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87 relations: Agave lechuguilla, Agave victoriae-reginae, Aristida purpurea, Arizona, Big Bend National Park, Bouteloua breviseta, Bouteloua curtipendula, Bouteloua eriopoda, Bouteloua gracilis, Bouteloua hirsuta, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua City, Chisos Mountains, Ciudad Juárez, Climate, Coahuila, Dasylirion, Davis Mountains, Desert, Durango, Echinocereus pectinatus, Ecoregion, El Paso, Texas, Euphorbia antisyphilitica, Fabaceae, Ferocactus pilosus, Flourensia, Flourensia cernua, Fouquieria splendens, Franklin Mountains (Texas), Gila Wilderness, Great Basin Desert, Guadalupe Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Hechtia glomerata, Helietta, Herbaceous plant, Hilaria (plant), Larrea tridentata, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Lechuguilla Desert, List of deserts by area, List of ecoregions in the United States (WWF), List of geographical regions in Texas, List of North American deserts, Malpai Borderlands, McKittrick Canyon, Mesquite, Mexican Plateau, ..., Mexican wolf, Mexico, Monterrey, Muhlenbergia porteri, New Mexico, North America, North American Monsoon, Nuevo León, Opuntia, Opuntia macrocentra, Organ Mountains (New Mexico), Pecos River, Pleuraphis mutica, Prosopis glandulosa, Psorothamnus, Roswell, New Mexico, Sacramento Mountains (New Mexico), Saltillo, Samalayuca Dune Fields, Sandia-Manzano Mountains, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sierra del Carmen, Sierra Madre Occidental, Sierra Madre Oriental, Sky island, Solitario, Sonoran Desert, Sporobolus wrightii, Stratification (vegetation), Torreón, Trans-Pecos, West Texas, White Sands National Monument, World Wide Fund for Nature, Yucca, Yucca filifera, Zacatecas. Expand index (37 more) »
Agave lechuguilla
Agave lechuguilla (common name in Chihuahua: lechuguilla, meaning "big lettuce") is an Agave species found only in the Chihuahuan Desert, where it is an indicator species.
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Agave victoriae-reginae
Agave victoriae-reginae (Queen Victoria agave, royal agave) is a small species of succulent flowering perennial plant, noted for its streaks of white on sculptured geometrical leaves, and popular as an ornamental.
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Aristida purpurea
Aristida purpurea is a species of grass native to North America which is known by the common name purple three-awn.
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.
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Big Bend National Park
For the Texas state park see: Big Bend Ranch State Park Big Bend National Park is an American national park located in West Texas, bordering Mexico.
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Bouteloua breviseta
Bouteloua breviseta is a species of grass known by the common names gypsum grama and chino grama.
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Bouteloua curtipendula
Bouteloua curtipendula, commonly known as sideoats grama, is a perennial, short prairie grass that is native throughout the temperate and tropical Western Hemisphere, from Canada south to Argentina.
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Bouteloua eriopoda
Bouteloua eriopoda, commonly known as black grama, is a perennial prairie grass that is native to the Southwestern United States.
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Bouteloua gracilis
Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama) is a long-lived, warm-season (C4) perennial grass, native to North America.
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Bouteloua hirsuta
Bouteloua hirsuta, commonly known as hairy grama, is a perennial short prairie grass that is native throughout much of North America, including the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies region, as well as Mexico and Guatemala.
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Carlsbad Caverns National Park is an American national park in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico.
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Chihuahua (state)
Chihuahua, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua (Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua), is one of the 32 states of Mexico.
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Chihuahua City
The city of Chihuahua is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
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Chisos Mountains
Map of Big Bend The Chisos Mountains are a mountain range located in the Big Bend area of West Texas, United States.
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Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez (Juarez City) is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
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Climate
Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time.
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Coahuila
Coahuila, formally Coahuila de Zaragoza, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza (Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
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Dasylirion
Dasylirion is a genus of North American plants in the asparagus family, all native to Mexico, with the ranges of three species also extending into the southwestern United States.
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Davis Mountains
The Davis Mountains, originally known as Limpia Mountains, are a range of mountains in West Texas, located near Fort Davis, after which they are named for United States Secretary of War Jefferson Davis.
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Desert
A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.
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Durango
Durango, officially Free and Sovereign State of Durango (Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango) (Tepehuan: Korian) (Nahuatl: Tepēhuahcān), is a Mexican state.
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Echinocereus pectinatus
Echinocereus pectinatusi is a species of hedgehog cactus.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.
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El Paso, Texas
El Paso (from Spanish, "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.
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Euphorbia antisyphilitica
Euphorbia antisyphilitica is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae.
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Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...
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Ferocactus pilosus
Ferocactus pilosus, also known as Mexican lime cactus (Viznaga De Lima) or Mexican fire barrel, is a species of cactus in North America.
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Flourensia
Flourensia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.
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Flourensia cernua
Flourensia cernua is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the English common names American tarwort and tarbush and the Spanish common names hojasé, hojasén, and hoja ancha.
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Fouquieria splendens
Fouquieria splendens (commonly known as ocotillo, but also referred to as coachwhip, candlewood, slimwood, desert coral, Jacob's staff, Jacob cactus, and vine cactus) is a plant indigenous to the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert in the Southwestern United States (southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), and northern Mexico (as far south as Hidalgo and Guerrero).
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Franklin Mountains (Texas)
The Franklin Mountains of Texas are a small range (23 miles long, wide) that extend from El Paso, Texas north into New Mexico.
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Gila Wilderness
Gila Wilderness was designated the world's first wilderness area on June 3, 1924.
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Great Basin Desert
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range.
