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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Castilleja integra | Wholeleaf Indian Paintbrush Squawfeather | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Castilleja integra var. integra | Wholeleaf Indian Paintbrush | |
Callirhoe involucrata var. lineariloba | White Poppymallow Winecup Poppy Mallow White Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Castilleja lanata | Sierra Woolly Indian Paintbrush Woolly Paintbrush | |
Calylophus lavandulifolius | Lavenderleaf Sundrops Lavendar-leaf Sundrops Lavender-leaf Primrose | |
Callirhoe leiocarpa | Tall Poppymallow Annual Winecup Tall Poppy-mallow Tall Poppy Mallow | |
Carlowrightia linearifolia | Heath Wrightwort | |
Cardamine macrocarpa var. texana | Texas Bittercress | |
Castilleja mexicana | Mexican Indian Paintbrush | |
Carex microdonta | Littletooth Sedge | |
Carex planostachys | Cedar Sedge | |
Castilleja purpurea | Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush Purple Paintbrush Lemon Paintbrush Purple Painted Cup | |
Castilleja purpurea var. purpurea | Purple Paintbrush Purple Prairie Painbrush Prairie Paintbrush Downy Indian Paintbrush | |
Castilleja rigida | Rigid Indian Paintbrush | |
Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
Calylophus serrulatus | Yellow Sundrops Yellow Evening Primrose Plains Evening Primrose | |
Calystegia sepium | Hedge False Bindweed Hedge Bindweed | |
Carlowrightia serpyllifolia | Trans-pecos Wrightwort | |
Castilleja sessiliflora | Downy Painted Cup Downy Paintbrush Great Plains Paintbrush Great Plains Indian-paintbrush | |
Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
Carlowrightia texana | Texas Wrightwort | |
Carex tetrastachya | Britton's Sedge | |
Carlowrightia torreyana | Torrey's Wrightwort | |
Calycoseris wrightii | White Tackstem | |
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