Trees & Shrubs of Chiricahua National Monument
fragrant sumac
Rhus aromatica (also known as Fragrant Sumac) is a plant species in the family Anacardiaceae native to Canada and the United States.
Smooth Sumac
Rhus glabra (smooth sumac) is a species of sumac in the family Anacardiaceae, native to North America, from southern Quebec west to southern British Columbia in Canada, and south to northern Florida and Arizona in the United States and Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.
agrillo
Rhus microphylla (Littleleaf Sumac, Desert Sumac, Correosa, or Agritos) is a species of sumac in the family Anacardiaceae, native to North America, in the southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico, from central and western Texas, southern New Mexico, central and northern regions of the Mexican Altiplano-(Mexican Plateau), and extreme ...more ↓
evergreen sumac
Rhus virens is a species of flowering plant in the mango family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to Arizona, southern New Mexico, and Texas in the United States as well as northern and central Mexico as far south as Oaxaca. It is commonly known as the Evergreen Sumac or Tobacco Sumac.
chelem
Agave palmeri (also known as Palmer's Century Plant) is an especially large member of the genus Agave, in the family Asparagaceae. It is native to Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora and Chihuahua.
Parry's agave
Agave parryi, known as Parry's agave or mescal agave, is a slow-growing agave native to Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico.
Desert Spoon
Dasylirion wheeleri (desert spoon, spoon flower, or common sotol) is a flowering plant native to arid environments of northern Mexico, in Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern United States, in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, and also in New Mexico and Texas.
Datil Yucca
Yucca baccata (Datil yucca or Banana yucca) is a common species of yucca native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, from southeastern California north to Utah, east to western Texas and south to Sonora and Chihuahua. It gets its name from its banana-shaped fruit.
Soaptree Yucca
Yucca elata is a perennial plant, with common names that include soaptree, soapweed, and palmella. It is native to southwestern North America, in the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert in the United States (western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona), and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora, Nuevo León).
Yucca madrensis
Yucca madrensis H. S. Gentry is a plant in the genus Yucca in the family Asparagaceae. It is native to a mountainous region in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua. It has also been reported from Arizona It grows on steep, rocky slopes in pine-oak forests.
Mule Fat
Baccharis salicifolia is a blooming shrub native to the desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico, as well as parts of South America. Its usual common name is mule fat; it is also called seepwillow or water-wally. This is a large bush with sticky foliage which bears plentiful small, fuzzy, pink or red-tinged white flowers which are highly ...more ↓
Desert Broom
Baccharis sarothroides is a species of flowering shrub known by the common names broom baccharis, desertbroom,greasewood,rosin-bush and groundsel in English and "escoba amarga" or "romerillo" in Spanish. This is a spreading, woody shrub usually sticky with glandular secretions along the primarily leafless green stems. The small, thick leaves ...more ↓
California brickellbush
Brickellia californica is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name California brickellbush. It is native to western North America from Baja California to Idaho to Oklahoma. It is a common plant in many habitat types, especially in dry areas.
Rubber Rabbitbrush
Ericameria nauseosa (formerly Chrysothamnus nauseosus), commonly known as Chamisa, rubber rabbitbrush, and gray rabbitbrush, is a shrub of the genus Ericameria that grows in the arid regions of western North America. Two subspecies have been described, nauseosa (the gray form with 14 varieties) and consimilis (the green form with 8 ...more ↓
broom snakeweed
Gutierrezia sarothrae is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names broom snakeweed, broomweed, snakeweed, and matchweed. It is a subshrub native to much of the western half of North America, from western Canada to central Mexico, and can be found in a number of arid, grassland, and mountain habitats. It can be toxic to ...more ↓
cola de zorra
Gymnosperma glutinosum is a species of flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae.
Isocoma tenuisecta
Isocoma tenuisecta, commonly called burroweed, shrine jimmyweed, or burrow goldenweed is a small, flowering perennial herb, native to the Sonoran Desert. It grows 1 to 3 feet tall, and has small yellow flowers growing at the top of woody stems. It flowers in September through November. The leaves are glandular and lobed. The old flowers turn dry and tan and ...more ↓
copalillo medicinal
Parthenium incanum (common name Mariola or New Mexico rubber plant) is a plant in the genus Parthenium of the family Asteraceae.
American threefold
Trixis californica (American threefold or trixis) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southwestern United States in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and in Mexico in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas.
Berberis wilcoxii
Berberis wilcoxii is a shrub native to Arizona, New Mexico and Sonora. It is up to 2 m tall, with pinnately compound leaves of 5-7 leaflets, densely clustered racemes and ovoid berries up to 10 mm long. It is generally found in rocky canyons in mountainous areas at an elevation of 1700–2500 m.
Desert Willow
Chilopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants containing the single species Chilopsis linearis. It is a shrub or tree native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. The common name is desert willow or desert-willow because of its willow-like leaves, but it is a member of the bignonia family, Bignoniaceae. It is commonly seen in washes and ...more ↓
mountain snowberry
Symphoricarpos oreophilus is a species of flowering plant in the Caprifoliaceae, or honeysuckle family, known by the common name mountain snowberry. It is native to western North America, where it has a wide distribution from British Columbia to northern Mexico.
