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 |
| Hymenopappus biennis | Biennial Woollywhite | |
| Hymenopappus flavescens | Yellow Plainsman Collegeflower | |
| Hymenopappus flavescens var. flavescens | Collegeflower | |
| Hymenoclea monogyra | Singlewhorl Burrobrush | |
| Hymenoxys odorata | Bitter Rubberweed | |
| Hymenoxys richardsonii | Pingue Rubberweed | |
| Hymenopappus scabiosaeus | Carolina Woollywhite Woolly-white Old Plainsman | |
| Hymenopappus scabiosaeus var. corymbosus | Carolina Woollywhite Old Plainsman | |
| Hydrocotyle umbellata | Manyflower Marsh-pennywort Many-flowered Marsh-pennywort Marsh Pennywort Water Pennywort Money Plant | |
| Hybanthus verticillatus | Babyslippers Nodding Green Violet Green Violet | |
| Hydrocotyle verticillata | Whorled Marshpennywort | |
| Ibervillea lindheimeri | Balsam Gourd Lindheimer's Globeberry Globe Berry Snake-apple Balsam-apple | |
| Ibervillea tenuisecta | Slimlobe Globeberry Cutleaf Globe Berry | |
| Imperata brevifolia | California Satintail | |
| Indigofera lindheimeriana | Lindheimer's Indigo | |
| Indigofera miniata | Scarlet Pea Coastal Indigo Texas Indigo Western Indigo | |
| Ipomopsis aggregata | Scarlet Gilia Scarlet Standing-cypress Skyrocket Skunkflower | |
| Ipomoea cardiophylla | Heartleaf Morning-glory | |
| Ipomoea cordatotriloba | Tievine Purple Bindweed Morning Glory | |
| Ipomoea cordatotriloba var. torreyana | Torrey's Tievine | |
| Ipomoea cristulata | Transpecos Morning-glory Scarlet Creeper Trans-Pecos Morning Glory | |
| Ipomopsis havardii | Havard's Ipomopsis | |
| Ipomoea leptophylla | Bush Morning-glory | |
| Ipomoea lindheimeri | Lindheimer's Morning-glory Blue Morning Glory | |
| Ipomopsis longiflora | Flaxflowered Ipomopsis Pale Trumpets Paleflower Gilia White-flower Skyrocket White-flowered Gilia | |
| Ipomoea sagittata | Saltmarsh Morning-glory Salt-marsh Morning Glory | |
| Ipomopsis wrightii | Leafy Skyrocket | |
| Isocoma pluriflora | Southern Goldenbush Jimmyweed | |
| Jatropha dioica | Leatherstem Leather Stem Rubber Plant | |
| Jatropha dioica var. dioica | Leatherstem | |
| Jatropha dioica var. graminea | Leatherstem Bloodroot Sangre De Drago | |
| Janusia gracilis | Slender Janusia | |
| Jefea brevifolia | Shortleaf Jefea | |
| Juncus acuminatus | Tapertip Rush | |
| Justicia americana | American Water-willow Water-willow | |
| Juncus arcticus ssp. littoralis | Baltic Rush | |
| Juniperus ashei | Ashe Juniper Ashe's Juniper Mountain Cedar Rock Cedar Post Cedar Texas Cedar Brake Cedar Mexican Juniper Blueberry Juniper Ozark White Cedar Sabino Enebro | |
| Juncus bufonius | Toad Rush | |
| Juniperus deppeana | Alligator Juniper Checkerbark Juniper Western Juniper Oakbark Cedar Thickbark Cedar Mountain Cedar Tascate Tacate Tlascal | |
| Juncus dudleyi | Dudley's Rush | |
| Juniperus flaccida | Weeping Juniper Drooping Juniper Mexican Weeping Juniper Mexican Drooping Juniper Weeping Cedar Drooping Cedar Tascate | |
| Juncus interior | Inland Rush | |
| Juncus interior var. interior | Inland Rush | |
| Justicia longii | Longflower Tubetongue | |
| Juglans major | Arizona Walnut Arizona Black Walnut River Walnut Mountain Walnut Nogal Silvestre | |
| Juncus marginatus | Grassleaf Rush Grass Leaf Rush | |
| Juglans microcarpa | Little Walnut Texas Walnut Texas Black Walnut River Walnut Nogalito Nogalillo Namboca | |
