Indicator Plant Dynamics: Chihuahuan Desert Region

As a function of latitude (N to S)
Transect: Rio Grande Valley, S End Jemez Mtns NM to Big Bend region TX
Native in a suitable edaphic environment, within a given geographic area:
X = presently or formerly common / x = presently or formerly uncommon / ? = not sure, but possible

NM

Tent Rocks, Cochiti NM

NM

NM

NM

NM

NM

NM

NM

TX

TX

TX

TX

TX
Valencia County
Sandia Pueblo

Big Bend N.P.

Isleta Pueblo
Albuquerque

Las Cruces
San Ysidro

Fort Davis
Presidio
Socorro

El Paso

Langtry
T or C
Plant species
Psorothamnus scoparius X x X X X X X X X X
Baileya multiradiata x ? ? X X X X X X X X X X X
Opuntia macrocentra x x ? x X X X X X X X X
Prosopis pubescens ? X X ? X X X X X X X X
Prosopis torreyana x ? x x x X X X X X X X X ?
Chilopsis linearis x ? x X X X X X X X X X X X
Dyssodia acerosa X x x ? x X X X X ?
Nolina texana x x x X X X X x X X x X X ?
Larrea tridentata ? x x x X X X X X ? X X
Aloysia wrightii x ? x X X X X ? X ? ?
Parthenium incanum x ? x ? x X X X X X X X X
Opuntia engelmannii x x x X X X X X X X X X X X
Yucca elata x ? x X X X X x X x ?
Echinocereus dasyacanthus x X X X X X x X ?
Echinocactus horizonthalonius x ? ? X X X X X ? X X
Cylindropuntia kleiniae x x x x x x x x x x x
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis x X X X X X X X X
Fouquiera splendens X X X X X X X X
Coldenia greggii ? x X X X X X X X
Mimosa biuncifera ? X X x ? X ? X
Dasylirion wheeleri x x X X X X X ?
Florensia cernua x X X X X ? X ?
Ferocactus wislizenii ? x X X ?
Ferocactus hamatacanthus ? x X ? X X
Acacia constricta ? X X X X ? X X
Acacia greggii ? X X X X ? X X
Yucca torreyi ? X X X x X X
Koeberlinia spinosa x x X ? X ?
Agave lechuguilla x X X ? X X
Acacia smallii / farnesiana ? X X X
Yucca faxoniana X x X x
Leucophyllum frutescens x x x ? x X
Euphorbia antisyphylitica x X X
Prosopis glandulosa ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Dasylirion leiophyllum ? ? ? X X X