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 |
| Glandularia pumila | Dwarf Vervain Low Verbena Pink Mock Vervain Pink Verbena Wild Vervain | |
| Glandularia quandrangulata | Beaked Mock Vervain Pale Mock Vervain Chihuahuan Mock Vervain | |
| Glyceria striata | Fowl Mannagrass | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
| Glandularia tumidula | Plains Mock Vervain | |
| Glandulicactus uncinatus | Chihuahuan Fishhook Cactus | |
| Glandulicactus uncinatus var. wrightii | Chihuahuan Fishhook Cactus Brown-flowered Hedgehog Cactus Catclaw Cactus | |
| Gomphrena haageana | Rio Grande Globe Amaranth | |
| Gossypianthus lanuginosus | Woolly Cottonflower | |
| Gomphrena nitida | Pearly Globe Amaranth | |
| Grusonia aggeria | Big Bend Pricklypear | |
| Grindelia arizonica | Arizona Gumweed New Mexican Gumweed Cutleaf Gumweed | |
| Grindelia grandiflora | Manyray Gumweed | |
| Grusonia grahamii | Graham's Pricklypear Graham Dog Cactus Graham's Club Cholla | |
| Grindelia havardii | Havard's Gumweed | |
| Grindelia nuda var. nuda | Curlytop Gumweed | |
| Grindelia papposa | Spanish Gold Clasping-leaved Haplopappus Saw-leaf Daisy | |
| Grindelia scabra | Rough Gumweed | |
| Grusonia schottii | Dog Cholla Big Bend Pricklypear | |
| Guaiacum angustifolium | Texas Lignum-vitae Soapbush Guayacan | |
| Guilleminea densa | Small Matweed | |
| Gutierrezia microcephala | Threadleaf Snakeweed Threadleaf Broomweed Smallhead Snakeweed Littlehead Snakeweed | |
| Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom Snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas Snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine Weed Matchweed | |
| Gutierrezia sphaerocephala | Roundleaf Snakeweed | |
| Gutierrezia texana | Texas Snakeweed | |
| Gymnosperma glutinosum | Gumhead Tatalencho | |
| Hackelia floribunda | Manyflower Stickseed Many-flower Stickseed | |
| Haploesthes greggii | False Broomweed | |
| Haploesthes greggii var. texana | Texas False Broomweed | |
| Hedeoma acinoides | Slender False Pennyroyal Annual Pennyroyal Slender Hedeoma | |
| Helenium amarum | Yellow Sneezeweed Bitterweed Yellow Bitterweed Yellowdicks Slender-leaved Sneezeweed Fine-leaved Sneezweed Yellow Dog-fennel | |
| Helenium amarum var. badium | Brown Bitterweed Basin Sneezeweed | |
| Helianthus annuus | Common Sunflower Annual Sunflower | |
| Hedeoma apiculata | Mckittrick's False Pennyroyal | |
| Hesperocyparis arizonica | Arizona Cypress Cedro Blanco | |
| Heterotheca canescens | Hoary False Goldenaster Gray Golden-aster | |
| Helianthus ciliaris | Texas Blueweed | |
| Heteropogon contortus | Tanglehead | |
| Hesperostipa comata | Needle And Thread Needle-and-thread | |
| Heliotropium confertifolium | Leafy Heliotrope | |
| Heliotropium convolvulaceum | Phlox Heliotrope Fragrant Heliotrope | |
| Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata | Needle And Thread | |
| Heliotropium curassavicum | Salt Heliotrope Seaside Heliotrope Quail Plant Cola De Mico Cola De Gama | |
| Hedeoma drummondii | Drummond's False Pennyroyal Limoncillo Mock Pennyroyal | |
| Heteranthera dubia | Grassleaf Mudplantain Water Stargrass | |
| Helenium elegans | Pretty Sneezeweed | |
| Hesperaloe funifera | Giant Hesperaloe New Mexico False Yucca Samandoce | |
| Heterotheca fulcrata | Rockyscree False Goldenaster | |
| Helianthemum glomeratum | Clustered Frostweed | |
| Heliotropium greggii | Fragrant Heliotrope | |
| Hexalectris grandiflora | Largeflower Crested Coralroot Greenman's Hexalectris Giant Coral-root Greenman's Cock's-comb Largeflower Crested Coral Root | |
| Heteranthera limosa | Blue Mudplantain Blue Mud Plantain | |
| Heliomeris longifolia | Longleaf False Goldeneye Southern Goldeneye | |
| Heliomeris longifolia var. longifolia | Longleaf False Goldeneye | |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Maximilian Sunflower Max Sunflower | |
| Helenium microcephalum | Smallhead Sneezeweed | |
| Heliotropium molle | Soft Heliotrope | |
| Heliomeris multiflora | Showy Goldeneye | |
| Heliomeris multiflora var. multiflora | Showy Goldeneye Showy False Goldeneye | |
| Helianthus neglectus | Neglected Sunflower | |
| Hesperostipa neomexicana | New Mexico Feathergrass | |
| Hexalectris nitida | Glass Mountain Crested Coralroot Glass Mountain Crested Coral Root | |
| Helianthus pauciflorus | Stiff Sunflower Prairie Sunflower | |
| Helianthus paradoxus | Paradox Sunflower Puzzle Sunflower Pecos Sunflower | |
| Heliopsis parvifolia | Mountain Oxeye | |
| Hesperaloe parviflora | Red Yucca Coral Yucca Red-flowered False Yucca Redflower False Yucca Yellow Yucca Hummingbird Yucca Samandoque | |
| Helianthus pauciflorus ssp. subrhomboideus | Stiff Sunflower | |
| Helianthus petiolaris | Prairie Sunflower Plains Sunflower | |
| Heterosperma pinnatum | Wingpetal | |
| Hedeoma plicata | Veiny False Pennyroyal | |
| Heliotropium procumbens | Fourspike Heliotrope | |
| Hedeoma reverchonii | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal | |
| Hedeoma reverchonii var. serpyllifolia | Reverchon's False Pennyroyal Rock Hedeoma | |
| Heuchera rubescens | Pink Alumroot Mountain Alumroot Red Alumroot Wild Coralbells | |
| Hexalectris spicata | Spiked Crested Coralroot Spiked Crested Coral Root | |
| Hexalectris spicata var. spicata | Spiked Crested Coralroot Spiked Crested Coral Root | |
| Heterotheca stenophylla | Stiffleaf False Goldenaster Sticky Granite-daisy | |
| Heterotheca subaxillaris | Camphorweed Camphor Weed | |
| Heliotropium tenellum | Pasture Heliotrope White Heliotrope | |
| Hechtia texensis | Texas False Agave Guapilla | |
| Hermannia texana | Texas Burstwort Mexican Mallow | |
| Heliotropium torreyi | Slimleaf Heliotrope | |
| Heterotheca villosa | Hairy False Goldenaster Hairy Golden-aster | |
| Hexalectris warnockii | Texas Crested Coralroot Texas Purple Spike Texas Crested Coral Root | |
| Hilaria belangeri | Curly Mesquite Grass Curly Mesquite | |
| Hilaria belangeri var. belangeri | Curly-mesquite | |
| Hibiscus coulteri | Desert Rosemallow Desert Rose-mallow Coulter Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus denudatus | Paleface Rock Hibiscus | |
| Hibiscus lasiocarpos | Woolly Rose-mallow Woolly Mallow Rose-mallow False Cotton | |
| Hibiscus martianus | Heartleaf Rosemallow Tulipan Del Monte Heartleaf Hibiscus | |
| Houstonia acerosa | Needleleaf Bluet | |
| Holodiscus dumosus | Rockspirea Glandular Oceanspray Bush Rockspirea Cream Bush | |
| Hoffmannseggia glauca | Indian Rushpea Indian Rush-pea | |
| Houstonia humifusa | Matted Bluet | |
| Hordeum jubatum | Foxtail Barley | |
| Hordeum jubatum ssp. jubatum | Foxtail Barley Squirreltail Barley Skunktail | |
| Hoffmannseggia oxycarpa | Sharppod Rushpea | |
| Hordeum pusillum | Little Barley | |
| Houstonia wrightii | Pygmy Bluet | |
| Hunzikeria texana | Texas Cupflower | |
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