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Guadalupe Mountains
The Guadalupe Mountains (Sierra de Guadalupe) are a mountain range located in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park is a national park in the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas and contains Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas at in elevation.
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Hechtia glomerata
Hechtia glomerata, commonly known as guapilla, is a species of bromeliad that is native to southern Texas in the United States, Mexico, and Guatemala.
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Helietta
Helietta is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae.
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Herbaceous plant
Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are plants that have no persistent woody stem above ground.
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Hilaria (plant)
Hilaria is a genus of North American plants in the grass family.
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Larrea tridentata
Larrea tridentata is known as creosote bush and greasewood as a plant, chaparral as a medicinal herb, and as gobernadora in Mexico, Spanish for "governess", due to its ability to secure more water by inhibiting the growth of nearby plants.
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Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces, also known as "The City of the Crosses", is the seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States.
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Lechuguilla Desert
The Lechuguilla Desert is a small desert located in southwestern Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border.
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List of deserts by area
This is the list of the largest deserts in the world by area.
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List of ecoregions in the United States (WWF)
This is a list of terrestrial ecoregions of the 50 United States, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund.
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List of geographical regions in Texas
Texas is the second-largest state in the United States, with an area of and a population of 27.47 million in 254 counties.
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List of North American deserts
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Malpai Borderlands
Malpai Borderlands is a region, or areal feature, along the U.S.-Mexico border at the Arizona and New Mexico state line.
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McKittrick Canyon
--> McKittrick Canyon is a scenic canyon within the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas and Eddy County, New Mexico.
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Mesquite
Mesquite is a common name for several plants in the genus Prosopis, which contains over 40 species of small leguminous trees.
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Mexican Plateau
The Central Mexican Plateau, also known as the Mexican Altiplano (Spanish: Altiplanicie Mexicana), is a large arid-to-semiarid plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico.
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Mexican wolf
The Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), also known as the lobo, is a subspecies of gray wolf once native to southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, western Texas and northern Mexico.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Monterrey
Monterrey is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico.
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Muhlenbergia porteri
Muhlenbergia porteri is a species of grass known by the common names bush muhly and Porter's muhly.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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North American Monsoon
The North American monsoon, variously known as the Southwest monsoon, the Mexican monsoon, the New Mexican monsoon, or the Arizona monsoon, is a pattern of pronounced increase in thunderstorms and rainfall over large areas of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, typically occurring between July and mid September.
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Nuevo León
Nuevo León, or New Leon, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León (Estado Libre y Soberano de Nuevo León), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, compose the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
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Opuntia
Opuntia, commonly called prickly pear, is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae.
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Opuntia macrocentra
Opuntia macrocentra, the long-spined purplish prickly pear or purple pricklypear, is a cactus found in the lower Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico.
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Organ Mountains (New Mexico)
The Organ Mountains are a rugged mountain range in southern New Mexico in the Southwestern United States.
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Pecos River
The Pecos River is a river that originates in eastern New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande.
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Pleuraphis mutica
Pleuraphis mutica is a species of grass known by the common name tobosa, or tobosa grass.
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Prosopis glandulosa
Prosopis glandulosa, commonly known as honey mesquite, is a species of small to medium-sized, thorny shrub or tree in the legume family (Fabaceae).
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Psorothamnus
Psorothamnus is a genus of plants in the legume family.
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Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell is a city in New Mexico.
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Sacramento Mountains (New Mexico)
The Sacramento Mountains are a mountain range in the south-central part of the U.S. state of New Mexico, lying just east of Alamogordo in Otero County (small portions of the range lie in Lincoln County and Chaves County).
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Saltillo
Saltillo is the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila and the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name.
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Samalayuca Dune Fields
The Samalayuca Dune Fields, more traditionally known as Los Medanos (the dunes), or more recently referenced as Medanos de Samalayuca are a series of large but separated fields of sand dunes located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
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Sandia-Manzano Mountains
The Sandia-Manzano Mountains are a substantial mountain area that defines the eastern edge of the middle Rio Grande valley of central New Mexico.
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe (or; Tewa: Ogha Po'oge, Yootó) is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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Sierra del Carmen
The Sierra del Carmen, also called the Sierra Maderas del Carmen, is a northern finger of the Sierra Madre Oriental in the state of Coahuila, Mexico.
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Sierra Madre Occidental
The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest–southeast through Northwestern and Western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California.
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Sierra Madre Oriental
The Sierra Madre Oriental (Spanish) is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico.
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Sky island
Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments.
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Solitario
The Solitario is a large geologic formation in Big Bend Ranch State Park in West Texas.
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Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and California and of Northwestern Mexico in Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur.
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Sporobolus wrightii
Sporobolus wrightii is a species of grass known by the common names big sacaton and giant sacaton.
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Stratification (vegetation)
Stratification in the field of ecology refers to the vertical layering of a habitat; the arrangement of vegetation in layers.
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Torreón
Torreón is a city and seat of Torreón Municipality in the Mexican state of Coahuila.
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Trans-Pecos
The Trans-Pecos, as originally defined in 1887 by the Texas geologist Robert T. Hill, is the portion of Texas that lies west of the Pecos River.
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West Texas
West Texas is a loosely defined part of the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the arid and semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Abilene, and Del Rio.
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White Sands National Monument
White Sands National Monument is a United States national monument located in the state of New Mexico on the north side of Route 70 about southwest of Alamogordo in western Otero County and northeastern Doña Ana County.
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World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Yucca
Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae.
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Yucca filifera
Yucca filifera is a member of the Asparagaceae family subfamily Agavaceae native to central Mexico.
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Zacatecas
Zacatecas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Zacatecas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas), is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahuan_Desert
