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COMMON NAME
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BOTANICAL NAME
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| ASTER: Baby aster, Rose heath |
Chaetopappa ericoides |
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| ASTER: Heath aster |
Symphyotrichum (Aster) falcatum, var. commutatus |
Not Available
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| ASTER: Marsh aster or Panicled aster or Tall white aster |
Symphyotrichum (Aster) lanceolatum |
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| ASTER: New England aster |
Symphyotrichum (Aster) novae-angliae |
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| ASTER: Spine aster or Hoary spine aster |
Dieteria canescens, var. ambigua |
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| Apache plume |
Fallugia paradoxa |
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| BLAZING STAR: Adonis blazing star, Buena mujer
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Mentzelia multiflora |
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| BUCKWHEAT: Buckwheat brush |
Eriogonum corymbosum |
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| BUTTERCUP: Water buttercup, Water crowfoot |
Ranunculus aquatilis |
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| Bindweed, Field bindweed, Perennial morning glory, Possession vine |
Convolvulus arvensis |
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| Birdbeak, Clubflower |
Cordylanthus wrightii |
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| Black medic |
Medicago lupulina
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| Blue wild lettuce |
Lactuca tatarica, var. pulchella |
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| Bow-nut cryptantha |
Cryptantha cinerea, var. jamesii |
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| Broad-leaved cattail |
Typha latifolia |
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| Buffalo gourd, Stinking cucumber, Coyote melon |
Cucurbita foetidissima |
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| Bugleweed |
Lycopus americanus |
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| Burdock |
Arctium minus |
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| CHAMISA: Chamisa, Gray rabbitbrush, Rubber rabbitbrush |
Ericameria nauseosa |
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| CHAMISA: Parry's rabbitbrush, Parry's goldenbush |
Ericameria parryi |
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| CHOLLA: Dagger cholla, Club cholla, Devil cholla |
Grusonia clavata |
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| CHOLLA: Tree cholla |
Cylindropuntia imbricata |
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| CURRANT: Golden currant, Buffalo currant, Clove currant |
Ribes aureum |
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| CURRANT: Wax currant |
Ribes cereum |
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| Common dandelion, Blow ball |
Taraxacum officinale |
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| Curly dock |
Rumex crispus |
Not Available
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| Cut-leaf scorzonera (Vipergrass), False salsify |
Scorzonera laciniata |
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| Desert innocence |
Houstonia (Hedyotis) rubra |
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| EVENING PRIMROSE: Hooker's evening primrose |
Oenothera elata |
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| EVENING PRIMROSE: Prairie evening primrose |
Oenothera albicaulis |
Not Available
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| EVENING PRIMROSE: Stemless evening primrose, Tufted evening primrose |
Oenothera caespitosa |
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| Erect knotweed |
Polygonum erectum |
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| FLAX: Blue flax, Wild flax, Prairie flax |
Linum lewisii (Discovered by Meriwether Lewis on the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the early 1800s) |
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| FLAX: Yellow flax |
Linum vernale
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| FOUR O'CLOCK: Narrowleaved four o'clock, Umbrella wort |
Mirabilis linearis, var. subhispida |
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| Fieldmint, Wild mint, Brook mint |
Mentha arvensis |
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| Fleabane, Spreading fleabane |
Erigeron divergens |
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| Four-wing saltbush |
Atriplex canescens |
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| GAURA: New Mexico gaura |
Gaura neomexicana |
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| GAURA: Scarlet gaura, Butterfly weed, Yerba de la Virgen |
Gaura coccinea |
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| GAURA: Velvet weed (Small flowered gaura) |
Gaura mollis |
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| GROUND CHERRY: Ground cherry |
Physalis longifolia var.longifolia |
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| GROUNDSEL: Broom groundsel or Many-headed groundsel |
Senecio spartioides, var. multicapitatus |
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| GROUNDSEL: Threadleaf groundsel |
Senecio flaccidus, var. flaccidus |
Not Available
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| GUMWEED: Curlycup gumweed, Sticky buttons |
Grindelia squarrosa |
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| Germander |
Teucrium laciniatum |
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| Grama grass cactus, Paper-spined fishhook cactus |
Sclerocactus papyracanthus |
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| Green pigweed, Green amaranth |
Amaranthus hybridus |
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| Ground cone, Mexican squawroot, Mexican cancer-root |
Conopholis alpina, var. mexicana |
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| Horsetail, Scouring rush |
Equisetum hyemale |
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| INDIAN PAINTBRUSH: Scarlet Indian paintbrush |
Castilleja miniata |
Not Available
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| INDIAN PAINTBRUSH: Wholeleaf Indian paintbrush, Southwestern Indian paintbrush, Foothills paintbrush |
Castilleja integra |
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| Lamb's quarters, Quelite |
Chenopodium album |
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| Longleaf pondweed |
Potamogeton nodosus |
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| MALLOW: Narrowleaf globemallow |
Sphaeralcea angustifolia |
