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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Trichloris pluriflora | Multi-flowered False-rhodesgrass Multiflower False Rhodes Grass Showy Chloris | |
Trianthema portulacastrum | Desert Horse-purslane Horse-purslane Black-pigweed Giant-pigweed | |
Triplasis purpurea | Purple Sandgrass Purple Triplasis | |
Tragia ramosa | Branched Noseburn | |
Trichocoronis rivularis | Rio Grande Bugheal | |
Tridens texanus | Texas Fluffgrass Texas Tridens | |
Trifolium wormskioldii | Cows Clover Cow Clover | |
Typha domingensis | Southern Cattail | |
Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
Ungnadia speciosa | Mexican Buckeye Monilla | |
Urtica chamaedryoides | Heart-leaf Stinging Nettle Heart-leaf Nettle Stinging Nettle | |
Urochloa ciliatissima | Fringed Signalgrass | |
Urochloa fusca | Browntop Signalgrass | |
Urochloa texana | Texas Signalgrass | |
Utricularia gibba | Humped Bladderwort Bladderwort Conespur Bladderpod | |
Valeriana arizonica | Arizona Valerian | |
Vauquelinia corymbosa | Slimleaf Rosewood | |
Vachellia constricta | Whitethorn Acacia White-thorn Acacia Mescat Acacia Mescat Wattle Whitethorn Vara Prieta Chaparro Prieto | |
Vauquelinia corymbosa ssp. angustifolia | Chisos Rosewood Slimleaf Rosewood Narrowleaf Rosewood Narrowleaf Vauquelinia Vauquel Bush Guauyul Palo Prieto | |
Vachellia farnesiana | Huisache Texas Huisache Sweet Acacia Perfume Acacia Mealy Acacia Mealy Wattle Cassie | |
Vachellia rigidula | Blackbrush Acacia Blackbrush Chaparro Prieto Gavia | |
Vachellia schottii | Schott's Wattle Schott's Acacia | |
Vachellia vernicosa | Viscid Acacia | |
Verbena bracteata | Bigbract Verbena Carpet Vervain Prostrate Vervain | |
Verbena canescens | Gray Vervain | |
Verbesina encelioides | Cowpen Daisy Golden Crownbeard Butter Daisy | |
Verbena halei | Texas Vervain Slender Verbena Texas Verbena Slender Vervain | |
Vernonia lindheimeri | Woolly Ironweed | |
Verbena macdougalii | Macdougal Verbena Hillside Verbena | |
Vernonia marginata | Plains Ironweed | |
Verbesina nana | Dwarf Crownbeard | |
Verbena neomexicana | Hillside Vervain | |
Verbesina oreophila | Mountain Crownbeard | |
Veronica peregrina | American Speedwell Purslane Speedwell Neckweed | |
Verbena plicata | Fanleaf Vervain | |
Verbena scabra | Sandpaper Vervain | |
Vicia americana | American Vetch American Deervetch | |
Vitis arizonica | Canyon Grape Arizona Grape | |
Vitis cinerea var. helleri | Winter Grape Heller's Grape Gray-leaf Grape Smooth-leaf Grape Sweet Grape Spanish Grape | |
Viguiera cordifolia | Heartleaf Goldeneye | |
Viguiera dentata | Plateau Goldeneye Sunflower Goldeneye Toothleaf Goldeneye Chimalacate Golden-eye | |
Vicia ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
Vicia ludoviciana ssp. ludoviciana | Deer Pea Vetch Louisiana Vetch | |
Viola missouriensis | Missouri Violet | |
Vitis monticola | Sweet Mountain Grape Champin Grape | |
Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty Blackhaw Viburnum Rusty Blackhaw Southern Blackhaw Blackhaw Bluehaw Downy Viburnum Southern Nannyberry Rusty Nannyberry Nannyberry | |
Vitis rupestris | Sand Grape | |
Villadia squamulosa | Rat's-tail Succulent | |
Viguiera stenoloba | Skeleton-leaf Goldeneye Resinbush | |
Vulpia octoflora | Sixweeks Fescue Common Sixweeks Grass | |
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