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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Warnockia scutellarioides | Prairie Brazosmint Prairie Brazoria | |
Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida | Zexmenia Orange Zexmenia Hairy Wedelia Wedelia Texas Creeping-oxeye | |
Wislizenia refracta | Spectacle Fruit Jackass Clover | |
Xanthocephalum gymnospermoides | Gummy Broomweed San Pedro Matchweed Gummy Snakeweed | |
Xanthium strumarium | Rough Cocklebur | |
Xylorhiza wrightii | Big Bend Woodyaster Terlingua Aster Gyp Daisy Gypsum Daisy Big Bend Aster | |
Yucca baccata | Banana Yucca Blue Yucca Fleshy-fruited Yucca Datil | |
Yucca constricta | Buckley Yucca Buckley's Yucca | |
Yucca elata | Soaptree Yucca Soaptree Soapweed Yucca Palmilla Palmella Amole | |
Yucca faxoniana | Faxon Yucca Carneros Yucca Eve's Needle Spanish Bayonet Spanish Dagger Giant Dagger Palm Samandoca Palm Barreta Palmilla Palma | |
Yucca glauca | Soapweed Yucca Narrowleaf Yucca Plains Yucca Beargrass Great Plains Yucca | |
Yucca glauca var. glauca | Soapweed Yucca Narrow-leaf Yucca | |
Yucca reverchonii | San Angelo Yucca | |
Yucca thompsoniana | Thompson's Yucca Thompson Yucca Beaked Yucca Big Bend Yucca Soyate Palmita Trans-Pecos Yucca | |
Yucca torreyi | Torrey Yucca Torrey's Yucca Spanish Bayonet Spanish Dagger Old Shag Palma | |
Zanthoxylum hirsutum | Texas Hercules' Club Texas Prickly Ash Limetone Prickly Ash Toothache Tree Tickle-tongue Tingle-tongue | |
Zannichellia palustris | Horned Pondweed Horned Poolmat Horned-pondweed | |
Zephyranthes longifolia | Copper Zephyrlily | |
Zinnia acerosa | Desert Zinnia Dwarf Zinnia Dwarf White Zinnia Shrubby Zinnia Southern Zinnia | |
Zinnia anomala | Shortray Zinnia | |
Zigadenus elegans | Mountain Death Camas White Camas | |
Zigadenus elegans ssp. elegans | Mountain Deathcamas | |
Zinnia grandiflora | Plains Zinnia Rocky Mountain Zinnia Prairie Zinnia Little Golden Zinnia Yellow Zinnia | |
Ziziphus obtusifolia | Lotebush Lote-bush Condalia Graythorn | |
Ziziphus obtusifolia var. obtusifolia | Lotebush | |
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