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New Mexico Rare Plant Conservation Strategy Species
Ipomopsis sancti-spiritus (Holy Ghost Ipomopsis)
Biennial to short-lived monocarpic perennial, erect, 3-8 dm tall; stems mostly solitary, occasionally branched from the base; basal leaves in a rosette, senescent at flowering; basal leaves ovate in outline, 3-5 cm long, pinnatifid in 9-15 linear div...
Justicia wrightii (Wright's Water-Willow)
Suffrutescent perennial, 8-15 cm tall; leaves sessile, linear to oblanceolate, strigillose, mostly 10-15 mm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, acute to rounded at the apex, margins flat; flowers solitary, sessile in the leaf axils, bractlets linear-subulate to lin...
Lepidospartum burgessii (Gypsum Scalebroom)
Broomlike shrub up to 1.5 m tall; stems many-branched, covered with silvery, matted, feltlike hairs out of which protrude numerous small oil blisters; leaves needlelike, alternate, 5-12 mm long; heads 3-4, terminal on stems; flowers 3, rarely 4, per ...
Leucosyris blepharophylla (La Playa Springs Spine-Aster)
Perennial herb from shallow slender rhizomes; stems from dense basal rosettes, erect, 4-35 cm tall, green or purplish, glabrous, unbranched on the lower 1/2; basal leaves thick, entire, linear-oblanceolate, sessile, 8-30 mm long, glabrous except on t...
Lilium philadelphicum var. andinum (Mountain Lily)
Bulbs chunky, 1.6–2.9 × 2.2–4.7 cm, 0.6–1.1 times taller than long, 2(–4) years’ growth visible; scales 1–2-segmented, longest 1.2–2.2 cm; stem roots present or absent. Stems to 1.2 m, glaucous. Buds rounded in cross section. Leaves scattered, or mos...
Limosella pubiflora (Chiricahua Mudwort)
Annual; possibly stoloniferous; glabrous (or nearly so); leaves 1-6 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, the elongated petioles widening to oblanceolate, entire, slightly fleshy blades; flowers on slender peduncles; calyx 3-3.5 mm long, glabrous, the lobes ovate-ac...
Linum allredii (Allred's Flax)
Long-lived perennial, suffrutescent from a woody branching base, sometimes sprouting shoots from thick, lateral roots; stems up to 25 cm tall, puberulent or glabrescent at the base and glabrous for at least the upper two-thirds; leaves linear to line...
Lorandersonia microcephala (Small-Head Golden-Weed)
Perennial; stems several, to about 5 cm tall, suffrutescent and mat forming; leaves numerous, 2-4 cm long, to 3.5 mm wide, oblanceolate, tips acute, tapering to the base, 3-nerved, entire or with an occasional minute tooth, stem leaves somewhat small...
Lupinus sierrae-blancae (Sierra Blanca Lupine)
Perennial herb to 1.5 m tall, finely and inconspicuously pubescent; leaves palmately compound, with long petioles, leaflets 7-9, 3-7 cm long, oblong-oblanceolate, finely strigose below, glabrate above; racemes 10-30 cm long, flowers irregularly whorl...