Browse native plants of Mexico by ecoregion. Each ecoregion reflects a distinct native plant community, identified from real-world occurrence data. Choose one below to see its native species.
- Baja California desert
- Bajío dry forests
- Balsas dry forests
- California coastal sage and chaparral
- Central American dry forests
- Central American pine–oak forests
- Central Mexican matorral
- Chiapas Depression dry forests
- Chiapas montane forests
- Chihuahuan desert
- Chimalapas montane forests
- Gulf of California xeric scrub
- Islas Revillagigedo dry forests
- Jalisco dry forests
- Meseta Central matorral
- Oaxacan montane forests
- Pantanos de Centla
- Petén–Veracruz moist forests
- San Lucan xeric scrub
- Sierra Juárez and San Pedro Mártir pine–oak forests
- Sierra Madre Occidental pine–oak forests
- Sierra Madre Oriental pine–oak forests
- Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forests
- Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine–oak forests
- Sierra Madre del Sur pine–oak forests
- Sierra de la Laguna dry forests
- Sierra de la Laguna pine–oak forests
- Sierra de los Tuxtlas
- Sinaloan dry forests
- Sonoran desert
- Sonoran–Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
- Southern Pacific dry forests
- Tamaulipan matorral
- Tamaulipan mezquital
- Tehuacán Valley matorral
- Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine–oak forests
- Veracruz dry forests
- Veracruz moist forests
- Veracruz montane forests
- Western Gulf coastal grasslands
- Yucatán dry forests
- Yucatán moist forests
* How these results were determined: ecoregion boundaries come from a global habitat classification developed by conservation scientists at the World Wildlife Fund. Plant occurrence records come from GBIF (the Global Biodiversity Information Facility), an international open-data network built largely from citizen and academic scientists who photograph plants in the field and upload the sighting with GPS coordinates through apps like iNaturalist. We cross-reference each plant's occurrence points against the ecoregion boundaries and each species' known native range in this country to flag which matches are best supported by the evidence. You can add further filters to these results such as state, trees, wildflowers, light, or soil type using the search box once you finish clicking through to a listing. Because the ecoregion plant listings depend on citizen-science mobile phone data, they are not fully complete and some ecorgions are skipped due to lack of data.