| Juniperus monosperma | Oneseed Juniper One-seed Juniper Cherrystone Juniper New Mexico Juniper West Texas Juniper | |
| Juncus nodosus | Knotted Rush | |
| Juniperus pinchotii | Pinchot's Juniper Pinchot Juniper Redberry Juniper Texas Juniper Christmasberry Juniper | |
| Justicia pilosella | Hairy Tube-tongue Gregg's Tube-tongue False Honeysuckle | |
| Juncus scirpoides | Needlepod Rush | |
| Juniperus scopulorum | Rocky Mountain Juniper Rocky Mountain Red Cedar Mountain Red Cedar Colorado Red Cedar Western Red Cedar River Juniper Western Juniper Cedro Rojo | |
| Juncus torreyi | Torrey's Rush | |
| Justicia warnockii | Warnock's Water-willow | |
| Kallstroemia grandiflora | Arizona Poppy Desert Poppy Orange Caltrop Summer Poppy | |
| Kallstroemia hirsutissima | Hairy Caltrop Hairy Carpetweed | |
| Karwinskia humboldtiana | Coyotillo Humboldt Coyotillo | |
| Kallstroemia parviflora | Warty Caltrop Small-flowered Carpetweed | |
| Kallstroemia perennans | Perennial Caltrop | |
| Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's Grass | |
| Koanophyllon solidaginifolium | Shrubby Thouroughwort Shrubby Umbrella Thouroughwort | |
| Koeberlinia spinosa | Crown Of Thorns Spiny Allthorn | |
| Krameria erecta | Littleleaf Ratany Range Ratany | |
| Krameria grayi | White Ratany Crimson Beak Chacati Cosahui | |
| Krameria lanceolata | Trailing Krameria Ratany Crameria Prairie Sandbur Trailing Ratany | |
| Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat | |
| Krameria ramosissima | Manystem Ratany Calderona | |
| Lantana achyranthifolia | Brushland Shrubverbena Mexican Marjoram Veinyleaf Lantana | |
| Laennecia coulteri | Conyza Coulter's Horseweed Coulter's Woolwort Annual Horsetail | |
| Lactuca graminifolia | Grassleaf Lettuce | |
| Lathyrus lanszwertii var. leucanthus | Nevada Pea | |
| Lathyrus polymorphus | Manystem Pea Hoary Vetchling | |
| Lactuca tatarica | Blue Lettuce | |
| Lactuca tatarica var. pulchella | Blue Lettuce | |
| Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis | |
| Lantana urticoides | Texas Lantana Calico Bush | |
| Lemna aequinoctialis | Lesser Duckweed | |
| Lepidium alyssoides | Mesa Pepperwort Mesa Pepperweed Southern Pepperweed | |
| Lesquerella argyraea | Silver Bladderpod | |
| Lepidium austrinum | Southern Peppergrass Southern Pepperwort | |
| Leucophyllum candidum | Brewster County Barometerbush Violet Silverleaf Boquillas Silverleaf Purple Ceniza Cenizo | |
| Lepidium densiflorum | Common Pepperweed | |
| Leptochloa dubia | Green Sprangletop | |
| Lesquerella fendleri | Fendler's Bladderpod Popweed | |
| Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
| Leptochloa fusca | Malabar Sprangletop | |
| Leptochloa fusca ssp. fascicularis | Bearded Sprangletop | |
| Lesquerella gordonii | Gordon's Bladderpod | |
| Lepidium lasiocarpum | Shaggyfruit Pepperweed | |
| Lesquerella mcvaughiana | Mcvaugh's Bladderpod | |
| Lechea mensalis | Chisos Mountain Pinweed | |
| Leucophyllum minus | Big Bend Barometerbush Big Bend Silverleaf | |
| Leucospora multifida | Narrowleaf Paleseed | |
| Lechea mucronata | Hairy Pinweed | |
| Lepidium oblongum | Veiny Pepperweed | |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass | |
| Leptochloa panicea | Mucronate Sprangletop Red Sprangletop Needle Sprangletop | |
| Leptochloa panicea ssp. brachiata | Red Sprangletop | |
| Lesquerella purpurea | Rose Bladderpod Purple Bladderpod | |
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