Venus' Looking-glass Western Venus' Looking Glass | |
| Trichloris crinita | Two-flowered Trichloris False Rhodes Grass | |
| Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
| Tradescantia edwardsiana | Plateau Spiderwort Edwards' Spiderwort | |
| Trichoneura elegans | Silveus Grass | |
| Tridens eragrostoides | Lovegrass Tridens | |
| Triodanis holzingeri | Holzinger's Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Trisetum interruptum | Prairie False Oat | |
| Triodanis leptocarpa | Slimpod Venus' Looking-glass | |
| Tridens muticus | Slim Tridens | |
| Tridens muticus var. muticus | Slim Tridens Awnless Fluffgrass | |
| Tradescantia occidentalis | Prairie Spiderwort Western Spiderwort Spiderwort | |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort Bluejacket | |
| Triodanis perfoliata | Clasping Venus's Looking-glass | |
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