Oregon boxwood
Paxistima myrsinites (Oregon boxleaf, Oregon boxwood, mountain lover, box, or hedge, false box, myrtle box leaf; syn. Pachistima myrsinites) is a species of shrub in the bittersweet family. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to northern Mexico to the Rocky Mountains, where it grows in forests, often ...more ↓
Arizona madrone
Arbutus arizonica, commonly known as Arizona Madrone, is a tree species in the Ericaceae family that is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its range extends along the Sierra Madre Occidental cordillera from the Madrean Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico south to Jalisco. It occurs in Sonora, Chihuahua, and ...more ↓
pinkbracted manzanita
Arctostaphylos pringlei (common name pringle manzanita) is a plant that grows at elevations between 4000 and 7000 ft in southern California, Arizona, and southwest Utah.
Pointleaf Manzanita
Arctostaphylos pungens, with the common name pointleaf manzanita, is a species of manzanita. It is native to the Southwestern United States and to northern and central Mexico, where it grows in chaparral and woodland habitats, and on desert ridges. Arctostaphylos pungens can be seen growing at Tent Rocks National Monument in New Mexico at an elevation of about 6000 ...more ↓
Desert False Indigo
Amorpha fruticosa is a species of flowering plant in the legume family (Fabaceae) known by several common names, including desert false indigo, false indigo-bush, and bastard indigobush. It is found wild in most of the contiguous United States, southeastern Canada, and northern Mexico, but it is probably naturalized in the northeastern and northwestern ...more ↓
mimosa
Mimosa aculeaticarpa is a shrub in the Fabaceae family. It is commonly known as the catclaw mimosa or the wait-a-minute bush and is endemic to upland regions of Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
Velvet Mesquite
Prosopis velutina, commonly known as velvet mesquite, is a small to medium sized perennial tree. It is a legume adapted to a dry, desert climate. Though considered to be a noxious weed in states outside its natural range, it plays a vital role in the ecology of the Sonoran Desert.
New Mexico Locust
Robinia neomexicana, the New Mexican Locust, New Mexico, Southwest, Desert, Pink, or Rose Locust), is a shrub or small tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae.
Arizona White Oak
Quercus arizonica, the Arizona White Oak, is found dominantly in Arizona, southwest New Mexico, northeast Sonora and Chihuahua, all Madrean Sky Islands associated regions. It is a long-lived oak in the family Fagaceae, native to eastern North America. It is one of the largest southwestern oaks.
Canyon Live Oak
Quercus chrysolepis, commonly termed Canyon Live Oak, or Golden Cup Oak, is a species of evergreen oak that is found in the southwestern part of North America, notably in the California Coast Ranges. This tree is often found near creeks and drainage swales growing in moist cool microhabitats. Its leaves are a glossy dark green on the upper surface with prominent ...more ↓
Emory Oak
Quercus emoryi, the Emory oak, is a species of oak common in Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas (Big Bend National Park), USA, and northern Mexico south to Durango and San Luis Potosí. It typically grows in dry hills at moderate altitudes.
Gambel's Oak
Quercus gambelii, or Gambel oak, is a deciduous small tree or large shrub that is widespread in the foothills and lower mountain elevations of the central southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its range is centered on the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, but also extends into Nevada, Wyoming, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma and west Texas. In ...more ↓
Quercus grisea
Quercus grisea, commonly known as the gray oak, shin oak or scrub oak, is a deciduous or evergreen shrub or medium sized tree in the white oak group and is endemic to the south central montane regions of North America. It hybridizes with four other oak species where the ranges of each overlap, the Arizona white oak (Q. arizonica), the Gambel oak ...more ↓
Silverleaf Oak
Quercus hypoleucoides, the Silverleaf Oak or the Whiteleaf Oak can normally be found west to Arizona, east to Texas, southwest of New Mexico, and south to Mexico. Quercus hypoleucoides, though usually seen as a shrub, can be found to be a full-sized tree, 30 feet tall in areas where it receives lots of water. The Quercus hypoleucoides can be ...more ↓
Quercus oblongifolia
Quercus oblongifolia, commonly known as the Mexican blue oak or Sonoran blue oak, is an evergreen small tree or large shrub in the white oak group. It is endemic to the south central montane regions of North America.
encino chino
Quercus pungens, commonly known as the sandpaper oak or scrub oak, is an evergreen or sub-evergreen shrub or small tree in the white oak group and is endemic to south central North America. There is one recognised variety, Quercus pungens var. vaseyana, the Vasey shin oak. Sandpaper oak hybridizes with gray oak, Quercus grisea, in the Guadalupe ...more ↓
netleaf oak
Quercus rugosa (the netleaf oak) is a species of oak tree which is found in Mexico and the southwestern United States.
Toumey Oak
Quercus toumeyi (also called Toumey Oak) is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family. It is found in Mexico and the United States.
Sonoran scrub oak
Quercus turbinella is a species of oak known by the common names Sonoran scrub oak, shrub live oak, and grey oak. It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado, Rio Grande New Mexico, to west Texas.
