New Mexico Rare Plant Conservation Strategy Species
Perennial herb; roots tuberous, 1-5, clustered, 0.2-1.4 cm in diameter; leaves deep blue-green, 1-2 (6), emerging prior to, or with, the inflorescence and fading shortly after anthesis (McVaugh [1985] observed leafless flowering plants bearing wither...
Rhizomatous perennial; stems much branched above, wiry, 4-30 cm tall, usually growing in isolated clumps and seldom forming dense stands; blades short, less than 3 cm long, strongly involute; inflorescence a narrow contracted panicle, 1-5 cm long, us...
Herbaceous perennial; stems 5-12 cm long, erect or ascending, freely branching from a woody crown; leaves alternate, oblanceolate to spatulate, sharply pointed, weakly revolute, 5-20 mm long and 2-4 mm wide; stem and leaves grayish and strigose-hispi...
Dense, more or less hemispherical, perennial herb or sub-shrub from a branched, woody caudex, 1-3 dm high; stems and leaves pubescent with appressed, 3-rayed to dendritic trichomes; leaves alternate, succulent, (18-)22-40(-48) mm long, (4-)6-12(-14) ...
Perennial herb; stems spreading to prostrate, about 60 cm long; herbage rough-hairy; leaves lance-shaped, petioles short-winged or petioles absent; flowers with a long tube and spreading petals, yellow, becoming deep red in age; petals 5-6 cm long; h...
Stem consisting of loosely attached flattened joints up to 8 cm in length by 2-3 cm in width, the joints highly varied in size and shape, bearing areoles with dense clumps of yellowish glochids; rhizomes and often larger roots also often bearing gloc...
Perennial herb; herbage glabrous; stems 2-5 dm tall; leaves mostly basal, heart-shaped to nearly round, petiolate, semisucculent, blades 2-5 cm long and across; upper stem leaves few, sessile, clasping, longer than wide; inflorescence of 1-3 flower h...
Tufted perennial, 4-15 cm tall, forming clumps up to 2 dm across, covered with white, felty or woolly tomentum; basal leaves linear or linear-oblanceolate, 2-4 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat or with margins rolled inwards; stem leaves reduced to small sc...
Diminutive, tufted perennial, 3-5 cm tall, forming clumps up to 2 dm across, covered with white, felty or woolly tomentum; basal leaves linear, 1-2 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, margins rolled inwards; stem leaves reduced to small scales; flower stems taller...
Annual, much branched at base, 2-8 cm tall; culms erect, with 1 node, papillose-pilose, mostly obscured by the leaves; leaves with prominently veined, papillose-pilose sheaths; ligules 0.2 mm long, membranous and with short hairs; blades 1-4 cm long,...