Important grasses are black grama, sand dropseed, galleta, threeawn, blue grama, alkali sacaton, and fluffgrass. More woody plants are found in arroyos. Among these plants are apache plume, skunk bush, and fourwing saltbush. Much of the Heights is developed and in many areas, only the arroyos are left in a semi-natural state. A nearby vacant lot, however, may have some of these species.
Animal life consists mainly of small mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects.
The most common animals are gophers, mice, kangaroo rats, ground squirrels, horned larks, sparrows, sparrow and cooper hawks, lizards, horned lizards, snakes, grasshoppers, praying mantises, carrion beetles, ants, and spiders.