Ocotillo
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 in Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
ashy silktassel
Garrya flavescens is a species of flowering shrub known by the common name ashy silktassel. It is native to the southwestern United States, and Baja California and Chihuahua in Mexico, where it grows in many habitats, including dry forest, desert, and chaparral. This is a shrub reaching a maximum height approaching three meters. The leaves are oval-shaped, up to 7 or 8 ...more ↓
Garrya wrightii
Garrya wrightii is a species of flowering plant in the family Garryaceae known by the common names Wright's silktassel, quinine-bush, coffee berry, bearberry, feverbush, and grayleaf dogwood. It is native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Fendlera rupicola
Fendlera rupicola, commonly known as the cliff fendlerbush or the false mockorange, is a shrub that grows in dry locations in the south central montane regions of North America.
yerba desierto
Fendlerella is a monotypic genus of shrubs in the Hydrangeaceae containing the single species Fendlerella utahensis. This plant is known as Utah Fendlerella, yerba desierto, or sometimes as Utah Fendlerbush (it having previously been included in the closely related genus Fendlera, the Fendlerbushes).
littleleaf mock orange
Philadelphus microphyllus is a species of Philadelphus known by the common name littleleaf mock-orange. It is native to northern Mexico and the southwestern quadrant of the United States as far north as Wyoming, where it grows in scrub and brush habitat in foothills and mountains, often in very rocky areas, sometimes anchoring itself in rock cracks and ...more ↓
Arizona Black Walnut
Juglans major (literally, the larger walnut) is a walnut tree which grows to 50 ft tall (15 m) with a DBH of up to 2 feet (0.61 m) at elevations of 1000–7000 ft in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Common names include Arizona Walnut, Arizona Black Walnut (as it belongs to the "black walnuts" section Juglans sect. Rhysocaryon), and the ...more ↓
Morus microphylla
Morus celtidifolia, the Texas mulberry, is a plant species native to Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and much of Latin America. It the USA, it grows in canyons and on slopes, usually near streams, from 200–2200 m (700–7300 feet) elevation. It is very often referred to as "Morus microphylla," including in Flora of North America, but recent studies suggest that ...more ↓
Velvet Ash
Fraxinus velutina (Velvet Ash or Arizona Ash or Modesto Ash) is a species of Fraxinus native to southwestern North America, in the United States from southern California east to Texas, and in Mexico from northern Baja California east to Coahuila and Nuevo León.
Arizona Sycamore
Platanus wrightii (Arizona Sycamore, also in Spanish Álamo), is a sycamore tree native to Arizona and New Mexico with its range extending south into Sonora, and a small area of Chihuahua Mexico.
Fendler's ceanothus
Ceanothus fendleri (Fendler ceanothus, Fendler buckbrush, deer brier) is a species of flowering shrub native to northern Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas and the northeastern Texas panhandle, Utah, Colorado, eastern Wyoming, and western South Dakota. Its typical habitat is pine forests from 1,500 to 3,000 meters (5000 to 10,000 feet) in altitude.
palo de zorrillo
Ceanothus greggii, with the common name desert ceanothus, is a species of shrub in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae.
deer brush
Ceanothus integerrimus (deer brush) is a woody shrub in the family Rhamnaceae, native to the western United States, in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Washington. It grows in montane chaparral and woodlands regions, in hardwood forests, and in fir, spruce, and Ponderosa pine plant communities, being most abundant in the California chaparral and woodlands and ...more ↓
California Buckthorn
Rhamnus californica (syn. Frangula californica), commonly known as coffeeberry and California buckthorn, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae, the buckthorns. It is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California in Mexico. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.
Apache Plume
Fallugia is a monotypic genus of shrub containing the single species Fallugia paradoxa, which is known by the common names Apache plume and ponil. This plant is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it is found in arid habitats such as desert woodlands and scrub.
ocean spray
Holodiscus discolor, commonly known as ocean spray,creambush or ironwood, is a shrub of western North America. It is common in the Pacific Northwest where it is found in both openings and the forest understory at low to moderate elevations.
Holodiscus dumosus
Holodiscus dumosus is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names rockspiraea, bush oceanspray, mountain spray, and glandular oceanspray. It is native to North America, where it occurs in northern Mexico and the interior western United States.
mountain ninebark
Physocarpus monogynus, the mountain ninebark or low ninebark, is a flowering shrub of western North America.
Rum Cherry
Prunus serotina, commonly called black cherry, wild black cherry, rum cherry, or mountain black cherry, is a woody plant species belonging to the genus Prunus. This cherry is native to eastern North America: from eastern Canada through southern Quebec and Ontario; south through the eastern United States to Texas and central Florida; with ...more ↓
Woods' rose
Rosa woodsii is a species of rose known by the common name Woods' rose. It is native to North America including much of Canada and Alaska and the western and central United States. It grows in a variety of habitat types, including disturbed areas.
Firecrackerbush
Bouvardia ternifolia, the firecracker bush, is a shrub widespread across much of Mexico, the range extending south into Honduras and north into the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico and Texas).
