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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| Cryptantha cinerea var. jamesii | James' Cryptantha James' Catseye James' Cat's-eye | |
| Cryptantha crassipes | Terlingua Creek Cat's-eye Terlingua Creek Cryptantha | |
| Croton fruticulosus | Bush Croton Encinilla Hierba Loca | |
| Croton incanus | Torrey's Croton | |
| Croton lindheimerianus | Threeseed Croton | |
| Cryptantha mexicana | Mexican Cryptantha | |
| Cryptantha minima | Little Cryptantha | |
| Croton monanthogynus | Prairie Tea One-seed Croton Doveweed Dove Weed Prairie Goatweed | |
| Cryptantha oblata | Rough Cryptantha | |
| Cryptantha palmeri | Palmer's Cryptantha | |
| Croton pottsii | Leatherweed | |
| Croton pottsii var. pottsii | Leatherweed | |
| Crotalaria pumila | Low Rattlebox | |
| Croton suaveolens | Scented Croton | |
| Croton texensis | Texas Croton Doveweed Texas Goatweed | |
| Crataegus tracyi | Tracy's Hawthorn Tracy Hawthorn Mountain Hawthorn | |
| Crataegus turnerorum | Turner's Hawthorn | |
| Cuscuta exaltata | Tree Dodder Tall Dodder | |
| Cucurbita foetidissima | Stinking Gourd Buffalo Gourd Missouri Gourd Stink Gourd Wild Gourd | |
| Cuscuta indecora | Bigseed Alfalfa Dodder Largeseed Dodder Pretty Dodder | |
| Cuscuta leptantha | Slender Dodder | |
| Cuscuta pentagona | Fiveangled Dodder | |
| Cuscuta umbellata | Flatglobe Dodder Santa Fe Dodder | |
| Cyperus acuminatus | Tapertip Flatsedge | |
| Cycloloma atriplicifolium | Winged Pigweed | |
| Cynanchum barbigerum | Bearded Swallow-wort Thicket Threadvine | |
| Cystopteris bulbifera | Bulblet Bladder Fern | |
| Cyperus croceus | Baldwin's Flatsedge | |
| Cyperus elegans | Royal Flatsedge | |
| Cyperus erythrorhizos | Redroot Flatsedge | |
| Cyperus esculentus | Yellow Nutsedge Chufa Sedge Yellow Nut-grass | |
| Cyphomeris gypsophiloides | Red Cyphomeris | |
| Cylindropuntia imbricata | Tree Cholla Walking Stick Cholla Cholla | |
| Cylindropuntia imbricata var. argentea | Tree Cholla | |
| Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata | Tree Cholla Teddy-bear Cholla Cholla Cane Cactus Walkingstick Cholla | |
| Cylindropuntia kleiniae | Candle Cholla Klein's Pencil Cactus | |
| Cylindropuntia leptocaulis | Tasajillo Christmas Cactus Pencil Cactus Christmas Cholla Desert Christmas Cactus | |
| Cynanchum maccartii | Maccart's Swallow-wort | |
| Cyperus odoratus | Fragrant Flatsedge Fragrant Sedge | |
| Cyperus onerosus | Plains Flatsedge | |
| Cynanchum pringlei | Pringle's Swallow-wort | |
| Cynanchum racemosum | Talayote | |
| Cynanchum racemosum var. unifarium | Talayote | |
| Cyperus retroflexus | Oneflower Flatsedge | |
| Cyperus schweinitzii | Schweinitz's Flatsedge | |
| Cyperus squarrosus | Bearded Flatsedge | |
| Cyperus strigosus | Straw-colored Flatsedge | |
| Cylindropuntia tunicata | Thistle Cholla | |
| Cystopteris utahensis | Utah Bladderfern | |
| Dalea aurea | Golden Dalea Golden Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea bicolor var. argyrea | Silver Prairie Clover Silver Dalea Silver Bush Dalea | |
| Dalea candida | White Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea candida var. oligophylla | Fewleaf White Prairie Clover White Prairie Clover Western White Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea enneandra | Nine-anther Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea formosa | Featherplume Feather Dalea Indigobush | |
| Dalea frutescens | Black Dalea Black Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea greggii | Gregg Dalea Gregg's Prairie Clover Trailing Indigo Bush Indigo Bush | |
| Dalea jamesii | James's Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea lachnostachys | Glandleaf Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea lanata | Woolly Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea lasiathera | Purple Dalea | |
| Daucosma laciniata | Meadow Parasol Daucosma | |
| Dasylirion leiophyllum | Green Sotol Smooth-leaved Sotol Smooth-leaf Sotol Sotol Desert Candle | |
| Dalea multiflora | Roundhead Prairie Clover White Prairie Clover Round Headed Dalea Round Headed Clover | |
| Dalea nana | Dwarf Prairie Clover Dwarf Dalea | |
| Dalea nana var. carnescens | Dwarf Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea phleoides | Slimspike Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea phleoides var. microphylla | Slimspike Prairie Clover | |
| Dalea pogonathera | Bearded Prairie Clover Bearded Dalea | |
| Daucus pusillus | American Wild Carrot Rattlesnake-weed Wild Carrot | |
| Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover | |
| Dasyochloa pulchella | Desert Fluffgrass Low Woollygrass Low Tridens Fluff Grass Fluffgrass Desert Fluff-grass | |
| Dalea purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover Violet Prairie Clover | |
| Datura quercifolia | Chinese Thorn-apple Oak-leaf Thorn Apple Oak Leaved Angel's Trumpet | |
| Dasylirion texanum | Texas Sotol Sotol | |
| Dalea tenuis | Pinkglobe Prairie Clover | |
| Dasylirion wheeleri | Common Sotol Sotol Desert Spoon Desert Candle | |
| Dalea wrightii | Wright's Prairie Clover | |
| Datura wrightii | Jimsonweed Sacred Thorn-apple Thorn-apple Angel Trumpet Sacred Datura Western Jimson Weed | |
| Delphinium carolinianum | Prairie Larkspur Carolina Larkspur Blue Larkspur | |
| Delphinium carolinianum ssp. virescens | Carolina Larkspur Prairie Larkspur Plains Larkspur | |
| Desmanthus glandulosus | Glandular Bundleflower | |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois Bundleflower Bundleflower Prairie Bundle Flower Prickleweed Illinois Desmanthus Prairie Mimosa | |
| Descurainia incana | Mountain Tansymustard | |
| Desmanthus obtusus | Bluntpod Bundleflower | |
| Descurainia pinnata | Western Tansymustard Tansy-mustard | |
| Desmodium psilophyllum | Simpleleaf Ticktrefoil Wright's Tickclover Beggar's Ticks Sticktights | |
| Desmanthus velutinus | Velvet Bundleflower | |
| Desmanthus virgatus | Prostrate Bundleflower Wild Tantan Slender Mimosa | |
| Dichanthelium acuminatum | Tapered Rosette Grass | |
| Dichondra argentea | Silver Ponysfoot Silver Ponyfoot | |
| Dichondra brachypoda | New Mexico Ponysfoot | |
| Digitaria californica | Arizona Cottontop California Cottontop California Crab Grass Cottontop | |
| Digitaria ciliaris | Southern Crabgrass | |
| Dichanthelium oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
| Dicranocarpus parviflorus | Pitchfork | |
| Digitaria patens | Texas Cottontop | |
| Dichanthelium pedicellatum | Cedar Rosette Grass Corm-based Panicgrass | |
| Digitaria pubiflora | Carolina Crabgrass | |
| Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
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