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New Mexico Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in New Mexico. Visit our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses that sell native plants or seeds or provide professional landscape or consulting services in this state. Visit the Organizations Directory to locate native plant societies, conservation groups, governmental agencies, botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-related organizations in this state.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Achnatherum hymenoides | Indian Ricegrass Indian Millet Sandgrass | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Agave parryi | Parry's Agave Century Plant Parry Agave | |
Amelanchier alnifolia | Saskatoon Serviceberry Western Serviceberry Juneberry | |
Amelanchier utahensis | Utah Serviceberry | |
Aquilegia coerulea | Colorado Blue Columbine Rocky Mountain Columbine | |
Argentina anserina | Silverweed Cinquefoil Common Silverweed Silverweed Goosefoot | |
Artemisia frigida | Prairie Sagewort Prairie Sagebrush Fringed Sage Pasture Sage | |
Artemisia tridentata | Big Sagebrush Great Basin Sagebrush | |
Asclepias elata | Nodding Milkweed Tall Milkweed | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
Baileya multiradiata | Desert Marigold Showy Desert Marigold Paper Daisy Desert Baileya | |
Berlandiera lyrata | Chocolate Daisy Chocolate Flower Lyreleaf Greeneyes Green-eyed Lyre Leaf | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
Castilleja integra | Wholeleaf Indian Paintbrush Squawfeather | |
Castilleja miniata | Giant Red Indian Paintbrush Meadow Paintbrush | |
Cercocarpus montanus | Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany Mountain Mahogany | |
Chilopsis linearis | Desert Willow Flowering Willow Willow-leaved Catalpa Willowleaf Catalpa Bow Willow Flor De Mimbre Mimbre | |
Chamaebatiaria millefolium | Desert Sweet Fernbush Tansy Bush | |
Clematis ligusticifolia | Western White Clematis Virgin's Bower Pepper Vine Hierba De Chivo | |
Cylindropuntia imbricata var. imbricata | Tree Cholla Teddy-bear Cholla Cholla Cane Cactus Walkingstick Cholla | |
Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla | |
Dasylirion wheeleri | Common Sotol Sotol Desert Spoon Desert Candle | |
Ephedra nevadensis | Nevada Jointfir Nevada Joint-fir | |
Erigeron divergens | Spreading Fleabane Branching Fleabane Fleabane Daisy | |
Ericameria nauseosa var. nauseosa | Rubber Rabbitbrush Rabbitbrush | |
Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil | |
Fendlera rupicola | Cliff Fendlerbush False Mock-orange | |
Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
Fouquieria splendens | Ocotillo Devil's Walking Stick Candlewood | |
Fraxinus greggii | Gregg's Ash Gregg Ash Littleleaf Ash Dogleg Ash Escobilla Barreta China | |
Fraxinus velutina | Arizona Ash Velvet Ash Desert Ash Leatherleaf Ash Smooth Ash Modesto Ash Toumey Ash Standley Ash | |
Gaillardia aristata | Common Gaillardia Great Blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed Susan | |
Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
Garrya wrightii | Wright's Silktassel | |
Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida | Prairie Verbena Purple Prairie Verbena Dakota Mock Vervain Dakota Vervain | |
Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom Snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas Snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine Weed Matchweed | |
Hesperaloe parviflora | Red Yucca Coral Yucca Red-flowered False Yucca Redflower False Yucca Yellow Yucca Hummingbird Yucca Samandoque | |
Ipomopsis aggregata | Scarlet Gilia Scarlet Standing-cypress Skyrocket Skunkflower | |
Ipomoea leptophylla | Bush Morning-glory | |
Ipomopsis longiflora | Flaxflowered Ipomopsis Pale Trumpets Paleflower Gilia White-flower Skyrocket White-flowered Gilia | |
Iris missouriensis | Rocky Mountain Iris Western Blue Flag | |
Juglans major | Arizona Walnut Arizona Black Walnut River Walnut Mountain Walnut Nogal Silvestre | |
Juniperus scopulorum | Rocky Mountain Juniper Rocky Mountain Red Cedar Mountain Red Cedar Colorado Red Cedar Western Red Cedar River Juniper Western Juniper Cedro Rojo | |
Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat | |
Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis | |
Leucophyllum frutescens | Cenizo Purple Sage Texas Ranger Texas Barometer Bush Texas Silverleaf Texas Sage Silverleaf | |
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