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 |
| Lesquerella recurvata | Gaslight Bladderpod Slender Bladderpod | |
| Leucaena retusa | Goldenball Leadtree Littleleaf Leadtree Little Leucaena Lemonball Wahoo Tree | |
| Lesquerella sessilis | Sessile Bladderpod | |
| Lespedeza texana | Texas Lespedeza Texas Bush-clover | |
| Lepidium thurberi | Thurber's Pepperweed | |
| Lemna valdiviana | Valdivia Duckweed | |
| Lesquerella valida | Strong Bladderpod Trong Bladderpod | |
| Lepidium virginicum | Virginia Peppergrass Virginia Pepperweed Peppergrass Poor Man's Pepper | |
| Limnodea arkansana | Ozark Grass Ozarkgrass | |
| Linum aristatum | Bristle Flax | |
| Lipocarpha aristulata | Awned Halfchaff Sedge | |
| Linum berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax | |
| Linum berlandieri var. berlandieri | Berlandier's Yellow Flax Yellow Flax Stiff-stem Flax | |
| Linum berlandieri var. filifolium | Berlandier's Yellow Flax | |
| Linum hudsonioides | Texas Flax Yellow Flax Hudson Flax | |
| Linum imbricatum | Tufted Flax | |
| Lithospermum incisum | Fringed Puccoon Golden Puccoon Narrowleaf Puccoon Narrow-leaved Puccoon Puccoon Narrowleaf Gromwell Fringed Gromwell Narrowleaf Stoneseed | |
| Linum lewisii | Wild Blue Flax Prairie Flax Lewis Flax Lewis's Flax | |
| Linum lewisii var. lewisii | Prairie Flax Blue Flax | |
| Limonium limbatum | Transpecos Sealavender | |
| Lithospermum matamorense | Rough Stoneseed | |
| Lipocarpha micrantha | Smallflower Halfchaff Sedge | |
| Lithospermum mirabile | San Antonio Stoneseed | |
| Lithospermum multiflorum | Manyflowered Stoneseed | |
| Lilium philadelphicum | Wood Lily | |
| Linum pratense | Meadow Flax | |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
| Linum puberulum | Plains Flax | |
| Linum rupestre | Rock Flax | |
| Lindheimera texana | Texas Yellowstar Texas Star Texas Yellow-star Lindheimer Daisy | |
| Linum vernale | Chihuahuan Flax Chihuahua Flax | |
| Lithospermum viride | Green Stoneseed Green Gromwell | |
| Lonicera albiflora | Western White Honeysuckle White Shrub Honeysuckle White Bush Honeysuckle White Limestone Honeysuckle Texas Honeysuckle White Honeysuckle | |
| Lonicera arizonica | Arizona Honeysuckle | |
| Lobelia berlandieri var. brachypoda | Berlandier's Lobelia Blue Lobelia | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lobelia fenestralis | Fringeleaf Lobelia | |
| Lotus humistratus | Foothill Deervetch Hill Lotus | |
| Lotus plebeius | New Mexico Bird's-foot Trefoil Pine Deervetch Longbract Bird's-foot Trefoil | |
| Loeflingia squarrosa | Spreading Pygmyleaf | |
| Lophophora williamsii | Peyote | |
| Lupinus concinnus | Bajada Lupine Annual Lupine Nipomo Mesa Annual Lupine | |
| Lupinus havardii | Big Bend Bluebonnet Big Bend Lupine Havard Bluebonnet Chisos Bluebonnet | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow Narrow-leaf Water Primrose Seedbox Mexican Primrose Willow | |
| Ludwigia octovalvis ssp. octovalvis | Mexican Primrose-willow | |
| Ludwigia palustris | Marsh Seedbox Water Purslane | |
| Ludwigia peploides | Floating Primrose-willow Water-primrose Creeping Water-primrose | |
| Ludwigia repens | Creeping Primrose-willow Floating Primrose-willow Water Primrose | |
| Lupinus texensis | Texas Bluebonnet Bluebonnet Texas Lupine Buffalo Clover Wolf Flower | |
| Lycium berlandieri | Berlandier's Wolfberry Wolfberry | |
| Lythrum californicum | California Loosestrife | |
| Lythrum ovalifolium | Low Loosestrife Stream Loosestrife | |
| Lycurus setosus | Bristly Wolfstail | |
