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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Eragrostis sessilispica | Tumble Lovegrass Tumble Love Grass | |
| Eriochloa sericea | Texas Cupgrass | |
| Eragrostis secundiflora ssp. oxylepis | Red Lovegrass Red Love Grass | |
| Erodium texanum | Texas Stork's Bill Stork's Bill Pine Needle Fillaree | |
| Eragrostis trichodes | Sand Lovegrass Sand Love Grass | |
| Erigeron versicolor | Changing Fleabane | |
| Eriogonum wrightii | Wright's Buckwheat Bastard-sage Wild Buckwheat Perennial Buckwheat Shrubby Buckwheat Shrubby Bastard-sage | |
| Eriogonum wrightii var. wrightii | Wright's Buckwheat Wright's Bastard-sage Bastard-sage Shrubby Buckwheat | |
| Escobaria albicolumnaria | Column Foxtail Cactus Silver-lace Cob Cactus White Column | |
| Eschscholzia californica | California Poppy California Gold Poppy | |
| Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana | Mexican Gold Poppy California Poppy | |
| Escobaria dasyacantha var. chaffeyi | Chaffey's Foxtail Cactus | |
| Escobaria dasyacantha var. dasyacantha | Big Bend Foxtail Cactus Big Bend Cactus | |
| Escobaria duncanii | Duncan's Foxtail Cactus | |
| Escobaria tuberculosa | Whitecolumn Foxtail Cactus Cob Beehive Cactus White-column Foxtail Cactus White Star | |
| Escobaria vivipara | Spinystar Common Beehive Cactus Pincushion Cactus | |
| Escobaria vivipara var. vivipara | Spinystar | |
| Euphorbia antisyphilitica | Candelilla Wax Plant | |
| Euphorbia brachycera | Horned Spurge | |
| Euphorbia cyathophora | Wild Poinsettia Poinsettia Fire On The Mountain | |
| Euphorbia dentata | Toothed Spurge Toothed-leaf Poinsettia | |
| Eustoma exaltatum | Catchfly Prairie Gentian Bluebell Gentian Western Blue Gentian Blue Marsh Lily Small Bluebell Catchfly Gentian Seaside Gentian | |
| Euphorbia longicruris | Wedgeleaf Spurge | |
| Euphorbia marginata | Snow On The Mountain Snow-on-the-mountain | |
| Euphorbia roemeriana | Roemer's Spurge | |
| Eupatorium serotinum | White Boneset Lateflowering Thoroughwort Late Boneset Late-flowering Boneset | |
| Euphorbia spathulata | Warty Spurge | |
| Evolvulus alsinoides | Slender Dwarf Morning-glory | |
| Evolvulus alsinoides var. angustifolius | Slender Dwarf Morning-glory | |
| Evolvulus nuttallianus | Shaggy Dwarf Morning-glory Silky Evolvulus Shaggy Evolvulus | |
| Evax prolifera | Bighead Pygmycudweed Rabbit Tobacco | |
| Evolvulus sericeus | Silver Dwarf Morning-glory White Evolvulus | |
| Evolvulus sericeus var. sericeus | Silver Dwarf Morning-glory White Evolvulus | |
| Evax verna | Spring Pygmycudweed | |
| Evax verna var. verna | Spring Pygmycudweed | |
| Eysenhardtia texana | Texas Kidneywood Kidneywood Bee Brush Vara Dulce Palo Dulce | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil | |
| Ferocactus hamatacanthus | Turk's Head Turk's Head Cactus Texas Barrel Cactus Giant Fishhook Cactus | |
| Ferocactus hamatacanthus var. hamatacanthus | Turk's Head | |
| Fendlera rupicola | Cliff Fendlerbush False Mock-orange | |
| Festuca rubra | Red Fescue | |
| Festuca rubra ssp. rubra | Red Fescue Prolific Fescue | |
| Ferocactus wislizeni | Candy Barrel Candy Barrel Cactus Fishhook Barrel Cactus Southwestern Barrel Cactus | |
| Fendlera wrightii | Wright's Fendlerbush | |
| Flourensia cernua | American Tarwort | |
| Flaveria chlorifolia | Clasping Yellowtops | |
| Flyriella parryi | Chisos Mountain Brickellbush | |
| Flaveria trinervia | Clustered Yellowtops | |
| Florestina tripteris | Sticky Florestina | |
| Forestiera angustifolia | Narrow-leaf Forestiera Tanglewood Desert Olive Texas Swamp-privet Panalero Elbow Bush | |
| Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
| Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens | Stretchberry Elbowbush Stretch-berry Downy Forestiera Desert Olive Elbow-bush | |
| Forestiera reticulata | Netleaf Swampprivet Net-leaf Forestiera | |
| Fouquieria splendens | Ocotillo Devil's Walking Stick Candlewood | |
| Froelichia arizonica | Arizona Snakecotton Arizona Snake-cotton | |
| Fraxinus berlandieriana | Mexican Ash Berlandier Ash Berlandier's Ash Plumero | |
| Frangula betulifolia | Beechleaf Frangula Birchleaf Buckthorn | |
| Fraxinus cuspidata | Fragrant Ash Flowering Ash | |
| Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's Ash Gregg Ash Littleleaf Ash Dogleg Ash Escobilla Barreta China | |
| Froelichia gracilis | Slender Snakecotton Snake-cotton | |
| Frankenia jamesii | James' Seaheath | |
| Fraxinus papillosa | Chihuahuan Ash Chihuahua Ash | |
| Frasera speciosa | Elkweed Monument Plant | |
| Fragaria vesca | Woodland Strawberry California Strawberry Wood Strawberry | |
| Fraxinus velutina | Arizona Ash Velvet Ash Desert Ash Leatherleaf Ash Smooth Ash Modesto Ash Toumey Ash Standley Ash | |
| Fragaria vesca ssp. bracteata | Woodland Strawberry Pacific Strawberry | |
| Funastrum crispum | Wavyleaf Twinevine Wavy-leaf Milkweed Vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine Climbing Milkweed Vine Twine-vine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides ssp. cynanchoides | Fringed Twinevine | |
| Funastrum cynanchoides ssp. heterophyllum | Hartweg's Twinevine Vine Milkweed | |
| Fuirena simplex | Western Umbrella-sedge Umbrellagrass Western Umbrella Sedge | |
| Fuirena squarrosa | Hairy Umbrella Sedge | |
| Funastrum torreyi | Soft Twinevine Soft Twine Vine | |
| Galphimia angustifolia | Narrowleaf Goldshower Thryallis Narrow-leaf Goldshower | |
| Gamochaeta falcata | Narrowleaf Purple Everlasting | |
| Gaga kaulfussii | Glandular Lipfern Kaulfuss Lipfern Kaulfuss' Lipfern | |
| Gaillardia multiceps | Onion Blanketflower Gyp Indian Blanket | |
| Gaillardia multiceps var. microcephala | Onion Blanketflower | |
| Garrya ovata | Eggleaf Silktassel Mexican Silktassel Eggleaf Garrya Zumaque Cuauchichic Cuauchichi Guachichi | |
| Gamochaeta pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Everlasting | |
| Gaillardia pinnatifida | Red Dome Blanketflower Yellow Gaillardia Blanket Flower | |
| Galium proliferum | Limestone Bedstraw | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Gaillardia pulchella var. pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel | |
| Gaillardia suavis | Pincushion Daisy Fragrant Gaillardia Rayless Gaillardia Perfumeballs | |
| Galactia texana | Texas Milkpea | |
| Galium uncinulatum | Bristly Bedstraw | |
| Galium virgatum | Southwestern Bedstraw Southwest Bedstraw | |
| Garrya wrightii | Wright's Silktassel | |
| Gentiana affinis | Pleated Gentian | |
| Geranium caespitosum | Pineywoods Geranium | |
| Geranium carolinianum | Carolina Geranium Wild Geranium Carolina Cranesbill | |
| Giliastrum acerosum | Bluebowls Prickleleaf Gilia | |
| Giliastrum incisum | Splitleaf Gilia Split-leaf Gilia Cut-leaf Gilia | |
| Giliastrum rigidulum | Bluebowls Blue Gilia | |
| Gilia stewartii | Stewart's Gilia | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Moradilla Alfombrilla | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Mock Vervain Dakota Vervain | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. ciliata | Davis Mountains Mock Vervain Dakota Mock Vervain Wright's Verbena | |
| Glycyrrhiza lepidota | American Licorice Wild Licorice | |
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