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| MALLOW: New Mexico checkermallow |
Sidalcea neomexicana |
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| MALLOW: Red globemallow |
Sphaeralcea coccinea |
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| MILKVETCH: Beakpod milkvetch |
Astragalus lentiginosus |
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| MILKVETCH: Stinking milkvetch |
Astragalus praelongus |
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| MILKWEED: Poison milkweed |
Asclepias subverticillata |
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| MORNING GLORY: Ivy-leaf morning glory |
Ipomoea hederacea |
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| MUSTARD: Flixweed |
Descurainia sophia |
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| MUSTARD: Slimleaf purple mustard, Slimleaf plains mustard |
Schoenocrambe linearifolia |
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| MUSTARD: Tumble mustard, Tumbling mustard, Tall mustard |
Sisymbrium altissimum |
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| MUSTARD: White draba, Wedgeleaf draba |
Draba cuneifolia |
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| Mexican hat |
Ratibida columnifera |
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| Mormon tea, Mexican tea, Torrey's joint fir |
Ephedra torreyana |
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| Mullein |
Verbascum thapsus |
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| New Mexico privet, New Mexico olive |
Forestiera neomexicana, synonym Forestiera pubescens |
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| PENSTEMON: James penstemon or James beardtongue |
Penstemon jamesii |
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| PLANTAIN: Wooly plantain |
Plantago patagonica |
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| PRICKLYPEAR: Brown-spined pricklypear |
Opuntia phaeacantha |
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| PRICKLYPEAR: Many-spined pricklypear |
Opuntia polyacantha, var. polyacantha |
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| PRICKLYPEAR: Red-flowered pricklypear
| Opuntia polyacantha, var. hystricina |
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| PRICKLYPEAR: Tuber-root pricklypear |
Opuntia polyacantha, var. polyacantha |
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| Pale wolfberry, Tomatillo |
Lycium pallidum |
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| Perky Sue |
Tetraneuris argentea |
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| Pincushion cactus |
Escobaria (Coryphantha) vivipara |
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| Prickly lettuce |
Lactuca serriola |
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| Puccoon |
Lithospermum incisum |
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| Rayless goldenrod or Burroweed |
Isocoma pluriflora |
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| Rocky Mountain beeplant |
Cleome serrulata |
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| STICKSEED: Cupseeded stickseed, Western sticktight, Beggar's lice |
Lappula occidentalis var cupulata |
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| SUMAC: Three-leaf sumac, Lemonadeberry, Skunkbush, Squawbush |
Rhus trilobata, var. trilobata |
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| SUNFLOWER: Common sunflower |
Helianthus annuus |
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| SUNFLOWER: Cordilleran sunflower, Nuttall's sunflower, Sawtooth sunflower |
Helianthus nuttallii |
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| Salsify or Goat's beard |
Tragopogon dubius |
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| Silverleaf nightshade |
Solanum elaeagnifolium |
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| Silverweed |
Potentilla anserina |
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| Skeleton weed |
Stephanomeria pauciflora |
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| Snakeweed |
Gutierrezia sarothrae |
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| Spring parsley, known as Chimajá in Northern N.M. |
Cymopterus acaulis, var. Fendleri |
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| Storksbill geranium, Red-stemmed filaree, Alfilaria |
Erodium cicutarium |
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| Sundrops |
Calylophus serrulatus |
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| THISTLE: Bull thistle |
Cirsium vulgare |
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| THISTLE: New Mexico thistle |
Cirsium neomexicanum |
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| THISTLE: Spring sowthistle |
Sonchus asper |
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| THISTLE: Wavyleaf thistle |
Cirsium undulatum |
Not Available
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| Toothed poinsettia |
Euphorbia dentata |
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| VERBENA: Blue vervain, MacDougal verbena, Spike verbena |
Verbena macdougalii |
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| VERBENA: Dakota vervain, Moradilla |
Glandularia bipinnatifida |
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| VERBENA: Swamp verbena |
Verbena hastata |
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| VIOLET: Mountain blue violet |
Viola adunca |
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| Water smartweed |
Polygonum amphibium |
Not Available
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| Water-parsnip |
Berula erecta |
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| Watercress |
Nasturtium officinale |
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| Western peppergrass |
Lepidium montanum, var.montanum |
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| Western sneezeweed |
Helenium autumnale, var. montanum |
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| Western yarrow |
Achillea millefolium, var. occidentalis, syn. Achillea millefolium, var. lanulosa |
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| Wild asparagus |
Asparagus officinale |
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| Wild common teasel |
Dipsacus fullonum |
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| Wild licorice |
Glycyrrhiza lepidota |
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| Wire rush |
Juncus mexicanus |
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| YUCCA: Banana yucca |
Yucca baccata |
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| YUCCA: Soapweed yucca |
Yucca glauca
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| Yerba mansa |
Anemopsis californica |
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