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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Chenopodium album | Lambsquarters | |
Chamaesyce angusta | Blackfoot Sandmat Narrow-leaf Spurge | |
Chrysothamnus baileyi | Bailey's Rabbitbrush | |
Chaetopappa bellidifolia | Whiteray Leastdaisy Dwarf White Aster Edwards Lazy Daisy | |
Chaetopappa bellioides | Manyflower Leastdaisy | |
Chenopodium berlandieri | Pitseed Goosefoot Lambs Quarters | |
Chamaesyce capitellata | Head Sandmat | |
Chamaesyce chaetocalyx var. triligulata | Bristlecup Sandmat | |
Chamaesyce cinerascens | Ashy Sandmat | |
Chamaesaracha coniodes | Gray Five Eyes False Nightshade Ground Saracha Prostrate Ground-cherry | |
Chamaesaracha coronopus | Greenleaf Five Eyes Green False Nightshade | |
Chloris cucullata | Hooded Windmill Grass Hooded Windmillgrass | |
Choisya dumosa | Mexican Orange Starleaf Mexican Orange Zorrillo Fragrant Starleaf | |
Chaetopappa ericoides | Rose Heath Rose-heath | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge Pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
Cheilanthes feei | Slender Lipfern | |
Chamaesyce fendleri | Fendler's Sandmat Fendler's Spurge Fendler's Carpetweed Fendler's Euphorb | |
Chamaesyce glyptosperma | Ribseed Sandmat Rib-seeded Sand Mat | |
Chamaesyce golondrina | Boquillas Sandmat Swallow Spurge | |
Chaetopappa hersheyi | Guadalupe Leastdaisy | |
Cheilanthes horridula | Rough Lipfern | |
Chamaesyce hyssopifolia | Hyssopleaf Sandmat | |
Chenopodium incanum | Mealy Goosefoot | |
Chamaesyce lata | Hoary Sandmat Hoary Euphorbia | |
Chenopodium leptophyllum | Narrowleaf Goosefoot | |
Cheilanthes lindheimeri | Fairy-swords | |
Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
Chamaesyce maculata | Spotted Spurge Spotted Euphorbia Spotted Sandmat Milk Purslane Prostrate Spurge | |
Chrysactinia mexicana | Damianita | |
Chamaesyce missurica | Prairie Sandmat Missouri Spurge | |
Chamaecrista nictitans | Sensitive Partridge Pea Partridge-pea Sensitive Pea | |
Chamaecrista nictitans ssp. nictitans | Sensitive Partridge Pea Partridge Pea | |
Chamaesyce nutans | Nodding Spurge Eyebane | |
Chamaesaracha pallida | Pale Five Eyes False Nightshade Averett Pale Five Eyes | |
Chamaesyce parryi | Parry's Sandmat | |
Chenopodium pratericola | Desert Goosefoot | |
Chamaesyce prostrata | Prostrate Spurge Prostrate Sandmat Ground Spurge | |
Chrysothamnus pulchellus | Southwestern Rabbitbrush Rubber Rabbit Brush | |
Chamaesyce serpens | Matted Sandmat Prostrate Spurge Creeping Spurge | |
Chamaesyce serrula | Sawtooth Sandmat | |
Chenopodium simplex | Mapleleaf Goosefoot | |
Chamaesaracha sordida | Hairy Five Eyes False Nightshade | |
Chloracantha spinosa | Spiny Chloracantha Mexican Devil-weed | |
Chaerophyllum tainturieri | Hairyfruit Chervil Southern Chervil | |
Chloris texensis | Texas Windmill Grass | |
Chaptalia texana | Texas Silverpuff Silverpuff Nodding Lettuce Silver Puff | |
Cheilanthes tomentosa | Woolly Lipfern | |
Chloris verticillata | Tumble Windmill Grass Windmillgrass | |
Chamaesyce villifera | Hairy Sandmat | |
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