| Lygodesmia texana | Texas Skeleton Plant Texas Skeleton Weed Skeleton-plant Purple Dandelion Flowering Straw | |
| Lycium torreyi | Torrey Wolfberry Desert-thorn Box-thorn Squawberry Rabbit-thorn Tomatillo Garambullo | |
| Maurandella antirrhiniflora | Snapdragon Vine Roving Sailor Climbing Snapdragon Little Snapdragon Vine | |
| Matelea atrostellata | Dark-starred Milkvine Darkstar Milkvine | |
| Matelea biflora | Star Milkvine Purple Milkweed Vine | |
| Mandevilla brachysiphon | Huachuca Mountain Rocktrumpet | |
| Machaeranthera canescens | Hoary Tansyaster | |
| Malacothrix fendleri | Fendler's Desertdandelion | |
| Machaeranthera gracilis | Slender Goldenweed Grass-leaf Tansy-aster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
| Mammillaria grahamii | Graham's Nipple Cactus Arizona Fishhook Cactus | |
| Mahonia haematocarpa | Red Barberry Red Oregon-grape Algerita | |
| Mammillaria heyderi | Little Nipple Cactus Heyder Pincushion Cactus | |
| Mandevilla hypoleuca | Davis Mountain Rocktrumpet | |
| Mammillaria lasiacantha | Lacespine Nipple Cactus | |
| Malvella lepidota | Scurfymallow Malvalla | |
| Malvella leprosa | Alkali Mallow | |
| Mandevilla macrosiphon | Plateau Rocktrumpet Longtube Trumpet Flower Flor De San Juan Rock Trumpet | |
| Marsilea macropoda | Bigfoot Water-clover Water-clover Clover-fern Largefoot Pepperwort | |
| Machaeranthera pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
| Machaeranthera pinnatifida var. chihuahuana | Chihuahua Tansyaster Cutleaf Ironplant | |
| Machaeranthera pinnatifida ssp. pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
| Machaeranthera pinnatifida var. pinnatifida | Lacy Tansyaster Yellow Spiny Daisy | |
| Maclura pomifera | Osage Orange Bois d' Arc Bodark Horse Apple Hedge Apple Bowwood Yellowwood Naranjo Chino Monkey Brains | |
| Mammillaria pottsii | Rat-tail Nipple Cactus | |
| Matelea producta | Texas Milkvine | |
| Mammillaria prolifera var. texana | Texas Nipple Cactus | |
| Maianthemum racemosum | Feathery False Lily Of The Valley False Solomon's Seal Feathery False Solomon's Seal False Spikenard Solomon's Plume Smilacina | |
| Maianthemum racemosum ssp. amplexicaule | Feathery False Lily Of The Valley Western False Solomon's Seal Solomon's Plume False Spikenard | |
| Mahonia repens | Creeping Barberry Creeping Oregon-grape | |
| Matelea reticulata | Pearl Milkweed Vine Netted Milkvine Green Milkweed Vine Net Vein Milkvine | |
| Malvella sagittifolia | Arrow-leaf Mallow Arrowleaf Mallow | |
| Matelea sagittifolia | Arrowleaf Milkvine | |
| Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster | |
| Mahonia trifoliolata | Agarita Agarito Algerita Laredo Mahonia Laredo Oregon-grape Trifoliate Barberry Wild Currant | |
| Marsilea vestita | Hairy Water-clover Hairy Waterclover Hairy Water Clover Clover Fern | |
| Malaxis wendtii | Wendt's Adder's-mouth Orchid | |
| Mentzelia albescens | Wavyleaf Blazingstar | |
| Mentzelia albicaulis | Whitestem Blazingstar | |
| Mentha arvensis | Wild Mint | |
| Melampodium cinereum | Hoary Blackfoot | |
| Melampodium cinereum var. hirtellum | Hoary Blackfoot | |
| Merremia dissecta | Alamo Vine Noyau Vine Correhuela De Las Doce | |
| Meximalva filipes | Texasfan | |
| Menodora heterophylla | Low Menodora Redbud Twinpod | |
| Melampodium leucanthum | Blackfoot Daisy Rock Daisy Plains Blackfoot Arnica | |
| Menodora longiflora | Showy Menodora Twinpod | |
| Mentzelia multiflora | Adonis Blazingstar Prairie Stickleaf Blazingstar | |
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