Native range
Native plants of New Mexico
92 wild species and 16 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in New Mexico, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 78 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
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How this list is made
Derived from each plant's native-range record, checked against Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS with every decision on a ledger; New Mexico is read off the record's own range, and the order is how many of the state's counties record each plant, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 108 plants, 96 have been checked against outside sources; the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
Range data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 4.0, adapted) and USDA PLANTS. How the native range is credited.
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Recorded across New Mexico
How many of the state's 33 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in New Mexico; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 87 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Sideoats Grama
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- Little Bluestem
- Alkali Sacaton
- Mexican Hat
- Rubber Rabbitbrush
- Sunflower
- Chocolate Flower
- Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany
- Blackfoot Daisy
- Nodding Onion
- Purple Prairie Clover
- Apache Plume
- Dotted Blazing Star
- Desert Four O'Clock
- Prairie Junegrass
- Chokecherry
- Wild Bee Balm
- Indiangrass
- Quaking Aspen
- Switchgrass
- Buffalograss
- Red Elderberry
- Redosier Dogwood
- Showy Milkweed
- False Solomon's Seal
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Douglas Fir
- Creeping Oregon Grape
- Desert Willow
- Leadplant
- Smooth Sumac
- Tufted Hairgrass
- False Sunflower
- Golden Currant
- Kinnikinnick
- Potentilla
- Butterfly Weed
- Colorado Blue Spruce
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Deergrass
- Rocky Mountain Penstemon
- Cardinal Flower
- Rocky Mountain Blue
- Common Sneezeweed
- Golden Columbine
- Idaho Fescue
- Lady Fern
- Prairie Smoke
- Western Serviceberry
- Common Snowberry
- Mexican Feather Grass
- American Elderberry
- California Poppy
- New England Aster
- Parry's Agave
- Velvet Mesquite
- Whorled Milkweed
- Yellow California Poppy
- California Coffeeberry
- Purple Poppy Mallow
- Swamp Milkweed
- Common Hackberry
- Purple Lovegrass
- Texas Mountain Laurel
- Aromatic Aster
- Bunchberry
- California Fuchsia
- Chinkapin Oak
- Goodding's Verbena
- Long-Beaked Sedge
- Rosy Sedge
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- Spotted Joe Pye Weed
- Apricot Lisianthus
- Arizona Rosewood
- Blue Lisianthus
- Cream Lisianthus
- Eastern Redbud
- Firecracker Penstemon
- Lisianthus
- Picotee Lisianthus
- Pink Lisianthus
- Prairie Dropseed Grass
- Rose Lisianthus
- Roundleaf Ragwort
- White Lisianthus
Garden forms of New Mexico natives
78 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in New Mexico and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Alma Pötschke
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Appalachian Red
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Beauty
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Blue
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- California Poppy (Cream/White)
- California Poppy (Rose/Pink Mix)
- Cherry Brandy
- Chicklet Gold Tecoma
- Claire Grace
- Denver Daisy
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Early Sunrise
- Fat Albert
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Giant Sunflower
- Globe Blue Spruce
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Henry Duelberg Mealy Blue Sage
- Hoopsii
- Indian Summer
- Ivory Castle
- Lavender Twist
- Lemon Queen
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Mammoth
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Mikado
- Montgomery
- Moulin Rouge
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Northwind
- October Skies
- Orange Whisper
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Dome
- Purple Gleam
- QIS Orange
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Ace
- Regent Serviceberry
- Ring of Fire
- River Mist
- Rose Chiffon
- Ruby Falls
- Shenandoah
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Soraya
- Strawberry Blonde
- Strawberry Fields
- Tangerine
- Teddy Bear
- The Rising Sun
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Velvet Queen
Plant groups native to New Mexico
16 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in New Mexico; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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