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This category includes the native flora of Mexico, in North America. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. For the purposes of this category, "Mexico" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. In the WGSRPD scheme Mexico is its own level 2 ...
The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United States border passes through the Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran ...
Plants indigenous to Mexico are grown in many parts of the world and integrated into their own national cuisines. Some of Mexico's native culinary ingredients include: maize, tomato, beans, squash, chocolate, vanilla , avocado , guava , chayote , epazote , camote , jícama , nopal , zucchini , tejocote , huitlacoche , sapote , mamey sapote ...
Neltuma laevigata mesquite near the Chichimeco dam, in Jesús María, Aguascalientes, Mexico. Mesquite is a common name for some plants in the genera Neltuma and Strombocarpa, which contain over 50 species of spiny, deep-rooted leguminous shrubs and small trees. They are native to dry areas in the Americas.
Fouquieria splendens (commonly known as ocotillo / ɒ k ə ˈ t iː j oʊ / (Latin American Spanish:), but also referred to as buggywhip, coachwhip, candlewood, slimwood, desert coral, Jacob's staff, Jacob cactus, and vine cactus) is a plant indigenous to the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Chihuahuan Desert and Colorado Desert in the Southwestern United States (southern California, southern ...
This category includes the native flora of Central Mexico, in North America.Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. For the purposes of this category, "Central Mexico" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, with Mexico as level 2 region #79, and Central Mexico as level 3 MXC. [1]
Within the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, the political boundaries of Veracruz also represent one of the seven regions identified to describe the distribution of native flora. Mexico is the level 2 region #79, and the "Mexico Gulf" is level 3 region MXG. [1]
For the purposes of this category, "Northeastern Mexico" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, with Mexico as level 2 region #79, and Northeastern Mexico as level 3 MXE. [1] This area is defined by the political boundaries of these eleven states: